Windows
Vista “unidentified network” can’t surf the net
Came across an interesting problem the other day where a friend could not surf the net as Vista was displaying ‘unidentified network’ when trying to connect to her wireless router. Wired (ie ethernet cable) was fine. What I did notice was that from a command prompt, an ‘ipconfig’ command did not give an IP on […]
AVG Rescue CD
A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. […]
BOOTMGR is missing when starting Windows
I turned on one of my PCs the other day after plugging in another drive to check it. Obviously something went amiss as it would not boot up. I was getting a msg ‘BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart’. WTF? Looks like the Master Boot Record (MBR) had become corrupt. Fortunately there was an […]
Build me a PC part 2
In part 1 of this ‘project’ I described what we wanted to build, a rough budget and what sort of hardware we’d be looking at for the PC that I was building for a friend. This post I will tell you what we ended up with – Amazing how much things change and how budget […]
Build me a PC part 1
One of my friends wanted me to build a PC from scratch, with the parts HE wanted (rather than a pre built one). So I thought ‘lets blog it from the very beginning to the end’. The challenge – a decent PC (not for gaming but one with a bit of grunt and the ability […]