Blog Archive - PC Hardware

Computer case fan testing Mango's case has terrible ventilation at the front and as you will see, an intake fan doesn't really do much. We tried every configuration to find out what the best possible cooling would be under these circumstances. Mango doesn't own a hard drive, so perhaps the temperatures are a little cooler than they otherwise would be.Read more...

Dymo Label Printer on a Tomato Print Server In case anyone's wondering, and since we couldn't find any references to this anywhere, a Dymo LabelWriter 400 will work perfectly well with a Tomato Print Server. We used an ASUS WL-520gU router with the Teddy-Bear build of Tomato firmware. Setting up the printer on the router was just a matter of plugging it in, and installing the printer within Windows simply required a TCP/IP printer port to be created, using the IP address of the router, and the settings for Generic Network Card.Read more...

WMP11 Installation Fix I was helping a bloke set up his network. He had a Linksys WMP11 wireless network card. There is a bug in some versions of the installer for the WMP11 that sets a registry value incorrectly. The registry value has the path to a particular file, only it's set to the install path. Result: When the driver CD is in the CD-ROM drive, the wireless card works. Eject, and it quits working. A quick solution is to copy the install files to the hard drive and do the install from there, but uninstalling doesn't remove registry settings, so that won't work unless you're installing the card for the first time.Read more...