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Insprion Battery

Anet Services — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:47:43 +0000

You recently purchased a new battery for your Dell Inspiron 1501. Before an old battery died, you got this message before a Windows logo came up. “The AC adapter type cannot be determined. This will prevent optimal system performance. Please check AC adapter connect properly, remove AC adapter and plug it in again.”

You just started [...]

Skype Certified

Anet Services — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:42:34 +0000

What web cam is compatible with Windows 2000 and Skype you ask? You have purchased three of them and non seem to work with Skype. You have installed DirectX, but not sure of which version.

The mystery to you is that you can make a camera work, as long as you don’t connect to Skype. You [...]

EchoAudio

Anet Services — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:51:07 +0000

Your running Ubuntu studio 10.04 on a Dell 8200. Your problem is with your Echoaudio Layla20 audio card. It seems totally undetected.

If you run -lshw in a terminal it is not mentioned by name, just “unclaimed multimedia”. Your Linux knowledge is small and you just moved over from XP. Ideally, you are looking for a [...]

Iomega External CD

Anet Services — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:52:01 +0000

You have an iOmega cd burner and it hasn’t worked in a while. Not sure why, but now when I go to try to burn a CD from iTunes to my burner nothing happens. I get an error called, “disc burner or software not found”.

Never had this problem before. When you checked a burner a [...]

Toshiba Satellite 2435

Anet Services — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:35:14 +0000

How do you remove a keyboard for a Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255 laptop? You spilled a liquid on a keyboard. You removed some keyboard keys, but it appears to be under those keys.

Please view a basic laptop keyboard removal video.

Flip your laptop so that it’s underside is faced towards you. Look for any screws with small [...]

DVD RW Writers

Anet Services — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:41:20 +0000

Your DVD-RW will not work, it opens, spins and when you use Add/Remove new hardware in Windows device manager. A message you get is “New hardware found”. Windows claims it can’t load driver, with error 39.

After removing these registry keys and rebooting, it may be necessary to reinstall any CD or DVD recording applications.

1) Close [...]

Seagate Hard Drives External

Anet Services — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:09:48 +0000

You have a new Seagate expansion external hard drive which you purchased so that you could install Windows 7. Now that you have Windows 7 installed you can’t seem to get the device to be recognized so that you can restore your programs to your computer. You have gone into disk manager and it shows [...]

Sound Card Detection

Anet Services — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:36:15 +0000

Your sound card is not detected on your HP Pavilion 9700. You have windows 7 installed. You tried installing conexant smart audio 221 driver.

You can try one of the 3 following audio drivers from HP’s select software and drivers page for your DV9823EM computer. You might want to try the Realtek driver first since you [...]

Camcorder as Webcam

Anet Services — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:39:15 +0000

Would you like to use your camcorder as a webcam? Yes you can use your camcorder as a webcam with software like DV Driver. To use DV Driver you just hook up your camcorder to your PC via a fire wire also known as a IEEE 1394 cable first. Then you install the DV Driver [...]

Secondary Hard Drive

Anet Services — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:52:00 +0000

How to install a secondary SATA hard drive. If both your hard drives are SATA then what you will do is use the SATA cable numbered “1″ for your primary hard drive. Use SATA cable numbered “2″ for your secondary drive (old). SATA cables are marked with numbers.

Try to boot your computer up with your [...]