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PRINTER TROUBLESHOOTING AS AN OUTPUT DEVICE 

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PRINTER TROUBLESHOOTING AS AN OUTPUT DEVICE 

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Printers
Print devices are among the most diverse I/O devices you can use. Print devices come in every shape and size, with specialization for their output. They also tend to have several versions of drivers, and are often attached to various computers on a network.

In a peer-to-peer network configuration, Windows XP Professional automatically crawls the network and looks for printers (the software that performs the printing function and transmits it to the appropriate print devices), as well as other resources. Users see these printers listed as Auto printername on computername. Drivers may be installed transparently, or you can prompt the operating system to install a driver for the printer simply by connecting to the printer itself.

When a computer running Windows XP Professional is a member of a domain, it does not use the NetCrawler feature. Instead, a user can browse the domain for printers and connect to them. To connect to a printer directly, open the Printers and Faxes utility in Control Panel and click the Add a Printer task. The Add Printer Wizard starts. Click Next in the first screen. You can select the A Network Printer or a Printer Attached to Another Computer option and click Next. Select Connect to this Printer (or to browse for a printer, select this option and click Next). Type the name of the printer in the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) form of \\computername\printername. (As the wizard says, you can leave this blank to browse the network for a printer.) Click Next. If you do not have the printer driver installed on your computer, you will see the dialog box shown in Figure 8.3, which explains that a new printer driver will be installed on your computer. Click Yes. The operating system installs the printer driver, and then you are asked whether to make this printer the default printer for the computer. Select your answer, click Next, and then click Finish.

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How to Troubleshoot Hard Drive Errors

It may be hard to believe, but a completely dead hard drive may be the best option for a hard drive failure. When your drive is dead, it could be a problem with the computer power supply or the cables, or the drive itself could have just stopped. Either way, the drive is no longer accessing its platters and writing over or corrupting your data.

Hard drive recovery is necessary for failed drives in computers without scheduled backups.

Pay Attention to the Sounds the Drive is Making

If the drive makes clicking and grinding noises when it starts up, then shut your computer down immediately and contact one of our certified technicians to have your data preserved. Those clicking and grinding noises indicate damage to the read/write heads of your drive, and that is a mechanical issue that an expert should fix.

If you turn your computer on and it makes a series of beeps, then turn it off and give us a call. The key to understanding how to recover data from a hard drive is understanding how to preserve what data you have.

Turn Off Your Computer

The operating system on your computer is constantly scanning, accessing, and writing data to your hard drive. When your hard drive starts to fail, your operating system could wind up interpreting bad sectors as blank sectors and start writing to them. That means that your drive will sustain more damage and you will lose more data by the second.

Check Your Connections

Open up your computer and make sure that the power and data connection cables for your hard drive are plugged in and working. Look at your cables and make sure that they are not frayed or damaged in some way. It is always best to start with the obvious things first when you are trying to figure out how to recover data from a damaged hard drive. If you are having problems opening your case, then check online for the instructions. You should have no problem finding a good video that will let you know how to open your computer.

Look For Your Drive in Your BIOS

When you first turn on your computer, a message will flash for a few seconds that will tell you what button to push to access your computer’s BIOS. Press that button and then follow the on-screen instructions to find your hard drive listing. If you want to learn how to recover a hard drive, it is important to first make sure that the computer can see the drive.

If you see your hard drive listed in your BIOS, then you have a chance at being able to recover your drive through your operating system. If your drive is not there, then turn the computer off and open the case. On the back of your hard drive will be a power cable and a data cable. Make sure they are both plugged in properly. If they are plugged in, then replace the data cable as a precaution. If your BIOS can see your hard drive after replacing your data cable, then you probably just solved your problem. If it does not see the drive, then you will need to move on to the next step.

Put the Drive in an External Enclosure

To recover hard drive data safely, you need to connect your hard drive to a second computer that has a working operating system. Remove your damaged hard drive and put it in an external enclosure that can be connected to a second computer through a USB port.

When you connect the hard drive to a second computer, you will be able to:

Mirror the damaged drive to a fresh drive to salvage your data

Scan the damaged drive with scanning software you can find online to see if data can be recovered

Analyze the drive with computer software without damaging the data

Don’t Ever Open Your Drive

As certified hard drive technicians, we know how complicated these little devices are. We understand the platters, the read/write heads, and the circuit boards. That is why we are telling you that opening your hard drive to try and retrieve your data is a bad idea. There are many different moving parts in your hard drive that you could damage, and you may lose all of your data for good.

Your best approach is to give us a call and we will quote you a price on retrieving that data for you. Even if the platters in your drive are damaged, we can still recover your data for you. If all of the safe options have been exercised, then we strongly suggest that you call in the experts and let us retrieve your data for you.

