The “wall-wort” AC adapter on my 2-wire 2701HG-B AT&T DSL modem/router died after roughly 2 years. This was protected by a decent UPS, and a whole-house surge protector, so I don’t think lightning was an issue. AT&T was no help, they insisted the only option was to purchase a complete new gateway for $100 and the closest place to buy it was 30 miles away at Best-Buy. From what I’m reading, this is a very common problem and has been for several years. Although tech support wouldn’t suggest this, I found that AT&T does list a replacement on their web site through the dslreports forum on similar problems encountered with the 1701 model.
2Wire Power Supply for Models 1701HG, 2700HG, and 2701HG
Posters on the forum suggested that PSP power supplies are rated at 5V 2A and have exactly the same coax plug as the 2-wire unit. I found a gaming power adapter at Radio Shack for $14.99, which is working fine thus far. I’m not convinced it is good for continuous duty, so I’m ordering a heavier duty 5V supply from All Electronics (PS-537) as a backup (I can splice connectors), and have requested a replacement from 2-wire.
The replacement was shipped Monday 10/5/09 via FedEx.
The newer 2-wire modems do seem to have a re-designed “wall-wort” AC adapter. Maybe they finally recognized this reliability problem. However, the replacement they mail out is the old design – good for 2 years only.
Published in the July 25th Bedford Indiana Times-Mail newspaper, authored by a local Mason:
To the editor:
Why I’m voting for Democrats from now on:
1. I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn
than I would;
2. Freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it;
3. When we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re
doing because they now think we’re good people;
4. I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us
that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a
Prius;
5. I believe oil companies’ profits of four percent on a gallon of gas are
obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15 percent isn’t;
6. I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves.
They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for
redistribution as government sees fit;
7. I believe three or four pointy headed elitist liberals need to rewrite the
Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their
agendas past the voters;
8. I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry
my dog;
9. I believe that when the terrorists don’t have to hide from us over there,
they will come over here and I won’t have any guns in the house to fight them
off with;
10. I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies as long as we
keep all death row inmates alive.
Buddy Hendricks
Mitchell
I’m a long time Linux fan, and many things have improved since the early days, but upgrades are still much more difficult than they should be. After what anaconda thought it was done, grub stopped at the “grub>” prompt. Fixing this required booting off the DVD in rescue mode and running
“grub-install /dev/sda”
Now I could boot and log into a console, but X wouldn’t start. Fixing this required running:
yum clean all
yum update
This downloaded and installed another 1.6GB of updates. After re-booting, attempting to log in resulted in “Could not open session bus: message … org.freedesktop.DBUS … blocked by selinux” (I’m paraphrasing because I didn’t write down the entire paragraph). I had to log in remotely to change the selinux policy to “disabled”. This problem appears to be the same as . This dbus issue makes selinux=permissive pretty useless.
After 2 weeks of listening to a very noisy fan on my HP DV9428nr Laptop PC, I decided to take it apart to see if I could fix it or at least confirm the part number to order a replacement fan/heatsink assembly (438606-001). It took a little over an hour to disassemble the unit to where I could get to the fan. As it turns out, the problem was dust and hair inside the fan motor. Removing 4 screws from the fan assembly allows the fan to separated from the motor so the windings can be cleaned out. Another hour to re-assemble, and now the fan is quieter than ever! 🙂 However, the machine won’t properly boot up, all I get is a blank screen. 🙁
This link was somewhat helpful:
http://techmata.blogspot.com/search/label/Fixes%20and%20Workarounds%20with%20My%20HP%20Pavilion%20dv9000%20(dv9015ea)
However my machine is not that consistent. Maybe 1 out of 20 times it will boot up, usually only if I have the keyboard and the LED panel unscrewed but connected.
Turns out that my particular model (dv9428nr) was part of a 2-year warranty extension due to motherboard issues. HP replaced the motherboard for free! Now it works perfectly.
