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  • Wireless Autodetect not working

    Windows XP SP 3, Wireless autodetect not listing detected networks. Can connect to wireless if settings added manually. If a repair performed then setting have to be added again to connect. Wireless cannot display network even if it is connected, yet the message "wireless networks have been detected"...
    Posted to Adapters (Forum) by hardware on 02-20-2010
  • PC sometimes fails to respond to mouse/keyboard change

    At my desk I have a a desktop PC and a docking station for a laptop. I use a USB KVM switch to control both computers with a single mouse/keyboard. Occasionally (about 20% of the time) when I switch back to the laptop it does not respond to the mouse or keyboard. Nothing I have found to do short of rebooting...
    Posted to Mice / Keyboards (Forum) by hardware on 01-20-2010
  • Compaq Presario X1000 laptop won't boot

    You turn it on and just the COMPAQ logo and 'F10=ROM Based Setup' appears. It goes no further. You press F10 and 'Entering Setup' appears and hangs and doesn't go further. Any ideas on what it could be and how to troubleshoot? Thank you.
    Posted to PC Laptops (Forum) by hardware on 01-20-2010
  • Windows XP won't recognize USB mouse or keyboard

    My friend's Dell Optiplex GX620 tower gave a blue screen of death so I offered to fix it. The error message was "missing Windows\System32\Conf\System". I did a little research and followed the instructions at ( http://tinyurl.com/abvnx ) to try to fix it ("Harder Method"). I successfully...
    Posted to Mice / Keyboards (Forum) by hardware on 01-15-2010
  • Change screen resolutions

    Hello, I've a new monitor resolution max 1366x768 and a NVIDIA GeForce9400GT. I try to change my resolution to a bigger one, but it not possible to do it. So I installed the powerstrip program to try to do it, but It doesn't work. Anybody know any trick to do this? I want to change it to 1440x900...
    Posted to LCD & Plasma (Forum) by hardware on 01-13-2010
  • XP display set to 4 bit color depth after Remote Desktop session

    The host computer is a Windows XP Media Center 2005 with a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS graphics adapter. When a Remote Desktop session is started, the local display becomes distorted (the remote display is fine). When resuming the console session, the display is set to 4 bit color depth and cannot be changed...
  • Windows XP Firewall stopping Hamachi access

    I have set-up Hamachi on a friend's computer running XP Pro SP3 and my own (W7 HP) and although I can ping my computer from his, his ordinary Windows XP Firewall is stopping me pinging his. Hamachi is in the exception list and I have uninstalled and re-installed a couple of times with no success...
    Posted to VPN (Forum) by hardware on 12-16-2009
  • HP 1022n Shared Printer cant Print

    Hi All, I have a problem that has me stumped. I have a shared HP 1022n plugged i via USB that wont print documents from other computers. I get the following from event viewer. Event Type: Error Event Source: Print Event Category: None Event ID: 6161 Date: 24/11/2009 Time: 2:27:57 PM User: DOMAIN\kitty...
    Posted to HP (Forum) by hardware on 12-03-2009
  • Remote Desktop Delete key acts like Ctrl+Alt+Del

    Hello Everyone! I have a client thats using Remote Desktop. While in the Remote Desktop screen if she presses the Period or Delete key it acts like she did a ctrl+alt+delete and puts up the Windows Security window on the Remote Desktop screen. Does anyone know why this is happening? Both computers are...
  • Missing Raid 5 Array Windows XP SP3

    I just added a Silicon Image SiI 3124 Raid controller, however, the array is not appearing in Disk Management. The Controller Management Software running in XP shows a healthy configured raid 5 array with a total of 4 1TB drives. In Device Manager, the controller is listed without issues under SCSI RAID...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 10-29-2009
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