Monday, November 12, 2012

Changing the BOOTMGR location

BOOTMGR is the fie which boots windows. Normally it is installed to your first hard-drive. So there can be instances where you install your new Windows into newly bought hard-disk, but without your old hard disk you can’t boot your computer. To check whether this is your case, just go to BIOS and disable the hard you think you don’t have windows installed on and try to boot. If it gets booted then no problem, else you can do this easy fix.

Actually this is very easy fix since a software will take care of all the trouble. You just need to download EasyBCD which is luckily a freeware but a very valuable software. After installing it you can do the following,

  1. Click on BCD Backup Repair         
  2. Select Change Location
  3. Select the new partition.
  4. Click ok.

After this simple process, you are good to go!!!

Thank you.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Ansoft HFSS quick guide to dipole simulation.


If you know HFSS, then this will be understandable. If not i recon that you should go through a detailed tutorial. This is just a side note so that one will be able to follow the steps easily. 

  1. Open HFSS.
  2. Start a New Project
  3. Insert HFSS
  4. Set solution type
  5. Set units
  6. Set design properties (variables)
  7. Draw one pole of the dipole.
  8. Set the material.
  9. Duplicate it along the x-axis
  10. Draw a rectangle in YZ-plane
  11. Make it the lumped port
  12. Draw the E-field vector.
  13. Insert the radiation boundary. (Select faces and apply the boundary)
  14. Make the material to vacuum.
  15. Add solution setup.
  16. Define frequencies to feed
  17. Define the frequency sweep.
  18. Validate & Analyse.
  19. For far field make sure to insert Infinite Sphere for Radiation.
Thank you.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

HP-Pavilion dv6 3122tx errors


Ok this all started with a simple update. I usually use ATI-hotfixes for my driver updates since hp hardly release compatible driver updates to switchable graphics enabled laptops. But this time surprisingly my catalyst controller itself asked me whether I would like to install the new catalyst controller 12.10 or something. I thought what the hell, if it is the new driver and if my catalyst controller is suggesting it I should not worry. So I went straight ahead and updated the driver. Everything has gone smoothly, until I switch on the laptop next day.

I switched on the laptop and I couldn't click on any of my task bar buttons and my laptop charger is also not detected. And there were random flickering in my display. I got worried and then I restored windows. The restore also crashed for I don’t know what reason. It gave me lots of software issues but the hardware was ok. So I spent around 3~4 hours and repaired the software.But now the messed up part is that sometimes my display driver (Ati 5650) does not get detected in the device manager. But sometimes it does.

So currently I am only using the Intel drivers and using the Intel hd driver in the laptop, but the laptop is expensive only because of its video driver and without it it’s not worth the amount. So these days I’m trying to fix that error.

Today I removed Catalyst Controller and the ATI drivers from my laptop. Now hoping to download them directly from the hp website and see how it goes. HP-pavilion dv6 is a good laptop but with switchable graphics it sucks. :D

Thank you.