Chapter 8. Hardware Headaches

What You’ll Learn

In this chapter, I’ll show you:

• How to enable disabled ports

• How to perform a BIOS upgrade

• How to connect and use a secondary display

• How to fix problems with mice, printers, scanners, and CD/DVD drives

Hardware Hiccups and Horrors

Malfunctioning hardware and peripherals connected to your Vista computer has got to be one of the more difficult issues to resolve. I’m talking about your humble mouse, scanner, DVD burner, and other innocuous-looking devices that ...

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