Another post for future Howard, which may be useful to other people with a very specific set of circumstances. Namely: you’re running Snow Leopard on a Gigabyte P35-DS4 with a GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB in the first PCIE slot, and a GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB in the second. The PciRoot addresses you need…
Snow Leopard dual NVidia cards EFI Strings
By Howard | Published May 3rd, 2010Enable VT on Sony Vaio Z11
By Howard | Published July 30th, 2009Some time ago I posted at length about Sony’s decision to disable the Virtualization Technology features of the Intel chips in their high-end laptops, namely my Vaio Z11.
Well thanks to the sterling efforts of one man and his EFI hacking skills, we now have a solution as this image demonstrates. The image on…
Bad Bell Wire!
By Howard | Published March 10th, 2009It’s one of those “why didn’t I think of that before?!” moments. BT are selling a device called the iPlate at the moment claiming that for 7 out of 10 people it will increase their DSL speed by filtering out the noise from the bell wire in your master socket. By all accounts it does…
Remote Desktop Connection won't connect.
By Howard | Published September 22nd, 2008I rebuilt my main desktop a few days ago and ever since I’ve not been able to connect to it with Remote Desktop. I click connect from the other machine and the buttons grey out for a moment before they reset. No error message is displayed. Checking the event log shows a number of Application…
Bug in Intel Graphics under XP on Sony Vaio Z
By Howard | Published September 12th, 2008If you close the new Sony Vaio Z series laptop while it is running in Stamina Mode (using an Intel GMA 4500MHD chip) it WILL NOT wake the screen up when you resume from standby.
This video shows my new Sony Vaio Z (VGN-Z11VN) running the XP downgrade drivers version 6.14.10.4953 dated 21/05/2008 from Sony. The…
Sony Vaio Z disabled (VT) Virtualization Technology
By Howard | Published September 3rd, 2008Update 30th July 2009: See this post for details of a confirmed VT fix for the Z11. I’m using it now!
I love my Sony Vaio Z. It’s a wonderful bit of kit – exactly the power/portability ratio I wanted. It has enough grunt to play the odd game in “Speed” mode while giving 6…
Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP
By Howard | Published August 29th, 2008I’m rebuilding my new Sony Vaio Z with Windows XP, and as usual there are a load of tweaks I need to make to the OS before I feel “at home” again. Since the fingerprint reader software on the new build has an annoying habit of popping up info balloons on every boot – regardless…
iRobot come through (eventually)
By Howard | Published July 18th, 2008It looks like my experience of awful customer service from iRobot’s UK service center, Domotec, was an anomaly. Either that or the spotlight of publicity, combined with my emailing a number of iRobot’s senior management caused someone to ensure policy – and warranties – were being properly applied.
I called Domotec’s service number this morning, after…
Sony Vaio Z Series
By Howard | Published July 18th, 2008I’m lusting after the new Sony Vaio Z Series which doesn’t come out in the US until mid-August, and I’ve no idea when it comes out in the UK. Annoyingly, while the US site allows you to configure your system from scratch – including putting in dual solid state drives – Sony UK limit us…
ZX Spectrum nostalgia
By Howard | Published July 15th, 2008I can’t remember when I first played with a ZX Spectrum. I know I must have come to the party relatively late since I was only 4 when it was released, unlike Chris who was old enough to have one at launch. This weekend he rescued one from his mum’s rubbish bin, complete in the…
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