Posts by timewarp

With external monitor hooked up it looks perfect .. this is what the screen on laptop looks like now . I only checked to make sure things were plugged in on the lcd . Inverter or maybe cable ?

I understand you can run off the adapter , But with the battery installed , i cannnot . If i plug adapter in like Iam charging it ( not turning power on ) the light in front lights up just briefly then nothing . I also can't power...

BTW , i fixed this the problem was from loading windows on a different computer . I finally bought a plug to put the laptop hard drive in a desk and a few tweaks , i put it back in the laptop and let it finish installing . qhn ,...

I tried one stick at a time ( has two in it ) . That didn't make any change . So i also tried a stick of pc133 ( instead of the pc100 ) by it self . No difference . I did notice that right when it changes from the gatway logo and...

qhn , Thanks , i tried that today as well as putting new thermo compound on the cpu . Still no luck .

I have a few questions to try to get the laptop back up for my daughter . I have an older solo 5300 and it turns on , i can get to the bios . It shows the correct memory count , hard drive size ect. It doesn't have a working cd...

Sager got back to me and said i have to run 2 sticks of 256mb ram .. Wierd thou cause a couple places say to use 1 512 stick and guarantee it to work . err.

I picked one up today for my daughter to use , its a 1000 cpu and has 256 megs ram . From what i gather the model is a 8560v . I found some places online it says it will hold 512 megs , is that the max ? Could someone direct me to or...