Recent content by joedoufu

Garebo, I don't think it's the "type" of file that killed it, but the copy protection was of a flavor that made the drive spin and spin for much longer than normal. When I finally canceled it after 20-30 minutes the CD that came out was red hot. Well not red, but certainly hot. Maybe it...

Thanks, but actually the burner is the DVD/CD-RW drive in the docking station to my laptop, not a removable or external piece, and the software I originally used is the built-in Windows XP CD burner. I think I probably fried the hardware, but I was hoping I just screwed up the drivers and...

Sorry if I was unclear in the last paragraph. I've quit trying to burn *that* CD and am trying to burn test CDs with a single photo or single file on them. They don't work.

Hiya, My laptop is officially 3 years old and the 3 year warranty expired last week! This week I downloaded a disk image that was apparently copy protected, and tried burning it to disc. It was an odd file format, CCD, so I tried various software - ISOpen and UltraISO - neither could use a CCD...

We have an HP LaserJet 5100 with an optional 250-sheet feeder ("tray 3") which we fill with 11x17 paper. Lately it has lost the ability to draw paper up from this tray (which sits under the printer). I'd like to know what kind of maintenance I can do to restore this function without having to...

Yeah, it's definitely got all the latest updates and immunizations. Something's in there that's not getting detected and wiped out.

I recently got called to help a user with a simple problem, and while fixing it I was bombarded by pop-ups, spontaneously generated desktop links to porn sites, and mysterious CPU- and memory-hogging processes. I never saw a computer this bad. The user thought it was just the way things were...