Posts by g00nter

It's probably a LCD repacement, but you might get lucky and only need a backlight bulb repalcement. Take it to a real tech for an estimate and see what they say the repair will cost and what the diagnosis is.

Iḿ with Sugen on this one, seen it a million times and it happens to me everry time I get on a differnet laptop & drives me nuts. You could also go into the touchpad settings and disable tapping. That way you can still use the...

Hey Fidge how's it going. It's been a while since I've seen you online. *edit: Nevemind. Looks like you're no longer online.

I think that if the main battery has a charge, then it will use that to charge the cmos battery if necesary. *note that I said "I think"* I'm not positive. I've had the same thing happen when I left my old 8100 unplugged for...

1. The CMOS battery basically just keeps a charge going into the bios so that the latter rememebrs the settings (inlcuding the time/date). When the battery dies, the computer just "forgets" all of these settings and goes to the...

To use the key on the laptop (are you sure it's not a 98 key? - I have a 8100 and the key on it is for 98) you'll need an OEM version of windows. If you have a regular version of windows you'll need a regular version key. At least that's...

According to the detailed specs for the M35, it uses an Atheros wireless card (the realtek you refer to is the ethernet card). I remember hearing some time back that the atheros cards were more powerful than some of the intel cards (at...

As I understand it M and P are not pin-to-pin interchangeable. If you are not sure which one you have and want to confirm it, download and run CPUz. It'll give you pretty much all the info on your cpu (and RAM) that you'll need for...

In the picture it looks like the lever is still sticking out. Have you tried pushing the lever back in? That's how you usually eject the card (at least it is in my lappy). Maybe if you push it back in, you will then be able to insert the...

I agree with saugen send it in and let them sort it out for you. That's what the warranty is for. I remember reading here some time ago that this could be the symptom of a dying hard drive. If the laptop is out of warranty, try...