1. If the printer is in the same room as your computer, you can plug the printer into the computer using a USB cable. If it's not in the same room, read the next paragraph. Your printer is not wireless so you will need to get an Ethernet connection in there somehow. The easiest way would be to use a teRead more

    If the printer is in the same room as your computer, you can plug the printer into the computer using a USB cable. If it’s not in the same room, read the next paragraph.
    Your printer is not wireless so you will need to get an Ethernet connection in there somehow. The easiest way would be to use a technology called IP over AC. Basically you have two devices, one sender, one receiver. The sending unit has an Ethernet port which connects to the router and plugs into the AC outlet. The receiver also has an Ethernet connection, you would plug the receiver into the AC outlet in the same room as the printer and plug the printer into the receiver.

    Most companies that make routers also make these devices and can be found at electronic stores like Best Buy.

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  2. print by ip address not host name and your issue is solved. No dns /name resolution required.\\ipaddress\printersharenameAnswers are only as good as the information you provide.How to properly post a question: Sorry no tech support via PM's

    print by ip address not host name and your issue is solved. No dns /name resolution required.

    \\ipaddress\printersharename

    Answers are only as good as the information you provide.
    How to properly post a question:
    Sorry no tech support via PM’s

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  3. It seems like the system is not able to query your DNS servers. Is it possible you have a traffic policy rule that is blocking (or not permitting) requests from the firewall? Normally there is a default traffic rule called "Firewall Traffic" that would allow traffic initiated by the firewall system.Read more

    It seems like the system is not able to query your DNS servers. Is it possible you have a traffic policy rule that is blocking (or not permitting) requests from the firewall? Normally there is a default traffic rule called “Firewall Traffic” that would allow traffic initiated by the firewall system.
    In the IP Tools screen you can generate DNS queries and ping requests to other hosts. Use this tool to confirm connectivity with those name servers.
    In the debug log you can right click and choose ‘messages’. There are two log events for DNS messages that will provide more details regarding these failed lookups. Make sure to disable the logging after you have captured enough log data. Based on the output here I guess it should only take a few seconds to capture enough details.

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  4. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126 Did you follow the above steps? Subnet needs to be 255.255.255.0 or on the connected pc set it to 255.255.0.0 so the two can communicate.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126
    Did you follow the above steps?

    Subnet needs to be 255.255.255.0 or on the connected pc set it to 255.255.0.0 so the two can communicate.

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  5. Hi, are you sure the driver you installed is correct for your printer. Try to check it. The following is some information, you can refer to. Start Settings Printers and faxes Left click the printer icon. Here is where the prints jobs are in queue Click printer and clear all documents • A lot of timeRead more

    Hi, are you sure the driver you installed is correct for your
    printer. Try to check it.
    The following is some information, you can refer to.
    Start
    Settings
    Printers and faxes
    Left click the printer icon. Here is where the prints jobs are in
    queue
    Click printer and clear all documents
    • A lot of times you can’t clear them, so…

    •Go to Start / Run and type in “services.msc” without
    quotation marks, then press Enter or click OK.

    In the window that opens (Services) look for “Print Spooler” on
    the right

    Right-click “Print Spooler” and select “Properties”.

    Click on the “Recovery” tab and change all 3 drop-down
    boxes to “Restart The Service”.

    Make sure the 2 text boxes underneath say “1” in them.

    Click Ok until you are back at the Services window, close it
    and you’re good to go.

    Go back into the properties of the “Print Spooler” tab and be
    sure to click Start to restart the Print Spooler service and it
    will restart the service immediately.

    The Print spooler depends on the Remote Procedure Call
    (RPC) service. Is this service disabled? Go to services.msc
    look for RPC. Check state: Automatic

    Hope it works! Joyhong software

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  6. First off let me just say, I'm not sure I'm buying this stuff about needing to fake a US IP address to access a free TV show. If they're giving it away for free, they don't give a crap where in the world it's transmitted to. Considering the US has much stricter censorship than Canada, it's much moreRead more

    First off let me just say, I’m not sure I’m buying this stuff about needing to fake a US IP address to access a free TV show. If they’re giving it away for free, they don’t give a crap where in the world it’s transmitted to. Considering the US has much stricter censorship than Canada, it’s much more likely to have online TV shows from Canada blocked in the US than the other way around.

