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paul101
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do you have the make and model of your laptop??
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larry 68
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Sharp PC-GP1516/1416 |
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On 2008-02-10 23:29:33, larry 68 wrote:
Sharp PC-GP1516/1416
http://www.aememory.co.uk/Sharp-Pc-gp1516-Laptop-Memory.html
http://www.aememory.co.uk/Sharp-Pc-gp1416-Laptop-Memory.html
either way they both take a max of a gig of ram 
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larry 68
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Thanks for all your help, had a look at the website but they couldnt match my ram 
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just dont take it into PC World 
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hey buddy!"
i bought 2 gig of ram for my desktop and its the ddr 400mhz stuff... currently i have 512 meg ram 200mhz stuff.... now my motherboard can take the 400mhz ram.... but when i swap them my screen stays black... do i have to mess wiuth anything in bios before i put the ram in? the motherboard must be going on 4-5 years old now, btu is a good giabite one
any ideas cyco?
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paul101
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@ cyco, you any good with linux??
stupid thing wont log in 
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Cycovision
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Won't let you log in as root (administrator)? If that's the case then get your install disks out and start again!
Or do you mean it gives you the shell (text input) but not the windows-like environment?
If it's the latter, then it's because one of your config files has become corrupted. Something to do with 'Desktop x' I believe...
Ignore that last bit, I'm old and confused.
But I'm right, it's something to do with a config file (ahem)...
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looks like a reinstall... (GRRRR) (i put in username and password, screen flickers and then goes back to the login screen)
right now i'm stuck using windows vista (  )... as i dont have a copy of xp
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Have you seen the edit I made to my rambling post?
If it just won't boot the GUI (KDE or whatever) then it might be repairable!
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hmmmm
i think a re-install would be easier (i know what i'm doing there)...
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Dogmann
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Hi Cyco
What i consider a bit of an odd one here i have a Toshiba Satellite P100-160 that has a Core2 Duo T5200 @1.6GHZ and this is what it say's in most of the places it is mentioned in the computer.
But and now this is what has me very confused in the Device Manager in processors it is showing as Core2 Duo T7200 @2.0ghz what is is going on? and which report is correct?
Marc
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Cycovision
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Well, the processor stamp is hardware written so unless you've found a bug in Vista, what it says is likely to be the actual processor that you've got! Either that or they put the wrong stamp in it, manufacturing error maybe?
A common error in Vista is to report CPU speeds lower than they actually are, but I've never heard of it reporting higher speeds so you've most likely somehow got a better processor for your money!
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Dogmann
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Hi Cyco
If it just said the wrong speed that would be an error but to actually say it is a T7200 instead of a T5200, how could it have an error and correctly identify the wrong chip as well as the speed.
Is there any simple test i could run to identify the correct speed and or which processor it is actually using as i said the only place the information is different is in the Device Manager which i would of thought is reading the chip directly? this really has me baffled.
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Cycovision
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Device manager reads driver information rather than hardware information AFAIK but how that works works with a processor I'm not altogether sure.
I guess one way to find out would be to try some benchmarking software like http://www.passmark.com/products/index.htm and see what results it comes up with.
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