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TROUBLESHOOTING SCANNER AS AN OUTPUT DEVICE 

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Scanners

Scanners and cameras obtain images and input them into a computer. Therefore, scanners and cameras perform the opposite function of a printer, which outputs data and images. TWAIN device drivers are an older technology driver model for scanning images into a computer. Windows XP replaces TWAIN with the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) interface for both scanners and cameras.

Because scanners use the same underlying technology as cameras, the two are grouped in Control Panel under the Scanners and Cameras utility. These devicesdigital cameras, digital video cameras, scanners, and any other image-capturing devicesare largely Plug and Play. They install upon detection by Windows XP. After it is installed, you can download images from the device into any folder on the computer using the Scanners and Cameras Wizard. The default folder for images is the My Pictures folder, which is contained within My Documents. Most cameras and scanners are sold with accompanying software that provides additional image management, for example, a scanner often comes with fax software, copy software, or optical character recognition (OCR) software. The image that is input from a scanner or camera is simply an imageit does not function as text until it has been interpreted by an OCR program. If the scanner is used to pass the image through the computer to the printer, it is always rendered as an image of the original document.

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Device driver installation requires administrative rights When you connect a scanner or digital camera, Windows XP automatically recognizes the device a majority of the time. However, if you do not have the appropriate rights, Windows XP does not install the driver.

Cameras and scanners do not always appear as icons in Windows XP if they are not connected, or if their power has been turned off. Power-saving features on many cameras force them to shut down after a certain period of time; therefore, if an icon does not appear as expected, you should check the device to see whether it is turned on. Step by Step 8.1 discusses how to install a digital camera or scanner that connects via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port.

Step by Step: 8.1 Installing and Testing a USB Digital Camera or Scanner1. | Start Windows XP Professional and log on as a member of the Administrators group.

2. | Plug in the device to the computer's USB port.

3. | A Plug and Play image-capturing device prompts the Scanner and Camera Wizard to begin, and the device driver installs automatically. Otherwise, click Start, Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware, Scanners and Cameras. In the task pane, click Add an Imaging Device.

4. | Click Next to bypass the first screen.

5. | Select the device's manufacturer in the left pane, and then select the device model in the right pane. Otherwise, if you have a specific manufacturer's driver to install, click the Have Disk button.

6. | Click Next. If the device is not connected or not turned on, Windows XP prompts you to connect the device and select the port.

7. | Click Next.

8. | In the text box provided, type a name for the device. (A name may already be in the box, based on the information the wizard has gathered.)

9. | Click Next. Click Finish to complete the installation.

10. | Right-click the new device icon in the Scanners and Cameras utility, and select Properties from the shortcut menu.

11. | Click the Test Camera (or Test Scanner) button. Windows XP attempts to communicate with the device and then indicates whether the test was successful.

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Fix Windows 7 No Audio Output Device Is Installed Error (Solved)

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In reference to the video,watch while you read through.
The video seeks to teach how computer uses can troubleshoot output devices which provides sounds and audios and installing them in windows as well. Speakers and microphone are some examples.

According to the video there are 5 ways to troubleshoot output sound and audio devices.

Read through carefully as we highlight them...
Method 1
# click the start button

# Select control panel and click troubleshoot

# click hardware sound playing audio

# click next

Method 2
# Type CMD in the window search and click open

# Type "net localgroup administrators /add networkservice"

# A command again appears,type "net localgroup administrators /add local service"

# Exit and restart the system.

Method 3
# Type "device manager" in the window search and Select.

# Click and expand the sound video and game controllers

# Right "click audio device"

# Click "update driver software"

# Click "search automatic for updated driver software

Method 4
# Type "device manager"in the window search button and select

# Select "Browse my computer for driver software"

#Select model and click next

# Restart system

Method 5
# Start the first 2 of method 4

# Select install

# Click next and restart system

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Fix Windows 7 No Audio Output Device Is Installed Error (Solved)

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The following are some processes to go through when troubleshooting the CPU, MEMORY and the CMOS BATTERY (They're references to the video above)

As clearly stated in the video,in a situation where u encounter storage device problems,the first thing you need to look at, is to refer to set-up to configure your system. Then,press F1 to run set-up or F2 to load default values.

Continue with the following steps:

# REMOVE THE POWER LOAD AND CMOS BATTERY         AND HOLD THE POWER BUTTON FOR 30 MINUTES (afterwards put the battery back)

# REMOVE ONE STICK OF RAM AND START UP PC

# NOW TRY THE OTHER STICK OF THE RAM AND START UP PC

NB:You can also use the software called MEMTEST

# MAKE SURE YOU RESEAT ALL HARDWARE ON THE MOTHERBOARD

# RESET BIOS BACK TO DEFAULT SETTINGS (Remove any overclock you may have on computer CPU and RAM.