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let us know if it will work man, glad you probably found a replacement. if not post back and let us know and i'll do some looking around also. i bought a B key for a compaq laptop and might be able to snag a deal for a netbook key if they have one.

yeah, i probably should have said that those two kinds were pretty similar instead of just saying they work great together, thanks for adding to it.

just to add one more thing. i do know that ram types such as 2700 ddr2 works great with 2100 ddr2, without really having a slowdown. or at least that ive noticed.

exactly. and i would also add, if you can not find a way to find out what ram type it is for each, you can download the memory checker from crucial's website and it will tell you. such as it might be ddr2 pc5300 or something like that. and like rayj said, whichever is the slower one is what both will work at.

dang roco, that sucks, and haha those are funny

well i basically gave up on it, after i plugged in everything correctly on my old dell desktop and literally sparked a fire and blew up my usb drive while it was spinning up. im now just going to transfer all of my important data over to dvd-r discs. forget the risk of that external drive.

thanks for your reply and well ive used the enclosure like this before and it worked great, but yeah the enclosure has the usb cord and then a power slot that plugs into a ps2 drive, which i dont have on my laptop so i use my sleep and charge port to power and use the drive. its worked numerous times in the past and seems to work now, except that i cant access anything and you are correct, it does say found new hardware and all that. i finally got it to recognize long enough in device manager and my computer so that i could go into command prompt and do the Format G: command and it says its working but my activity light on the enclosure only flashes a few seconds every few minutes and i have no progress being made. and sadly no i do not have an extra laptop to plug it into. (i would take this laptop drive out and format the drive with this laptop but ive had problems with the drive not recognizing right away after ive done it before so i dont want to risk it)

Well i recently was given a kingwin 2.5" external drive enclosure. ive used it many times and it works great. but my problem is with this new 80gb drive i have in it im planning on using to back up some important data. i know the hard drive works great but when i plug it in to the enclosure and then to my computer it will either freeze up my computer when i try to open it from windows explorer. it will not allow disk management to refresh to show my drives so i can format it, and it'll lock up my computer when i try to go into properties and click "populate" to get it to read the drive and allow me to format it. i did get it to work once so far, but when it said the drive needed to be formatted i clicked ok and it then said "windows can not format this drive".... so now im left wondering how to get this to work. i have windows 7 64bit home premium, and its a 80gb 2.5" laptop hard drive in an ide to usb enclosure. and the power lights and hard drive activity lights come on but still have the issues i stated above. edit/ also, it recognizes it in windows explorer, or my computer, as drive G: and also recognizes it in device manager and states its running fine. im about to uninstall the driver and reboot and see if that helps any. i'll post up my results. edit#2/ still nothing. same results as before. although its weird, when i unplug the drive it pops up saying i have to format it...so i plug it back in and click format and it doesnt do anything.

no problem. im glad i could help. also, if your camera is a lithium ion battery camera like mine is, its pretty cool to have it charge on your laptop so you dont have to go find an outlet if you are away from home.

lol you probably didnt realize it was me because my username used to be RyanS. but got switched back to starship_troopers after the forum got upgraded. but its no biggie. btw, im really glad she likes the laptop. and it looks to me like the same port is on your laptop as on mine, in about the same spot, so im certain that would work. like i said, i use it to charge my phone and camera while they are plugged in to transfer files/images. i also use it to keep power on my external drive. let me know if it works out.

