Repair

Background The Solution Download this initial backup file: Initial HDD Contents.zip (no longer available) Unzip this to the root of the MP3 player. You should have 2 folders GBSYSTEM and DEMO_MUSIC on there Restart the player

There is an excellent Travel Keyboard available for the Dell Venue 11 Pro tablet computer that I use (I have 2), which new costs about £200 however you can occasionally pick them up on ebay for much less, such as the deal I picked up last week for £29, for a refurbished one, listed with No Battery. Now what I took a chance on is that the seller is listing no battery because when connected to a tablet, the tablet reports there is no battery, due to a design flaw by Dell, where these keyboards have some kind of fault in them which allows the Lithium Battery Slice to discharge to such a low level that the protection circuitry kicks in disconnecting the battery, and preventing them being recharged. ...

BIOS Battery Replacement I’ve been having some problems recently where the laptop would power on (the power LED is lit), but nothing appeared on the screen, and no boot sound was played. After accidentally leaving it in this state I noticed that it had managed to limp into the BIOS with a funny rainbow coloured logo in place of the usual white one. At this point I rebooted it and it came up with the usual BIOS logo and a message stating that the CMOS battery was running low. Excellent I thought, I’ll just go and change that and the problem will be solved. ...