Recent content by jimmy44

when my laptop is plugged in i can play movies, games, everything fine. however when the laptop isn't plugged in, movie playback is terrible- all jumpy and broken, no matter what video player i use. usually, movies will play fine until the battery drops to around the 50% level. i've played...

I uninstalled the (two) infrared receiver drivers (I didn't seem to have an option in BIOS to disable infrared), they uninstalled fine, and Windows did give me the option to remove the diver files, which I did. On reboot, Windows didn't automatically reinstall them. Just to test, I removed all...

Yep, tried replacing the batteries. The LED on my mouse is blinking red and green, but Windows still can't find it. Both hidserv and bthserv are set to automatic, and are running. (If being listed under 'Status' as 'Started' means that they are running.) In Device Manager, both my touchpad and...

Thank you very much for you replies. I'm pretty sure I'm using the most up to date drivers, although the driver date is 30/7/2009. I'm reloading the driver by going into Device Manager\Bluetooth Radios. There are two devices listed, 'HP Integrated Module with Bluetooth 2.0 Wireless...

I have an issue with Bluetooth that has me tearing my hair out. Sometime last year I bought a HP Laptop DV6 1218TX and Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 to use with it. I'm running Windows Ultimate 64 bit. At first, the Bluetooth mouse worked absolutely fine and then suddenly, after a...