Guess what, my Broadcom Wireless Adapter just died. And having read this, I'm not going to even bother with taking this for repair. Mine has the exact same symptoms. The TabPC is still under warranty. But, I'm not putting myself through the painful experiences of the last two months again.

UPDATE (July 27):

Three months down the road with a replacement mobo, and the TX1000 is dead again. Thanks HP! I'll be looking for a Dell now..

Found this cool photo on DA... Wish I could muster up the courage to do this.

 
Photo credit: cobaltfan2
Original Image can be found here.

About 2 months ago, my HP TX1000 Tablet PC started to hang every now and then. It started with BSODs often sighting the nVidia display adapter as the culprit. When Vista SP1 came along, the BSODs went away. They were replaced with a sudden white screen which gradually degraded into a screen of black and white alternative vertical bars. The problem finally escalated to the point the tablet would not boot at all.

I looked all over the Internet, called HP Support but couldn't get it resolved. Finally, HP asked me to ship the TX to US (country of purchase) so they could take a look at it. Finding this to be the final solution, I was looking around for the best method to do so. HP quite helpfully told me to ship it to their nearest service depot (which is in India), so that they could take care of the shipping from there. But, in the meantime I went ahead and spoke to e-wis, the local business partner for IBM and a leading dealer for HP, Lexmark and host of other products. The good people there promised to fix it up under warranty, with no charge to me.

Well, after about a month, my beloved tablet PC back with a new motherboard and is running smoothly. I almost had lost faith on getting it fixed. But, here I am typing away on machine that I almost left for dead. :)

After weeks of photoshoping, CSharping and SQLiting, this blog is finally ready for prime time! Yeah!!!

There's a bit of frustrating history behind this design. It was initially dreamt up for my CodeOfDefiance.com site. After painstakingly constructing a Blogger template from this design, I had the bright idea of dropping Blogger and the domain and move on to BlogEngine.NET and Codoxide.com. Now, I'm thinking that the new domain should get a new design.

Anyway, in the mean time list of all important credits:

• The tank on the top right corner: Chris Peura (featured at sxc.hu)
• The clouds: JavierZhX featured at DeviantArt
• The cityscape: injectioninfection featured at DeviantArt
• The smilies: Fixedys featured at DeviantArt
• The main toolbar (top left) was based on the tutorial on ITookia.com
• The rounded corners on post titles: Snazzy Borders from CSSplay
• Some other sources for PNGs featured around the site: YellowIcon and ZeusBox

Also, many thanks to my friends who provided feedback during the design process.

I've been meaning to share this for weeks now. I made some changes to the original Midtones V1 VS IDE settings to make it more Web Developer friendly. The original developer might have concentrated more on Windows development environment as I found the amount of customization in the HTML and XML schemes a bit lacking. So, I made these modifications: minor changes, nothing to take much credit for on my part.

Download this settings file (59.29 kb) [Updated June 15, 2008]

You are going to need the Consolas Font Pack from Microsoft if you are not runing Vista.