What a day. Your computer is not booting. This is a tragedy that seems to find many of us. It comes about without any warning or reason that makes sense. Windows fails to boot at all. This failure can occur at various stages of the boot sequence. You might make it all the way to […]
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If you’re anything like me, you create virtual machines, or even build physical machines all the time. It’s not uncommon for me to setup a mame machine, phone PBX, webserver, or some other box, throw it in the closet, and not look at it again for a year. There’s normally no problem with this, except […]
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A PC that’s too hot can cause a host of problems – most commonly you’ll see random bluescreens, lockups and freezes, but you may also notice other problems, such as poor frame rates during games, and excessive fan noise as the CPU or video card fan spins up to try and deal with the excess […]
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