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When Your Printer's Buffer Overflows........

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

Yes, the printer isn't perfect. When you give the printer more load than it can "remember" from it's memory buffer, it will either hang, stop, pause or abort the print and give you an error message. Here are a few ways to fight the problems.

Compress

From experience, I found out that a printer seldom or never encounter any buffer overflow from printing text. Rather, it is graphic...


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Fighting Unknown Problems

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

Hardware problems are quite difficult to tackle, worse if under Windows. There was once when installing a software, I accidentally inserted the Audio hardware diskette. Thinking it was harmless, I went on, thinking I can always "undo" everything again. How wrong was I. The next moment I restarted Windows, I got the blue screen of death. Yeah, Windows is very nasty when it comes to h...


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RAM Won't Work On New Motherboard

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 
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If you upgraded your motherboard and CPU to a brand new one, you might encounter with some RAM problems. Either the system seems slower or the total amount of RAM is displayed less than the actual amount during bootup (when you just power-up the computer).

The problem usually occur if you upgraded from a 486 to a Pentium or from non-EDO RAM to EDO. There are a few things...


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Sound Card

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

A world without sound is boring. The same goes to computers. Imagine playing quake with the beeps from the computer speaker. The sound card is a piece of hardware to generate high quality sound. It enables your to listen to your CD, record voices with the microphone and playing your sound files.

Don't Throw Away Your Old RAM

If you have and old PC that utilizes old 32 bit RAM, don't...


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CD-ROM

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 
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The maximum a floppy disk can contain is 1.44 MB. To play a game with around 200 MB you are stuck with 100 over diskettes. The CD-ROM is a revolutionary invention that allows up to 625 MB at one time. However, it is read only, which means you can't store in anything.

Buttons Fun

Although most CD-ROMs comes with only 2 buttons, do you know you can also skip, play previous...


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Graphic Card

Posted by Minhazur Rahaman on Saturday, August 6, 2011, In : Hardware 

The graphic card is one of the most important pieces of hardware in your PC. Without it, your super monitor with all the bells and whistles is just a junk box.

Make Directional Input

Most video cards come with simple frame capture programs, but you'll have to do some programming if you plan to integrate video capture with other operations on your computer, such as adding text data...


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