Tuesday, December 27, 2011

HP Pavilion DV6000 adapter (charger) repair


Many of my friends have issue with their laptop adapters (charger) including myself, the wire of the adapter gets damaged and it does not supply the required electric power to the laptop. Usually, we try to bend/move the adapters wire to make it work. Sometimes it works but anyway the wire is damaged so you have to buy a new adapter for your laptop. I was also thinking to buy a new adapter for my laptop but then I thought I should try to repair the adapter and I repaired it. Below is the same procedure as I did, the only difference is I repaired both sides of the wire, the connector and the other end which connects to adapter. Procedure shown below was posted Here

Repaired a HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop charger cord over the weekend.  The cord had become frayed extremely bad close to the connector that plugs into the laptop and needed to be replaced.  The job was fairly easy and straightforward, but if you don’t feel comfortable with a soldering iron/gun or electrical jobs in general you may want to leave this to someone else.  But if you aren’t scared to try something new, and let’s face it, you don’t have much to lose at this point if you are reading this, this can be a low-cost quick fix.  Worst possible outcome is you have to buy a new charger cord, which you were probably already planning.  

As always with any tutorial, please proceed with caution and at your own risk, I make no guarantees. Cords can overheat, you could get electrocuted, you could fry your laptop, etc..


Frayed Cord
This picture shows the bad condition of the cord, all I’ve done here was cut the connector off.  You can see how badly the outside wire is frayed.  I think the wire in the white sleeve was still intact but I had to cut all of the bad section out to get to some clean whole wire.


Cord Cleaned Up
I’ve gotten the cord cleaned up and now ready to solder back to the cleaned up connector.  
Just trim all the damaged cord out of the way, strip back the wire jacket to expose a small amount of the center wire that will connect to the center part of the connector.  I left the outside silver wire a little longer in order to reach further up on the side of the connector to avoid having to bend the wire or have a kink in it.  Then twisted the wire to have it all neat and compact.

Cleaned cord w/ old connector
This picture shows the cleaned cord with the original connector.  My local radio shack store didn’t have a new connector so I chose to clean up the original connector to see if it would work, and it worked just fine.  I heated up the solder on the connector and the bits of broken wire came right off.  I then took a small file and cleaned up the leftover bits to make it nice and clean.

HP Cord resoldered to Cleaned connector
Now we have the center wire in the white sleeve soldered to the end of the connector.  I put a small piece of electrical tape around the center wire before I soldered the outside silver wire to keep them separate.  I then clamped the connector and wire back down and soldered the outside wire to the side of the connector.  Be careful how you hold or clamp the connector.  It could get very hot, and it could also warp or break the plastic pieces.


Finished charger cord
I reinstalled the plastic insulator boot around the soldered connections and wrapped it tightly with electrical tape.  I chose white electrical tape (since it stands out more) as sort of a reminder to not snatch and pull on the cord as this is a refurbished job and while it will probably hold for a long time, it would be better not to abuse it.

We Have Power!!
Let everything cool off and sit for a few minutes and then plug it up and see what happens.  Hopefully if everything went well, you now have power.  If not, wiggle the connection around slowly and see if anything happens, if it does come on, you may just have a loose connection and might need to take it apart and recheck everything.  If that doesn’t solve the problem, you might have damaged the connector itself or may have bigger issues.  But I hope you see a power light and the laptop comes right back to life like my example.  Good luck, it was a much cheaper fix than the $80.00 they wanted for a new cord.






Monday, December 19, 2011

Solve Printer Spooler Problem


Many times you face problems with your printers, one of them is, "some print jobs are stuck in printer spooler". you tried but could not cancel or delete the print jobs, whatever the reason behind it, you can solve it by running a command script as shown below. 

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type notepad, and then click OK or goto Start>Programs>Accessories>Notepad. Notice that a blank Notepad document opens.
3. Carefully select (highlight) the following text:

net stop spooler
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
net start spooler

4. Right-click the text that you have selected above, and then click Copy or press Ctrl+c. 
5. In Notepad, right-click in the blank document, and then click Paste or press Ctrl+v.
6. Now, save the file to a location from where you can access it easily (e.g. desktop, drive C, drive D, etc) with any name you want but with ext ".cmd". In this example we will save it as "DeletePrintJobs.cmd".

Note this file name differs from most other file names that you might have seen. That is because this file is a command script file.

7. Now that you have created the command script file, you have to run it, to solve printer spooler problem. Goto the file where you have saved it earlier and double click on it.

6. Notice that a Command Prompt window opens to run the command script file that you created. Notice also that this window automatically closes when the command script file finish running.  If you do not see the Command Prompt window open, check that you saved the command script file with correct name.

After running the command script file successfully, print something on your printer, it should be working fine now.

Note: If this method does not work the first time, or if you cannot print anything after you use this method, restart your computer, and then try again.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Tom & Jerry - Cartoons - Dog Trouble + Puss n' Toots



Download Dog Trouble: 69 MB


Download Puss n' Toots: 64.8 MB


Download other episodes with same print quality from mediafire.com:
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Truce Hurts
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Trap Happy
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Little Orphan
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Invisible Mouse
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Cat Concerto
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Solid Serenade
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Springtime for Thomas
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Professor Tom
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Salt Water Tabby
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Polka-Dot Puss
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Part Time Pal
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Old Rockin' Chair Tom
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Kitty Foiled
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Mouse Cleaning
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
CHQ] Tom and Jerry - A Mouse in the House
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Cat Fishin'
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Mouse Comes to Dinner
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Zoot Cat
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Million Dollar Cat
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Tee for Two
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Mouse Trouble
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Sufferin' Cats!
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Yankee Doodle Mouse
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - Fine Feathered Friend
[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Bowling Alley Cat

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[CHQ] Tom and Jerry - The Truce Hurts