    I live in Canada too so why don’t you post a link and I’ll see if I can’t connect and stream this TV show of which you speak without faking a US IP address.

    Having said that……………..I’m trying to figure out how to explain this to you so it makes sense.

    Without knowing what you mean by “sensitive data” I’m going to be the optimist and assume you mean something like making online purchases and you’re worried about your credit card information.

    Assuming the above scenario, let’s say you sit at your computer and you’re going to simultaneously:
    – Connect to your TV show
    and
    – Purchase something online.

    You have one router and all data passes through it to the internet. First, you connect to your TV show and start streaming it. It is it’s own discrete connection and data stream.

    Then you open your web browser and connect to your bank. An encrypted session is created that is also a discrete. The information you send to the bank does not leave that encrypted session and jump magically over into the other data stream to be picked out by this DNS service. The DNS service and the TV show you’r streaming is never aware of it.

    If you open 10 tabs in Internet Explorer and go to ten separate websites, your data isn’t broadcast to all 10. Each is independant and discrete with only the data relating directly to them going to them.

    So what I’m saying is, you don’t require a “secure” or “separate” subnet at home to hide your “sensitive data” from the DNS service. They can only be aware of what you send them directly. So you don’t need extra routers and such.

    Yes, it’s possible you’ll have to connect to a DNS service in order to stream a TV show from the US but you can rest assured that you can do so safely without the DNS service seeing any of your “sensitive data”

    Keep in mind though, that all data leaving your network has to go through your ISP in order to get to the internet. It is after all your gateway (door) to the internet. Also, keep in mind they can, and do, keep logs of all traffic. So if you’re doing something you don’t want others to know about, don’t kid yourself and think you can hide it, you can’t.

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  7. Fire up the messaging program, press the "new message" icon in the uppr right hand corner, where it says "To", enter 43541 and in the message area type in your message.

    Fire up the messaging program, press the “new message” icon in the uppr right hand corner, where it says “To”, enter 43541 and in the message area type in your message.

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  8. Bonjour is part of iTunes. It lets your Apple device interact with other devices on your computer such as printers, etc. If you have an Apple device connected to your computer such as an iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc, keep it. PS. Bonjour is a French word, it's a greeting. Fingers was trying to explain toRead more

    Bonjour is part of iTunes. It lets your Apple device interact with other devices on your computer such as printers, etc. If you have an Apple device connected to your computer such as an iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc, keep it.
    PS. Bonjour is a French word, it’s a greeting. Fingers was trying to explain to you that you may have a problem Googling it since it would come back as more of a definition of the word and not what the program does.

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  9. Keep the date and time settings in the bios current. XP and above corrects that automatically by default eventually, but until then, some programs in Windows won't work properly if they're wrong. Make sure you have no USB flash drives or USB connected external drives plugged in while booting. In somRead more

    Keep the date and time settings in the bios current. XP and above corrects that automatically by default eventually, but until then, some programs in Windows won’t work properly if they’re wrong.

    Make sure you have no USB flash drives or USB connected external drives plugged in while booting. In some circumstances, with some bioses, the bios will try to boot from a USB device, and if it isn’t bootable the bios may stall (freeze) , and the bios may then not try to boot anything else.

    “verifying DMI pool data……. Boot from CD:”

    Some bioses will display a message like that, including the Boot from CD part, every time you boot, if a CD drive is before all hard drives in the Boot Order settings or similar in the mboard’s bios Setup.

    – If a bootable optical disk IS detected, you will see a line “Press any key to boot fron CD.” or similar, and that usually stays on the screen for 5 seconds – if you don’t press a key, then the boot continues, and the bios tries to boot the next thing in the Boot Order or similar list. If you press the key within ~ 5 seconds, then the bios will try to boot the comupter fronm the optical disk.

    – If a bootable optical disk is NOT detected, the boot continues within a second or so, if the next thing listed in the Boot Order or similar list is bootable.
    If the next thing listed in the Boot Order or similar list is NOT detected as bootable, the bios will either hang at that point, with “verifying DMI pool data……. Boot from CD:: still on the screen, or you will get a message “Unbootable Volume” or “No operating System found” or similar – the “verifying DMI pool data……. Boot from CD:” line may or may not still be displayed.
    – When the next thing in the Boot Order is NOT found to be bootable, therefore, you may notice the “verifying DMI pool data……. Boot from CD:” line that normally only appears briefly.

