Category Archive: Hardware

October 4, 2013 / by Marco /

Set up a touch screen as the non-primary monitor

I just spent a few hours trying to figure out how to set up the secondary extended monitor as touch screen, so I thought I’d better document this before I forget. Now, by default the touch screen seems to work fine if the monitor was set up as the primary (the main monitor). Since I […]

May 3, 2013 / by Marco / boot cd, buffalo, folder structure, hard disk, nas server

Recover files from Failed Buffalo Hard Disk

This was the most frustrating but rewarding experience. My brother’s Buffalo NAS Server was getting the dreaded red LED lights flashing and I knew I was in trouble. There were pictures and files that he needed to recover so I decided to use some of my data recovery skills and retrieve the files. There are […]

March 2, 2013 / by Marco / few days, habit, nas server, timeframe, western digital

Bufallo LS-QVL Flashing Red 6 times

This was the fourth Bufallo NAS Server 4 Bays (LS-QVL/E-AP) that I’ve purchased and I can’t believe how much time I spent trying to fix an issue which ended up being classified as DOA (Dead on Arrival). The problem was that as soon as I inserted two brand new 3TB Western Digital (Model WD30EZRX) the […]

October 23, 2012 / by Marco / business printer, e mail, Gmail, printer settings, Samsung

Setting up the Samsung CLX-6220 with Gmail SMTP

For some unknown reason, our business printer – the Samsung CLX-6220 lost it’s SMTP printer settings. This meant we were unable to scan a document and send this to an email address in the address book. The benefit of doing this is you can have a copy in your mailbox and also quickly forward scanned […]

July 30, 2012 / by Marco / amount, Apps, buy, change, computer properties, DDR, face, hurray, Kensington, loading windows, manager, memory change, memory module, new kensington, Properties, smiles, task manager, thought, Today, Usable

Windows 7 – 2.92GB Usable Memory

I thought I’d give my PC a bit of a boost today buy purchasing an additional 4GB DDR3 memory, which will bring the total memory to 8GB. So after removing the case and plugging in the new Kensington 4GB DDR 1333Mhz memory module in the motherboard slot I had all smiles on my face. I […]