I noticed my system crashing while playing this bubble game on agar.io website. Blue screen of death Driver nvlddmkm.sys was at fault. I just checked nvidia's latest driver and it is confirmed that this driver is buggy and not only that but it has some serious security risks ! Therefore I...

Good day. Got a 15 years old WD IDE hard drive, that was showing ZERO problems in SMART data, suddenly can no longer calibrate (i.e. it can't read anymore.) NOW the SMART data is showing something's wrong. Hard drive "clicks" (heads go back and forth full disk) then quits trying. Have another...

I thought software raid was simply using windows to mirror two drives, on standard disk controllers. So what is this card I have called a Silicon Image Softraid controller? It does hardware raid (as I would name it) - I can set up arrays in it's own bios before an OS loads. So why do they call...

PCI express graphics in a 1 lane slot? Yes I know I can fiddle with extension ribbons, but why have they designed the 1 lane slots to physically not allow longer card to go into them? Is it to stop the user squashing motherboard components which may be nearby? Obviously it would run slower, but...

Where is the best place to get it cheap? I just need 1000 ft roll. This seems a lot cheaper than most. What is the...

How to prevent rubber grip from becoming sticky? -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ä¸�借貸! ä¸�è©�騙! ä¸�è³*錢! ä¸�æ�´äº¤!...

IBM workers banned from using USB sticks Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44069488 Staff at IBM have been banned from using removable memory devices such as USB sticks, SD cards and flash drives. The possibility of "financial and reputational" damage if staff lost or misused the...

While troubleshooting a new HD, I just ran into a new problem of which I'm not sure where the problem is. When I press the on/off button for the pc on the front of the case, I see it start to light up but within a fraction of a second, it shuts down is the best way I can describe it - does not...

Thought my 200-watt amp was like 50-years-old: reality checks in to say it's actually 30 and only made from 1985-88. ...Way back when everything was 8-ohm speaker loads. A number of good amps, however, placed for added feature-minded class consciousness, provided for speaker arrays -- in case an...

The problem I'm trying to solve is that windows 10 upgrade to one hard drive messes up the boot sector of the other bootable drive. I've been opening the case and pulling the data cable. I need a way to EASILY switch off a hard drive so that it is completely inaccessible. I've been considering...

I got two Nvidia cards at a garage sale, along with a large Dell monitor that apparently was made to go with them. The cord on the monitor is not the usual SVGA connector, it's got 24 pins. (3 rows of 8 pins), plus a large flat pin on the end. These cards look like they were costly. There is a...

Would your hand get cancer in the long run? Wireless charging means there is energized EM radiation coming out of the pad! :) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64...

I have a Samsung 850 EVO 124G SSD that I use for the system drive in my #2 desktop. I recently noticed that more than 60G was being used by the C drive. I hadn't installed nearly that much stuff. A Macrium backup done just 4 days earlier was only 16.5, not nearly large enough for 60+G. I checked...

graphic card/SATA III questions 1. Have graphics cards improved so that they don't block adjacent mobo slots? 2. Are there expansion cards for PCI slots that provide internal SATA III connectors? 3. What's the correct search term to use? 4. Will such a SATA III expansion card transfer data...

Would your hand get cancer in the long run? Wireless charging means there is energized EM radiation coming out of the pad! :) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64...

On 30/4/2018 10:10 AM, Real Troll wrote: Dr P.J Moylan has written a paper to argue a case against using C. Wouldn't bother to read it! It's just one tool. Just use it WISELY if you think it's broken. Can you make a hammer that doesn't hit human hands? :) --

Running Win10 Home x64 on a system I built, but using a HDD from a Lenovo that is out of use. I used the same OS installation- it found and installed the drivers I needed for the new MB and CPU, and everything runs like nothing was changed. Opening Disk Management shows some extra partitions...

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 18:39:30 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote: On 7/4/2018 4:10 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote: *Download Steve Gibsons DNSbench and run your own tests for your location, It varies by location and whats fastest for me may not be fast for you. You...

It seems that it would sometimes be convenient if there are some type of goggles we could hook up to a computer to do some quick tasks without having to have a monitor, especially if we have more than one computer and are just using one of them to back things up, or any similar situations. So far...

For a while Windows update failed because it detected Avira, apparently not being on the whitelist for Spectre-Meltdown protection. Now had uninstalled Avira years ago. There were no Avira subdirectories anywhere. Now Avira released a registry cleaner tool to remove the crap it left behind on its...