Posts by c_smith

i have tried reseting it and turning it off. the only way i can get the beep...beep...beep...beep to go away is to mute my PC speaker. what is going on? is this my PC's way of telling me i have a virus? please. i need some help. ...

Thanks a lot, guys. I really appreciate the input. I can hear and see the fans spinning, so i know they're moving air. I'll try checking the pathways and blowing some compressed air through. That sounds like that may be the problem....

I'll try cleaning out my vents. Which way should I blow the air through? Into the fan vents or into the side vents? What about my power cord? Should I hear a running fan inside my power cord transformer thingie? I mean this...

My 8886 has been getting very hot and locking up for quite a while, now. I keep the rear of my notebook propped up to allow more ventilation/airflow. This doesn't really seem to help. Also, is the power cord supposed to have a...

I was out of town working this past week and had my laptop with me, since I use it some configuring network switches. Well, while I was doing some other stuff, I decided to play some of my windows media tunes. I set my laptop down...

Ok, I did a little research on the net on FAT vs. NTFS, and I am gonna go with NTFS. Wish me luck!

Thanks a lot Old_Buzard. I think I'm going to just reformat again. This is all really good experience and practice for me anyway. It doesn't really take that long either. Yeah, your right about me not creating a partition on the...

I cleared out my hard drive and reinstalled everything. Everything is working fine except when I click on the synaptics touchpad icon on the task bar or in control panel, an error comes up that says "Control Panel Extension is...

Ok. I have reformatted my hard drive using a 28Gb partition for windows xp and programs and have installed windows. I have also installed all the drivers and software. I do have one more issue to be resolved. How do I format and...

So when do I install the drivers on the cd-rom? Will I be prompted?