Recent content by Jim S.

I'm having one heck of an annoying problem with a new system build, and I was wondering if the monitor could be the cause. I had a Core2 Duo system with a cheap NVideo 8400GS graphics card, which worked fine on this monitor through the DVI connection. I upgraded my system to a Core i5-3570k...

I have an HP G42-415DX notebook with a card slot that supports Memory Stick, MS Pro, MMC, SD, and XD cards. I have a camera that uses a MS Pro Duo card. The card came with an adapter to make it fit a non-Duo slot. The notebook's manual, however, says that I should never insert any type of...

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Any particularly good ones? Particularly bad ones? The model I'm looking to replace is a Brother TN-570 if it matters.

My system shut down normally last night, now it won't start. The standby power LED is on, but pushing the power button does nothing. I tested the power supply with a multimeter and all voltages are good on the main power cable and the 12V cable, I didn't test the drive cables because I assumed...

Sometime in the past few months, my eeePC 1005HA with Windows 7 Starter has developed an interesting problem. After coming out of hibernation, the battery indicator won't update from the level it was at before hibernating. The battery itself works fine, it's just that the indicator is stuck...

I have a Maxtor 300GB SATA drive from circa 2005 that's been out of use for less than two years. When I last used it, it was working fine. Today I decided to install it into a media player. It didn't recognize it. So I took it out and connected it to my desktop system (the same system it...

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Just to clarify, it doesn't broadcast its workgroup and hostname, and it cannot be accessed by hostname from another computer. (It recognizes its own hostname however.) Everyone has read access under Sharing and Security. I had no problem accessing the shares from another computer via IP...

Aha, thanks. It does work via IP, however, it asks me for a password, which it wasn't supposed to, and also the password dialog says something about a domain, which it definitely shouldn't be using, it should be using a workgroup. That explains why it doesn't show up on the media player -- it...

I believe I checked everything, but instead of winking at me, why not explain exactly what I'm supposed to be looking for regarding your mysterious update?

I started up my network media player tonight only to find that it wasn't seeing my server. I grabbed my netbook and found that it didn't see the server either. The server was running fine otherwise (it's my main computer), but I rebooted it thinking that the SMB server process must've crashed...

We could just de-peer Australia. This is, after all, the country that wants to ban small-breasted actresses in porn because they look too much like kids. There's no help for them.

I could've sworn that I had my Windows 7 system set to download updates automatically but ask whether to install them, the same as I always had my XP system. But last night it automatically installed the big IE security patch and rebooted. When I checked this morning, it was set to...

My girlfriend's computer had this issue last week. Both IE and Firefox would randomly redirect after Google or Yahoo searches, the hosts file was clean, MalwareBytes and Spybot wouldn't pick up anything. Turns out it was TDSS, an extremely nasty rootkit. I suggest that the OP find a...