Hey bro, i recommended the toshiba a505 laptop i do believe thats the one you mean. and yes i have that one. and if you could link me to some pics of your model i can show you for sure, but on mine, on the left side of the laptop is an external SATA/usb drive. and it has sleep and charge on it. (sleep and charge works on all but one of the usb ports on mine, but i typically use just that one.) i have the toshiba satellite a505-s6985 model. attached is a pic of the one that is the sleep and charge port. when you plug in a usb device such as a phone or camera or something a window should pop up if you have sleep and charge and it'll explain what happens. which is basically it'll charge when you have it plugged in.

thats awesome, ...to celebrate, here are a few smiley's that are barely, if ever, used. thank you all and have a good day lol.

every once in a blue moon i have to restart my computer because when i turn it on its either no sound or my wireless net wont pick up. a restart fixes it for me, but like i said its so rare i havent tried to figure out why it happens. is this the first time its happened for you?

it just hit me that i also have that same mouse. and it hasnt happened with me while using this mouse yet. (the mouse issue) so perhaps your problem would be solved as well! if not post back and i'll help ya figure it out!

hey man, i had that problem with a505 when i first got it, but honestly it seemed like it only happened when i had the touch pad on. but after a while it just stopped happening. not sure what it was, but i'll do some research and testing to see if i can figure out what fixed it. also you had a question a while back about my battery. mine is just a 6 cell, so it fits nicely in the back without sticking out like the 9 cell does. i know that every once in a while my sound will act weird. it'll like glitch then catch up with its self then run fine again for who knows how long. its weird, i still havent figured that out either. but i'll let you know what i find out about the mouse.

was just about to type this. glad i read the replies first. tommie, on my old dell with xp home i used to have to do that after every service pack update...not sure why but it fixed it.

i just tested it on my last post that shug quoted. and when i put like 14 smileys it said it was too many. i took it down to 10 in my last post with all the nerd smileys and it works. so its somewhere between 11 and 14 as a limit to smileys per post. at least for my group that im in. hope that helps somehow.

lol yeah sorry about that, i couldnt get shug to take a nap after lunch, he's a little feisty. but in all seriousness, i havent noticed a smiley limit that i would hit. [nerdly] [nerdly] [nerdly] [nerdly] [nerdly]

lol i think its alt and the 1 key on your keypad for the smiley and there are other codes like that, i have no idea what most of them are

Here's what i get with my 5mbps/500kbps package...of course next month im getting the 10mbps/1mpbps package for 5 bucks more a month lol. but here's what im getting now with the 5mbps package no tweaking on windows 7. :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 5297 Kbps about 5.3 Mbps (tested with 6144 kB) Download Speed is:: 647 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 542 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Upload Speed is:: 66 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2010-04-21 03:54:07 GMT D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-G921NBFIZ U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-3ZD1YIOVP User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 [!] CA3LE, even after i get the 10mbps package, i still would rather have yours....but if i cant have it, i have a list of things for you to download for me hahahaha

hope everything went smoothly and welcome back. cant wait to see what else you are putting up.!

In my town (south kansas) Cable One has updated their service...WITHOUT telling anyone. i was on the 3mbps download package. they dropped that package and replaced it with a 5mbps download package...they never notified me, or made changes to my plan. i was not locked in a contract or anything. i eventually found out and today called support and had them change me over to 5mbps. the tech said there will not be changes to anyone's plans for a while to come and i have not been notified still that my old package was dropped from their line up... my old tests were spot on, but when i found out i had been paying for 5mbps and only getting 3mbps since my package was discontinued i was pretty pissed. wouldnt you be? anyway, here is what i get now :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 5448 Kbps about 5.4 Mbps (tested with 6144 kB) Download Speed is:: 665 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2010-04-19 02:59:59 GMT Bottom Line:: 95X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.54 sec Tested from a 6144 kB file and took 9.238 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 33.24 % faster than the average for host (cableone.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-GSV8300K1 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 [!] i just wanted to bring this subject up for anyone else it may affect. and my question to everyone is this: do you think cable one should have notified everyone of these changes, or just let it go unchanged like they did? personally i think it was a cheap shot to me, as i pay on time every month and i always test my speeds to make sure. yet at the same time they cant even tell me they changed services around and dropped what i pay for and replaced it with an upgraded package and didnt even fix my speeds...i think that shows they dont care about the customers.

i like the default theme, but im currently trying out 2010 2 since it seems popular and CA3LE thanks for reminding me....woot 3K posts with this one

i like the live chat feature, just wish it got some more use