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When the bios screen appears push F11. This method works on the newer HP/Compaq laptops newer = 2years old or less. Yankee

Hello all, I am having a strange sound problem on a HP Pavilion DV6013EA. While using Windows XP no sound comes from the laptops speakers, however sound does come from a pair of headphones. While using Puppy Linux sound comes from the laptops speakers, but not from the headphones. I have updated the sound card drivers and the problen still persists. This problem has me confused. Anyone have any ideas? Post anything that comes to mind no matter how crazy it might be. Thanks Chris

Have you tried booting from Linux on CD (I use puppy Linux)and scanning for viruses online using Trend Micro Housecall? This would prevent the viruses from loading and blocking your ability to remove them. Chris

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I think the silver piece you describe could be a heatsink. If it is then your computer could be overheating. Download a program called Motherboard Monitor and check your motherboard/CPU tempratures. No idea what the second part could be Could you take a picture of the small part? Yankee

Thanks for the help. I tried all the fixes you suggested zenarcher... After installing SMART it kept giving me a read only mode error. I also tried to get the libzypp updates and kept recieving an error. After about six hours of trying I decided to do a reinstall. Problems solved. I now have all the updates installed and the wireless network up and running with WPA2. After having tried both I must admit that I prefer the KDE desktop to GNOME. Do you know of any good articles on networking linux with windows XP? If so please post some links so I can check them out. Thanks Chris

I don't mind trying a different flavor of linix. The Suse install is less than a week old and the only tweaking I've done is to install tha ATI drivers. I grab the Ubuntu tonight and give it a try. I'll post back after I've insatlled it and let you know how everything is going. Chris

Thanks for all the help danleff and zenarcher. I've tried a couple of more things to get the KDE destop running but so far no luck. I like the challange of learning something new! When the network is sorted out I'm going to try to get the volume control knob on the side of the laptop working. Chris

Under the sessions menu KDE is not available. How do I add it to my current install? Thanks Chris

Both the router and the laptop work with WPA2. Is KDE another desktop under Suse 10.1? If it is I don't mind reinstalling and switching desktops if that's what it takes. Having just installed last Sunday I have nothing to lose! Chris

Hello, I'm new to Linux and need some help setting up a WLAN. I have a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M 1437G which uses the InellPRO/wireless 2200bg. All the drivers are installed and configured and the hardware is reconized by Linux. I have been able to set up a WLAN using WEP or WPA but the rest of the machines on the network (Windows XP) are using WPA2 and I would like to continue using it. Is it possible to confugure this version of Linux to use WPA2 or should I switch to another version of Linux. If it is possible please point me to a page with instructions on how to do this. Btw I'm running Suse linux 10.1 using the Gnome desktop. Thank you for the help! Chris

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A little more info about MDM.exe http://www.revealed.net/talk/index.php?topic=235.msg306;topicseen

A simplified version af what virtual memory does... With virtual memory, what the computer can do is look at RAM for areas that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application. Adding some more memory (256MB) would fix the problem. Just to be sure about your crash/lock up problem... It happens ONLY when you a downloading not when you are playing games ect...? Did you also check the processes while trying to download something?

One other thing that comes to mind is your cpu usage. While downloading your virus scaner is checking all the incoming files. If this causes your cpu usage to increase to 100% it could also cause the lockups. You can check this by bringing up the task manager and clicking the processes tab before you start your next download. If any of the processes have a high cpu (90-100%)or memory usage post the name of it here and we'll try to identify the program for you.