Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘error messages’

iPhone Stuck on Apple Logo Screen, Error 1611

Egads, my 2G iPhone won’t turn on!
Well to be more accurate, it will turn on, but it will only show the Apple logo, and then turns off after 5-10 seconds.
I have no idea what caused this – I connected it to the charger one night, came back the next morning, and it had the problem. [...]

Chrome Crashing Immediately on Startup

Well this is a fine way to start the morning.
I grab my laptop, sit down in the front of the fireplace, open Chrome, crash.  Open Chrome again, crash.  And again, crash.
Ugh.
I did a little searching (in Firefox, not Chrome) and found that this is a pretty common problem as of late.  Here’s one [...]

How to Fix the iPod/iPhone “Download Error. Tap to retry” Error WITHOUT Using Your PC

It’s stuff like this, Steve. Stuff like this.
About a month ago, I used my iPhone to purchase a song from the iTunes store. Or, at least I tried to. My phone refused to download the song.
When I tried to download the song, I got a “Download Error. Tap to retry” [...]

How to Fix the clock’s “An Error Occurred While Windows was synchronizing with” Error

Ah, daylight savings time.
The time of year that reminds us all that our computer’s automatic clock setting mechanism may not work as expected.
I’ve been getting the error message “”An Error Occurred While Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com” error message when trying to manually sync my clock to the Windows time server.
A screenshot of the error:

If [...]

  

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