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How to repair a damaged DVD
Many people prefer to save important information (photographs, work files and other documents) on DVDs. As such, they do not have an expiration date, but, nevertheless, due to any mechanical damage, they fail. The reasons may be the most commonplace:
scratching physical deterioration; low quality of the material from which the disk was made.
Reading and copying information in such cases is impossible, but there are ways and programs to help deal with this problem.
Two main types of possible problems should be distinguished: logical malfunctions and surface damage, as a Continue reading
How to update BIOS on a computer
Each personal computer has a BIOS, which is a program that is not located on the hard drive, but directly on the chip of the motherboard. She is responsible for entering and displaying information on a computer. As a rule, only advanced computer users know about BIOS; for beginners, its name usually does not say anything. But this does not reduce its significance at all. For PCs, BIOS plays a very important role in the lowest level settings. BIOS provides full control over the operation of the computer hardware. It controls such important settings as the cooler rotation speed, monitors the temperature of the processor, it controls all the functions of the PC motherboard, as well as other equipment. Continue reading
Causes of laptop breakdowns
From the point of view of a service engineer, a laptop is a combination of rather complex electronic devices connected with each other. A working laptop is just one condition that constantly strives for a broken one for a number of reasons. It makes sense to describe all these reasons so that the user knows about them in advance, which means that he is on the alert.
I. One of the main causes of a laptop breakdown is overheating. The fact is that all the elements of a laptop work comfortably only in a certain temperature range. During operation, the laptop may become so hot that it will not be able to function at the moment. This can be for a number of reasons: the cooling system Continue reading
