I'm still cleaning my office space, at least my work area is completely organized. Its just all the crap I have. I definitely wanna move out soon, parent and 24 year old me is starting to get stale, and I wanna try things on my own. For now I have to study for the A+ exams and see how that goes, that will hopefully land me a few contracts that will get my business running.
Back to fighting with my wifi card...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
VM Frustrations & Organizational Woes
Posts are kinda far in between aren't they? Well it's partly due to the fact that I find very little time to run in here and write. For some reason though, my writing flicker has turned on, and I am gonna give you guys some advice along with my sob story.
As part of my tech job in the field of PCs and Telecommunications it is my job to fix the crap that can't be fixed normally. I guess maybe I'm such a good tech that people come to me for problems that are way above and beyond the normal happenings. I've been able to fix things no problem so far, but there's a few things that are irking me. First of these things is a Dell Inspiron 5000. The previous user in an attempt to be a genius of security put a password on the BIOS, only he wrote it down somewhere and lost it while he was moving. There is a way to crack it but it's missing a CD Drive that I *think* had the Dell Service Tag number on it and as such I can't crack it. I have a Windows 2000 with a broken boot and the BIOS is set up to boot only from the HDD. Big problem huh? I even tried to physically erase the BIOS settings by crossing the chip pins, and while that did reset the BIOS it didn't the password. I needed to fix this laptop because I needed to fix a radio. You see this is one of two computers in my possession (of the seven in the house) that actually have a 9-Pin Serial Port physically on it. In order to fix the radio I have to use a Radio Programming Interface that connects to the 9-Pin port. Since both PCs are dead, I had to buy a USB-to-9-Pin connector, but since it's not a physical COM1 port I can't use it on the programs that run in DOS only. Windows XP of course doesn't run DOS apps, so my solution was to get VirtualBox (after the nightmarish VMWare, never get that!) and install a copy of Windows ME. I was so close and after hours of frustration trying to configure the COM1 port I realized that it's USB and thus neither Windows ME nor VirtualBox actually support it. My solution to this is to order a few used PCs (that are recent and upgradeable) that has a physical 9-Pin port that I can use and install Windows ME on that. So, I guess later I will have to say if I did it or not.
If anyone has ANY advice on getting the Dell Inspiron 5000 BIOS password reset, please let me know.
Speaking of advice, it's been more apparent than ever that my room is going to be my office for a lot longer than I thought. I thought maybe by October I'd be looking at some real office space but that's not gonna happen until at least January. It's been disorganized like crazy, and today's advice is CLEAN YOUR SPACE! Be it your home office space or your actual office space, keep it organized. I have a hard time with queues of work orders and all the crap I had accumulated before, but it's getting there. Hopefully I'll have it clean by Sunday!
As part of my tech job in the field of PCs and Telecommunications it is my job to fix the crap that can't be fixed normally. I guess maybe I'm such a good tech that people come to me for problems that are way above and beyond the normal happenings. I've been able to fix things no problem so far, but there's a few things that are irking me. First of these things is a Dell Inspiron 5000. The previous user in an attempt to be a genius of security put a password on the BIOS, only he wrote it down somewhere and lost it while he was moving. There is a way to crack it but it's missing a CD Drive that I *think* had the Dell Service Tag number on it and as such I can't crack it. I have a Windows 2000 with a broken boot and the BIOS is set up to boot only from the HDD. Big problem huh? I even tried to physically erase the BIOS settings by crossing the chip pins, and while that did reset the BIOS it didn't the password. I needed to fix this laptop because I needed to fix a radio. You see this is one of two computers in my possession (of the seven in the house) that actually have a 9-Pin Serial Port physically on it. In order to fix the radio I have to use a Radio Programming Interface that connects to the 9-Pin port. Since both PCs are dead, I had to buy a USB-to-9-Pin connector, but since it's not a physical COM1 port I can't use it on the programs that run in DOS only. Windows XP of course doesn't run DOS apps, so my solution was to get VirtualBox (after the nightmarish VMWare, never get that!) and install a copy of Windows ME. I was so close and after hours of frustration trying to configure the COM1 port I realized that it's USB and thus neither Windows ME nor VirtualBox actually support it. My solution to this is to order a few used PCs (that are recent and upgradeable) that has a physical 9-Pin port that I can use and install Windows ME on that. So, I guess later I will have to say if I did it or not.
If anyone has ANY advice on getting the Dell Inspiron 5000 BIOS password reset, please let me know.
Speaking of advice, it's been more apparent than ever that my room is going to be my office for a lot longer than I thought. I thought maybe by October I'd be looking at some real office space but that's not gonna happen until at least January. It's been disorganized like crazy, and today's advice is CLEAN YOUR SPACE! Be it your home office space or your actual office space, keep it organized. I have a hard time with queues of work orders and all the crap I had accumulated before, but it's getting there. Hopefully I'll have it clean by Sunday!
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