I would be interested as well to know if it is posible to add UMTS module to V5505.
Thanks in advance for any sugestions...

Have you tryed to reset the CMOS ?
Are you able to get inside bios setup..if so, load setup defaults, save and exit.

If your unable to boot from the recovery CD, then it looks like a hrdware issue.
I would sugest that you take it to FSC service center.

I dont think that if you dont use your battery that it will make it last longer.
The battery needs to be descharged and recharged from time to time.

It is probably some unsigned driver which might be virus and does preventig win to load. Boot from your installation disk, go to recovery console and type: bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS This should make windows load. If this doesnt helps press F8 continiusly while booting and ch...

What model is your laptop ???

It is a bios issue.
Enter bios setup, load default settings, save and exit.
If the problem persits try removing the battery so you can reset the CMOS.

Press Fn+F6 to enable it again...

[*]Something (HotKeyApp?) keeps adding to the autorun section of the registry references to non existing exes CtrlVol, LaunchApp and Wbutton. You are wright about this registry values, they are added after each restart and are pointing to a non existing files. BTW, there is a keyboard shortcut for ...

Nevr, I mean never flash your bios from within windows, couse there are a lot of programs and services that might interfire with the flashing process.
Some antivirus programs might couse a flashing process to go wrong, couse they might asume it is a virus activity and does brick the board.

Can you please tell which driver solved the problem ??

I own V5505 and from expirience, I can say that the Fn button works after yu install windows with no drivers. Only the special functions enabled by the Lanch Manager are not working. By the way Fn+PrtScr works without any drivers installed. Maybe your problem is coused by a corupted windows installa...

If your computer came with Vista preinstaled you can use this to activate.
But if you try to activate Dell computer this way or a FSC computer that came without Vista, it won't activate.
So this metod only works for people who payed their OS.

This may sound like a stupid question but I have looked everywhere on the internet for an answer and couldn't find one... How exactly do I Reboot my computer and reinstall Windows Vista if something goes wrong? The OS was preinstalled on the laptop when I bought it, but no software seems to reside ...

bluepompeyjohn wrote:Hi
How do I go about adding bluetooth to the V5505?
regards
John

As I'm familiar v5505 already has a bluetooth.
You can check it with Everest:
http://rapidshare.com/files/115760295/Everset.rar