Recent content by unrelatedwaffle

I have an Iomega 120GB external USB hard drive. It worked wonderfully until yesterday, and all of a sudden the computer won't detect it. Wait, let me rephrase that. It WILL detect that there is a "USB Mass Storage Device" connected to the computer, and shows up when I right click "My Computer"...

I know I just posted, but now the computer is doing things that I'm pretty sure are unrelated to the previous problems. It insists that I have "installed new programs" every time I log on, even when I've already used these programs more than once. This is just a minor annoyance. Also, when I...

Well I'm hoping I can get a trade in once I get back home (I'm away at school for a few more weeks) to something better that I couldn't afford if I bought new. So I was just seeing if there was anything that would fix the problem short term. =) Don't want to pay to upgrade the computer and then...

I'm running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Latitude C800. I got it as a refurb, so I'm not sure how old it is (it was a gift, and I thought it rude to ask). It's a Pentium 3, 128 ram, 40 GB hard drive. Lately I've been having a lot of problems with it. Whenever I install SP2 it completely...

I have a Dell Latitude C800. The adapter worked fine for about three months, and lately I've been having more and more problems with it. At first it would go off on its own and I'd just unplug it and plug it back in and it would be fine. It started happening more and more frequently. Then I...

My family bought a wireless router so that I could use my laptop when home from school on holidays, but then found out my laptop did not have a wireless card. That doesn't mean I can't hook up more than one WIRED connection, right? I have my home computer connected and working fine through the...