Virgin America
Posted on October 13th, 2007 in Travel
My next internal flight in America will be with Virgin America. No more laptop power problems.
This is a great ad about Virgin America’s power plugs but my theme wont embed the video properly. So follow the link to see the youTube video.
Compaq HP Presario Keyboard woes
Posted on June 11th, 2006 in Technology
My Compaq Presario 2100 (actually 2104US) had a keyboard problem. Luckily I did some more searching before buying a replacement keyboard. Having said that, HP’s replacement keyboard is sub $35 AUD so I spent more time on this than it the part was worth.
The solution showed itself by accident, I accidently stated iTunes and noticed that I wasn’t getting any sound. On checking the volume control app on Windows I noticed my volume was set low. I inspected the volume controls on the side of the case and discovered the Volume Down button was jammed between the case frame. I couldn’t get it repositioned manually from outside the case.
It turns out that KeyTweak was right, key 131 is Volume Down. Had I realised that sooner it would have saved me a couple of hours.
Tags: compaq, hardware, HP, keyboard, laptop, notebook, pavilion, presario, repair, Technology
HP and Compaq service manual
Posted on May 31st, 2006 in Technology
My Compaq Presario 2104US laptop is playing up. It’s seems as if a non-printing key like ctrl is stuck down (except I don’t think it is that key).
Symptoms:
- Alt-Tab in windows doesn’t work as if ctrl key is held down. Ctrl-tab works
- pressing and holding the down arrow key produces a ‘c’ character every second
- Using PuTTY on a unix box ctrl-key combinations that require confirmation fail.
- Using KeyTweak it reports the scancode 57392 constantly repeating. When I map that code to any other key it reports the code as key 131 (but I don’t think that is right). Update 3 June: It turns out this was right!
Tags: compaq, hardware, HP, laptop, notebook, pavilion, presario, repair, Technology
