Archive for 'Technical'
Windows error
10 February 2010If your PC boot�s up but doesn�t load windows, then it might have been shut down without using the shutdown facility provided. To fix it, simply press F7 and select safe mode from the command line menu and follow all in-screen instructions. Some files or system drivers get damaged by such events so have the [...]
Monitor won’t work
10 January 2010First check the power chord and the cable that connects to the CPU. If these are firmly seated and there is still no display, the video card may be defective or the least needs to be re-seated. Pull out all the plugs and wires connected to the CPU and open it. Try to remember the [...]
Clean Your CPU Regularly
28 August 2009While our main CPU will always be closed, you will be surprised at the dust it can accumulate if you don’t check it regularly. Enclosed as it may, there are still holes to which these things go through. Besides, don’t forget that your computer needs ventilation and they are passages that can be gone through [...]
When Peripherals Don’t Fit
30 July 2009To most people it may not make sense but once your computer starts crashing or provides you with error messages that you haven’t seen before. You just have to backtrack a bit and see what you did. Other than perhaps installations, you should recall the last hardware component such as memory modules or even video [...]
USB – Powered and Un-powered
19 June 2009The many gadgets and gizmos we have in our possession may have one thing in common, they are most likely to have the ability to interface with your computer through a USB port. Older computers have passive USB ports that cannot provide power to devices hence the need for an external power supply to power [...]
Cooling Fans Explained
19 May 2009Ever wonder why those small fans inside your computers continue to run even after years of use, thanks the bearing less motor for that which is actually derived from hard drive technology that uses precision motors to spin the fan without any contact points. If you’re technically inclined and are familiar with brush less motors, [...]
Of Heat sinks and Temperature
19 April 2009Cooling fans cannot work alone, for before they can blow away the heat produced by the microprocessor, it has to be dissipated and in that game, area is the key. Ever wonder why the heat sink of your processor has fins, area, it increases the surface area at which the cold air can be blown [...]
Aftermarket Cooling Systems
19 March 2009Many people see those fancy computer cooling fans in some geek’s computer and shrug them off as mere accessories yet beneath all the fancy looks and anodized aluminum fins are actually a lot of technology to cool off those hot, very hot computer processors. Left without proper cooling, a microprocessor whatever the manufacturer it may [...]
Speeding up your boot (part 2)
8 February 2009There are many ways you can speed up your booting. One simple way is to have your boot drive be a small dedicated drive that only houses Windows, while everything else can be installed in a separate hard disk or partition (just choose a different destination drive during installation of any program). This way, you [...]
Heat, your PC’s worst Nightmare
11 January 2009Heat is the enemy of any computer system or any other electronic device for too much can burn out specific parts rendering them useless and possibly catastrophically to fail and give you a puff of smoke that smells. There may be too much dust that has accumulated within your computer’s casing that it is causing [...]
