When USB ports first became common on PCs in the late 1990’s USB devices could be problematic. USB support was available as an update to Windows 95, and while Windows 98 and 98SE had more robust USB support, it could still be troublesome. I know, because at that tim ...
Most of us in the computer business have heard the story of the tech support agent and the power outage. The customer had called in for support because their PC wouldn’t power on. After the customer explained the problem to the support agent, the agent dutifully aske ...
Windows 10 updates function a little differently than past versions of Windows desktop operating systems. In the past you could actually turn off updates, with Windows 10 you can delay updates but as long as the PC is connected to the internet the Operating System updates w ...
In the past if we needed to erase or delete partitions from a hard drive we’d pull out our handy Windows 98SE boot floppy disk or later when floppy disks went away we’d use a bootable CD version of the Win98SE floppy. An example of why we would need to do that is ...
It’s great to have the Start button back in Windows 10, the biggest failure of Windows 8 was the lack of a start button. It’s amazing – what was Microsoft thinking when they eliminated the Start button in Windows 8. This was as large of a failure as Coca ...
When purchasing a new Server, Workstation or PC to support an expansion card one of the most important things to determine is what type of slot does the motherboard have. There are 3 types of slots that have been used for over the years: ISA, PCI, and PCI Express (PCIe). T ...
We began to notice that on fresh installs of Windows 7 Professional SP1 downloading and installing updates was taking and increasingly longer amount of time. Since Microsoft has only released one Service Pack for Windows 7 the list of individual updates has grown to over 30 ...
Legacy ISA Hardware “Our computer just died and it houses the controller card for a vital piece of equipment that we use daily in our business. We got a new PC and discovered that the old card wouldn’t fit in this shiny new system, and even if it did we need supp ...
In Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 you may see the following error in the event viewer: Log Name – Application Source – WMI EventID – 10 Level – Error User – N/A OpCode – Info Task Cat – None Keywords – Classic Details ...
The world of technology is ever changing, It’s getting harder and harder to source computers that have more than 1 PCI slot. PCI express (PCIe) has taken over both PCI and AGP’s place. Current chipsets from Intel don’t even natively support PCI anymore, ...
