Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:54 am
HP has engaged in the practice of linking a ‘tatoo’ or serial number between their motherboards and their recovery partitions. This means that hardware changes can prevent their computers from proper recovery. This makes it important to use an HP approved hardware service company to do a motherboard replacement, or anything leading to tatoo changes.
I would love to describe how the technical means of defeating the ‘code purple’, but with the cost of computers these days, it is cheaper to buy a new one. For example, I had a customer that had a one year old HP laptop computer, that upon inspection seemed to have a major problem. So we called HP and told them we needed a warranty repair. They sent Fed-Ex to pick it up, replaced the motherboard, and sent it back, all while leaving the contents of the Hard Drive intact. (They make no warranty of this happening)
On the other side of the one year warranty, if the computer had lost the motherboard, it would not have been worth fixing. Generally we are going to charge between $ 400 and $ 800 to replace a motherboard. So go buy a new computer.
Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:53 am
It is safe to assume that a power supply (PSU) of 400 - 600 watts has ample power for your PC. Without a video card that draws power 400 watts is plenty. But with onboard PCI Express x16 2.0 drawing power and requiring four and six pin plus 12 volts, the game has become more interesting. Now with Active and Passive Power Factor Correction (PFC). Your apple store geek will tell you this saves energy and money. Hopefully at least it will put less wasted heat into the room, saving on air conditioning and lessening degradation to plastics and non metallic components in the path of said heat. Power factor correction (PFC) helps smooth the current draw along the sine wave of complex AC loads. Read about the PC PSUswitchmode power supplies. Simple loads, like the electric oven, draw a constant current along the time axis. The intent of an active or passive PFC is to make them act more like simple loads. In a graph of voltage versus current drawn for the electric oven in an AC circuit, the current and voltage are in perfect sync. For a complex load, this is not the case. For a complex AC load the current flow is not in sync with the voltage amplitude. The more complex a load is, the more out of sync the current can be with the voltage, and the worse the device's "power factor" will be. An active PFC PSU will waste some power (at least 10%) as heat, just like every other circuit in the world. A non PFC PSU will make no attempt to synchronize the current flow with the voltage amplitude along the time axis and thus not waste power as heat to do so. On the other hand, it is possible that some active PFC PSUs may deal with lousy waveforms better than passive PFC or non PFC units, but PC PSUs generally handle spikes and surges and dropouts pretty well.
Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:50 am
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Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:35 am
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Hard Drives with bank account numbers found on Ebay
When you have your computer serviced, can you trust your geek? Read this article. A security firm in the UK bought 300 hard drives, and found sensitive information from private citizens, and many government organizations. Now don't get me wrong, companies often do a good job doing DOD wipes and EMF Bulk wipes of magnetic material. Additionally, firms like Iron Mountain and and other local shredders are used extensively by banks, medical offices, and businesses that dispose of sensitive paper records. Additionally these guys, and most pros can offer excellent guidance on the disposal of not just paper, but electronic records, as well as electronic archiving with imaging and encrypted backup through electronic transmission. But we go further to make sure that hard drives and backup media, as well as archival practices conform with safe and secure methods, before personal and business information places your company, its employees, or its customers at risk. If you have questions, contact the Atlanta database experts.
Tuesday 29 November 2011 at 10:30 am
Safe Windows Components
- Motorola Phone Tools
- Avanquest update
- Motorola Driver
- Motorola Phone Tools
- Itunes
- MobileMe Control Panel
- Apple Application Support
- Apple Mobile Device Support
- Bonjour
- iphone configuration utility
- itunes
- safari
Task Manager Disabled
task manager disabled - Many viri have figured out how to go into the registry and disable task manager. This is a useful click-jacking technique, because the best way to kill a suspicious dialogue box, and make sure you are not click-jacked is with the task manager end process.
So, as admin, run regedit and search for the registry key 'disabletaskmgr' and change from 1 to 0.
