Hardware Changes

PC Wireless Keyboard

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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 [...]

Keyboard Problems Laptop

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A keyboard on your HP Pavillion is not working. Below are a list of potentially easy fixes. You are running Windows Vista and have rebooted your machine.

You can try removing it’s driver from device manager in control panel. Go to System then hardware. Choose “Device Manager” button.

You can right click keyboard and select [...]

Disable DVD

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Before you could reboot a message comes up as “windows was not able tp enable this device”. A dvd in question is working fine as you have used your old drive to boot the computer and fully able to have full use of that drive.

You can go to Windows XP device manager to [...]

S500 Scansnap

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You cannot get your ScanSnap S510 to go online. You have the blue button with the white S in the system tray but it has a red circle and a red line through it. You have turned the power on and off, rebooted the computer but nothing helps.

Can you try connecting the scanner [...]

Audio Troubleshooting

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Fixes for no sound from Windows integrated sound devices. You may receive “code 22″ or “this device cannot start code 10″, with your Windows sound devices.

Go to “Start” then go to “Control Panel”. In control panel go to “System” then select “Hardware” tab. In Hardware tab select “Device Manager”. While in device manager [...]

Sound Card Not Working

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Is your computer’s sound card not working? Try going into Windows device manager then right clicking and deleting the audio device. While still in device manager there is a refresh icon that will make Windows XP scan for hardware changes.

Windows will then see your audio device again and try to install drivers for [...]