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Today I will try  explain to you how to clean your optical drive. When I say clean I mean cleaning the optical part of the device, which is much more sensitive to dust and grime, than the mechanical part, which you will hardly ever need to clean. As maybe some of you know optical drives read data from CD or DVD discs using laser light focused by a special lens and sent to disk. Then the light is reflected from disc’s surface and detected by photodiodes decoding the information contained in the laser beam. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is very annoying when the laptop stops working at the wrong time because of low battery. As you know, mobile computers are becoming more compact with every passing day. This also applies to their components as well as their batteries. Thanks to high technologies, the capacity of modern batteries has increased (compared with batteries offered on the market few years ago) as their size is hardly changed. Of course most modern laptops are equipped with high capacity batteries allowing your computer to work a few hours (usually 2 to 6) without the need for recharging. On the other hand I think a little more power will always be of use, especially if you work away from electrical sources where you can recharge your battery. Therefore, in this post I will try to give you several recommendations, about how to extend the operating time of your battery. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It often happens so, that after a certain period of time the old power supply becomes making strange grinding sounds. Usually these sounds are a precursor of the final stop of the cooling fan, which already poses serious risks. As you’ve probably noticed, over the time, a large amount of dust accumulates on the fan, that brings the warm air out from the power supply unit. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In this guide I will help you to clean the the cooling fan and heat sink in a Packard Bell MX 37 laptop.  The procedure is relatively simple but there are some important things you should know to reduce the risk of damage to your laptop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is very  inconvenient when you try to reinstall Windows and start wondering how to find what is the model of your motherboard in order to download the necessary drivers from the Internet. This usually happens when you lose the user’s manual and CD with drivers for your motherboard. Therefore, in this post, I will give you some simple tips that might be useful to you. [Read the rest of this entry...]