Resetting Brother 2250DN toner low warning

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There is a little reset routine to remove the toner low warning light on some Brother printers after replacing the toner cartridge

 

Reset brother 2250dn toner low warning

1. Power Unit off
2. Open front cover
3. Press and hold GO and turn power on
4. When all 3 lights lit release and press GO twice
5. All lights turn solid
6. With all solid, press GO 5 times
7. Ready light goes red
8. Close door

win8 niggles

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Windows 8 continues to frustrate. The update to 8.1 was a nightmare to do and ended up in a boot loop. Finally sorted it but still get annoyed with basic things like trying to shutdown and not using the win 8 apps which it defaults to. Roll on 8.1.1

win8 boot problems

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Further details to follow but here is a little bit of advice on how to help a sick win8 install to boot

Boot from a Windows 8 Recovery Media…

Trouble Shoot -> Advanced Options -> Command Prompt
CMD> bootrec /scanos
CMD> bootrec /rebuildbcd
CMD> bootrec /fixmbr
CMD> bootrec /fixboot

Reboot.

CMS

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My new hosting has a few different one-click install packages so i thought i would try some of them and see how they compare to wordpress

Joomla – so complicated it took me 2 hours to work out how to have more than a single article on the frontpage. Also make sure you have ‘magic quotes’ switched off in your version of PHP (took a while to sort that out). The level of control is severely scary and baffling

Drupal – just started tinkering with this but initial impressions are it is a bit more user friendly than joomla, but not as intuitive as wordpress.

Coppermine seems useful and I’ve also installed Lime for surveys but not created one yet 🙂