GPU Upgrade – Size Matters!
Four and a half years ago, I upgraded my graphics card from an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB to a Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB, which you can read about in this article: I Just Upgraded To The ROG Strix RX-5700 XT GPU. Four years […]
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Steam Will Stop Supporting 32-Bit Windows Next Year
32-bit versions of Windows are now old hat, especially for gaming, so if you are playing through Steam on a 32-bit OS, you will need to upgrade to 64-bit if your PC is compatible. Steam confirmed this in a recent announcement, confirming that only 0.01%
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How To Fix Numlock Key Disabled On Windows Start-up
This is the first time I’ve come across this Numlock key problem, where it is not enabled on Windows start-up. I’ve been playing with computers for long enough to know that Numlock ON can be enabled in the BIOS/UEFI and is usually set to ON
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Should You Buy A Refurbished PC?
Everything seems to be getting more and more expensive these days, and that applies to PCs as well. Some time back, I took the plunge and bought a refurbished desktop PC to replace my aging secondary machine, but not before I’d well and truly done
How To Recover A Microsoft Surface Pro 3
In my recent article How I Revived A Fifteen-Year-Old Gaming Laptop, I mentioned that my client’s late husband enjoyed buying quality hardware. When I delivered her Sony Vaio back to her, I came away with a couple of tablets to look at. One is an
4GB Of Laptop Memory Is An Insult In This Day And Age
Recently, I’ve been deluged with laptops coming in for repair or upgrades. Mind you, I’m not complaining because work is work and it’s what I enjoy. Most of the upgrades are simply a matter of upgrading from spinners (HDDs) to SSDs and increasing memory (RAM),
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How I Revived A Fifteen Year Old Gaming Laptop
A couple of weeks ago, a client phoned asking me to take a look at some laptops so that she could decide which ones to keep and which to give away to people in need. I had known the lady for some years, long before
Computer Not Powering On After DVD Install
I hooked up my DVD drive and lost power to my entire system. My CyberPowerPC already had a DVD drive installed, but it wasn’t working. I checked inside the computer and discovered the reason. There were no cables hooked up. No wires to be seen,
How To Check The Speed Of A USB Drive
If you want to check the speed of a USB drive in Windows 10 and 11, you can do so natively via Task Manager or by using suitable 3rd-party software. Check USB Drive Speed Via Task Manager Connect the USB drive Open Task Manager Switch
What To Do With Old Or Broken Laptops?
I recently wrote about fixing a couple of laptops in How I Fixed Two Lenovo Yoga Laptops, and a few days later, the owner sent me four more to look at. In fact, she was about to trash them, but being the geek I am,
The Lunacy Of Windows 11 CPU Restrictions
Having just read Jim Hillier’s excellent article, “Microsoft Says TPM Is Worth The Upgrade – But Is It?” and his other articles on Windows 11’s laughable hardware restrictions, I was reminded of more Microsoft lunacy that literally stopped me in my tracks. A Tale Of
How I Fixed Two Lenovo Yoga Laptops
The other day, my wife came home with a couple of laptops belonging to a close friend of hers. The task was to remove all their personal data so that she could either sell them or give at least one of them to a deserving
Paper Not Feeding Through HP Printer
I tried to print something on my HP OfficeJet 3830, and the paper would not feed through the printer. Research online indicated it was probably because of dirty rollers. Depending on your make and model, cleaning the rollers is no easy task because you don’t
Record Android To PC – HD Video Capture USB
I wrote about this before, but using a lower quality video capture device called “Easycap”. Read here: How To Record From Cable To Computer Using OBS Studio I recently bought an HD Video Capture USB device called a “Guermok Video Capture Card” from Amazon. They