December 2008
9 posts
Installing XP onto SATA hard drive →
What sounds like a simple task can sometime end up being more complicated than you think.
In this case, a customer purchased a new PC, which had a new SATA2 hard drive and a SATA DVD-RW.
But he… …
Regular beep beep at computer startup →
This happens quite a lot.
Almost as soon as the computer is switched on, it starts a slow regular beep beep sound. Normally, the screen is blank, and there is no indication of what the problem…
Steps To Completely Uninstall Programs From Your... →
To keep their system up to date users regularly need to install new software and uninstall any outdated or old software. Uninstalling a software program is easy but has to be done carefully. The…
Vista update error 8024402C →
This customer had just changed ISP, but wants me to setup the modem.
I figure this should be easy (famous last words ).
After a few hiccups with the ISP username, I quickly manage to get the PC… …
stop 0X000000EA ati2dvag.dll blue screen →
This started out as an annoying “PC won’t start” problem.
I say annoying because I saw no problem after 1 hour in front of the PC.
So I did some tuning and some stress testing…
Melbourne Brisbane…
Google toolbar add-on slows ie7 →
Its not often that I have bad things to say about Google.
In this case, a customers ie7 had slowed down to slower than dialup speeds (and would often give a webpage not found error).
However,…
Vodafone RAS error code 619 on E220 modem →
A business customer told me that a company laptop would no longer connect to the internet using the Vodafone wireless 3G USB modem (an E220 modem)
The Vodafone software would generate a RAS error…
November 2008
10 posts
Vista SP1 error 80073712 and dialup internet (!) →
This laptop was seriously confused.
The customer lives in a remote area (no broadband, only dialup internet).
He occasionally works in an office, where the laptop gets a chance at operating in a… …