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Category Archives: Hardware

Partitioning Basics

Posted on December 30, 2010 by cyberx86
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One of the necessities of a multi-boot setup is partitioning, but the uses of partitioning go far beyond its application to multi-boot setups. The act of splitting a drive into multiple logical parts is known as partitioning; each part is … Continue reading →

Posted in: Hardware, Multiboot, Software Tagged: partitioning

Keyboard Annoyances

Posted on November 18, 2010 by cyberx86
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As with everything, increased computer usage tends to form certain habits. In most cases, there is nothing wrong with this, however, when things change, these habits can be significantly disrupted. Two such irregularities, and their solutions, are outlined below. The … Continue reading →

Posted in: Hardware Tagged: keyboard layout, keyboards, remap keys

A Procedural Methodology for Diagnosing (Home) Internet Issues

Posted on October 17, 2010 by cyberx86
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I recently had some internet problems, most pages wouldn’t load, my connections to servers (e.g. FTP, SSH) would quickly drop, but, yet, I was able to download a file at a reasonable rate. There are different approaches to narrowing down … Continue reading →

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Posted in: Hardware, Software Tagged: diagnostics, dsl, internet

Considerations When Shopping for Laptops

Posted on October 12, 2010 by cyberx86
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I have never been a big proponent of laptops – historically, their performance has been dwarfed by that of lower priced desktops, and the advantage of portability was often offset by poor performance and short battery life. Recent processor generations, … Continue reading →

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Posted in: Hardware Tagged: laptops

The Shortcut to Resolving an IRQ Conflict

Posted on October 8, 2010 by cyberx86
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During my hard drive adventures earlier in the day, I removed a PCI IDE-SATA card from an older computer, and replaced it with the PCI sound card that was previously in that slot. Computer started, and all was good – … Continue reading →

Posted in: Hardware Tagged: audio, diagnostics, irq, pci

Using a SATA hard drive through IDE – Part 2

Posted on October 8, 2010 by cyberx86
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Continued from: Using a SATA hard drive through IDE – Part 1 Finally got a functioning IDE-SATA card, and it was exceedingly easy to use. Took perhaps a minute to install – plug into IDE slot on motherboard, plug SATA … Continue reading →

Posted in: Hardware Tagged: hard drive, ide, sata, windows

Using a SATA hard drive through IDE – Part 1

Posted on October 6, 2010 by cyberx86
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One of the older computers I have around is from before the SATA era – it only supports IDE. Unfortunately, most new hard-drives are SATA, especially those of reasonable sizes (250GB, 500GB, etc). This machine previously had only about 60GB, … Continue reading →

Posted in: Computers, Hardware Tagged: hard drive, ide, sata

Diagnosing a computer that won’t POST

Posted on September 19, 2010 by cyberx86
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Today, I was asked to diagnose a computer that wouldn’t POST over the phone. POST is the power-on self-test – it is self-check cycle that the computer goes through before ‘starting’ – it usually checks the motherboard (for short circuits), … Continue reading →

Posted in: Computers, Hardware Tagged: diagnostics

Fixing Headphones

Posted on September 13, 2010 by cyberx86
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When the computer is on – there is music playing. Probably not an uncommon statement – I find, however, that it is frowned upon to be playing music at 2 am, or other such times. Headphones are the natural answer … Continue reading →

Posted in: Audio, Computers, Hardware Tagged: audio, hardware
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