I am currently in the process of trying to build some shelving for our mud room. It has been unfinished for a couple of years now and we are needing some extra space to put the shows and stuff we have stored in there.
I am attempting to have it myself and have started doing some searching for cabinet hardware. I have went to my local Menards, Home Depot and Lowes to find what I am looking for but for cabinet hinges the cheapest I could find were $4 a piece. That seems like a tremendous amount of money.
I have done some searching to not find a whole lot. I check http://www.rockler.com as well http://www.woodcraft.com but they were similar in price and then $8 minimum to ship. ( I searched for a free shipping coupon for some time to no avail) I have had good luck over at the woodnet forums getting responses and they didn’t let me down in this instance either. I posted and got a number of responses and some of them were more in my price range.
Here is just a brief summary of the places recommended. I can’t endorse any of them yet but I am going to them a try in the future.
Wood Workers Hardware - http://wwhardware.com/index.cfm?pageid=0
Custom Service Hardware - http://www.cshardware.com/
I think my go around I am going to give custom service hardware a try and see how things go. The hinges I was looking for are a fraction of the cost at the big box stores including woodcraft and rockler. I will post again on my thoughts when I get them.
Gateway m275 Video Driver Install on Windows 7
The past week or two I have been trying to get an old Gateway m275 laptop to function. The issue is the machine is so old that there are not current drivers for the machine. Intel decided not to create Windows 7 drivers for the 85822GME chipset so people wanting to upgrade are stuck with only being able to use the standard vga drivers. These drivers don't offer screen rotation was my biggest gripe.
The reason I wanted screen rotation is I want to mount this older machine under a cabinet in my kitchen. The machine would then be upside down.
Here were the links I used to get this working.
This is a step by step guide that allowed me to get my driver working.
http://www.groundstate.net/855GMWin7.html
Prior to this I would get the yellow exclamation mark over the driver.
Follow them to the T and you and should be good to go.
The reason I wanted screen rotation is I want to mount this older machine under a cabinet in my kitchen. The machine would then be upside down.
Here were the links I used to get this working.
This is a step by step guide that allowed me to get my driver working.
http://www.groundstate.net/855GMWin7.html
Prior to this I would get the yellow exclamation mark over the driver.
Follow them to the T and you and should be good to go.
