Someone gave me an HP Pavilion dv6700 series laptop because they didn’t want to pay to have it repaired. It was a fairly nice laptop, Dual Core 2Ghz, 3GB RAM, 250GB hard disk, webcam and all. The problem they were having was that it would power on for about 3-5 seconds, then turn off on its own. They would have to remove the battery for about 30 minutes before they could try to turn it on again.
Fixed HP Pavilion dv6700 dv6926nr powers off
May 31st, 2010 Posted in computers
May, 31 2010
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Dell Latitude E6510 unknown device ACPI SMO8800
May 26th, 2010 Posted in drivers
May, 26 2010
New Dell Latitude owners may notice an unknown device in their device manager. Here’s how to find out what it is and the solution to what mine was.
May, 25 2010
Valve’s Steam service has been great for the six months or so I’ve had it. I’ve been able to buy games and play them without needing to wait for a delivery. That changed last evening when I attempted to buy a game. that was on sale. (UPDATED 5/26/10) Read the rest of this entry »
unmanaged Symantec Endpoint Protection won’t Liveupdate from the internet
May 24th, 2010 Posted in software
May, 24 2010
I recently worked on a laptop that used Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 for antivirus software. It had been on an internal network that used a management server to pass definitions and patches to the clients. This laptop was then moved offsite where it didn’t have connectivity to the internal update server. Read the rest of this entry »
UltraExplorer on Windows 7 64bit
May 18th, 2010 Posted in software
May, 18 2010
I recently tried out UltraExplorer 2.1.0 beta on my Windows7 64bit system. It’s not listed yet on their download section, but I’ll show you where to find it and how well it works on Windows 7.