This last week I got another old laptop. My older brother gave me an old Compaq laptop that could not get power at all. Well, although I have no experience whatsoever with electrical engineering, I decided that it would be fun to try fixing the laptop.
After disassembling, I found the culprit. The power connection [...]
I had a customer who was getting printer errors using our USB Printer Adapter. He had installed the manufacturer drivers (HP I believe) But every time he would restart the computer or reconnect his printer, it would install the printer again so he would have extra copies of the same printer in his [...]
Mini-itx computers are amazingly small computers.
They can be powerful machines, they dont take up very much space, and they are highly modifiable. http://www.mini-itx.com/ is a great site for seeing all of the crazy things people do with these little devils. If you are looking for ideas of what you can add to your [...]
A while back my brother gave me a beautifully old IBM Thinkpag 380. It has a 486 cpu. It was running Win95 on 16 MB of Ram with 500MB hard drive space. One day i was floating in the incomprehensible void of the bios, when I noticed a picture of a PCMCIA card in the [...]
I recently had a questions about the Wireless VGA Extender and how many you could use within a close proximity. I called the manufacturer and they said that you can connect up to 8 within 100 feet of each other. There’s only one trick. Make sure you boot the sender and the receiver in their [...]
The other night my wife and I downloaded a movie from Movielink and decided to watch it on our television instead of our monitor screen. We used a dual monitor video card (with DVI out) to do this, but I was reminded of just how helpful a PC to TV converter can be - I [...]
A FastLynx user (let’s call him Steve) ran into an interesting problem. Steve’s application requires that FastLynx be running all the time. However, Steve’s computer suffers from semi-frequent power outages–sometimes at times when Steve is not around to restart FastLynx manually. So, Steve put FastLynx into the Windows Startup folder. Good [...]
Some computers are slimmer than others. Generally speaking, these computers are called low-profile computers. When adding functionality to a Low profile computer, you may need special parts. For instance, your low profile computer may have a PCI slot. If that is the case, then you will need a low profile pci card to plug into [...]
For those of you out there who wonder what sets Sewell Direct apart as one of the coolest and most useful retailers on the internet I would suggest that it is because we hire the best, brightest (and most unusual). Plus, we are the only company that I know of that actually has a Chief [...]
Alright, I’m going to be honest - if the idea of having wireless VGA isn’t cool to you then you are probably reading the wrong blog.
Wireless VGA is cool and it’s now a reality - right now it is only FCC certified for non-residential use (such as in an office or industrial building), but rest [...]