Speefan

Speedfan is a useful tool for monitoring temperatures and voltages.

However many users don’t realise this this tool is exceptionally handy for monitoring and logging these readings in the background, since temperatures are likely to be greater and voltages may drop when a PC is busy, for example, when gaming.

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Post Screen

Even though variations exist between manufacturers as to what their BIOS does during its boot sequence, the basic steps are the same, providing a good troubleshooting background.

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Safe

Keep in mind: If your computer hasn’t crashed yet, it will in the future!  So instead of waiting for fate to strike, take some precautions now!  Here’s how..

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USB Devices

You do not need any kind of software to identify those elusive devices
behind the yellow exclamation marks. You can very easily do it yourself:
All you need is…Windows!

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Dynamic disks

Windows XP Professional+ supports two types of disk storage: basic and dynamic. Basic disk storage uses partition-oriented disks. A basic disk contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives).

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Disk Partition

For many years, Microsoft have provided “Disk Management” with it’s Operating Systems, which allows you to manage partitions.  In previous versions of Windows, you would need to delete the existing partition, and create a new partition in the correct size.

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Acronyms

A
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated

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