    “if i press F8 on start up it goes into boot menu with the options of hard disk or cdrom if i select hard disc it offers ch2 m. :st3160212as or bootable add-in cards, if i do the first it just goes verifying DMI pool data, if i do bootable cards it says disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter which i don’t have.”

    Is this a desktop computer or a laptop computer?

    What brand name model is it ?

    Do you have only one (physical) hard drive, or more than one ?

    You probably don’t have any “bootable add-in cards” so getting the “disk boot failure:” message would probably be normal for that situation.

    “if i do the first it just goes verifying DMI pool data,”
    ” it offers ch2 m. :st3160212as”

    It sounds like your bios is detecting at least one hard drive, but the boot is stalling, forever, when it trys to detect it.
    If it was finding it not bootable, you would probably get the “disk boot failure:” message for that too.

    Possible causes of the bios freezing / the boot stalling –

    – a poor connection of the ram in it’s slots. I’m assuming you have NOT just changed which ram you have installed.

    See response 2 in this – try cleaning the contacts on the ram modules, and making sure the modules are properly seated:
    http://www.computing.net/hardware/w…

    For a laptop, or netbook, you must remove both its main battery and AC adapter before you do that.

    For a brand name computer, see the Owner’s or User’s manual if you need to – how to remove or replace the ram is usually in that – it may already be in your installed programs. If you can’t get into Windows, it may be on a disk that came with the computer, or you can go online and look at it or download it – it’s in the downloads for your specific model.

    For a generic desktop computer, see the mboard manual if you need to – how to remove or replace the ram is usually in that.
    ……

    – If you have a desktop computer, something about your hard drive data cable connection is not right.

    It is common to un-intentionally damage IDE data cables, especially while removing them – the 80 wire ones are more likely to be damaged. What usually happens is the cable is ripped at either edge and the wires there are either damaged or severed, often right at a connector or under it’s cable clamp there, where it’s hard to see – if a wire is severed but it’s ends are touching, the connection is intermittent, rather than being reliable.
    Another common thing is for the data cable to be separated from the connector contacts a bit after you have removed a cable – there should be no gap between the data cable and the connector – if there is press the cable against the connector to eliminate the gap.
    80 wire data cables are also easily damaged at either edge if the cable is sharply creased at a fold in the cable.

    Try another data cable if in doubt.

    Check your SATA data cables. The connector on each end should “latch” into the socket on the drive and on the mboard, or on the drive controller card – it should not move when you merely brush your hand against it near the socket – if it does, mere vibration can cause a poor connection of it – use another SATA data cable that does “latch”, or tape the connector in place.
    (There is a slight projection or bump on one side of the outside of the connector that “latches” it into the socket – it’s easily broken off or damaged)

    The same thing applies for the SATA power connection.
    ……

    “if i press F8 on start up it goes into boot menu…”

    You have a brand name bios version that uses the same F8 key for that as for the Windows boot choices menu.

    You can press Esc or some other key to exit that and immediately press F8 repeatedly, don’t hold down the key, to get the Windows boot choices menu – e.g. Safe Mode, Enable VGA mode, etc.
    Sometimes the hard drive will load Windows in Safe mode or one of the other modes but won’t load Windows when you boot normally.
    (That won’t work if your hard drive is not detected as bootable.)
    One of the choices is
    Disable automatic restart….
    When you know you have seen a glimpse of a blue screen message in Windows, choosing that will attempt to load Windows normally, and you may get a blue screen message that stays on the screen rather than the computer restarting when the error is encountered.

    If you choose that and do see such a message…

    quote what you see on it

    e.g.

    STOP: 0x000000xx (we don’t need the stuff in brackets beside it)

    TEXT_ALL_IN_CAPITALS_WITH_UNDERLINES_BETWEEN

    A problem file name may be at the end of the text – if so, quote that.

    There may be a link to More info or similar – if you see that click on it – if it names a problem file, quote that.

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  10. They are quite special. You can only update it if the original maker offers software to do it. Microsoft does not offer any disks for that.

    They are quite special. You can only update it if the original maker offers software to do it. Microsoft does not offer any disks for that.

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