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Gone are the days when you had to adjust to your entertainment and daily tasks because the annoying notification tone popping in the background now has a fix.
From amplifying your bass volume to adjusting the volume in individual Chrome tabs, there is now a solution for every situation. [Read more…]
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Question from Fred: I have a 2 year old Lenovo laptop. It was working fine till yesterday evening but now the Wi-Fi won’t work.
I thought it might be a setting, but the Wi-Fi adapter isn’t even showing up in the Device Manager under Windows 11.
Since it won’t work with Windows, I tried booting into Linux Mint (I have a dual-boot setup). Mint won’t recognize the Wi-Fi adapter either so I’m thinking it must be a hardware problem.
Can this be fixed without costing me an arm and a leg? [Read more…]
Question from Trevor: The integrated sound has gone out on my ancient, but beloved HP Pavilion Slimline s5680d PC’s motherboard (model # MSI MS-7613).
Can you recommend a cheap replacement motherboard that’ll fit inside this computer’s case and work with its power supply? [Read more…]
Question from Travis: I have an HP desktop computer that got fried by lightning.
I also have an old Dell desktop that had a bad hard drive. Both PCs ran Windows 10.
My cousin connected the hard drive from the HP to his computer and it seemed to work fine, so I replaced the bad hard drive in my Dell with the one from the dead HP.
But now after switching the drives, when I turn the computer on Windows won’t boot up. All it does is display a blue screen with an error message on it.
What do I need to do to fix this? [Read more…]
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Question from Brad: I have a really old Dell Optiplex 745 desktop computer that I absolutely love.
This machine has an 80 Gig hard drive and it’s recently started giving me problems.
These past few days when I turn on the PC the hard drive makes clicking sounds for about 5-10 seconds, then it finally starts booting up.
I know it’s the hard drive that’s doing the clicking because I removed the cover and listened to it. [Read more…]