Posts by andrewb6k

Yeah, I'm quite positive this never used to happen. If the system is going into standby, chances are you need to go into your power options in control panel, then advanced, then tell it to do nothing. but that's what mine's currently...

Checked the advanced settings in my power options, and theyr'e set to 'do nothing' when I close the lid it's really weird. the computer isn't hibernating, but when I close the lid, I'm losing my wireless connection. When I open it, the...

solved... it was something as simple as me not having the automatically obtain ip address option chosen :-( thanks for all your suggestions, hopefully another idiot like me will come across this thread at some point

Quote: Originally Posted by kwondo try to ping the IP of your router and isp to make sure you are physically connected to the network for sure pinged router, got 4 responses 0 fails. pinged verizon, got a...

Quote: Originally Posted by IGo Is the XPS2 wireless on. Also, have you use wireless on your XPS2 before, if not maybe your wireless card on the XPS2 dose not work. Other than that Iam not sure what might be cause this...

I am running a dell xps2 alongside a 700m. the 700m connects to the wireless network fine and I'm using it to type this message. However, the xps2 is connecting to the network, but won't let me do anything like browse web pages...

off at all times. i find them too distracting. and i've never been to a lan party or even played a game on it either.

Running the xps2 with 2gb ram and a hitachi 60gb 7200rpm hd, and it seems to access the HDD a whole lot (the indicator light starts going crazy and I can hear the HD 'working'). Most noticeably, is when I open up a video file. I've...

thanks very much... I guess in my pre-posting search, I forgot to check the most obvious place - Hitachi's own site!

Bought a used travelstar 60gb 7200rpm, just wanna make sure it's up to scratch before I confirm to the seller that I received everything in good working order. Did a clean install of win xp but is there anythign more 'intensive' I...