im on a wireless 3G internet connection, very slow, and the connectivity icon on my utorrent is always red as well. for me, there is nothing i can do about it. something with the wireless connection being permanently firewalled by the internet provider. just thought i would share that.

i had a toshiba satalite laptop that did the same thing, would not show anything on the screen when powered on...the owner thought it was dead. after some looking around, i found that one of the ram slots is bad. try pulling one stick of ram out at a time and starting the machine, if it starts with one in and one out, then you have a bad ram slot or a bad ram stick.  
and i also have an hp laptop here, same thing, no screen on startup. this one i cant easily remedy. after some looking around, i found that there is a recall on this hp/nvidea chipset. junk die on the gpu. i think its like an instant over heat issue on the hp with the nvidea graphics built in. there is a recall, but it just so happens that this one doesnt fit in to their recall, hp wants to charge 260 bucks to repair, plus the cost of shipping to and from hp. so, unless i can find another mother board for under 250, then im afraid im gonna have to tell the owner he has to send it to hp and pay what they are asking for repair.

so, i took it all apart, no out of place pins on the ram slot. and i cant see if there is a broken solder point or not. i tried the pressure thing, no luck. tried putting pressure in all possible points to make it work, no luck. if the solder on the motherboard is broken or cracked, i cant see it, but i dont have a good magnafying glass to see it so i really cant say for sure. basically, it works with only one piece of ram in, and not with both. im just gonna have to send the owner of the laptop to someone who knows more about motherboard repairs or possible replacement if he wants both slots to work. it works fine as is, and like zalternate said, he can always buy a bigger ram chip for the one slot that does work so he wont notice any difference in performance. thanks guys.

and thats clever use of a guitar pick there...who would have thought...ill look into those ideas, thanks guys.

well, i havent dove into it far enough yet to see if the pins are out of place, i dont know why i didnt think of that one...i was thinking broken solder, but havent taken it apart enough to see yet. and jam somehting in the back? thats a new one... might have to check that out for future uses...lmao...good idea on the pins bein out of place. ill look into that in the morning.

i got a toshiba satalite laptop to work on here. running windows vista. the origional problem was that it would not start. when turned on, the lights came on and you can hear the hard drive makin some noise, but the screen stayed black. i had the idea that maybe the ram was bad, so i pulled one of the 2 ram chips out and turned it back on, and it boots up fine. so i switched the ram chip i pulled with the one i left in, still turns on, so the ram chips are both fine, but when both are plugged in, it wont boot up. the guy that owns the laptop admits to dropping it twice and you can see visual evidence that it has been dropped, and hard. now, im thinking that the top ram slot is bad, when ram is plugged into that slot, the computer wont boot. now if that ram slot is bad, is there anything i can do to fix it? ive never had this happen before, and im not very familiar with laptops, im a desktop guy. any ideas on how to fix a bad ram slot? or is it just messed up and thats all there is to it? anyone with some ideas, id love to hear em. if you want more info, ask and ill do my best to give any more details you may need about this problem. thanks in advance.

ok, so i was bored, and i blew the dinky little subwoofer on my 5.1 surround sound setup on my computer, and i had two ten inch kicker comp subwoofers for a car laying here, in individual truck style boxes...im sure you see where this is going... so i pulled the dinky little 4 ohm subwoofer from the box, and the box also contains the amp that provides power to the sub and the 5 other speakers, and all are 4 ohms. the two kicker comp subs are 8 ohm. whatever, just lay em together the right way and you have a 4 ohm, two speaker connection off one speaker output. and ya know what? HOLY HELL IT POUNDS... i was quite surprised at how decent it sounds...i just thought some of you might get a kick out my ghetto sound system on my computer. see what happens when i get bored? 

so...let me get this straight....you're here openly admitting to us all that you are attempting to pirate copyrighted movies and are having no luck and now you want help? hmm.....im just gonna stop there....im not touchin this one....

nice setup man...i think i just got wood looking at those pics...haha...seriously tho, i like it. i may be a little jealous...im a sucker for cool blue lights and all that....nice!

well, after reading thru that post, i saw nothing useful to help me, and i tried using Advanced RAR Password Recovery, but it wanted to take 8 days, im not gonna hog my computers resources for 8 days for that, so i guess ill just give up and see if i can find the cd somewhere else, it just sucks cuz the record label it was on went under, lost the distribution deal they had, and can no longer be bought or ordered. why oh why did i put a password on this? i wish i knew what i was thinking oh so long ago....good ol Detroit Acid Rap, and its locked and i cant get into it....breaks my heart really. but thanks for the input guys, really.

oh i knew the system32 folder wasnt a virus...was just saying i remember seeing somewhere on another forum that ppl were telling others it was and to delete it, just to be smart asses, alot of ppl fell for it and got real upset that they fell for it and had to reformat. like i said, im glad i knew better. some ppl are sick and thats how they get entertainment, trick others into screwing their systems up....

hmm....challenging members to crack a file huh? sounds like a good idea...hahaha...maybe ill track that thread down and see whats in it. thanks again man. and let me know if you find that program you were looking for.

hey its cool, im just happy that there are still ppl here that are willing to help. ive been at this all day and all night, started at like 5pm and here it is 3am and im still trying to get this thing cracked. i really have no idea why i even put a password on it, its only music...lmao

wait, no, i didnt try that one, i tried the other one you had a link to before you edited your link....haha....maybe ill try that one too. anything is worth a shot

and thatnks ryan, i actually found that one earlier today, well yesterday now....but yeah, im trying that one out, doesnt look very promising tho, its telling me its gonna take 8 days to finish cracking the pw. well i dont know if i have 8 days of patience for that, but im trying it. thanks again tho.