Finding device drivers with the PCIDatabase
DaleImagine you have a “No name brand” Ethernet card, without a driver disk or CD. You plug it into your computer, and Device Manager can’t find the drivers for it. …
You can use a USB Micro-B cable with a USB3 device.
You’ll get USB2 speeds, but it does work. Handy if you’ve left your only USB3 cable at home and brought your Seagate USB3 Portable Drive along with you.
Performance: Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
With my last post, I mentioned that there are 3 things you should do with SSD drives on Windows XP. I left 4 other things out, because I honestly didn’t…
“PC won’t start”
The friend explained that their PC wouldn’t start up. “Where do you keep it?”, I asked. ‘On the floor’, was the reply. “You need to give it a clean, it’s…
Hand-held scanners are still crap, even at $99
Saw this advertised the other day: This portable scanner is a magic wand that will scan and capture books, photos, letters and important documents. Scans without the need to have…
Setting up wireless IP cameras–some further bits
Back on the 5th December, I wrote about how to setup outdoor wireless surveillance cameras. I’ve had a couple emails asking questions, so here are the replies: What do you…
Setting up wireless IP cameras
With Nikki coming to stay, I expected that she would have some “separation anxiety” issues. I wanted to make sure she wasn’t fretting too much when I was not home. …
I’m not going to miss this “I’ve bent a PIN” problem.
This, pictured right, landed across my desk today. The end user told me “I’ve bent a drive pin, can you fix it.” ‘Maybe’ The problem with trying to fix this…
The strange case of the HP Presario CQ61 laptop
The user reported, When I use Microsoft Word, the keyboard randomly selected all text and deletes it. This doesn’t happen when I use an external keyboard. I’ve seen this behaviour…
HTC Desire breaks Microsoft Wireless keyboard
Or, in other words, your keyboard will no longer work. This too close to this breaks these: The cause, which I only found out by chance, AFTER I changed the…