SAT Questions

when trying to turn on a laptop. A black screen apears and says something about a boot agent and when i press enter it says "media test failutre". I’ve never used the laptop before…?
It doesn’t have a hard drive. I didn’t think that would be a problem.

I am looking to buy laptop. I am looking for a fast laptop with a descent size hard drive. I am looking to use it for school, social networking, video chatting, and watching movies. It must be very durable and last me a long time. Please give me suggestions of laptops that may suit me. Thank you.
I am not a gamer.

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
– Pentium(R) Dual-Core Mobile Processor T3200 (2.0 GHz)
– 15.4" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
– 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
– 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
– 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
– Webcam + Fingerprint Reader
– HP Color Matching Keyboard
– Wireless-G Card
– No Modem
– SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
– High Capacity 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

I have a strange issue. I have a Compaq laptop, and when I test the hard drive through the BIOS, it is returning a failure error. The recovery partition is on this hard drive, and the drive is still accessible and usable for the most part. How can I replace the hard drive and still use the recovery partition to reload Windows?

I need a laptop for school (10th grade). Mainly only for typing up papers, facebook, and surfin the web. I don’t really have to store documents on it soo the memory shouldn’t be a big issue. I have some pictures but i could store them on a flash drive. I put an add on craigslist for a used laptop because i have to buy my own with my christmas money (5) and someone responded with this offer, which was the only one within my budget. Do you think its a good deal and what questions should I ask the seller?

I have a Toshiba laptop you may be interested in. It is a P III at 850 mhz , 512 ram running XP-Home. I think the Hard Drive is 20 gig ? Not sure of that. I have the owners manual on the desktop. It is in good condition except the battery is shot. I have the AC adapter and it runs fine as long you plug it in. I also have a Wi-Fi card which works good at Borders etc.

We are a non-smoking home and it is in shiny condition , looks and runs good. I am not a computer whiz and bought this before I bought my better laptop as a temp substitute.

I have a non-matching mouse to go with it but it does have the little touch point to control the mouse. I may have a case for it. It also has a DVD rom drive and works to watch movies ( the main reason I bought it ).
Price is 0 firm , let me know.

I need a laptop for school (10th grade). Mainly only for typing up papers, facebook, and surfin the web. I don’t really have to store documents on it soo the memory shouldn’t be a big issue. I have some pictures but i could store them on a flash drive. I put an add on craigslist for a used laptop because i have to buy my own with my christmas money (5) and someone responded with this offer, which was the only one within my budget. Do you think its a good deal and what questions should I ask the seller?

I have a Toshiba laptop you may be interested in. It is a P III at 850 mhz , 512 ram running XP-Home. I think the Hard Drive is 20 gig ? Not sure of that. I have the owners manual on the desktop. It is in good condition except the battery is shot. I have the AC adapter and it runs fine as long you plug it in. I also have a Wi-Fi card which works good at Borders etc.

We are a non-smoking home and it is in shiny condition , looks and runs good. I am not a computer whiz and bought this before I bought my better laptop as a temp substitute.

I have a non-matching mouse to go with it but it does have the little touch point to control the mouse. I may have a case for it. It also has a DVD rom drive and works to watch movies ( the main reason I bought it ).
Price is 0 firm , let me know.

I’m looking at a used 17" imac on ebay…here’s the link…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250474250902&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

I’m a design student and on a budget. I really like macs and I use them all the time a school. This computer has all of the software I’ll need and it looks like it could be a really great buy. I’m just not sure I want to sacrifice the mobility of a laptop for a desktop. Plus, there is no warranty.

The HP PC I’m looking at is really nice. It’s ,000 and would be able to do what I want it to, but I would have to purchase the Adobe Creative Suite (which won’t be too bad since I can get it for 0 with the student discount). Also, I really don’t want to deal with viruses. My Toshiba got hit this past March and I had to completely wipe the hard drive and re-install xp to even get things up and running again.

