Have you heard of Blackle.com? If you have then you would know about the whole power saving because the screen is black scheme. Well it is partly true and partly untrue.
If you were old fashioned or just could not afford an LCD screen then yes, you will save about 5% - 20% of the power your computer is currently drawing. However, if you are using an LCD monitor or have a laptop, you are probably not saving anything. This is because a LCD screen still uses electricity to create the black colours on the screen. So if you have a CRT monitor you can save electricity by using Blackle but in all fairness you would save more energy using an LCD monitor than using a CRT monitor with Blackle as your default search engine.
Written by Seagyn Davis on March 13th, 2008
Categories: Internet, PC Technical
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On Monday we installed our on SBS 2003 Server to backup all our very valuable work and mails. Those of you who have connected to a domain before know that a new profile is created for you if the connect client utility is used. So I decided to take this opportunity to format my computer and install a fresh copy of XP Professional.
It went very smooth and in 30 minutes I had formatted my entire Laptop and had a fresh version of XP running. Just to let you know, I refuse to go to Vista until it is stable and well tested (which it is not at the moment). I was delighted at the fact that I already had the drivers downloaded and began to quickly get up and running again. So I thought…
I did find something out very quickly, that even though I had all the drivers downloaded, Sony have devised a master plan for the VAIO and that is called the DLL Shared Library plus many other utilities required by the hardware on the laptop.
So if any of you have a Sony VAIO VGN-S58GP and are wanting to format it clean without using the recover facility that steals 10GB of hard drive space and partitions your precious C: drive into a mere 10GB I suggest you do the following.
- Go here - and download and run each file in order. Rather bookmark the page and download each file and install it before downloading the next.
- Forget about the error you get whilst trying to install the modem driver and carry on.
- Now to get the audio/modem to work we need to first download the high definition audo driver (the modem shares the high definition audio bus) - go here
- This should have installed all your drivers and utilities on your VAIO. If your audio still does not work you may need the audio driver as well - go here to get it.
I hope this helps you get your system up and running again quickly. I know that I just wasted an entire day trying to get this to work which was a huge waste of time and money.
Written by Seagyn Davis on January 29th, 2008
Categories: About Me, PC Technical, Technophobic
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