A few months back I purchased a PINK MSI Wind Netbook for Lauren. She loves it. There seemed to be a strange issue that came up where the internal SD card reader stopped working. The drive completely disappeared and no matter what SD card you inserted, it would not recognize the card. A reboot didn’t fix. [...]
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How to remove Dell BIOS Passwords
Came across this article online, which shows how to remove BIOS passwords from all Dell computer models:
www.tech-faq.com/dell-bios-password.shtml
I still come across places that either have no protection or stricly rely on BIOS passwords only. Which is horrible!
ALL laptops should be running drive encryption on the hard disk. If you are not, you should fix that. You [...]
Easy way to check if your CPU is Hyper-V compatible
SecurAble is a tiny utility/app will tell you if your processor has a hardware virtualization, which is what Hyper-V requires. Even though most new processors nowadays have hardware virtualization, there are some Intel Xeon based cpu’s that are only a couple years old that do not.
You can check this website for the download link and [...]
Sonicwall SonicOS Standard to Enhanced Settings Converter
Here is a tool/utility provided by Sonicwall that helps the upgrade process of going from SonicOS Standard to SonicOS Enhanced. Before this tool/utility was released, there was no way to transfer any settings over when you upgraded the firmware from Standard to Enhanced. You had to manually re-enter EVERYTHING from scratch. Which was quite the [...]
Read MoreDell PowerEdge 2900 and Broadcom NetXtreme II Adapters Revert to DHCP
I was having a problem with a new Dell server’s NIC adapter. I changed the NIC to a static IP address and it would instantly switch back to obtain automatically. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers the issue persisted. After a Dell chat was initiated, we had the resolution. I guess the Broadcom NetXtreme [...]
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