Recent content by Jeff Mongillo

I've found doing the following once a week improves your rig better than upgrading every six months ever will. Run your AV and anti-malware programs each week. Run CCleaner (both the clean up utility and the Registry cleaner) every other week. Do a full close down/shut down of your system once...

If I might chime in my 25 yrs of experience. I'd rather try to rebuild my Commodore 64...from scratch, using plastics I have to form myself, that to start ANY build using an ECS mobo. My very first PC clone, which I had built for me, as all of my experience in working on computers prior to...

If you really want to upgrade her system, you might consider going to a better APU. Perhaps get her the best of last gen AMD A10-7890 or, in a few months, AMD is releasing their new A12 APU on an AMD A4 socket (Zen/Vega CPU/iGPU). I believe they have one called a Bristol Ridge APU that is like...

From your first post, you ASK about the 850 Evo, then post about the 850 Pro. Which one are you running? Post up your Primary Magician Page (scratch out, or otherwise block your Serial Number) including the options list on the left hand pane. I have a 250 GB 850 EVO that runs DANDY and has...

Here's the simple answer. I have a Win 7 Ultimate laptop from 2006. However, the laptop cannot be upgraded to Win 10 as the GPU in this laptop is not up to minimum requirements. On a Vista Laptop, you're not likely to be able to upgrade to 10 for similar reasons. Unable to meet Minimum...

Keep in mind, since the advent of proper sockets (called ZIF or Zero Insertion Force) that you don't PUSH a CPU into the socket...you set it onto the socket in a correct orientation and let it drop in of it's own weight. Once done, you use the lockbar to "hold" the CPU in place. When ANY type...

One other option you might try. Turn off your laptop Wifi, unplug your modem/wifi and leave it 15 seconds, plug it back in and let it cycle thru reconnecting to the internet. Once it establishes a connection, turn on your wifi on the laptop and see if you can connect. (It's entirely possible...

Another thing to keep in mind....uefi IS the BIOS, it's not a separate thing. It's a simpler, cleaner way to set up your system as well as align boot devices to the proper order. As others have pointed out, make sure to input the USB stick to a black USB port (USB 2) as opposed to a blue one...

there should be a small button (slightly raised) on the door to the CD drive. Push it, while powered up, and it should open right up. If not, there is a tiny hole that you can insert the end of a paper clip into. Just push it an inch or so into the hole and the door should open enough to pull...

Is it still the original HDD? And did you do the upgrade to Win 10 from MS (via that app that pops up on your taskbar)? If yes to both, you can revert to Win 7 thru that, then get yourself a new HDD and using a shadow program or cloning software, you can transfer everything, OS and all to the...