Sometimes Blue Screens Of Death (BSOD) are very hard to solve. These screens usually caused by hardware (or even from hardware driver) issues. On my previous post I mentioned that I had to replace my graphics card fan. Usually something like this is a typical situation, but for me it was the beginning of a nightmare. Few [...]

I have an ASUS HD5770 graphics card installed on my desktop PC which covers all my needs. I was very happy with it until today when I saw a warning message on a system diagnostics utility (AIDA64) that the GPU temperature exceeded 65 degrees Celsius. Checking the card I found that the fan was stopped.

For a big period of time I ‘m using  a great free utility for string replacements, the lifehacker’s Texter. This utility is very simple and works great for string replacements while the user is typing on any program under windows. Using this little tool I can fill easily forms on the web and write automated texts [...]

Florian Reimann’s idea was great and quite simple… He created five utilities which are utilizing the Windows 7 new behaviour to display the progress in the task bar icon (with the window minimized). With these little executables a Windows 7 user can have indication for CPU usage, Memory usage , Battery status, HDD usage and Volume level at [...]

Recently I changed my computer. It was time to move forward on performance… My new system consist from the following parts: Motherboard: ASUS P7P55D CPU: Intel Quad Core i7 870 Graphics Card: ASUS Radeon HD 5770 1GB Memory: 4 GB OCZ Gold XTC OCZ3G1333LV2G HDD: Seagate ST31000528AS (1000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II). Optical drives: Sony [...]

I own a Smartstor NS4300N network attached storage (NAS). This device is a Linux based network device which can managed using its web interface. The device provides temperatures, fan speed, voltages and other diagnostics. The bad thing is that end user must login to web interface and select the appropriate sub menu in order to [...]