I've just come back from a friends house with their very dead SX260.
You see a green led on the PSU brick and an amber led on the system
board (through a hole in the top) but nothing happens when you hit the
power button on the front.

I'am almost always on main power. It can go months between times where I work on
battery.
Battery (big 9 cell one) will soon be 1½ year old.
I wish to keep it alive as long as possible.

I took an image of my Vista C: drive prior to replacing Vista on my
XPS 410 with a fresh install of XP.  I backed up all partitions on the
C: drive.
Since then I added two hard drives.  My plan is to have XP on one

Mys HD started going bad so I installed a new one. Ran program
"Casper" which is like "gost" to transfer my files. all worked well
except , I can not run any of my old DOS games, can not do System
Restore, and possible other things, My question is Should I run my

I don't think my pause key works at all on either of my computers.
Desktop Dell C521 with MCE
Laptop Compaq with XPHE
No matter how many times I press the Pause key, nothing happens.  Both

When you use your Vista upgrade to do a clean install on a second hard
drive, don't you have to stop using your original XP install that came
with the computer?  I see lots of posts about dual booting to "test"
the Vista OS before committing to it, but isn't that just plain

My new Dimension 9200 with Vista refuses to stay in 'sleep' mode all
night, when I wake up every morning it's woken up and turned itself
back on. I've tried a few things to cure this, turned off autoupdate
looking for new updates at 3am and had looked in the McAfee AV

I just went to Drivers and Dowloads for my system on Dell's site and changed
my info letting it know I have Vista now and there was a list of new
downloads listed for my PC, one which has me puzzled is Dell Dimension
System Bios, it is even listed as  "Urgent" under Importance.  ...

Would appreciate comments regarding bad experience dealing with Dell
Customer service reps.  Mine:  have been trying to deal with them for
approximately 5 weeks, trying to get Vista upgrade software promised
and billed for.

Back in mid-January, I updated my 4550's BIOS with an update file from
the Dell website.  I downloaded self-extractor BR67246.exe, which I
launched and it created the update file D4550A08, on my desktop.  I
placed that file on floppy, and then updated my 4550 booting from the

This really doesn't have anything to do with computers but I figure I
would
get the right answer here, so:
   I'm looking for a DVD recorder to replace my VCR.  I currently have a

We recently upgraded firmware on a wireless router in our
environment.  Now, all my Dell XP sp2 laptops are not connecting
unless we run the "repair" function on them.  I am trying to write a
script that will do this automatically.

I've been comparing a Dell Duo 2.66 with the same list of items from HP.
The price for the HP is nearly a $ 1000 cheaper.  Is there any reason to pay
that much more for the same thing?  I have had 3 Dells and 1 HP and no major
problems with either.

and as threatened, bought a Digital Storm.  Plan to over clock this biatch
to 3.0 GHz:
Did I make any mistakes?
System Configuration:

Getting a laptop can be a rather big investment and after sinking your
money to invest in a laptop, I am sure you will want to protect it
from scratches and other forms of damages.
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