“Although there were initial rumors of the power supply overheating, we can find no evidence to support this claim other than the repeated story of “holding the power supply up by a string.” It’s either the CPU or the GPU’s fault.” -firingsquad.com
I had a custome who was using our USB to Parallel Adapter with an older HP printer. It all installed fine, and he could print the test page perfectly, but when he used any other applications, like a spreadsheet or even a notepad document, the printer seemed to be working, but the page [...]
We just had a customer return a PS2 to USB mouse/keyboard adapter. When the return had been authorized, the part was thought to be defective. When we tested the adapter, it worked fine. Just to make sure it wasnt defective, we tested it with several mice in several different ps2 ports. We plugged it directly [...]
With laptops becoming more of a mainstream computer solution, more people are suffereing from lapburn. Lapburn is caused by overheated laptops resting too long on the laps of users. It can be very uncomfortible, and I’m sure that the sergeon general would strongly discourage anyone from purposefully getting it. Lapburn can be prevented by using [...]
Essentially all hardware devices need a software driver to tell the operating system how to use the part. Plug and Play devices are simply designed to run off of drivers that are built into most operating systems.
If the device does not use a “native” driver, then it will usually come with a [...]