Posts by whipaway

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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.

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

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

Egads, this thread is 6 years old. The OP is probably long gone and has solved the problem by now, or at least bought a new router.

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 jacks, or else is hard wired at the demarc or NID.

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.

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.

'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.

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 available.

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 printer has a type of 'stir-er' in the toner cartridge to keep the toner from clumping up, even after long periods of non-use.
I have a LaserJet 4 MP that I rescued from a dumpster around 1995. I use it about once a year and it still has its original toner cartridge. It works fine.
You could not do such a thing with an inkjet printer.

Yellow to Red
Black to Black
Green to White

How about this camera? 18X optical zoom!
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0327432

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 CPU, and the fans will run constantly and the laptop will feel quite hot. An overheating problem cause by this type of failure is sometimes difficult to find because the heatsink and everything looks fine, and all of the parts work fine when installed into another computer. It could be that the actual heatsink itself has lost its cooling liquid and is not efficiently removing heat from the CPU anymore.

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.

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

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 the case for added cooling capacity.

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 up. You could go the route of using component cooling spray to locate the offending component(s) and replace them, but it is easier to just replace the motherboard.

Great site & graphics, keep up the great work!

There was no phone call, no voicemail, no memo, no email, ... No fanfare at all.
You open up a brand spanking new alley with all the trimmings and keep it all on the down-low.
Why so low-key?

How's the bowling alley coming along?
Any new developments?

It doesn't exist. It can't. You can find adapters that will adapt a USB port to serial or parallel easily enough, but the signal output from a parallel port (and the software that drives it) is not set up to handle the demands of USB signal management. What you can do is get a PCMCIA USB card and do it that way.

It doesn't exist, eh?
Looky Here:
http://www.epapersign.com/parallel2usb/index.htm

I looked a bit more, and from what I have seen, this is impossible to do. It seems as if you need a USB controller to access a USB device in any way (even through a converter). Therefore, your motherboard either has to have native USB support or you need a PCI add-in USB card to access USB devices. (Apparently there are tons of USB PCI cards that you just stick into the PCI slot of a pre-USB machine (even if your motherboard doesn't support it) and you have instant USB ports).

Apparently the reason you can find converters the other way around is because virtually all motherboards can handle serial and parallel devices and it's simply the means of connection you need the converter for.

Please correct me if this is wrong? I did a whole bunch of looking and looking and it seems this is the conclusion I've come to.

Impossible to do, eh?
Looky Herre:
http://www.epapersign.com/parallel2usb/index.htm

The ultrasonic cleaner has arrived, and I am encouraged by preliminary results: I can clean a clogged cart in 6 minutes, as opposed to an overnite cleaning using my previous method.

Hello everyone!
I am considering the purchase of an ultrasonic cleaner to try to experimentally rejuvenate clogged inkjet cartridges. I am hoping that the ultrasonic action will be able to break down the clogged, dried ink in the jets and disperse then into solution.
Previously, I have had great success just having the cartridges sit in a solvent solution and allow Brownian movent and capilliary action do the work overnite, but I want to see if ultrasonic cleaning methods would expedite the process.

Does anyone have any experience doing this?
Thanks,
Whipaway

Yeah, but it does not show bonds between the atoms.

Let's say, for example, we have 27 drives connected to a computer via USB, or a network, or whatever. The floppy is A: and/or B:, the HD is C:, the CD ROM is D:, etc, all the way up to Z:. Now, what would the drive letter of the next drive be??

I need this cable to connect to my Satallite reciever.

What is your advice?

What type of satellite receiver? Pansat? Fortec?

Also - WEP keys are penetrable...two days to break it within 1200ft.

Two Days? With two lappys,one as a talker and one as a listener, you can do it in 2 hours.

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

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 stuff interfered with the telemettry equipment they used there.

WIFI signal is too weak, so the speed is falling back to a point where you have the limited/no connectiity. An external antenna on your WIFI adapter(if this feature is supported) will help to increase your TX and Rx signals.

How about connecting multiple USB mice to a USB hub?

Please provide exact model of Compaq Presario.

Is this device TWAIN compatable? (Probably is if it is USB) You can use any pgm that has TWAIN compatability, such as Paint Shop Pro, etc.

Can you type the number 2?

USB has 4 lines: +5V, gnd, 2 data lines
Serial has Rx, Tx, gnd, CTS, DTR, etc,
They are not pin for pin interconnectable.
you need an adapter in between.

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

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

What is the exact model of the HP?

Here at work, we have bad APCs left and right, but nary a problem with any of out BESTs.

Can't tell. Maddog rebrands Pioneer, LG and Samsung drives, maybe others, so you have to find out the REAL manufacturer of the drive in question.

Looking forward to it finally opening.

Whatever happened to Dani's bowling alley?

So that companies can sell NEW stuff and mare more loot.
Tell me the models of your printers and I will tell you where the cartridges are available, or you can refill the old carts
You can always add USB adapters to the 8 computers to get 'em to work with the new printers

This is what's wrong with computing today. Stuff with a theoretically projected lifetime of 20 years becomes obsolete after 3 years, after which the company no longer supports it.

:mad:

I have 4 perfectly good printers which don't work, solely because I can't buy the ink cartridges for them anymore.

In addition, I have 8 perfectly good computers which I can't use, solely because I can't buy printers which work with them anymore.

I usually don't buy the "corporate greed" arguments, but with Microsoft, I make an exception. They are deliberately making old equipment obsolete by repeatedly changing the standards.

does the printer print in color when doing the front-panel self test? If not, I suspect the color cart is bad

Got any pics? I'd like to see that!

I found a multi-format drive for laptops:
NEC ND-5500A