There is a yellow exclamation point by the Printer Port(LPT3).
My Ports Ain't Working No More!
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Is there any Driver Fixer software that I can download safely and also freely?
Something I picked up this afternoon after we had three blackouts last night, and spent 4 hours after work trying to fight microspnge and it's circular driver argument (can't get there without driver/update, and it's only available online).
Put an ubuntu disk in and was on BITOG within 10 minutes.
Put an ubuntu disk in and was on BITOG within 10 minutes.
So I try Ubuntu again this morning. I setup the printer and install a driver through Ubuntu. The printer still refuses to print. Ubuntu says the printer is disabled. I enable it. It disables.
Wheew! This is driving me nuts. I got snowed in so I couldn't make it to the geeksquad. I guess I'll just order a new laptop online and keep this thing for the den.
Question: How do I see what the specs of this laptop are so I make sure the one I buy is at least as good if not faster better. I do not want to downgrade.
It is a HP Pavilion dv8000 AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology Graphics by ATI Radeon Express.
Wheew! This is driving me nuts. I got snowed in so I couldn't make it to the geeksquad. I guess I'll just order a new laptop online and keep this thing for the den.
Question: How do I see what the specs of this laptop are so I make sure the one I buy is at least as good if not faster better. I do not want to downgrade.
It is a HP Pavilion dv8000 AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology Graphics by ATI Radeon Express.
Okay so I found out the specs...
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
Originally Posted By: Camu Mahubah
Okay so I found out the specs...
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
I promise I'll say this just one more time:
The laptop is expendable. You will go through computers every few years. They will change, they will break; but all of them are fast enough and powerful enough for normal day-to-day use.
Your data is what you need to concern yourself with. After all of this debacle of yours, are you even planning on a backup strategy?
I promise from the bottom of my heart that in several years you won't give a good gall dang about AMD this or Intel that. If you do not have a viable backup strategy, though, you *will* miss all of your documents, photos and the like that next time your consumer commodity hardware fails. Hardware is garbage, eventually. Your data is the important part.
Okay so I found out the specs...
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
I promise I'll say this just one more time:
The laptop is expendable. You will go through computers every few years. They will change, they will break; but all of them are fast enough and powerful enough for normal day-to-day use.
Your data is what you need to concern yourself with. After all of this debacle of yours, are you even planning on a backup strategy?
I promise from the bottom of my heart that in several years you won't give a good gall dang about AMD this or Intel that. If you do not have a viable backup strategy, though, you *will* miss all of your documents, photos and the like that next time your consumer commodity hardware fails. Hardware is garbage, eventually. Your data is the important part.
Okay so I need a backup strategy. Can you point me in the right direction? Do I need to buy one of those external harddrive things for my new laptop? As it is with no ports I can't backup this one.
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Originally Posted By: Camu Mahubah
Okay so I need a backup strategy. Can you point me in the right direction? Do I need to buy one of those external harddrive things for my new laptop? As it is with no ports I can't backup this one.
There are a couple of RAID'd external drives that I would suggest for this purpose.
Okay so I need a backup strategy. Can you point me in the right direction? Do I need to buy one of those external harddrive things for my new laptop? As it is with no ports I can't backup this one.
There are a couple of RAID'd external drives that I would suggest for this purpose.
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Originally Posted By: Camu Mahubah
Okay so I found out the specs...
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
I promise I'll say this just one more time:
The laptop is expendable. You will go through computers every few years. They will change, they will break; but all of them are fast enough and powerful enough for normal day-to-day use.
Your data is what you need to concern yourself with. After all of this debacle of yours, are you even planning on a backup strategy?
I promise from the bottom of my heart that in several years you won't give a good gall dang about AMD this or Intel that. If you do not have a viable backup strategy, though, you *will* miss all of your documents, photos and the like that next time your consumer commodity hardware fails. Hardware is garbage, eventually. Your data is the important part.
Yeah, I am getting a bit too stressed about laptop power when there are people in Africa starving. Think I'll take a walk and then order whatever laptop Best Buy has on sale along with an external hard drive. Thanks yall for the reccomendations and support. I don't why it is in my head that a new computer will not work as good as the one I have. Here I go to order...
