These unknown devices were bugging in Device Manager and I managed hard to find solutions related to this problem. At first I thought this had something to do with chipset drivers since I saw ACPI and PCI-E but finally I concluded that these issues had to deal with HP 3D Drive Guard and HP Quick Launch Button.
Since I’m on a HP Compaq 6735s, the drivers are available here. I am sincerely sad to say that HP has got crap support since they don’t even know the Hardware IDs and the drivers required for them. My pavilion had a mark for something like “SM-Bus Controller” and HP support couldn’t even tell me to which category of drivers this belongs to. Fortunately I found the answer through forums. HP Support told me that individual drivers are not available as I expected but I’m surprised to say that they are there on their own website.
Professional vendors are here with high-end products on the market and yet their support team don’t even know which Unknown Devices belong to which categories.
I don’t know whether you have come across such bad support but if you do, take a deep breath before throwing some bad vocabularies to the support team.
February 7th, 2010 | Tags: compaq 6735s, hp drivers, hpq0004, hpq0006, smbus controller | Category: Technology | Leave a comment
I’ve been using HTC TyTN since 2008 and the overall performance is good but there are some bad HCI issues which I wanted to voice out “type out”. In fact my attention has been drawn when transferring and receiving files over bluetooth. The issue is that whenever someone tries to send me a file over bluetooth, my phone will accept the media without my consent and after the file has been received, my phone asks me “Do you want to save the file named blabla??’
Personally, I don’t have anything against microsoft but there’re stupid things which they do. I read their book titled “Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook” and the team focus much on things like “Pay attention when designing phones supporting accelerometer like TyTN as the screen will rotate when you pull the keyboard”. Of course, the authors try to impress you but yet you can find waste of resource through bluetooth as I mentioned above.
February 6th, 2010 | Tags: Bad HCI, Microsoft, Windows Mobile | Category: Windows | Comments (2)
Most of us have been facing issues like “You need to install an antivirus in order to transfer/receive the file”. The simplest solution is to open the File Transfer options and then tick the box “Scan files using…” and then browse button will be enabled. I often use notepad or even utorrent which fires itself after I receive a file. Now things have got easier!!
The security issues have stopped bugging me since then 
February 4th, 2010 | Tags: MSN messenger security, Security | Category: Security, Windows | Comments (2)
As soon as I got the image of the x64 version of Windows 7, I decided to go for an install on my 160GB HD which had Vista x64 previously. The boot image of the latter (Windows Vista) corrupted after I had installed GTA4. I thought that everything was about to settle down after the Ultimate version took its place but I got a surprise rather.
My Livebox is accompanied by a Wi-Fi dongle (Model XGA-760N) and the X64 drivers are available here and the adapter was installed successfully and even detects the livebox but I don’t know why it won’t connect. If I enter a wrong WPA key, it will tell me and on the contrary, it will reject invalid keys. I found this funny lol
Besides, I found that my card reader doesn’t work since no drives are listed after the drivers are installed successfully. Perhaps our best bet is to wait for months in view of acquiring updates pertaining to fixes. Compared to Linux, I’m happy with Fedora as I don’t have to download and compile sources. In addition, the signal strenght is better in regions which windows doesn’t detect.
February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: windows 7, XGA-760N | Category: Technology, Windows, linux | Leave a comment
