After replacing the system board in a Dell d420 using these instructions the Dell laptop would not boot. When attempting to power on the laptop the scroll lock, num lock, and caps lock key would flash once followed by the bluetooth light flashing once and then it would lose power.

The reason for the above issue is typically one of two items which are listed below.

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When using Fring to make Skype calls using a iPhone or a iPod Touch you must dial using a plus and a 1. So an example of call area code 123 with number 111-2222 you would need to dial +1231112222 instead of just dialing 1231112222.

To dial the plus all you need to do is hold down 0 for a second and you will see the plus symbol appear instead of the 0.

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There have been a bunch of problems for Windows XP users after upgrading to Service Pack 3. Many of these issues seem to be related to AMD processors and people have had issues in the past when upgrading to Service Pack 2. There are a couple steps to take to isolate the issue and then resolve the problem.

First while the computer is rebooting continue to tap F8 so that you can choose to stop on error instead of rebooting. Once you have reached the Windows Advanced Options Menu choose the following option so you can obtain information about the error causing the reboot: Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure.

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The below error will be seen in the ssl_error_log typically located in /var/log/httpd for numerous reasons. Below is an explanation of what two of those reasons might cause Apache to not start and how to resolve the problem.

Error Example:
[Sat Oct 25 22:38:33 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?)
[Sat Oct 25 22:38:33 2008] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `server1.example.com’ does NOT match server name!?

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You might see the following when issuing the normal stop command to postgres via pg_ctl.

-bash-3.1$ pg_ctl stop
waiting for server to shut down……………………………………………………… failed
pg_ctl: server does not shut down

Sometimes postgres does not want to shutdown by just issuing a pg_ctl stop as the postgres user. User might feel the need to “kill -9″ the postgres processes however this could be dangerous for PostgreSQL. Instead of trying to kill the PID follow the directions below in an attempt to stop postgres in an organized fashion.

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