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How to clean heat sink in DELL Latitude L120

Today I’ll show you how to clean the heat sink in DELL Latitude L120. This is perhaps one of the easiest to clean laptops, and as you will see below the whole process takes less than 15 minutes. To access the heat sink you just need to remove the small plastic cover located on the underside of the laptop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

HDMI connector pinout

What is HDMI.

HDMI or High-Definition Multimedia Interface is an interface standard for connecting different types of digital audio/video sources such as DVD players, HD DVD players, Blu-ray Disc players, satellite receivers, personal computers, video game consoles, etc. to a compatible digital audio/video devices like home cinema systems, video projectors, digital televisions or computer monitors. The main objective in creating HDMI is not only to replace the old analog connection methods [Read the rest of this entry...]

Lenovo G570 CPU HDD and RAM replacement

The following guide is intended to describe the process of replacing some of the major hardware components in Lenovo G570. It may be helpful in case you decide to upgrade your computer or if you need to replace a faulty component. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How to clean Lenovo G570 heatsink

Today I’ll show you how to disassemble and clean the cooling fan and heat sink in Lenovo G570 series laptop. You will also learn how to remove the heat sink and change the CPU thermal paste. The process is simple and takes about 15 minutes because the manufacturer has provided easy access to the cooling module. For this purpose it is enough to remove the plastic cover on the underside of the laptop. Let’s see. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creating an extended partition in Windows Xp

Process is the same as when creating primary partition but the only difference here is that you can’t choose a drive letter and there are no formatting options. This is because extended partition is only a container for the logical drives. It can not be formatted in any file system which means that it can not store any data. In other words, extended partition can be represented as a virtual drive containing multiple partitions (these are the logical drives). Remember also that you can create only one extended partition within a hard drive. [Read the rest of this entry...]