Category Archives: How to guides

Hello everyone, I have been away for while, moving house, moving job etc, but hopefully I will be updating this blog regularly again. Recently I had wanted to build a media center for my lounge, and as luck would have … Continue reading →

Greetings! Following on from my post about how to replace a laptop hard disk, this post focuses on data recovery from a faulty hard disk. Firstly the reason the laptop hard drive failed on my flat-mates laptop was because  it was … Continue reading →

A while back my flat-mate’s laptop hard drive keeled over and died. It wouldn’t boot and wouldn’t read in a caddy, and as there was no back of the data, it was all lost too. Only one thing for it … Continue reading →

Greetings! Now there may a time when you don’t wish to be seen or contacted but people on facebook chat – or sidebar. Problem: To go offline to certain members Solution: Firstly you need to access the lists you have … Continue reading →

Hello All, I have been away for 2 weeks, hence the lack in blog updates. But don’t fear I’m back now and will be blogging regularly as usual. Along with my old webcam which previously featured, I have a similarly … Continue reading →

Hi folks, Quite a short one this week. For while it annoyed me that when you opened a new tab in Google chrome, you were not able to set it to a page, as you can with your homepage. After a little searching I … Continue reading →

Hello again, so I got Virgin media installed at my new home back in mid march, it wasn’t a smooth install. But that wasn’t the cause of the internet dropping out intermittently. Problem: Internet randomly drops out Troubleshooting: It could … Continue reading →

Earlier this year I dusted of my copy of DOOM 3, remembering the nice graphics, but when I installed it the game didn’t support my graphics mode (1920 x 1080) So I tracked down a way to edit the custom … Continue reading →

As I mentioned previously I have been trying to catalogue problem both past and present I have had on this Blog. As some will know I have a ATI HD 5770. It caused me 2 issues, 1 screen flicker but … Continue reading →

So I was working on an old PC, (Motherboard: PC CHIPS m860 V1.0) trying to update the BIOS (Basic input/output system) with the manufacturers supplied software. However it failed and the net result was a corrupted bios. This meant that the computer couldn’t boot … Continue reading →