El Maestro
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well....she bought a refurbished laptop from a guy who supposedly works as a sub-contractor for futureshop n other shops.
he said he was going to get her a 900$ laptop for 200$...yeah right..
anyways... she got the laptop today and I just gave it a quick look...
IBM t30 ...40Go HD.... 1.25GoRAM for 1.80Ghz....first seeing 40Go as HD capacity...in 2009... was a shocker.
and since I can't argue with my parents..cuz..hey.. my dad knows it all..
so at least I wanted to connect them to our internet.
I quickly find out it can't even get a reception with our connection...it says "the connection may be out of range or disconnected" the router is less than 10 feet away...
first thing that came to my mind.."maybe its the wireless card"....so I go check the device manager...
and I see under "cartes réseau"
connexion réseau Intel (R) Pro/100
and
Toshiba wireless LAN Mini PCI card.
so...problem is... aside that I suspect the guy to be a total fraud...
I can't connect to the my home internet (it says "out of range or disconnected" even before they ask me to put the password)
I'm not an expert... but I am thinking it's the card that is a piece of junk...
any help?
he said he was going to get her a 900$ laptop for 200$...yeah right..
anyways... she got the laptop today and I just gave it a quick look...
IBM t30 ...40Go HD.... 1.25GoRAM for 1.80Ghz....first seeing 40Go as HD capacity...in 2009... was a shocker.
and since I can't argue with my parents..cuz..hey.. my dad knows it all..
so at least I wanted to connect them to our internet.
I quickly find out it can't even get a reception with our connection...it says "the connection may be out of range or disconnected" the router is less than 10 feet away...
first thing that came to my mind.."maybe its the wireless card"....so I go check the device manager...
and I see under "cartes réseau"
connexion réseau Intel (R) Pro/100
and
Toshiba wireless LAN Mini PCI card.
so...problem is... aside that I suspect the guy to be a total fraud...
I can't connect to the my home internet (it says "out of range or disconnected" even before they ask me to put the password)
I'm not an expert... but I am thinking it's the card that is a piece of junk...
any help?