Over the years spent working with computers; some 25 odd years by now, I have seen all kinds of weird and wonderful things that people have done to t heir hardware. From overclocking to submerging in cooking oil the fixes and tweaks have run the gamut.
However this is the very first time that I have ever heard of baking a video card in the oven as a way to fix it.
For most of us when the video card starts to go it’s because – well it’s broken or just outright dead. Little did I know that; according to the vid card backing crew, small micro-connections between the chip and the board can get fractured over time because of the constant heating and cooling.
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If there is one thing you can say about Windows users it is that we love our tips and hints. Nothing gets our juices flowing faster that a good cup of coffee and a list of new tweaks to try out.
Hopefully once Windows 7 launches in October, for the general public, we’ll see even more great tips surfacing so we can share them with everyone. In the meantime here’s another batch of tips for you to check out.
Here’s another installment in our round-up of Windows 7 oriented tips as discovered by people on
Starting today I’m going to be a round up of tips that I find for Windows 7 as I wander around the web. Depending on the number of them I find the round up will be daily or every couple of days if things are a little slow on the tip front. The majority of them will most likely be via
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