In a recent Windows 10 build I started receiving this error randomly on different hard drives. I noticed the error was always happening to drives connected to a separate PCI SATA controller card and the drives connected directly to the motherboard SATA never had this error. The issues appears to be that the PCI controller […]
To prefix this fix with a bit of a rant; I am not sure how Microsoft, which overall I quite like as a company, can consistently do such an awful job of their search system in Windows. The Windows search is slow, consumes huge amounts of system resources indexing files, and rarely provides the results […]
I recently wanted to setup a rear projection screen for a family event and almost fell off my chair when I priced out what it would cost to purchase one. After some googling I saw some posting where people had used sheets or something else that is semi-transparent, so I thought I would give that a […]
I recently upgraded my main workstation from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. The initial upgrade had a number of issues; one of which was my monitors would never shut off and go into power saving mode/screen saver and the computer would no longer go to sleep. This had been working 100% prior to the Windows […]
My niece’s 2006 Honda Civic had an odd problem where it would randomly not shift into park. Sometimes wiggling the shifter around would allow it to work, but the issue occurred periodically for almost a year. My brother spend considerable time trying to resolve the issue, checking the shift solenoid and linkage. Eventually we looked […]
For the past 2 months I have had issues with my GotoMeeting not sharing my screen or applications correctly. I would share either a screen or application and there would often be a 2-5 minute delay until it started showing up for other participants in the meeting. Once the initial shared application was visible it […]
As a bit of background, In Sept 2014 I purchased a Dell XPS15 with an I7 processor. It took almost a month to arrive, and when it finally did I noticed a high pitch whining noise coming from it periodically. Originally I thought it was some type of hard drive noise, but narrowed it down […]
The tailgate lock on our 2001 Acura MDX recently started working intermittently. Sometimes it wouldn’t lock and other times it would stay locked and there was no way to open the back other than crawling into the back and using the manual unlock lever found in the little hole at the bottom center of the […]
One of my computers (which runs Windows 8.1) started giving an error of “Something went wrong while downloading your template.” in all of my MS office 2013 programs (word, excel, powerpoint, etc). Some internet searching revealed similar issues with other users but no solution. I eventually got rid of the error so I though I’d […]
I recently received an error that Skype could not log in due to a disk I/O error using Windows 8.1. I found this odd since there had been no previous errors with Skype or dirty shutdowns or reboots of the computer. I tried restarting my computer and following the instructions at https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10143/why-do-i-get-a-disk-i-o-error-when-i-try-to-sign-in-to-skype-for-windows-desktop which did NOT […]
