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Laptop CMOS Battery Dead

QC88 — Sat, 21 May 2011 13:34:53 +0800

Hi, I've got a problem with my Dell Inspiron N4010 which I suspect would be the CMOS battery.

I shutdown my laptop and the AC line is unplug, and when I boot up my laptop again a beep will sound and the DATE and TIME in my BIOS was reset to 2009. So I suspect it would be the CMOS battery.

My question is how much would it cost for laptop CMOS battery and can anyone sure that my problem is caused by CMOS battery?

Thank you.

[addedon]May 21, 2011, 2:53 pm[/addedon]Anyone, help me please....

Dell Inspiron N4010

QC88 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:30:17 +0800

hey all, i'm looking for dell inspiron N4010 webcam driver for windows 7 32-bit.

i tried to search through their website and google but nothing found.

hope someone here could help.

FM2010 on intel gma 4500 hd

QC88 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:14:16 +0800

does anyone can confirm fm2010 can play on intel gma 4500 hd or not?

Harddisk seems not detected.

QC88 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:50:44 +0800

Hi guys..i've some problem here...

My laptop seems like not detect my hardisk..
But, when i connect my hdd to my friends pc using external case, it is working.
I've tried to boot my lappy using ubuntu live cd (using pendrive).
The problem is that, when i connect my hdd back to my lappy and try to boot into ubuntu, my lappy is not responding. I mean from the moment i press the power button, the screen just blank even cannot enter the bios.
When i disconnect the hdd, i can boot into ubuntu normally.

Sometimes, i'm able to boot into ubuntu with my hdd attach to my lappy and it is detected in ubuntu.
But most the time, i've to disconnect the hdd from my lappy to boot into ubuntu. Otherwise the sceen just blank...

So what actually happen hah? Can someone tell me?

My laptop : acer aspire 4520, amd x2 turion, nvidia geforce 7000M

Hdd : toshiba hdd IDE 120gb.

Windows 7 32bit, ram 3 gb.

Laptop suggestion (not for gaming).

QC88 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:22:43 +0800

Hi, i'm thinking of buying a new laptop.
could you recommend one?

1)Brand : any, but prefer asus and acer will be my last choice.
2)price: RM2100 below.

also want to know about comparison in terms of:

1)battery life.
2)warranty.
3)overheat problem.

i'm using laptop for :

1)internet surfing.
2)heavy downloading/uploading.
3)watching movie.
4)no gaming.
5)Words, PDF, Power Point.
6)some engineering students software (not graphic/design thing, just programming/compiling code that use high processor usage).

plus i have one more question here..
is it true acer now produce a better product for its new laptop model?
i mean acer laptop now has less problem and will last longer...
i have a nightmare with my previous acer laptop.

or does it because of amd proc because lot of my friends got problem with amd proc even with different brand (overheat problem).

thank you. hope someone would like to give some suggestion.

Broken Hard Disk Drive Icon

QC88 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:09:26 +0800

Anyone knows how to fix this HDD icon??
It goes wrong yesterday and I don't remember what I've done that cause this change.

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Laptop sound card problem..

QC88 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:15:23 +0800

my laptop sound card getting problem since i accidently off the laptop power plug..when i on my laptop back, the sound device is not detected anymore..try so many things like reinstall the driver and try to unplug then plug again the cable for the sound card..

what make im crazy is, sometime when i restarted my laptop, that sound device is detected and sometime when i shutdown/restart my laptop again it not detected..

so i try to format my windows and at the first boot after format, the sound device is detected..then after shutdown, it not detected again....in easy words, the device is sometime detected and sometime not..

i tried to backup my windows partition as an image(when the sound is ok) using acronis true home image, hope that when my sound has problem i will recover that image...but nothing is work...the device still not detected though after recover the partition image...same as system restore...try to restore to the point that my sounds work but still got the same problem..

so, i wanna ask anyone who knows what is the best solution for this problem..any of you experienced the same problem before??

to replace a new laptop soundcard is expensive right?? what about usb sound card?? what brand is the best and how much it is...

if anyone know to solve it, please share the info...

thank you....

Realtek High Definition Audio problem

QC88 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:42:44 +0800

Hello...yesterday my sound cards is not working. When I boot to my windows I got a message sounds like "there are no compatible sound cards to be use. Please add a sound card"

Actually I've accidentally switch off my laptop power adapter because I thought I've put a battery on it.

Then when I boot I got those message. The problem is, sometimes my audio device is working well and sometimes it don't. I mean after restart my windows, sometime its work, sometimes it don't.

When I checked at device manager, there is no Realtek High Definition Audio in the list. So, I just reinstall my audio driver but it shows yellow mark on that driver in the list. When I click the properties, it says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".

I've tried google my problem to find a solution but it does not work.

I hope someone has an answer here...

My laptop : acer aspire 4520
amd turion 64x2 TL-58 (1.9 Ghz, 2x512 KB L2 Cache)

Need help...avi files had changes to exe

QC88 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:53:52 +0800

hey guys...im newbie here...i like to ask...virus or what that change my avi files to exe...all my avi files cannot be open..i try to figure it out in many forum and its like no one wanna help...google also cant find the solution...hope you guys can help...thanks