Technology related solutions, tips, tricks, and other interesting topics
In: General IT Info
12 Mar 2008There are two SATA controllers on the motherboard. The Intel SATA interface and the Gigabyte (JMicron) SATA interface. In order for AHCI to work with the Intel SATA interface, you must install the drivers at Windows install time or you can perform a hack after Windows is installed. Here is what you need to do [...]
Burn the DMG image file located in the “Resources” folder which is inside the Boot Camp Package. The Boot Camp package is in the utilities folder and is what you click on to run Boot Camp Assistant.
Right-click over the Boot Camp Assistant app in the Utilities folder.
Select “Show Package Contents”
Open the Contents [...]
In: Microsoft
5 Mar 2008Microsoft Office Outlook Connector is a free program released by Microsoft which will allow you to access your Hotmail and Microsoft Office Live email accounts from within Outlook. Here is Microsoft’s official description of the application:
With Outlook Connector, you can use Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Hotmail or [...]
Problem: After running Boot Camp Assistant and doing an initial install of Windows, you get the error message “Press any key to boot from CD. Disk Error. Press any key to restart.” when initially booting into the Windows partition after Windows setup completes. This problem is described in this apple support document: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306504
Solution: You need [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.