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Printers, Monitors, and Other Hardware

What some RAID levels?

RAID 0: RAID 0 sacrifices fault tolerance for raw speed. It doesn’t store parity information, bu...

When I print my pdf files, only a portion of my document gets printed and is magnified to fill the entire sheet or paper. How do I fix this?

When this happens, open up the print window and under the Page Scaling dropdown menu, select “Non...

Who manufactured the LCD panel on my Dell UltraSharp?

If you have a Dell UltraSharp LCD monitor, and would like to check which company made the LCD pan...

Dell Laptop Battery Recall

If you have a Dell laptop model: Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, ...

Changing LCD Monitor Settings

In general, digital LCD monitors are sharpest at their native resolutions, which sometimes makes ...

How can I find a dead or stuck pixel on my LCD monitor?

You can use a free utility called UDPixel.Check it out

I have an old computer. How do I recycle it?

Private ComputersFor residents of of the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles a priv...

Easy Configuration of Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous) Printers Using Safari for OS X

Easy Configuration of Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous) PrintersIf your printer supports Rendezvous, ...

How do I get my Scantron Machine serviced?

The Scantron machine itself should have a 1-800 number listed on them. The best bet is to call t...

Is there a way to connect a laptop with only HDMI outputs to a projector with only VGA inputs?

I would recommend using a different laptop, but you can probably try using a HDMI to VGA cable or...

Auto discovery of networked HP printers on local subnet using HP Diagnostic Home Network Utility

If you need to discover all the network HP printers on a local subnet, you can download the HP di...

What is hard drive degaussing?

Here is a short explanation of hard drive degaussing:http://www.veritysystems.com/degaussers/whyd...

How do I reset a malfuctioning Motorola Pager (American Messaging)

Take out AA battery Put in the battery in reverse direction Wait 10 seconds Put battery back in ...

Squeeze More Life Out of Your Battery

YouTube Video – Maximize Battery Life VideoBefore You Buy Check the specs for battery life but al...

LaptopRepair.com

LaptopRepair.com will service most out of warranty PC laptops – also warranty repairs on select b...

Is it possible to connect a DVD burner to a video recorder such as the Kodak Playsport?

I found my answer, I’m providing the information here in case it helps someone else:I found a DVD...

Ultrabook Hard Drives

The ultrabook specification uses thinner than usual laptop hard drives. Some lightweight laptops...

HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCI-e x1 driver

HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCI-e x1 add-in card commonly found in HP desktops, circa 2010 and 2011 dri...

Mac OS Printing on Dell 2130cdn

Download and install the following (order matters!) http://www.openprinting.org/download/print...

Changing HP motherboard system IDs

When performing a motherboard swap in an HP system, to ensure proper system functionality, the sy...

HP Laserjet 1012 and Windows 7

The HP LaserJet 1012 does not have a Windows 7 driver.The Windows Vista driver for the LaserJet 1...

Trouble printing from office 2010 on a xerox printer

I’m having problems printing documents in Word 2010 on our Xerox printer. A colleague found a tem...

Reset drum light on Brother HL-2270dw

After replacing the drum on a Brother HL-2270dw printer, the drum replacement light may still be ...

HP Laserjet 1012 and Windows 10

HP Laserjet 1010 and Laserjet 1012 series printers are not supported in Windows 10.However, the H...