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The inverter is a small PCB inside the screen assembly that among other things powers the backlight. Don't get many inverters going faulty, but with some manufacturers there have been problems with...

When the screen goes black, look closely at screen to see if you can see the image in the background. Suspect that either the backlight on the screen is on it's way out, or possibly the inverter in...

What model of Tosh Laptop is it??

On the Satellite 1xxx range, you need to short out a couple of pad contacts usually under the memory expansion bay. Unfortunately I can't find which ones you need to short out on the Tosh Sat1800,...

Remote Desktop and Remote Assistant are 2 different ways of making a remote connection to another PC, and tend not to be used together.

Remote Assistance - If you friend sends you the invite, open...

Forgot to add, sorry I couldn't provide more info, but at least you know that it isn't as straight forward as it could be on some other manufacturers kit.

Depending on your version of BIOS, depends on how to remove the password.

Certain BIOS versions require the parallel interface reset as mentioned in my previous post, other versions require the...

What model of Tosh laptop is it ? There should be a code on the underside on the serial number label, e.g. PS600E-01YNE-DK.

Since you have checked the connector under the keyboard, if you are confident enough to give it a try, you could check the cables that connect into the back of the screen and inverter PCB are seated...

I assume it is a Toshiba Laptop you wish to bypass the BIOS password.

Unfortunately, in the past the vast majority of Tosh laptops could only have their BIOS password bypassed by using an...

ScottGem - I always get the cable lengths mixed up with feet/yds/metres, Cat5 one of the few I can actually remember.

Fair point about budget, and the fact the PCs are used mainly for...

It may be worth running some form a Hard Disk diagnostics to check the hard disk is running OK. I have had many a faulty PC doing the same thing.

Try searching the IBM website for a program...

If your planning to go for Cisco, get 3x 48 port switches, which should give you 144 ports, take 1 port from each switch for uplinks. You could use more than one port for uplinks and use etherchannel...

Quick Explanation: A MIB is used by Management Systems, such as, HP Openview, HP Insight Manager, CiscoWorks, etc, to identify, the Make/Model/Details of a particular device.

The management system...

The reason the modem installs on COM4, even though you don't appear to have one, is because the internal modem has, in it's simplistic terms, it's own COM port built in, hence COM4.

COM4 shares...

Check out the following link from the Microsoft Knowledge Base. It should sort your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;149083

cbrazil - As far as I'm aware this wouldn't work either.

When you are connecting to a DSL service with an ISP, the equipment that your DSL modem is talking too at the ISP (or possibly at your...

If your Drive D is on NTFS, try the following:
1) Click "Start", then select "Run"
2) At the prompt type "cmd" to get to a command prompt
3) Run "chkntfs d:"

If chkntfs reports back that Drive...

If this set up has never worked properly since it was installed (i.e. you have always had intermitent connectivity problems), I would suggest that it is due to the fact you have the modem connected...

All switches are essentially Layer 2. When switches are advertised as Layer 2 switches, they are referring to the Layer of the OSI model that switch operates at, i.e. how it processes the network...

First off, it's not possible for 2 DSL modems to call each other up, as you can with modems.

A couple of previous posters have mentioned using a "VLAN (tunneling also commonly known as a VPN)". ...