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PC Wireless Keyboard

Aaron J Berg — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:21:43 +0000

You have a PC with Windows XP operating sysem. A wireless keyboard & mouse. As nearly as you can tell everything is working, except you cannot get input from your keyboard to show up on your screen.

You tried changing batteries in your keyboard and tried to re-sync keyboard. You can try removing it’s [...]

Hitachi Hard Drives

Aaron J Berg — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:04:56 +0000

Your Hitachi easy drive does not register on your computer. It just does not connect to your computer dialog box. Your external drive should have come pre formatted with FAT 32 file system. You could try reformatting it to FAT 32.

Please try troubleshooting steps from this Hitachi USB drive faqs page. Skip to [...]

Pioneer Computer DVD

Aaron J Berg — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:53:22 +0000

Pioneer CDRW/DVDRW got installed on your computer and won’t let you burn any files. You’ve tried to uninstall it, but your D: drive goes away as well. How do you get audio files burned on your drive?

Please install Roxio Creator. It should have DVD burning software. Well once you install that software and [...]

Insprion Battery

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

Skype Certified

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

EchoAudio

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

Iomega External CD

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

Toshiba Satellite 2435

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

DVD RW Writers

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]

Seagate Hard Drives External

Aaron J Berg — 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 [...]