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Well shit now i have another problem, i can't seem to access my wireless no matter what i do. It was just working fine yesterday and when i woke up this morning, suddenly it stopped working. It just won't connect to my wireless access point. The light laptop is solid green indicating that the wireless is turned on. I also tried resetting my router, didn't work. the only thing i did was install those software you told me bout and also that CCC codec pack but i don't how that can possibly ruin my wireless on the laptop but in any case i need to get that fix some how.

lol Well apparently i ended up downloading a presentation instead no wonder. Now i got the real direct X software and im going to try and install the CC codec pack next.

Its the direct X SDK update, so hopefully its the right one.

I installed the avast internet security full version,and it comes with the antivirus so i think thats pretty much all i need for protection and of course i have the Web of trust and addblock extensions.

Now what i did was i exported my favorites from my other computer to an HTML file and now im going to try and import them to my new laptop, hopefully it saves all my passwords and IDs and what not, cause it would be a real pain to get all those pack.

Pretty soon ill be ready to start transfering all my files and data from other computer to the laptop i just wanted to make sure its secured first before i did that just incase i may of had a virus on my other computer.

Im going to start installing the CCC pack here soon.

DAMN that is a long tutorial lol. I usually just use CCC pack, it comes bundled with all the codecs you will need and also windows media player classic is like the best player for watching anime in 1080p.

Well im going to be typing on my other laptop, well im doing all this other stuff on my new laptop. its just easer that way. Right now its doing the back up recovery. Not sure how long that is going to take. Looks like hrs to me, i can still do other stuff well thats going though.

The track pad is actually a different material, its made of plastic where as old laptop had kind of a smooth texture finish on it. But the downside to that is finger prints and it gets smeared real easy, this one won't have that problem, but i have to figure out a way to fix the touchy track pad.

Alright i finally got my new laptop. Ok let me go over a few things first. I love the keyboard, its alot better then my old laptop, the keys have shorter key strokes. The sound is great, it runs pretty smooth and is light weigh, weighs a hella alot less then my other laptop did. So its comfortable laying in the bed using it. Anyways the only fault that i can see is the mouse track pad, its pretty touchy and sometimes even when im typing like right now, my thumb occasionally moves the mouse arrow some times. I can see this being a nuisance in the future. But i'll try and get used to it. I changed the speed on the mouse so its a little easer to click on things. But yeah thats its one major fault and the people in the reviews were dead right bout that was the touchy track pad.

Anyways the laptop did not come with any drivers, any dvd's of any sort, it just came pre installed with windows 7 home premium and alot of other software on here i have no idea what it all does. One of them is "RI recover" its telling me to create a back up of my windows on a disk. THat is one thing i guess ill have to do my self, if i ever have to reformat the HD, ill have to look up the asus drivers my self since it didn't come with a disk. I also have other software like "Battery saving" which enables me to switch from battery saving mode and "high performance mode" my other laptop didn't have that so not sure what the benefits of high performance mode is.

I also got a bunch of other stuff like "asus life update" which im assuming updates all of my drivers and what not. "asus sonic focus", "Asus Vibe fun center" and "Asus tools" those are the applications that are on my desktop.

I have not played any videos on it yet, i just now hooked it up and its charging the battery currently.

So if their is anything you want me to test, look into, let me know since your a tech and know alot more bout laptops then i do. Just letting you know that i finally got it.

So i guess Monday i get my laptop, i hope its a well built oiled machine lol.

Thier was no fan for the video card.. All the other fans were working, i checked that out my self when i took the cover off, but i slowly watched the fans spinning and as the laptop got hotter, the fans RPM would increase to its highest speed naturally. I think it was a more or a less a bad component, i think the video card was just shot and it was causing it to over heat. I don't know the technical details on that since im not really an expert when it comes to laptops, i work on desktops and they are very different. Not really sure how to test components in a computer though, besides ram. It would be nice if you can test actual components on a motherboard and stuff but i think you need a oem meter or something. I think my last motherboard i got my desktop actually came with something like that, you plug in all these separate connectors to see if the motherboard is getting full power.

I am not even sure how to cool the CPU on the laptop. On a desktop you just apply some ceramic paste and make sure it seeted probably, but im not what to do with a laptop. Kind of a green horn when it comes to laptops still.

Guess i should start learning bout self repair incase my warrenty expires again and i have to work on my laptop my self. Hell my desktop computers have been through hell, i'll tell youl if i didn't know anything about computers like i do now, i would of wasted soooo much money. But desktops are much easier to fix then laptops are.

Laptops everything is like one solid unit, its mostly all integrated and sautered into the motherboard which makes testing components difficult. Desktop you pretty much just snap in every component.

One thing i do know is that it was dropped on its corner edge from a high space, when i lowned it to my friend. When i got it back, after that, everything slowly just stopped working, first it was the wireless adapater, i tried taking it apart and checking to see if it was plugged into the mobo, but it was, it was just really touchy and then finally went out all together, next came the sound card, suddently the laptop had no sound. After that the front panel buttons displayed started switching power some how and i think that happened after my first attempt at opening the computer, i may of got the power wires crossed up, though i do not remember specifically doing that, the dvd touch display button turns on the comoputer and you can't turn it off at all, the only way was to use the natural "shut down" operation.

Well after that, one of the USB's went bad, then finally it started over heating to extreme levels and i used a coolpad to try and keep it cool for the time being. Some times it would freeze instantly and i would have to pull the battery in order to shut it down. I had to do this repeatedly for several months, i should of known that a this point time, it needed to be fixed, but imo it just was no worth it, so many better laptops out their that then this old piece of junk.

That was obviously due to over heating. Then finally i smelt what smelt like burning rubber, and on the left hand side of the LCD that connects the top lid to the laptop, it burn it a whole through the vent and melted some kind of Rubber plug and the screw came loose and now my lid is coming apart. Surprisingly after all that, the laptop still displays my windows and i can still use it still but i choose not to, because i don't want it to arc or something or catch on fire again.

It probably could be fixed, but would cost alot of money. But this laptop i got in 2004, its really ran its course and its time. Lased me a long time though. Maybe i would of lasted longer had it not been dropped, who knows.

Well this is what speed fan picked up on my old laptop and this was during after its only been on for about a half hr. MY GPU temp actually reached all the way to 120 before

Sure, just let me know what you want to see, or test, and ill check it out.