Articles about computer hardware
When we get a new computer we think about what to do with the old one. In my county here in Florida, we have a club dedicated to refurbishing discarded computers for school children and veterans. We see on these crime shows how forensic experts […]
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Windows 10 makes it easy enough to reset your network if you are having connection issues. Just type Network reset in the search bar and click on it when it appears on the menu. In the window that opens, click on the Reset now button.
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It’s not uncommon for people with desktops today to have multiple monitors set up, that is, more than one monitor hooked up to one computer. When I first experimented with this back in the early Windows XP days, I had to put two video cards
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Standard Television Warranties With big-screen smart TVs now all the go, I am amazed that the major television manufacturers — Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony — are still getting away with providing just 12 months warranty. It is incongruous to me that a TV costing hundreds,
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I thought I’d share details of my home workstation and workbench with you good folk. I call it ”workstation” and ”workbench” just to sound fancy. In reality, it is just a section of my dingy old garage. No mod cons here. Here is my workstation
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There is no doubting that technology over the past couple of decades has advanced in leaps and bounds. Here are three areas where I believe advancements in technology have made a significant impact: Inexpensive to run, but… the extension cord costs a small fortune!
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There is no doubt that in this day and age updating from a standard HDD to SSD is one of the most effective upgrades available and, thankfully, it is becoming more and more affordable. Cloning an old hard drive to a new SSD is a
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This actually happened to me — some time back now — but I thought I’d mention it just in case anyone else is experiencing this same issue. You plug in a USB flash drive, or USB external hard drive, and nothing happens,–nothing! The drive is
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From Pentium 4 To Ryzen In A Decade With another decade coming to a close, I like to look back at how computer technology has advanced and also to remember which PC specifications we thought were the mutt’s nuts back in 2009. For my part,
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Finding The Microphone Noise Recently I started to record voiceovers for my GoPro videos but when I started, the buzzing sounds both in the headset and my voice recordings, were unbearable. This would have made any videos impossible to listen to on YouTube or anywhere
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A woman brought me her iPad Mini. Her Facebook App wasn’t working. The icon looked grayed out and clicking on it produced a flash of black and then nothing. I went to the App Store. The only option available for Facebook was to upgrade. So
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PC enthusiasts will argue about this question until the cows come home. Or similarly, if you put six doctors in a room and ask for a diagnosis, you may get six different opinions which, by the way, is pretty much the best way to start
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Some may regard the syncing of sexy lighting in your rig as over the top bling, so when it goes wrong we’ve got a first-world problem on our hands. That may be so, but when you’ve paid hundreds of dollars for Asus products, you want
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New AMD X570 Chipset Motherboards Begin To Roll Out Several manufacturers have unveiled new motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Asrock. Pictured below is the new Gigabyte X570 Master, one of the new boards based on the X570
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