meara—I don't know what the odds are that the same thing is happening to you that just happened to me, but I went through a week or two where I thought maybe the internets were slowing down. Certain web sites would take forever to load. But then large files would download speedily. Then one day I came home to find my Airport Express was floating belly up. The light was off and no one was home. Turns out it's a thing. My express was indeed within the range of serial numbers mentioned in the page just linked. I bought a new Express and the internets are once more working at peak capacity. Except when Safari randomly freezes for 30 seconds or more . . .

I've joined the Vista family as a result of having to buy a new computer and not having any choice in the matter. However, for the paltry few things that I've had to do on it so far, it's just ducky. Will report back later when I've tried to run some of the software I'm supposed to use for school....

Nope, Mark, I'm on a macbook, but using a....something not mac that I'm too lazy to go look at...for wifi. Which probably DOES need to be rebooted or something. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey guys. I have a media center m1270n. The cat and the dog had a fight on it while it was plugged in. It wouldn't turn on again so we replaced the power supply. Now it powers up but asks for a boot disk. I don't have a boot disk. Hitting F10 does nothing good. Hitting F1 seems to show that the BIOS recognizes there is a hard drive on there but I'm afraid to do anything in there for fear of screwing things up.

I really need to at the very least recover the data on it as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible. I have a project due for a client on Monday morning that was half done and (stupidly) not backed up anywhere else, and a half a dozen other projects due over the next week, also treated stupidly, and no more money in until those are completed and handed over to the clients.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would very much appreciate any advice you can give me.

Deena, I have to go to bed, but here is the HP page for errors and power up issues for that model:

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Thanks Daniel.

Deena, it should be simple for an ordinary repair shop to pull out the drives and make images of them, which will get you backups of your work until you can figure out what is going on with the machine....

Found this "superman" mouse on Dealnews, and had to mention it here.

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$0 after rebate, but rebate ends tomorrow. $5 shipping, tho.

They have a similar deal on the keyboard.

Theodosia, thank you.

Edit: $59.60 at my local micro-center. Highly doable. Thanks again.

I haven't been able to access my gmail account on my computer for two days. I can access it fine from my cellphone but not from my computer. The page keeps trying to load but won't fully load. Any ideas on how to fix this?

ETA: I tried deleting browser history and cookies, and that didn't help.