Articles about computer hardware
An Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) is essentially a battery backup that continues powering your devices after a power outage. Plus, of course, a UPS will provide protection against damage caused by power surges. But I’m pretty sure most of you would already be aware of …
Reading While Relaxing Just Got Easier If you are like the millions of people that read e-books on a kindle, kindle fire, or just about any mobile device then this little trick might be the ticket to easy reading while relaxing in a lounge chair …
A guy called me because when he printed something up he was getting blank pages. He called with this problem before and originally, it turned out he was out of ink. But he only recently got a new ink cartridge and it shouldn’t be empty …
A recent Malwarebytes blog post queries just how safe your personal data is when you leave your computer in the hands of a repair shop. To be honest, it’s not something I’ve ever considered because I’ve always performed my own repairs, but it does bring …
Computers and technology have spawned a number of great rivalries over the years and none more so than between the two major CPU producers – Intel and AMD. Intel has pretty much dominated the CPU market for much of the past couple of decades but, …
I wrote before about my uncle giving me his old phone with the damaged battery charging port. The USB port built into the phone was either worn or damaged somehow. It would be a bit expensive but possible to fix it. One thing that crossed …
There’s no doubt that COVID has severely impacted on the supply chain for many goods. I think many of us anticipated that the COVID situation would cause some delays and stock shortages but I doubt too many would have predicted the sheer extent and longevity. …
Many electronic hardware devices need some form of maintenance, from physical maintenance like cleaning cooling fans to electrical maintenance like rebooting. This article is about electrical maintenance of the electronic devices on your home computer network. Reboot Your Computer The way I like to think …
I’ve been trying out portable Bluetooth speakers for quite some time now and have been largely disappointed. Portable Bluetooth speakers have their uses but almost always disappoint in terms of bass and volume. Plus, of course, for those spur-of-the-moment times when a little background music …
Sorry, no screenshots this time. A few days ago I was called because a guy’s laptop wouldn’t boot up. This was an HP. It seemed completely dead. Then I noticed a little light that came on where the power was plugged in and another little …
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I have two older Dell towers. One is a Dell Inspiron 531 with 2 GB RAM. The other is a Dell Inspiron 530 with 1 GB RAM. They both take DDR 2 RAM and I realized I had a bunch of 1 GB DDR2 RAM …
I was given a Dell Inspiron-530 Desktop. A Vista Home Basic, Intel Celeron CPU 450 @ 2.20 GHz, 288GB hard drive and 1GB RAM. It was an old desktop owned by a late neighbour. When I turned it on, it would give an error message: …
A couple of days ago I thought my printer was a goner. I have a Canon Pixma MX492 and I tried to print something but I got the error message suggesting my printer wasn’t on. I assumed it was because I could see the little …
I wrote previously about an HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca that I acquired and what I had to do to replace the hard drive. I was wondering why anyone would give up such a laptop because of a hard drive issue. Then I discovered the real …