Originally Posted By: Camu Mahubah
Okay so I found out the specs...
Processor: AMD Turion 64 (1.8 GHz) ; RAM installed: 512 MB DDR SDRAM ;
I am really nervous about ordering a new laptop. I don't know why but this is making me more upset than when I bought our new car!
I promise I'll say this just one more time:
The laptop is expendable. You will go through computers every few years. They will change, they will break; but all of them are fast enough and powerful enough for normal day-to-day use.
Your data is what you need to concern yourself with. After all of this debacle of yours, are you even planning on a backup strategy?
I promise from the bottom of my heart that in several years you won't give a good gall dang about AMD this or Intel that. If you do not have a viable backup strategy, though, you *will* miss all of your documents, photos and the like that next time your consumer commodity hardware fails. Hardware is garbage, eventually. Your data is the important part.
Yeah, I am getting a bit too stressed about laptop power when there are people in Africa starving. Think I'll take a walk and then order whatever laptop Best Buy has on sale along with an external hard drive. Thanks yall for the reccomendations and support. I don't why it is in my head that a new computer will not work as good as the one I have. Here I go to order...
Originally Posted By: Camu Mahubah
Okay so I need a backup strategy. Can you point me in the right direction? Do I need to buy one of those external harddrive things for my new laptop? As it is with no ports I can't backup this one.
Personally, I like to keep 3 copies of everything: the "working" copy on my machine, a backup on an external USB or Firewire drive, and a copy "in the cloud" using something like Amazon's S3 service, or Microsoft's LiveDrive, or any one of the myriad online backup storage solutions. This third, "in the cloud" solution mitigates against floods or fires or children, all of which are capable of destroying copies 1 and 2 simultaneously.
I use Google Docs and Google Calendar (both free) for home and business administration, Flickr ($25/ year for unlimited storage) and Picasa ($20/ year for 20GB) to store my full resolution photos, and Blip.tv (free) to house my full resolution family videos; and treat my own computer as the backup. I mirror every system in the house to an external drive, which could restore a bootable system if need be, and anything of real importance to me goes to Amazon S3 ($0.15 per GB per month; my bill is usually ~$3/ month).
Hard drives and online storage are cheap. Losing my $3000 Macbook Pro would suck, but losing photos or video or anything else of my clients or my family would be the real disaster. I know a lot of the other "computer people" on this forum will understand when I say that at least a few times a year I have to deal with someone whose system crashed, or got a virus, or something wrong got clicked and now they're without the ONLY COPY of their kids graduation.
No wonder many are calling this the "digital dark age". I wonder how much of all this information we have will be usable in 50 years.
Okay so I need a backup strategy. Can you point me in the right direction? Do I need to buy one of those external harddrive things for my new laptop? As it is with no ports I can't backup this one.
Personally, I like to keep 3 copies of everything: the "working" copy on my machine, a backup on an external USB or Firewire drive, and a copy "in the cloud" using something like Amazon's S3 service, or Microsoft's LiveDrive, or any one of the myriad online backup storage solutions. This third, "in the cloud" solution mitigates against floods or fires or children, all of which are capable of destroying copies 1 and 2 simultaneously.
I use Google Docs and Google Calendar (both free) for home and business administration, Flickr ($25/ year for unlimited storage) and Picasa ($20/ year for 20GB) to store my full resolution photos, and Blip.tv (free) to house my full resolution family videos; and treat my own computer as the backup. I mirror every system in the house to an external drive, which could restore a bootable system if need be, and anything of real importance to me goes to Amazon S3 ($0.15 per GB per month; my bill is usually ~$3/ month).
Hard drives and online storage are cheap. Losing my $3000 Macbook Pro would suck, but losing photos or video or anything else of my clients or my family would be the real disaster. I know a lot of the other "computer people" on this forum will understand when I say that at least a few times a year I have to deal with someone whose system crashed, or got a virus, or something wrong got clicked and now they're without the ONLY COPY of their kids graduation.
No wonder many are calling this the "digital dark age". I wonder how much of all this information we have will be usable in 50 years.
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