Hi there,

I have been handed an Acer Aspire 5520 laptop from a friend who has purchased a new one, but there is an issue with the laptop...hence them getting a new one.

when the laptop turns on, the fan comes on, cd drive makes the usual noise however the screen is completely blank. sometimes the laptop will stay on until i press the power button again, but sometimes it turns off within 4 seconds! every so often when it starts, the caps lock light is on but pressing the key doesn't change anything.

I have ran tests on the HDD and the RAM on different laptops and they have come back clear. the only thing i can think of is a problem with the onboard graphics on the MB.

I have googled this endlessly, found many ppl with the same issue but no proper resolution.

If anyone has experienced this or know of anything i could do, please get in touch.

Many Thanks

Steve

Hello EG'ers,

in a previous role I used Sims.net and was wondering if anybody knows of a MIS suitable for a University environment. It would be used as a record/read platform rather than fully integrated. We our a small School (350 students) within a University and I am looking to incorporate our existing databases into a single application.

Ideally I'd like a platform that enables the recording of student information, staff information, attendance, admissions and a few other areas.

does anyone know of a suitable platform? I have spoken to Capitas but their Unity solution is well beyond our budget.

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

cog

Afternoon,

Just In Case anyone is using NOD 32 for there Anti-Virus and have noticed there systems crashing since the virus definition today, it is to do with something that is contained within that release. ESET are working to fix this in tomorrow update but if it does occur a HARD REBOOT will fix the problem.

It appears to only be affecting WindowsXP and Server 2003 Operating Systems.

James.

Just returned to school after break to find that clients on our admin vlan can't log in to our servers and clients on our curriculum vlan can log in but have no internet access! We use 2 subnets - admin 10.232.74.0/24 and curriculum 10.232.76.0/23. On admin PCs I can ping the gateway but not the servers and on curriculum I can ping the servers but not the gateway. Any ideas where I should start troubleshooting?

Hi

It appears that netlogon drive is being mapped to N: on the win7 machines we have.

I have not setup this map in any logon script and wondered why windows would map it as a network drive. The N: drive.

Seems strange and I dont really want people having the netlogon drive so easily viewable with all its contents, even if its read-only.

Anyone come accross this?

Thanks a lot

pls help me....

Just got one of these today - seems very good. (People were saying my old BT speaker/mic setup sounded like I was down bottom of pit :lol: )

Basically, clip to visor - pair it up to phone and it handles all phones calls as per any bluetooth.

And it can broadcast the calls (and music playback on my Desire) via FM transmitter to your car stereo :)

Only downside so far is that it doesn't remember to use FM when your paired up so you have to press the switch each time you re-link up.

If anyone wants to hear what its like from other end , just PM me your mob and I'll give you a test call :)


regards

Simon

The DfE have now published their report on interoperability. You can read it at:

- Online Publications: Product details.

I just heard that Somerset have won by 5 wickets in tonights match.

Welcome back huh!

Sony FZ21S laptop now has pink vertical lines on screen. It has a Nvidia 8600M card which I know are very suspect. This has been disabled but lines remain. Any suggestions?

Hello,

I need to change the default text color from grey to black. Can someone point me to the right .css file since I'm stuck for time and need to change it quickly.

Thanks, David.

Does anyone know the legal issue relating to the following scenario:

You are a NM or Tec in a school and you are instructed to install software whose licencing is incorrect. Can you, as the person carrying out that installation, be prosecuted even if you have been instructed to by senior management?

No offence, but no guesses, please, but if you know the answer it would be apprciated, particularly if it can be accompanied by a link to official confirmation.

Cheers.

When I PXE boot a machine to begin using MDT 2010, it takes an awful long time to show the welcoming screen.

Currently it'll show the banner of 'solution accelerators' at the bottom but nothing else will appear until 5 or so minutes has lapsed.

Any ideas how I can speed this up?

I am using Windows 2003 Enterprise Ed to deploy Win 7 Pro.