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- Cracking Open the Sony PlayStation Portable
- Follow along as we disassemble Sony's popular hand-held gaming system--the PlayStation Portable. by Anthony Sullivan
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sony PlayStation Portable, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, cracking open, geekend, off topic, Screw, Screen, Battery, Ribbon Cable, Engineering
- Image galleries 2008-04-22
- Fixing a defective Rock Band guitar is quick and easy
- The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn't recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in...
- Tags: Screw, Electronic Arts Inc., Productivity, Games, Personal Technology, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Help. Windows XP - Cursor has mind of its own
- Hello,Hoping someone who has had a similiar problem and can direct me to fixing issue. I am running Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.Problems I am having:- cursor has mind of its own. In open browsers, Microsoft Office programs and IM it automaticly goes to the first spot...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, Swamy.Bathina@..., Microsoft Windows, Dell KB, screw
- Discussion threads 2007-10-28
- Sony Vaio CD/DVD drive replacement-Help??
- I have a Sony VIAO laptop PCG-F690K with a dead CD/DVD drive. Just wont read anything anymore. Bought a replacement, but nowhere can I find how to install it. Instructions I do have start with taking the keyboard off, then easily replacing the optical drive. But how to take Keyboard...
- Tags: Keyboards, barry@..., Sony Vaio, screw, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- laptop/notebook mem. upgrade
- hi folks!...went to crucial.com for correct mem card for hp-compaq presario 12 XL327 for a friend.card's on the way,but i don't see a way to get inside except for the phillipshead screws on the bottom of unit.......is there another way or is that the w
- Tags: hardware, rthrpioli@..., keyboard, screw, laptop computer, notebook
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
- Desk (Blue light monitor mod)
- How do you open the case?Cool mod.Am aware of dangers in opening CRT monitor, but how do you open it without scratching the outside plastic? I have a similar looking 17" IBM monitor (repackaged Trinitron) with two holes on the side for a "paper holder"... This one has no apparent...
- Tags: hardware, IBM Corp., monitor, screw, winandine@...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-21
- How to open an eMachines laptop M series
- Does anyone know how to open an eMachines M5313 laptop, without breaking it?I've had mine for two years now, so it is out of warranty, and it is starting to heat up so much that when I play a game, it shuts down after a few (3 to 10) minutes...
- Tags: screw, eMachines Inc., laptop computer, opening safely, laptop, cleaning, bart001fr@..., off-topic, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- Replacing hard drive on Toshiba P15-S479
- I have a Toshiba P15-S479. About 6 months after the warranty expired, the hard drive crashed (I got a blue screen and upon restarting I got the "disk read error press ctrl+alt+del" error). I took it to the campus resnet and they ran some diagnostics on it. It appears the...
- Tags: chomperhater@..., hard drive, keyboard, Toshiba Corp.
- Q&A 2005-12-16
- Annoying compaq case, PLEASE help! :)
- Ok I will make a REALLY long story short. This computer I am working on is an older, probably about 600 MHZ Compaq Presario desktop. I have done some "intense troubleshooting" on the HDD and I have deemed that the HDD is dead. I need to get inside the machine,...
- Tags: screw, Correct, supz@..., rivet
- Q&A 2005-11-23
- Please insert a disk in Drive A:
- Here is my problem. I have a Windows XP (home edition). When the floppy drive is anchored to the case, it cannot read a floppy. The message that is the same as the title of the question appears. Now when the floppy drive is not anchored and is dangling down...
- Tags: bodechek@..., disk, floppy disk, floppy drive, screw
- Q&A 2005-10-30
- Sony Z505R HD Replacement
- I am having trouble removing the palmrest. I have found all the visible screws and removed them is there anything else i should remove ?This is how my 370 came apart. Hope it is the sameOn the strip above the keyboard look for a small rubber circle. Remove this with...
- Tags: hardware, screw, Sony Corp., wercaholic@...
- Q&A 2005-06-21
- Compaq Presario 7470
- Compaq Presario 7470I cannot get the case off this little bugger. Can someone please tell me how this thing comes off? And I do not want to take a chainsaw to it. (not yet anyway)Actually I was unable to find a user manual for download, but here is a link...
- Tags: Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq Presario, ITgirli, screw
- Q&A 2005-04-18
- Do magnetic tools have a fatal attraction to computers?
- Working inside a computer box can be an exercise in frustration, thanks to the small screws that are often in hard-to-reach locations. It seems like the perfect place to use a magnetic screwdriver. But will that tool damage more than it than repairs?Sometimes it seems as if everything in IT...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Mike Walton, screwdriver, tool, magnetic tool, screw, computer
- Technical articles 2001-10-19
- Save money by replacing 3.5-inch drives yourself
- Those 3.5-inch disk drives don't fail often, but when they do, you don't have to spend a bundle on a service call. Jeff Davis explains how to do the job yourself.Recently, a consulting client asked me to do some hardware troubleshooting. The "device not ready" error was coming up every...
- Tags: Jeff Davis, donor machine, ribbon, target-machine, screw, rail, disk
- Technical articles 2000-01-26
Additional Resources
- Project management screw-up number 1: Failing to address the right problem
- In his book The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass, Lonnie Pacelli talks about the most common pitfalls encountered in any project. Each chapter of the book covers one common pitfall in a like format: - "How...
- Tags: Project Manager, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- I just know I'm gonna screw this up...
- It seems that the first time I join any online forum, I inevitably screw something up. Either I post in the wrong discussion, or off topic or as I did once in a particularly heated political forum I post an unpopular opinion and am relentlessly flamed
- Tags: off-topic, Susan1979, Tech Republic
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Project management screw-up #1: Failing to address the right problem
- One of the easiest ways to spin your wheels and waste your time on a project is to lose sight of just what the project is supposed to address. This sample chapter from The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass...
- Tags: FT Press, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Book chapters 2008-04-17
- Windows Live rooted in MSN's past
- Here's the photo gallery linkWe are aware that the links to the photo gallery within the article do not work. Here is the correct URL: http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877-5931215.htmlWe apologize for the inconvenience.Coll. More dodgy programs for your convenience...From Microshite, friend of the hacker.Kahuna better work on Linux!I've been with Hotmail a lot...
- Tags: gallery, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live, msn, programming, Sonja Thompson, windows live
- Discussion threads 2005-11-04
- (Photos: Dissecting a hard drive)
- This may be a stupid question but...What size is the screwdriver to get the screws out and where can you get one? It's not a phillips or flat head, it's a.....Different screw headsI can't tell from the photo what type of screw that they use, but you can go...
- Tags: Handhelds, computerd}}, magnet, T-6, Torx, photograph, hard drive, Harbor Freight
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Built computer from scratch and fans turn on but nothing is displayed
- I am building my first computer from scratch. I bought everything separately.Motherboard: ASUS P5K DeluxeCPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 2.4GHz 1066MHz 4MB LGA775Video Card: ATI Radeon X1950RAM: 2 x Coarsair 1GB 800Mhz DDR2I turned it on a first and I didn't get anything but a red light...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, kentskid@..., computer
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
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