Recent content by brian.h.schaefer

I am a little confused? What do they mean by "front-end" and "back-end"? Considering this is Google I would think of these terms being used for developers. The statistics show that women are more prevelant in the front-end side of development, as opposed to backend development. Backend...

Budget after monitor?

Ugh.... Connect with ethernet and redo all of that stuff.

Those pings to your router look mostly good but those timed out requests could be an issue. Have you tried powering off and on your router?

Ok, that is some good info. There definitely is stuff going on with those 3-7ish hops in the tracert. Hop 2-5ish look like they may be your ISP and those latency numbers are aweful. But you are still getting those when you ping your ISPs first router to you, 10.80.0.1. So that means there might...

This is not a BIOS problem. Windows probably got screwed up from being hard shut down during the restart process. So you will need a Windows Recovery tool. You should be able to use a windows installation file to accomplish this. A usb drive just need to be configured for this.

It is probably not an un-updated BIOS. Did you install the motherboard drivers that came with the motherboard?

A PC should definitely be able to stand up to little nudges. It is tough to say really what is wrong with it. My next step would be to check the motherboard standoffs and make sure nothing is shorting out or rubbing there.

The best option I see for you would be to run Linux inside a virtual machine. Oracle VirtualBox is a good,easy, free program to accomplish this. I am partial to VMware Workstation but it isn't free, I got a free copy of that through my school.