Force a Dell BIOS update
If you don’t have a battery installed or there’s another power condition that’s preventing you from installing a Dell BIOS update, add the following parameter
If you don’t have a battery installed or there’s another power condition that’s preventing you from installing a Dell BIOS update, add the following parameter
Seems there’s an issue with the Asus Strix GTX 970 card when using specifically the DisplayPort (DP) connector on certain monitor models. Symptoms I found
Similar to finding the Dell Service Tag via the command line, we can use WMI to retrieve the BIOS Version. This is useful for finding out
I use my Chromecast regularly for all my media streaming, however it never allowed me to watch Live TV. Why not consolidate the two? As I was
Dell BIOS updates have some undocumented command line switches that may be useful for system administrators. These are a few of the notable command-line arguments; In order to
My laptop (as most do these days), has a webcam integrated into the screen… On installation of the webcam’s drivers, prompted me with the following message: Bewildered
With the release of Windows 7 Beta January 09 and the RC release in May, many hardware developers have actively been developing Windows 7 compatible drivers for
Most operating systems, namely Windows and OS X, have a well known set of alert, error and message sounds that have become synonymous with the
I have recently read a few posts on other blogs and forums, discussing an ‘annoyance’ of not being able to disable the ‘fade-out’ or time-out
A recently released white paper titled “What Price Cool?“, sponsored by Microsoft, has provided the proof that Apple Mac’s do in fact cost more to
The guys over at XPS-Wiki have found a way to enable Stereo Mix on a Dell XPS M1730. Originally, Dell reported that Stereo Mix was not
A PDA or Pocket PC screen is most infuriating when the alignment goes ‘out of whack’. I own a Dell Axim x51 and found after
Its common these days to have old desktop pc’s (or even laptops) which are broken down or malfunctioning sitting in the corner… degrading… wait no,
As Mac OS X (unfortunately) becomes more and more popular, the amount of malware will increase for the operating system. This means that in the
“You could hear the collective sigh from the crowd” (Forbes, Jobs Fails To Wow At Macworld). The MacBook Air dosen’t set any standards, instead has
My desk was overflowing with junk and there was a headset cord travelling right through the middle of it all, during a voice call to
It seems Toothpaste is a decent disk cleaning abrasive for removing minor scratches that may be preventing dvd/cd rom drives from reading it correctly. I had
Got a Dell laptop and with the SigmaTel sound chipset and stuck with all it’s advanced features such as lack of stereo mix? Dont worry, a