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Hi, If you pull out the battery and then run it with just the AC adapter and it shuts off, then the AC adapter is most likely bad. Also, if the charger is bad it might not be charging the battery. To test the battery, just leave the laptop on without being plugged in and see if it shuts off...

Hi, You may need to format the disk if it is not already formatted to make it useable. If you are on windows 7, go to the start button, then right click on Computer and choose manage. In the window that opens, click on disk management. From there, you should see the drives you have installed...

Hi, If the windows process explorer is not showing which process is taking up all of the cpu time, you can try running the sys internals process explorer. It gives more information as to which process is running in the background. If it is a program causing the problem, this could help you...

Hi, You may need to check out Microsoft sharepoint to do this. I do not think MS office can do this on it's own. Depending on what kind of documents you need to work on, it looks like google docs can do real time collaboration as well, and I believe its free to use, where as sharepoint you...

Hi, Those files are there to give you information about computer crashes. They are created whenever you have a system crash/bluescreen and can give you clues when you run them through windows debugger tools as to what caused the crash (such as the name of a driver or program that is the likely...

Hi, If you go into the event viewer, are you coming up with any errors that happen when the crashes occurred? System errors or application errors maybe? Also, what kind of power supply do you have?

Unfortunately i haven't seen this problem before. If your laptop is still under warranty though, I would give IBM a call or send their tech support an email and ask them if it is normal for your model laptop.

Hi, I'm not sure what you have for a system board, but I know when we get new Dell's here where I work they only have 2 of the internal sata ports activated by default. I would check in your BIOS and see if all of the SATA ports are enabled/on, and if not to enable them and try again. I have...

Hi, You may want to try something like BartsPE bootable cd to boot to and see if it can read your hard drive. I have seen where a bad hard drive as a secondary drive will not allow the main hard drive to boot the os. If you use the CD to boot, I would disconnect your main drive and just leave...

Hi, I am not aware of a safety feature for hard drives like what you are describing. It sounds like when you are tilting the laptop it may be forcing the heads out of position maybe in the hard drive. Most of today's hard drives are supposed to be more durable so you can tilt a laptop with no...

Hi, Not sure if you are still having this problem but if you are, make sure that all of the risers that go between the computer case and the motherboard are all present and screwed in all of the way. Sometimes if the risers are in the wrong place or are missing, the system board can short out...

Hello, This could be the video card giving errors, or it might be caused by something else as well. First, do you have another video card you could swap this one out with to see if the problem returns? If not, do you have onboard video on the motherboard you could try using? Also, I would test...

Hi, If the computer runs fine with the graphics card and 1 stick of ram installed, I wouldnt think the problem is the graphics card. I would lean more towards either a Ram issue or a motherboard problem. When you have RAM in just the first slot, is it always the same stick of ram or have you...

Hi, So it seems to work fine with linux but not with windows? If you boot into safe mode with networking and test, does it still max out the processor? Is there an option in your BIOS for the laptop about using multiple cores? I know on some dell's there is an option that if it is not enabled...

Hi, Yes its possible it could be the graphics on the system board. Have you tried resetting the BIOS yet to see if that would help? I would unplug the power, remove the laptop battery and then also the laptop CMOS battery. Hold the power button down for about 10-20 seconds, then put it back...

Hi, Once you have the hard drive out of the external enclosure you need to plug in 2 cables, one is the data cable whether it is a SATA cable or IDE cable (depends on the kind of hard drive you have) which will plug into the motherboard itself, and the other is a power cable which will either...

Hi, If your current power supply has 6 pin connectors on it your current power supply looks like it could meet the minimum wattage requirement. However, if you do need/want to upgrade, I would suggest a power supply that provides 500-600 watts which should give you room to upgrade your...

Hi, I found this on another forum about a user having trouble with choppy sound recording and it resolved his problem, maybe it will work for you as well : "Did you switch off system restore? control panel/system/system protection (left sidebar)/configure switch it off on all drives. click...

Hi, Here is a search for HD6770 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006662&isNodeId=1&Description=6770 and another for HD6790...

Hi, Your laptop should have a dell service tag sticker somewhere on it or you can also find the number inside of the BIOS. Once you locate the tag, go to support.dell.com, choose support for home users, then choose drivers and downloads. On the next screen you can enter in your service tag...