This is what I think it is. Of course I have not any clue, which is why I'm asking, but it definitely makes sense. It's just bizarre because sometimes my mom will be doing something in IE, Firefox, and I'll be using Chrome, and nothing will happen. BUT the instant a video comes along, it's all fucked. It will freeze (usually it takes around 3 minutes after starting to play the video for it to freeze), come back to life (for around a minute), then freeze, then come back again, etc. And it tends to sound busy, as I said. My mom is FAR from computer savvy, and as a result I think there's probably a lot of duplicate files and whatnot. But that's more of a memory issue, nothing software related. Only I download software.

A fam mem of mine couldnt figure out how to switch on her comp wireless adapter. She said it was telling her to find a switch but her comp doesnt have one. Any suggs?

My bad Freebase...I should have looked for this thread.

Most laptops have a wireless switch to turn it on. If it's a laptop, get the make and model from her, then simply google the manual for it, which will show you the location, if it exists.

Otherwise, report back with more information.

Cool appreciate it..i'll let her know

Also, if she really doesn't have a switch, for whatever reason, her wireless connection may be disabled. She can google how to enable her wireless connection, paying attention to what operating system she's using.

She said she already figured out what it was but thanks for the advice anyway.

Some laptops have a physical switch, but most just have a combination like Fn+F4 or something like that.

I wish mines had a physical switch....mines is currently disabled and I can't get it back on :(

the FN+F8 combination isn't working like it should

Have you tried turning it o... nevermind :D
You may want to remove the software, keep the driver and use that windows wireless zero configuration thingy which works way better eitherway.

well I tried updating the driver but it said it was up to date.

Tech Support on the phone told me to uninstall the driver and have it like auto-find the correct driver or something along those lines but that didn't work so I had to do a restore to get the driver back.

The button that is supposed to be hit to enable it doesn't work. it's above my function keys bar. about half of the keys up there no longer work for some strange reason....the backlight button doesn't work, the wireless one and the eco utility one doesn't work but mute, play/pause and volume control buttons work.

with the backlight and eco utility I have been using other commands to active those but the stupid wireless one doesn't have any sort of work around that works.

Wait, so ALL your buttons don't work except for the mediakeys?
Reinstall the button software. Yes there is button software.
The play/mute/pause buttons don't require a driver.

I will have to check those four discs that I made when I first got the laptop. They didn't have them so I had to burn copies of the factory settings and what not.

**** discs. Use the website, these drivers are more up to date.
What brand/type is it?

Toshiba Satellite

hmmm I'll look it up on their website

Toshiba made satellites since the early nineties.
I will need a type. Or you'll have to look it up yourself :)

I looked it up and found it but I'm not sure which to download

Model Content Page

those are the options but I don't really see one related to button software

yeah and sorry it is the A660 series but I found the driver selection they have

Allright, it's hard to find indeed.
Did some googling and found you'll need the HWSetup software which you can download HERE for Windows 7 64 bit (not sure what you have)
DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT YET!

Please read this first:
Toshiba Support Forums: Satellite A660-1FM - Function buttons ...
It could be just a setting :)

thanks. I wish I could isolate the problem like that guy did in the thread but I have the same issue.

When I press the button it lights up like it's being activated but then just dims away.

I have HWsetup and I have looked in there before to enable the buttons but that didn't work. I disable and re-enabled them but still no dice.

You might want to reinstall the software then. It might help.
The dimming is just a gimmick, it always does that, even when you're not running anything. That doesn't acquire software.

tried that and it didnt work

Well that sucks.
In that case I'm out of options.
If you just give me the laptop I'll reinstall the whole darn thing :D

pfft I know how to do that but I don't want to because I will lose everything!!!

I don't have an external hd big enough to transfer all my music, movies and pictures while I tinker around with reformatting. I need to get a 1TB external drive then I can have more fun trying to get it to work.

My only option is to just wait it out or maybe take it into a tech support center near by but I know they will charge me an arm and a leg for something that I know how to do. I just don't have the space atm.

back-up

You know hard drives can die all of a sudden or when you drop your laptop?
Make a friggin' back-up man. Or you'll be sorry some day.
It's not like 1TB drives are all that expensive anymore :).

