Does dual bios always refer to a setup with a main Bios and a backup Bios (or are there also motherboards with 2 usable Bios)?
Is the backup Bios read-only (aka, can the backup Bios be updated like the main Bios)?
I plan to use my laptop (Linux Mint 14) with dorm internet (700 people in the dorm) and public Wifi.
How do I turn off things like sharing and network discovery on Linux Mint?
What other measures can I take to secure my laptop and make it more difficult to access?
Didn't they take down the firmware update?
http://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/downloads?product=sh103s3&filename=SH103_503fw_win
Did you update to 503ABBF0?
Is there any way to set a file type as 'read-only' in Windows 8?
For example, I want to automatically set all .exe / .7z / .rar / .iso / .pdf files as read only because I would never want these files modified.
I see here
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Haswell-S3-Sleep-Problem-PCN,21896.html
that Intel issued a fix for the USB 3.0 bug.
Does that mean we won't see any motherboards that have this bug when Haswell is released?
Alright thanks for the tips. Sharing is already turned off by default right? I don't think anything on my laptop is set to share but I don't see any options for it (other than advanced sharing settings).
Is it safe to use airport Wifi as long as I set the connection to "Public"?
I'll be moving to a dorm with over 700 residents. I suspect that a lot of these people have viruses on their computers, and I know that there are a lot of programmers in this building (and maybe some of them are hackers).
Everyone in this building is on the same network. The building has...
I have a 2.5TB external HDD from WD and a 3TB external from Seagate, and I just assumed that they were formatted in GPT since they come with a single partition (larger than the 2TB MBR limit). However, I checked in disk management today and these drives are actually MBR.
After using diskpart...
I have a bunch of identical empty DVD-R discs by Fujifilm. I have 3 DVD drives that show the free space as [4,706,074,624 bytes] and 1 drive that shows the free space as [4,707,319,808 bytes].
What gives?
I unplugged the power cable, removed the CMOS battery, pressed the power button a couple of times, and left it like that for 11 hours.
Again the only thing that reset was the date & time. I figured out that I can reset to default settings by pressing F9, but this is confusing me. Shouldn't...
I disconnected the power and removed the CMOS battery for 6 hours and all of my settings are still there, the only thing that reset was the date / time. There is no reset jumper or button on the motherboard (Intel DH55PJ).
Is it normal for BIOS settings to stay after removing the CMOS battery?
If I buy a reference 670 from XFX or EVGA, is it made by one of those 3rd party companies or are all reference cards made by Nvidia / AMD?
For reference cards do 3rd party companies make any changes other than slapping their logo on it?
I plan to buy a WD Green 2TB as a storage drive. How long do these drives usually last?
The computer will be on 24/7 and there will be read / write activity on the drive for about 9 hours a day. I plan to get rid of the 8 second head parking by using wdidle3 or by changing the APM.
Also...
Doesn't rootkit imply that the infection has integrated itself into the OS / MBR and is able to start before any antivirus program does and completely hide itself from detection?
How can Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit work as expected if a rootkit is already active before installing it?
I...
I've already googled for pictures... but I only found 1 picture that has similar values to my drive. The rest of them are all clean in [raw read error rate / on-the-fly ecc uncorrectable error count / uncorrectable soft read error count / soft ecc error rate].
I was wondering if using this command:
bootrec /fixmbr
from a Windows 8 install disc and then doing a fresh install of Windows 8 would get rid of an MBR virus for sure. Does this command completely rewrite the MBR?
What are the chances that a computer has a virus if Avast (boot scan)...
Thanks for the suggestion. It showed on virustotal that Avast and 1 other antivirus were the only ones that reported it as a virus (out of 42 programs).
Though for some reason the website says that my file was first seen in 2006 even though it didn't exist until 2010.
What is a good site where I can upload a single file to scan for a virus (no install)?
Avast says that one of my files is a virus but I'm almost certain that it isn't, so I'd like to run it through another scanner without installing another anti-virus.
HGST says that we will see double the HDD capacities 'before the end of the decade'
http://www.techspot.com/news/51810-hgst-doubles-hdd-capacities-by-combining-self-assembling-molecules-nanoimprinting.html
My Hitachi Travelstar 1TB 7200RPM 2.5" (0S03563) hard drive sometimes doesn't show 'Threshold' values in CrystalDiskInfo (resulting in 'Unknown' health status). This is fixed by closing and re-opening CrystalDiskInfo. This is the only drive that ever has this problem. Should I be worried...
My WD Scorpio Blue (2.5" 1TB) parks every 8 seconds and WD wdidle3 doesn't support the Scorpio Blue :(
I have to turn the APM to maximum performance in CrystalDiskInfo to stop it from constantly parking.
I think my mSata Crucial M4 'unexpected power loss' counter goes up whenever I unplug the mSata from the laptop without first removing the battery (while the laptop is turned off).
CrystalDiskInfo says my M4 has 2 unexpected power losses (but my laptop is always on battery and has never crashed).
I wouldn't mind paying triple the $/gb for a 1TB SSD even if the warranty was the standard 3 years. A lot of mechanical drives only have a 1 year warranty these days, and SSDs that haven't failed after 1 year will probably never fail at all (while HDDs become more likely to fail with every...
If you have Windows 8, do you have this in your device manager?
Also in W8 / W7 is Kernel debugging enabled or disabled by default? A forum thread said to turn it off (bcdedit /debug off) but it sounds pretty important.
With $600 1TB SSDs and $(???) 2TB (2.5") SSDs coming this year, I had the thought that I might be able to replace all of my mechanical drives with SSDs in the not-so-far future.
-will SSD prices drop this year as much as they did in 2012 (though I noticed that the prices stopped dropping in...
"The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (also known as the Intel® Chipset Device Software) is often called the chipset driver or chipset drivers, a common misconception."
"The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility is not a driver and does not include drivers."
"An INF is a...
That's because Windows 8 already recognizes most of the Intel components before installing the chipset driver.
@gizbug, the Intel Chipset driver just tells Windows to recognize Intel parts properly. Before you install the Chipset driver device manager will show some components with generic...
Use 3DMark11 / 3DMarkVantage and compare your scores to the ones at notebookcheck.net (they have SLI benchmarks as well).
I don't know about the other games you listed, but your CPU will be a bottleneck in GW2.
I'm almost certain that Lenovo gaming laptops have removable hard drives...
What is a good hash check program (md5) for checking lots of files in Windows 8?
I want to be able to copy thousands of files from drive #1 to drive #2, and then compare the hash values of the files on drive 1 and 2 to confirm that everything is copied properly.
I'd like to avoid anything...
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