Have a T61 Thinkpad running XP Pro and a Blackberry 8330 (Verizon). I've been trying to pair them via Bluetooth so I can use Blackberry Desktop to synch Outlook as well as use the BB as a cordless...

From what I can find it appears to be a defective formatter board.

Have a LaserJet P3005 printer. When switched on the indicator lights come on and stay on as if it's ready to print, but the LCD remains blank and no longer displays anything (normally displays READY)...

Turns out it was the HP Wireless manager and another process called HP WAN Message Module. Both of these startup automatically. I used SysInternals Autorun to kill them off and the rest of the...

I thought of that too, but I've updated Windows and I used the HP reinstallation tool which installs the factory drive image with all the HP specific drivers. It appears the drivers are working since...

One of my clients went out and bought a cheap HP at Costco last spring which unfortunately has Vista Home Premium on it. It originally connect to the office network which is actually a domain without...

I should add that the fan doesn't always twitch in concert with the sound and the sound doesn't seem to be coming from the fan.

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop which is actually running fine. However, when it's shut completely down it makes a tiny squeaking sound every couple of minutes and the fan twitches. When the laptop...

Thanks, that's what I figured, but it's good to confirm. I assume I can use any Ultra320 drives? I have a decommissioned Dell server w/ 6 ultra320 36GB in it. I can pick up some HP hot swap drive...

Correct, forming 1 logical 70GB drive. Ideally what I would like is to add another logical drive using 2 of 3 new drives with RAID 1 and then have the third drive act as an online spare for either...

Hello?

We have a HP ML350 G4 (actually 2) with a Smart Array 641 controller and drive bay which currently has 2 72GB drives configured as 1 logical drive under the HP Array Config Utility. There are 4 slots...

I've suggested putting a password on it, but they don't care if people use it. I wouldn't care either, except the MacBook needs to access a shared printer on my parent's network. My parent's wireless...

My parents have a Macbook and a wireless network. Rather than using their network, which I have setup to use WPA-PSK, the MacBook keeps jumping on the neighbor's wireless, which is named Linksys and...

So can I do what I want to do, allow VPN users to map drives, without having it on the domain? I don't need much in the way of roaming profiles, etc. Just one mapped drive for a couple of my users....

Okay, this could be part of the problem. The RRAS is not part of the domain its a member of WORKGROUP. Wouldn't I want this on the domain?
The original IT guy set this up to replace a hardware...

I don't know if it matters, but the RRAS is on a separate box from my PDC. The RRAS has it's own users for VPN setup under Computer Managment. I can change the users dial-in settings there, which I...

I have a Windows 2003 server configured as a RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server). This server was configured by the previous IT person, who didn't do a lot of things correctly. The VPN works...

I need to replace some network cable for one of my clients because a contractor cut the existing, which happened to be ScTP. The cable will run from their offices out onto the plant floor and across...

I finally figured it out. Vista requires authentication, which I knew, but also has an option under Networks & Sharing to not require password authentication, which to me means just a user name - no...

I finally figured it out. Vista requires authentication, which I knew, but also has an option under Networks & Sharing to not require password authentication, which to me means just a user name - no...

I've got a Vista Home machine that is not playing well with my XP workgroup. I originally tried to connect to a printer shared on an XP machine. Jobs from the Vista machine would cause an error on...

The backup runs under the Vista user. I also setup the Vista user on the XP machine with admin rights. I even tried running the backup as the logged in user on the XP machine (with admin)....

As I stated in my post, the automated backups can't create the remote folder. No specific error code, other than "cannot create directory such-and-such on PC such-and-such".

My boss just bought a cheap-o Dell with Vista Home for our small office. We're running a workgroup with 2 other XP Pro machines. Had a huge amount of trouble with Vista Home but now have everything...

A friend of mine has a Compaq Presario v3000 laptop that is 2-3 years old. About a week ago she reported it wouldn't boot when the pwr button was pressed, no lights, no screen, no POST, no nothing. I...

Well, my post sort of explains what I am looking for, at least in general terms. I've already Googled for a solution, but posted here, where people with IT experience share ideas, with the hope...

I have 20 or so hard drives that have accumulated over the years. We're in the process of moving to a new facility and my boss wants me to index all the drives and create basically a printed...

No wires allowed. They just finished a long and expensive remodel and do not want any wires running anywhere and do not want the hassle of having wires pulled. I setup a spare WRE54G booster than I...

I have a new client that has a rather large home. Due to the construction of the house, running ethernet is not an option. The husband and wife each have offices that are on opposite sides and...

That goes without saying. I ALWAYS use the remove hardware option.

I have a Dell desktop that appears to be killing USB thumbdrives. It has turned two different thumbdrives to stone. The first time I was swapping the drive between the Dell and another computer and...

Reinstalled XP Home, updates, utilities and Dell drivers. Had some flaky video issues and took about 2 minutes to boot. Narrowed them down to the Dell drivers. Dumped the Dell video driver in favor...

I finally got SATA drive adapter and hooked the drives up to another system. One drive was totally dead, I believe this was the boot drive. The other drive had a partition on it and was formatted,...

If I let it try to boot by itself I get the error message described above. It has Norton Goback on it, but the same thing happens no matter how far I go back.
I've tried 2 different USB keyboards...

I have a Dell Dimension 9100 that wont boot. When I boot to the restore CD it goes along until it gets to the page where you could repair or reinstall windows. Up to that point the keyboard works. As...

Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 1600 that has ceased to be. Green power light comes on when plugged into AC, but when I press power the power light blinks amber and the laptop does nothing. No noise, no...

Actually, scratch that. I found I can still get this card new for around $60 which will be cheaper and easier than messing around with trying to replace the heatsink/fan.

Well I opened the case up today and found the fan on the ATI card is seized up. I'm guessing that what is happening is that when I run a game the chip heats up and fails. The card has a substantial...

It appears those are only available in PCI Express.