Articles about computer hardware
AMD vs Nvidia In 1998 my first GPU was an ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI card with a whopping 8MB of memory which I later paired with 2 x 3DFX Voodoo II (SLI) with a pass-through cable. Since then, I’ve bought numerous ATI/AMD and Nvidia […]
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One of the things I come across quite often when working with clients’ machines is multiple printers listed under Devices and Printers. This occurs over time as older printers break and are replaced with new printers without removing the old printer from Windows. It won’t
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Not All SSDs Are The Same I well remember the day I switched from a mechanical hard drive, aka spinner, to a SATA drive– Windows boot time was reduced to mere seconds and the difference in performance was night and day. Since then, SSDs have
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Tales of woe. The customer is always right. Well, maybe not always, perhaps very seldom… Hard Drive Full Some years ago, when I upgraded my laptop, I gifted my old Asus laptop to son number two. The laptop was quite old then and must be
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My technician days have been decidedly quiet since March 20th because I can’t go into customers’ houses and vice versa. However, we have been able to pass laptops and other devices over the garden fence, which is precisely what we’ve been doing, but recently I’ve
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I have my system set up so it doesn’t sleep (disabled) but the monitor will power down after 15 minutes of inactivity. It was set up and working like this for a while now until a few nights ago and for no apparent reason, my
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I am seeing more seniors getting computers and moving from flip phones to smartphones. They realize they need to embrace the new technology or they will fall way behind. And many new computer users feel as if they need to have some special skill to
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Have you ever had a key on your laptop stop working? I mean, no matter how hard you hit it, nothing happened. If you have an extra keyboard you can always plug it into the laptop and use it instead of the one missing a
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My uncle called me because he had put new ink in his printer and it wouldn’t work. So I gave him a few suggestions, and it was the first one that worked. I told him to take out the cartridges and put them in again,
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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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