Recent content by cognus

thanks for this. Does the software & firmware for these [via Broadcom?] deliver with an interactive console or will I need to command-line admin? I assume you imply you're using these with Windows Server xxxx Also I read of concerns with heat buildup??? What's your take on that? I'm just doing...

Friends I have a couple of HP Elite 8200 SFF that are very useful hardy older systems, and I'm needing to add-in a RAID card and was thinking of one of the Dell-rebranded LSI cards - . 2 Questions I can't find clean answers to: in the past, HP has been "one to watch out for" in adding...

do you have another hd you can try? Did you try changing the bios settings for UEFI vs legacy and secure boot? Try return to factory defaults in BIOS? you don't say what you mean by "lock up". If the condition occurs at the pulling up of the user account and/or [[more so] after password for...

i had forgotten all about DD-WRT - haven't used it since WRT days but this is a great tip. I'll consult the WIKI thx

yes, i understand the R7000 has a Guest function but it is not isolated. Anyone with a little knowledge or tool can find every other device on the other AP's, and apparently Netgear is a tad worse in that respect than others. The second way I posed the questions above was: "how do I allow a...

Wondering if anyone has a good assessment of this: the last two laptops I've worked on, I was able to fresh-install Windows 10 and had/have no significant problems either software or hardware, yet both [one Dell, one HP] cannot wakeup from sleep via anything other than the power button. This...

I have spotty network knowledge so please forgive my clumsiness here. I currently use an Arris Cable Modem I own, and a R7000 router I own. I had thought I could setup a Guest network that would be isolated from the other WIFI Access Points on the router/network. The more I read, I get the idea...

I'm amazed no one has said the obvious: buy an inexpensive pc off ebay. Windows 10 licenses cannot be legally married to hardware but is separate and owned by the buyer, regardless of how the legitimate buyer bought. An example [but move fast... only one left]...

right, it does sound that way, and isn't. I did. wouldn't have posted here without doing all the normal diligence thx

had a HDD crash, installed new SSD, clean installed Windows 10 x64. Still cannot find the right driver for PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0A03&SUBSYS_F96A1179 despite a lot of digging. can anyone help me find this? so-called "PCI Data Acquisition and Signalling" device... thank you for help!

reinstalling won't help. wash/rinse/repeat. the steps above might help, if we only knew the EXACT circumstances under which the zombie occurs. the user is non-technical, but believes the one consistent fly in the ointment was that he was using the laptop to recharge a portable charger pack...

Gang - how do I dig through debris and figure out which version of MS Office this poor system had? Windows 10 killed it - the hard drive is healthy just in need of a brain.... This desktop had windows 7 and some office version. The Program Files [x86] folders are intact but I have no idea...

we have two Asus UX305FA notebooks running windows 10. one works flawlessly, the other not so much. several times the annoying one has ended up in a zombie state after going to sleep, and the choices for getting it back seemed to be either: - leave it for days til the battery finally reaches a...

Did anyone solve this? Windows 10 is inconsistent in this regard. I have three systems at the moment running windows 10: one was clean installed, one was upgraded from 8.1 [both the foregoing were Windows 10 Home x64] and one was just upgraded from Windows 7, to Win 10 Pro x64. This last one...

Gang just wondering if any of you have come up with the magic bullet for notorious Windows 10 creepy-slow boot performance? there are a million threads on the topic, 90% of which at least are worthless waste of time. the notebook in question is the surprisingly good acer es1-111m-p2yu, this one...