Testing Diode -The Accurate Way on How to Test Semiconductor Diode Using Multimeter

Testing diodes is different from testing a resistor because you need a skill to do it. If you do not know or wrongly test a diode you will be unable to repair the equipment. A bad diode you think it is good. This will definitely waste your precious time.A rectifier... Read More

Flash Your ATI Video Cards BIOS

Flash your ATI video card BIOS.You will need the following:1. 1.44MB FDD (floppy)2. FLASHROM utility copy3. Compatible BIOS file for your video card. (search the manufactures website for bios details)4. Required Drivers. (check manufactures website)Alright nowFirst make an ATI BIOS flash boot disk.-Bios flash operations for video must be performed... Read More

What is EEPROM ?

EEPROM stands for Electrical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory and also referred to as E²PROM. As the name suggest, an EEPROM can be both erased and programmed with electrical pulses. Since it can be both electrically written into and electrically erased, the EEPROM can be rapidly programmed and erased in... Read More

Quality Recovery and Rework - When It All Goes Wrong

When Quality is the Target, but not the Result, what do you do?While Quality may be the overarching goal of all production, stuff happens, resulting in non-conforming parts. This results in failure verification, rework, recalls, sorting, kitting, retest, relabeling and pipeline management, which are facts of life in the manufacturing,... Read More

Sony vs. Olympus: Digital Voice Recorders

Digital voice recorders have become increasingly popular over the last few years, as they offer a relatively cheap and reliable alternative to older cassette voice recorders. Digital voice recorders use memory - much like the memory used in your personal pc - to record sound, rather than tape cassettes. Newer... Read More

Choosing a Tape Drive

Tape drives remain the leading technology used by organizations for backup and archiving. However, the plethora of tape drives on the market can make choosing the appropriate tape drive a confusing task. How do you select a tape drive that satisfies your needs without blowing the budget? The following are... Read More

Basics of RAID

A couple of the recent Tech Tips from www.geeks.com have made mention of RAID, but the level of detail required in those tips didn't shed much light on what RAID actually is. The number of e-mail responses and comments in the Readers Digress section was convincing enough that an introduction... Read More

Small Computers

Today, small form factor computers demolish the myth that bigger PCs are faster. Specially designed SFF computers from Ovi PC, like the Prometheus, deliver tower-crushing performance in one-third the space, and at the fraction of the price.In today's world, the core of technological advancement lies in miniaturization and nano technology.... Read More

Laptop Computer Extras for the Mobile Traveler

A laptop computer certainly provides you with an unprecedented level of freedom and mobility away from the office. However there are a few extras you might want to bring along on your laptop travels:Extra 1: portable printerIf you travel a lot, you never know when you might need to commit... Read More

Intel Celeron vs Pentium

The Celeron and Pentium Processors are two of Intel's best selling CPUs. They are found in a majority of home computer systems. When comparing the two processors it should be first understood that there are different types of Pentium processors - the original Pentium all the way to the Pentium... Read More

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Used Laptop Computer: Your Quick Purchase Inspection Guide ? Part 2

Used laptop computers are everywhere these days. How can you... Read More

Buying a New Computer

Someone recently asked me "I teach senior citizens in a... Read More

Quality Recovery and Rework - When It All Goes Wrong

When Quality is the Target, but not the Result, what... Read More

What to Do Once You Are Infected with Spyware, Ad-ware or Viruses

What to do once your PC is infected with spyware,... Read More

Ceramic Disc Capacitor-How to Accurately Test It

The last article I mentioned about electrolytic capacitor breakdown when... Read More

Setting up a Network -- Wired or Wireless?

To Wire or Not to Wire Wireless networks... Read More

Cisco CCNA Certification: An Illustrated Guide To Ethernet CSMA/CD

When you're studying for your CCNA exams, you're going to... Read More

Top Three Factors to Consider While Choosing a Data Center for Your Business

Data Centers are the core of the Internet. The computer... Read More

Ten Tips to Safeguard Your Laptops

The following is a list of tips to help safeguard... Read More

Is A Laser Printer Right For Me?

The average home computer user definitely does not need a... Read More

Routing, Routed, and Non-Routable Protocols

ROUTING PROTOCOLSA generic term that refers to a formula, or... Read More

How to Get the Case Off Your PC!

This is the first step to servicing, upgrading or removing... Read More

War of the Disks: A Close-in Analysis of the Hard Disk Drive vs. the Solid State Disk

Much has been written about solid state disks (SSDs) becoming... Read More

What is EEPROM ?

EEPROM stands for Electrical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory and... Read More

How to Choose a New Hard Drive for Your Computer

If you are running out of space on your computer... Read More

Review of Popular Wireless Headphones

Just about everyone would I agree, I think, that wires... Read More

Expansion Cards Part 3: PCI Express

In the first two installments of this series of Tech... Read More

ATA vs SATA

Hard Drives: ATA versus SATAThe performance of computer systems has... Read More

Types Of Laptop Batteries

Throughout the years there have been many technologies involved with... Read More

How To Stop Junk Faxes From Wasting Your Paper and Toner

Junk faxes waste the resources of every business. It is... Read More

Rackmount Computer Keyboards

The other piece of vital equipment to accompany the rack... Read More

What Is A Crystal? And How To Test It

Crystal are use to keep the frequency of the clock... Read More

Tips To Select Proper Hard drive

Day by day computers are getting advanced. Capacity and performance... Read More

A Short Introduction to Blu Ray

Blu ray is a next generation optical media format developed... Read More

Generation Laptop

In May 2005 U.S hardware history was made.This was the... Read More

Choosing The Right Bar Code Reader

The importance of a bar code reader in this day... Read More

RAID Disk Recovery

RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive)... Read More

Where does technology come from?

Ever wonder where all the cool gadgets come from? Ever... Read More

Obsolete Is A Dirty Word (Intel Pentium 64 Bit Microchip)

Get ready everyone, home computers are about to set new... Read More

Your Printer Is Out Of Ink -- Now What?

We've all been there. You're in the middle of printing... Read More

How to Change, Upgade or Remove an IDE Hard Drive

Hard drives - Hard drives are a little more complicated.... Read More

What You Should Know Before You Buy Computer Equipment

You will have many factors to consider when deciding on... Read More

Flash Your ATI Video Cards BIOS

Flash your ATI video card BIOS.You will need the following:1.... Read More