I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, and found that the hard drive was at 100% pretty much the whole time. I disabled as many services and programs at startup…
We first look at the following two pictures. Picture 1 is the “BIOS CHIP” of the circuit board. When we replace the PCB, we need to swap the “BIOS CHIP” with your original PCB. Picture 2 shows the “Board Number” of the board, and the “Board Number” must be the same! FAQs of 100815597 PCB…
I typically have 2-3 OSes in my boot menu: Ubuntu 10.04 Windows 7 [Sometimes, a third option, such as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook] If I am in an OS other than the default choice (Windows 7 in this case), and I reboot, Grub boots into Ubuntu 10.04. This shouldn’t happen–when I reboot in Windows 7, I…
I want WINDOWS+LEFT and WINDOWS+RIGHT to snap to the top half and bottom half respectively. Any solution works, be it a registry hack, driver setting, or program I can run. This question is asking the same thing but the ‘Answer’ doesn’t really answer anything: Can window snap be programmatically rotated when monitor is rotated to…
We first look at the following two pictures. Picture 1 is the “BIOS CHIP” of the circuit board. When we replace the PCB, we need to swap the “BIOS CHIP” with your original PCB. Picture 2 shows the “Board Number” of the board, and the “Board Number” must be the same! FAQs of 100815595 PCB…
I have 4 RAM slots on the motherboard P5K. At the moment I have two 1GB RAM modules and two 2GB RAM modules. Everything is working fine. Can I buy one 4GB module and put it instead of the 1GB module? Another question, can I mix MHz values, like that I have two 667MHz modules…
I want to be able to ‘put the display to sleep’ on one of my two monitors when it isn’t needed, so it doesn’t distract me or use unnecessary power. Ideally, the display would be asleep, but the OS would remain in dual-monitor mode, so I could still have a variety of windows open in…
I’ve got a new laptop with a wireless card which runs Windows 7. At work, I put the laptop in a docking station that gives the laptop a hardwired internet connection and functions pretty much like desktop PC. But there isn’t any WiFi signal in my building that I can use, so various portable devices…
We first look at the following two pictures. Picture 1 is the “BIOS CHIP” of the circuit board. When we replace the PCB, we need to swap the “BIOS CHIP” with your original PCB. Picture 2 shows the “Board Number” of the board, and the “Board Number” must be the same! FAQs of 100802503 PCB…
There’s a folder on my desktop called like ‘example’ and when I try to delete it it says “You require permission from the computer’s admistrator to make changes to this folder” when checking the properties; the Current owner says “Unable to display current owner.” I have tried many solutions found online, including enabling & signing…