Here’s the link to the HP:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9376766&st=HP+HDX+16-1370US+Entertainment+Laptop&type=product&id=1218094855881

What would you do? I’m not sure. Thanks for your input.

so, im gonna buy a laptop soon, but i dont know what to get. so PLEASE help me out! =]

i need a laptop that i can use for school (starting college soon!) and for my music. i want the laptop to have a good amount of space so i can store my music (i have a 80gig ipod) and also at a good price (less than a ,000). i also dont want it to be heavy because ill be carrying it around for the whole day. ohyes, and im a Windows person.

i was thinking about getting a Sony Vaio, since my desktop is also a vaio. i want a good brand that can last for a LONG while. i heard Fujitsu is good because if you drop it, it wont destroy your hard drive and will still be usable because it is made from good hardware. but im open to any suggestions.

Hi. How do I uninstall an XP repair process that cannot be completed because I am misplaced the correct activation key to complete the process?

My laptop had been rather slow for a couple of weeks so I proceeded to defrag my hard drive when it suddenly took me to an error message indicating that the file "nostrolkrnl.exe" file was either corrupt or missing. I then replaced the file using the recovery console on an XP installation disk. This however took me to a "blue screen of death" (BSOD) message reading: "STOP: COOOO21a {fatal system error 0×00000000 0×00000000}. The session manager initiation system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c".

At this point, I proceeded to fix my Windows by using the repair function in my XP Professional installation disk. However I was unable to complete the process as I lost the key (I didn’t think it would ask me for the key if only using the repair function). Please note that the installation disk I used to repair my window is not the original one for my laptop. I bought the laptop "used" with no accompanying disks. The laptop now is in a state where it only prompts me for the activation key (after the Windows splash screen) and does not offer me the option to uninstall this repair.

Please let me know if it is possible to uninstall this and/or (assuming it’s possible) how to repair the BSOD. The BSOD message doesn’t show now, but I figure it will if as soon as I am able to uninstall the repair.

Also note that my hard drive appears to be fine as it passed several tests using Techies Toolkit software.

I’m using HP Pavilion dv2911us laptop running Windows Vista Home Edition.

The problem started when I was arguing with someone online and started banging on my keyboard while typing out of frustration and all of the sudden, the screen messed up and began to show rainbows etc. So I manually rebooted by taking out the battery. After trying to load Windows up normally (not in safe mode), it reached an error screen that said something like Windows cannot start up, we suggest launching start up repair, so I do it and it loads some files and eventually reaches a black screen and just stay there. I can see my mouse cursor and move it but that’s it.

After attempting to do that several times repeatedly, I eventually tried entering BIOS and doing random things. One of those things was the Hard Drive Self Test under Diagnostics. However, the test would always fail, giving me a test status of error #1-07 fail. What does that mean?

What exactly is the problem? What is the solution? Thanks in advance!

I’m debating on buying a new laptop and I was curious. How much memory and hard drive should I at least have? I will be using the laptop for school use and travel.

I have been having problems with my older laptop. Windows XP keeps restarting and looping. I am unable to use safe mode because when I choose any of those options, a blank screen appears and that’s it, or it freezes. It was an Acer Inspire 5004 WLMi and it has a 100GB hard drive that was partitioned into two sections. I took the hard drive out, and I want to repartition it to get all of my data off of there so that I can use this laptop as a test laptop and put Windows 7 on there. How do I repartition the notebook hard drive with a usb disk enclosure? If I must use another method, please let me know that as well.

i will be buying a dell laptop for school use and music and pictures. what will be the number of GHZ should i buy? 1.8 or 2.0 ghz?
will the 2.0 mean my laptop will last longer?
i will be buying a dell laptop for school use and music and pictures. what will be the number of GHZ should i buy? 1.8 or 2.0 ghz?
will the 2.0 mean my laptop will last longer?
there is a 3GB RAM, 160GB hard drive

I just bought a brand new HP dv6000 2g 160g hard drive and AMD turion x2. I’ve fully charged it and discharged it 3 times but today i tested it by using the laptop in "power save mode" (which is the one that suposedlly uses the least amount of electricity), i used the internet and the battery only lasted 2 hours and 4 minutes before it shutdown on me for not having enough power! The laptop is brand new so i’m wondering whether the battery life is normal or it needs to be exchanged for another one