The latest version of Seagate Disk Wizard (Acronis) fixes SATA and chipset incompatibility issues.
Throw your old versions away. This works much better.
The “Automatic” mode is still scary because, in every test we have tried, it identifies the “new” drive as the “old” drive and wants to copy the blank drive over the source drive, therby erasing your Windows install and all your data.
Oh well, nobody’s perfect.
Driver downloads for Acer Aspire 5100 are a headache. I have been trying for days to download. Corrupted drivers and download time outs. Trying European FTP site.
When people ask for my advice about laptops I will remember.
BIOS update is needed for ASUS K8S-MX for “IDE by BIOS” option to appear in BIOS Setup Utility.
ASUSTEK website does not display the BIOS updates in the correct order. “BIOS History”.
1018(beta),1015,1014,1013,1012,1011,1010,1009,1008a,1007,1006….and then the one you want: 1017 followed by 1005, 1004.
Maddening. Wasted hours.
Great job ASUS webmaster!
The minmum length of time for an eBay sale or auction is three days.
So if at Friday noon I decide I can’t make it to the football game on Saturday at 1:00pm I put the tickets up for sale on eBay. No one wants the tickets so at 9:00am Monday morning the auction is still active for an event that ocurred two days ago. Lazy sloppy IT? Cheapskate management?
I am constantly annoyed that eBay refuses to provide more than a 60 day transaction history. It would be trivial for a comopany of the size of eBay to provide at least a previous tax year accounting of transactions.
And why not an individualized black list for spamming sellers and bad sellers? As a buyer I have to manually cull out sellers I don’t want to see. Very low tech.
I shopped for a processor on eBay recently. I could select AMD,Intel, or other. There was no way to select for speed, socket type, condition, FSB speed, retail or OEM, cooling type….A sophomore computer science class at a public university could design a better interface for selling and buying CPUs.
eBay’s idea of innovation is a slow, clumsly, javascript facelift that, fortunately eBayers can opt out of for now and a discount deal which give large volume sellers a discount.
Moving menu items that users have been accustomed to for 10 years is proven loser (e.g. Microsoft Vista.)
The eBay market is ready for the taking. eBay management may be aware of this and is looking to maximize short term profit.
Steve Gibson recommended the PayPal Plug-in Secure One Time use credit card on his great Security Now podcast a few weeks back.
It seems like a great idea and I have used it successfully a couple times.
I had trouble on Steve’s site using Firefox 3 and the new PayPal Plug in. The Plug-In requires a login but when I logged in I lost my order and the browser went to the Paypal site. I have no idea why.
Today I ordered from an online company using the PayPal Plugin. All went smoothly until the plug-in failed to provide the vendor-required credit card issuer 800 number. The issuer is typically a bank There is no such number listed anywhere on the PayPal site nor any reference to what bank issues the credit card. A phone call to PayPal help was answered promptly but the help representative admitted he did not know what the PayPal Plugin was or anything about one time use credit cards. He suggested I used the phone number on the back of my personal credit card. I objected and he put me on hold for a few minutes. Ultimately he told me to use the phone number of the main switchboard at PayPal!
If the order doesnt go through I will be unhappy because I will have missed the sale price on the LCD monitor I ordered. If the order does go through I will be worried that no one is checking the credit card information for accuracy and security.
Crippling slowdown in performance appears to have been alleviated by removing Microsoft pushware Silverlight. Excessively high CPU usage in both IE7 and Firefox 3 is gone on this 4200+ dual core, 1.5gig ram, ASUS A8V-VM SE Rev 1.xx with Nvidia 8400 video board.
Anyone else getting slowdowns from Silverlight?
If you “ACCEPT” the Microsoft Live Safety Scan EULA (”Service Agreement”) and the page simply again and again presents itself again and asks you to Accept or Decline check your “PRIVACY” settings in “INTERNET OPTIONS”. If the setting is “HIGH” check “Default” and try to accept the Service agreement again.
Error 619 result following a dial-up attempt is often caused by a bad or poor quality modem.
Add the Nintendo Wii to the list of sources of WiFi 802.11x interference. The Wii shares the unregulated 2.4 ghz spectrum with such items as cordless phones, wireless keyboards, headphones, cell phones and older microwave ovens.
Consumer affection for expensive, slow and unreliable wireless networking is baffling to this blogger.
DV6233nr laptop shows uninstalled driver in device manager flagged with yellow exclamation mark.
Fix: Use video driver from HP website not the driver installed by Windows Update. The HP driver has the chipset driver included in it but not documented.