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Restarting the computer would be smaller than a NOP?

Does the router have a recessed reset button on it? At worst you can press that and reset everything to its default settings.

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Monitors have a degaussing coil built in, which eventually should restore your colours back to normal. If not, MCM Electronics sells a degaussiing coil that TV techs use to restore the colours on a crt. If this problem exists for a lomg time, then perhaps the metallic chassis inside the …

Peel back the sticker and add a drop of ATF. Will quiet many a noisy fan.

Common problem in this style of Dell. Replace the PCB and problem solved. Plenty available on Ebay.

How's the video card? If it is not sending the appropriate H&V drive signals to the monitor, the monitor will go into sleep mode.

Buy some empty used cartridges from Ebay, see if the printer comes to life, and if so, refill the carts. Empties can be had for as little as $5.00 delivered. If the printer does not work, sell off the parts on ebay to recoup your investment.

It would appear that the treadmill is impressing noise upon the phone line. A, EMI filter installed on the phone line might be the answer to your problem. Many telcos provide this device free of charge. Depending upon the device, it either installs in-line with your phone line via modular …

Some laptops use a heatsink with a liquid inside of a hollow tube that helps to transfer the heat away from the CPU. If the tube springs a leak, the liquid will evaporate out and there will be reduced efficiency of the heatsink to take the heat away from the …

Does the wireless laptop use a Mini-PCI card for the WIFI adapter? If so, there might be an aux connector on the card, but then you would need a Hirose connector and an external antenna. I am suprosed they let WIFI lappys into the VA, they used to say that …

I would think that each webcam would have to be from a different mfr., otherwise how do you tell one from another?

Instead of fussing and fighting with the thing, why not just buy another one for ten bux?

Well, you have eliminated the KB as the problem, this leads me to believe that the problem is on the MB. Did you get extended warranty?

What kind of sounds? A sequence of beeps? Long and short beeps? If so, this will help to diagnose the problem.

Watson does have to click the mechanical button to ring in just like any other contestant. A special actuator was constructed so that Watson can activate the mechanical button. This actuator was shown in the Feb 14th airing of Jeopardy.

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'Memory Stick' is a trademark of Sony Corporation, so if you are looking for a genuine product, look for the Sony label. Retailers such as Staples carry these products.

Since you are using a laptop, why not use a PCMCIA or Cardbus to parallel port adapter? This will give you a 'real' parallel port, and not an emulated type.

Did you buy genuine Canon cartridges, or an aftermarket brand? The quality varies widely on the aftermarket cartridges, possibly they are defective right out of the box.

What country are you in? If USA, make sure that it has an ATSC tuner so that you can receive digital broadcasts. Many of the ones found on auction sites only have the analog NTSC tuner.

There is no need for the USB port to be unique, the same way a parallel or serial port has no unique identifier. A device attached to USB port, however, such as webcam, may have its serial number available for access, or a WIFI dongle have its MAC address, etc …

What will you do in the wintertime, when you won't be running cool air or A/C from the vents? Well, in the wintertime, it will be cooler anyway, but you wouldn't want the heat from the vents to go into your computer. You should eventually add some more fans into …

Sounds like the fan is rubbing on something when installed on top of the processor. Maybe a small shim made out of some cardboard or other non-conductive material used between the fan and the heatsink to elevate the fan slightly above the heatsink will solve your problem.

Have you been playing DVDs from various different regions? Maybe you have used up your 5 region changes under RPC2?

With an Inkjet printer, if you don't use it, the printheads will clog and the solvent used in the ink will evaporate over time. A laser printer has a lower cost per page of output, and some models have toner cartridges that are easy to refill. A good quality laser …

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A simple transistor switch driving a relay will be able to operate an electric motor using the trigger from your HDD LED.

Install a spare fan or fans pointed at the motherboard to keep it cool. You might have to try pointing the fan(s) at different areas of the motherboard. If the computer works better with that arrangement, then there is a component on the motherboard that is failing when it heats …