Had a customer bring in a HP netbook that you could power on, but nothing would show up on the screen. Apparently this model has a design flaw. I googled and found a couple of solutions you can try before calling HP.
Solution A: Thermal Reset?
Some people have had luck by pulling the battery and puting the netbook in the freezer for a couple of minutes. They claim it works, but I’ve tried this with no luck. Their claims are based on the fact that it resets the thermal censor on the motherboard.
Solution B: Power Cycle
A couple of people have called HP tech support and they had them remove the battery and the ac power adapter. Then hold down the button for 45 to 60 seconds. Then replace the battery and the power adapter. A couple of people said it would power up, really doubt this will work, but who knows. I really believe this is a different problem, maybe like a bad hibernation or sleep mode session.
Installed this add-0n for Firefox thinking it would help me with my spelling, but I found a major bug. When I was trying to make a purchase on PayPal the “pay” button wouldn’t work. Then again when using a submit button on my ProWorkFlow.com website.
To make sure I had the right add-on, I tested it with it enabled and with it disabled. I’m not sure why it’s causing it, but it definitely is the culprit. I disabled all add-ons and just enabled this plug-in and the submit or save button wouldn’t work.
iSCSI
The biggest feature of the ReadyNAS 2100 server is it’s ability to act like a SAN. With iSCSI support you can attach a hard drive as if it was actually an internal drive.
USB support
Also, it has the ability to dump your data to a USB external device so you can walk away with an offsite backup.
2 LAN Connections
Another great feature are the two 1Gb LAN connections that can be bonded to provide fault tolerance and load balancing. You get 7 different ways to bond these two LAN connections together.
Round-Robin
Active Backup
XOR
Broadcast
IEEE 802.3ad LACP
Transmit Load Balancing
Adaptive Load Balancing
You can read up on each different bonding method here. I will warn you that some of these methods can only be achieved by having certain network hardware in place. Right now I’m using the “Round-Robin” method. It seems to be working quite well for me, if you know of a better method please feel free to comment.
Raid Support
The ReadyNAS also comes with a new type of RAID I’ve never encountered before, X-RAID2™.
Overall
I’m very impressed with this server great features like iSCSI, USB support for external drives, and dual lan connections. There are lot more features like snapshots and remote management that I haven’t gotten to yet. Just remember you get what you pay for, this isn’t the most expensive network storage on the market, but it does offer pretty good bang for your buck.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 is down again, I thought I would get some playing time in before having to do some more work. EA sucks at coding11:39:55 AM March 07, 2010from web
Had a customer bring in a HP netbook that you could power on, but nothing would show up on the screen. Apparently this model has a design flaw. I googled and found a couple of solutions you can try before calling HP.
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