New PC Vs. New Motherboard – Which one should you go for?

If you don’t want to spend big bucks on a new PC, consider upgrading your old system’s motherboard and CPU. This can boost the machine’s performance and give you access to the latest technologies. It can also save you hundreds of dollars. What you won’t get is a new hard drive, optical drive, or operating […]

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10 reasons why PCs Crash

Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy,” it says. “Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications.” You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will […]

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How To Make $5,000 a month or More with Garage Sales

In this day and age, everyone seemingly knows how to put together and hold a garage sale. Yet if this is so, why are some people lucky to gross $150 while others consistently make $1,500 or more from their garage sales. Pick almost any city or town in the country; drive through any middle-class neighborhood […]

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Help! My Computer is Beeping on Startup

Beep Code Manual, Better Than Gold Techies, American Megatrends Int. & Phoenix (I’m IT, I use these codes to trouble shoot hardware issues at my job. Enjoy) cold.gif BIOS Beep Codes When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system’s hardware, checking to […]

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How to Boot Block Recovery For Free?

You don’t need to pay a measly sum of dollars just to recover from a boot block mode. Here it is folks: AWARD Bootblock recovery: That shorting trick should work if the boot block code is not corrupted, and it should not be if /sb switch is used when flashing the bios (instead of /wb […]

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What options do you have if your Hard Drive goes bad?

The most common problems originate from corruption of the master boot record, FAT, or directory. Those are soft problems which can usually be taken care of with a combination of tools like Fdisk /mbr to refresh the master boot record followed by a reboot and Norton disk doctor or Spinneret. The most common hardware problems […]

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UNIX Hacking Tutorial

———————- o Intent: ———————- This phile is geared as an UNIX tutorial at first, to let you get more familiar with the operating system. UNIX is just an operating system, as is MS-DOS, AppleDOS, AmigaDOS, and others. UNIX happens to be a multi-user- multi-tasking system, thus bringing a need for security not found on MSDOS, […]

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Lenovo Laptop Sudden Startup and Shut Down Woes

When your laptop turns off almost immediately after turning it on, it can mean a lot of things that could be wrong. In this article, we will look at the causes and remedies. Usually the problem of why your Lenovo laptop starts and shuts down suddenly is hardware or software related, like most computer problems. A damaged internal […]

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