That's a lot more expensive than an external drive.

Yeah, I know 1TB drives are dirt cheap nowadays. I just need to use some of my money for it when I get a bit more. Right now my incomes comes in and goes straight out the same day to pay bills and other expenses. It fucking sucks atm but it will get better soon.

I always have some electronic device to sell whenever I need a quick buck :)

I actually have a PS2 and a laptop that I can sell but I was trying to sell it on eBay and I'm pretty new to selling stuff on eBay so my first buyer wasn't really a buyer and just trying to scam me.

A PS/2 is worth about 30 bucks here...
I don't like ebay. We have marktplaats.nl. It's the same idea, but you can contact the buyer/seller directly. There's no real rules. Yes it's les safe, but it's so much more personal and so much easier. You see something nice ,you place a bid on the site or you mail the seller. YOu get an answer, you pay him, he sends it, there you go.
Or you go and pick it up, obviously.

that almost sounds like craigslist which I should probably use.

along with a PS2, I have a sony viao laptop to sell as well.

Ah, in that case I should check out craigslist soon :D

What kind of vaio?

do you guys think these would be a significant upgrade from sennheiser HD 280 Pros?

Sennheiser HD 595

Audio Technica ATH AD700

I'd say; Hava a go at some AKG's or Beyers.
But then I don't like the sound of most sennheisers.
AT has some decent headphones but they are pricy for what you get. Same really goes for sennheiser too. I've had some expensive sennheisers throughout the years and I a very, very happy with my 125 dollar AKG 141 now :)

http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...g?t=1302281659

This popped up all of a sudden, and pops up every time I restart my laptop and changes my background image. Those ****ers are on to me. Has this happened to anyone before and does anyone know a way around this?

Haha, I'm going to send you a PM later tonight. They don't want an answer to this on the forum :)

Hai gais!

I need help.

I'm having trouble installing some games, I have Win7, 1.8Ghz and a 32bit system. So Sims 3 is 2.2Ghz and is running really well but Fallout 3 is 2.4Ghz and I'm wondering if that's just too much. It's installed, and when I go to run it a box comes up saying it couldn't work. There is speculation on the net that it's Windows 7 where you can reinstall your OS, load the latest drivers and get the patch for it. But I have the patch, updated drivers but don't want to redo my OS. Any ideas?

Reinstalling the OS shouldn't really make a difference unless the previous installation didn't work. I had a look around, it seems to be a general problem for Windows 7 rather than just 32-bit, which does narrow down the range of problems somewhat. Have you tried running the game in Vista Compatibility Mode (Properties>Compatibility>Run This program for Vista service pack 2, or whatever it says there) Might also help to run it as admin as sometimes games can be weird about that.

There also seems to be some speculation about Windows 7's "power", and it not being able to run it, which doesn't really make sense to me. However, someone did say that integrated graphics cards would probably fail to be able to run it. Is that the case with your laptop, if you are attempting to play this on a laptop?

Fallout 3 is pretty CPU and GPU intensive. Usually, with games like that (FPS type games that rely on a baseline of consistent and heavy processing), if your computer doesn't meet the minimum system requirements, then they basically prevent you from playing it because the game will essentially be unplayable anyway. (Although they should be checking this during instalation) If this is the case, then there's nothing you can do about it, short of upgrading the actual hardware that's causing the limitation.

Just to be thorough, what did the box say, exactly?

Fallout 3 PC System Requirements Released - Shacknews.com

That link has the exact requirements for it.




Also, Vanilla you can use this link in the future to see if you can run certain games ahead of time.

I used it to find out if my old laptop could run Sims 3 and it wasn't able to.
Can You Run It?

I was referring to the error message she got. I was wondering if it was a Windows error message, or something from Fallout.

It definitely said Fallout has stopped working. Erm, I think I'm going to take the game back, as I'm just on a laptop which is already upgraded to its max. Laptops aren't really meant for games. :(

Thanks hun for the advice. xxx

Laptops aren't meant for games unless you buy a gaming laptop but those are super expensive