Sunday, February 8, 2015
Custom Forms - JotForm
If you need a custom form or to create a generic form for a website, email, blog, etc. check out JotForm. You can easily create the form you need or select from premade forms. I use JotForm for several of my clients and the forms work great.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Servers
Well this week has started off with a bang and it's only Tuesday. Nothing like getting IM bout server being down that happens to contain main content of information at work. Now the fun job of trying to figure out why the IP Address got hacked when it is a static ip address and not dynamic like the majority of the ip addresses we have. Checking computer by compute see if that is the one causing the issue. Oh What Fun
Thursday, March 13, 2014
More PC Maintenance Tips from How To Geek
http://www.howtogeek.com/school/pc-maintenance-for-beginners/lesson4/
Router Addresses - use static address assigned by router
http://www.howtogeek.com/184310/ask-htg-should-i-be-setting-static-ip-addresses-on-my-router/
Windows 7 Upgrade Need To Know
http://www.howtogeek.com/184336/upgrading-from-windows-xp-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-windows-7/
Router Addresses - use static address assigned by router
http://www.howtogeek.com/184310/ask-htg-should-i-be-setting-static-ip-addresses-on-my-router/
Windows 7 Upgrade Need To Know
http://www.howtogeek.com/184336/upgrading-from-windows-xp-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-windows-7/
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tech Tip Of The Day -- PC Overheating
Heat is a computers enemy, it damages the hardware of the computer that can lead to issue with computer performance. Computers are designed with ventilation to allow heat produced by the computer to escape by help of the fan. Typical computer usage shouldn't cause the computer to overheat by anyway. An overheating computer can lead to issues with the computer down the line such as BSoD, freezes, video card issues. There are several reasons why a computer can be overheating, computer fan full of dust, the fan is unable to remove the excess heat due to the large amount of dust clogging the vents and devices. You can monitor the temperature of your computer in different ways. Different CPUs and graphic cards have different temperature ranges based on what they are used for. The BIOs has temperature values to allow for monitoring of computer temperature. Another way to monitor this is to download programs to show the temperature such as SpeedFan and HWMonitor.
To prevent computer overheating try these steps:
Dust Out Case occassionally over time dust will build up in the computer case. Dust accumulation causes issues with pc ventilation which henders the computer from cooling itself properly.
Ensure Proper Ventilation put the computer in a location where it can properly ventilate. Don't push the computer up against the wall or side of a desk this blocks are from getting to the computer to help with the computer temperature.
Verify the fans are running properly, once you start the computer you should hear the computer fan running to keep the computer cool.
Tune Up Heat Sinks, if the computer if overheating the heat sinks might not be seated correctly or the thermal paste is old. A new thermal paste may need to be added to reset the heat sink.
Overheating is a definite danger when trying to overclock you computer or graphics card. Components tend to run hotter when overclocking your computer. To ease overheating throttle back the overclock.
To prevent computer overheating try these steps:
Dust Out Case occassionally over time dust will build up in the computer case. Dust accumulation causes issues with pc ventilation which henders the computer from cooling itself properly.
Ensure Proper Ventilation put the computer in a location where it can properly ventilate. Don't push the computer up against the wall or side of a desk this blocks are from getting to the computer to help with the computer temperature.
Verify the fans are running properly, once you start the computer you should hear the computer fan running to keep the computer cool.
Tune Up Heat Sinks, if the computer if overheating the heat sinks might not be seated correctly or the thermal paste is old. A new thermal paste may need to be added to reset the heat sink.
Overheating is a definite danger when trying to overclock you computer or graphics card. Components tend to run hotter when overclocking your computer. To ease overheating throttle back the overclock.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Tech Tip Of The Day -- External Drive Not Recognized
This happens whether you want it to or not. You go to plug in a external drive (USB or ext hard drive) and the computer doesn't recognize the drive. Here are some steps to get the drive to appear in the Windows Explorer. First check and see if the drive shows up in the Disk Management. Just because the drive doesn't appear in the explorer doesn't mean it is defective.
Windows Key + R type diskmgmt.msc press Enter to open Disk Management window. This window will show you all the drives connected to your computer. If you see the external drive in the list you can right click and select Change Letter and Paths, then select a Drive letter that is not already in use by your computer. If this step allows you to see the usb drive or external hard drive then you have fixed the problem.
If the drive still isn't recognized by your computer even after selecting another USB hub the drive might have gone bad itself. Check to see if you can get the drive to work on another computer before junking the drive.
Also check under the Device Manager to see if the drive is recognized if the above step doesn't work. Windows Key + R type dvmgmt.msc to open the Device Manager. Look under Disk drives and check for any devices with a yellow exclamation mark next to them. Check the properties to get a detailed explanation of the error then you can use Google or the search engine of your choice to fix the problem.
At a last resort I would suggest partitioning or reformatting the hard drive. I would due this since whatever is stored on the drive will be deleted during the format.
Windows Key + R type diskmgmt.msc press Enter to open Disk Management window. This window will show you all the drives connected to your computer. If you see the external drive in the list you can right click and select Change Letter and Paths, then select a Drive letter that is not already in use by your computer. If this step allows you to see the usb drive or external hard drive then you have fixed the problem.
If the drive still isn't recognized by your computer even after selecting another USB hub the drive might have gone bad itself. Check to see if you can get the drive to work on another computer before junking the drive.
Also check under the Device Manager to see if the drive is recognized if the above step doesn't work. Windows Key + R type dvmgmt.msc to open the Device Manager. Look under Disk drives and check for any devices with a yellow exclamation mark next to them. Check the properties to get a detailed explanation of the error then you can use Google or the search engine of your choice to fix the problem.
At a last resort I would suggest partitioning or reformatting the hard drive. I would due this since whatever is stored on the drive will be deleted during the format.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Tech Tip Of The Day -- Difference Between Hardware & Software
Your computer seem to be malfunctioning, running slow, programs crashing or the infamour BSoD. Is it your computer hardware or computer software? This can be difficult to figure out since hardware and software problems can have the same behavior on your computer.
Slow Computer issues can be fixed easily, remove recently installed software to fix the problem. Also check how much available RAM and Hard Drive space your computer has too many files and programs installed can cause slow computer performance. Hardware problems don't tend to lead to a slow computer. But there are some occassions where it is the hardware; CPU overheating and the computer downclocking itself to reduce the computer heat.
BSoD don't happen as often as they use to due to the stability of Windows now compared to that of the earlier versions of Windows. If you are encountering frequent BSoD there is a chance that hardware is failing or newly installed software is having issues. TO check to see which is the cause for this issue if you have installed new piece of hardware to your computer remove it. Also if you installed new software uninstall the software to see if that fixes the BSoD issues that you have been experiencing.
When Hardware starts to Fail
Slow Computer issues can be fixed easily, remove recently installed software to fix the problem. Also check how much available RAM and Hard Drive space your computer has too many files and programs installed can cause slow computer performance. Hardware problems don't tend to lead to a slow computer. But there are some occassions where it is the hardware; CPU overheating and the computer downclocking itself to reduce the computer heat.
BSoD don't happen as often as they use to due to the stability of Windows now compared to that of the earlier versions of Windows. If you are encountering frequent BSoD there is a chance that hardware is failing or newly installed software is having issues. TO check to see which is the cause for this issue if you have installed new piece of hardware to your computer remove it. Also if you installed new software uninstall the software to see if that fixes the BSoD issues that you have been experiencing.
When Hardware starts to Fail
- Hard Drive - files may become corrupted and have long time gaps to loading files and programs
- CPU - computer not booting, overheating, possibly blue screen under load of an application
- RAM - application crashes, blue screens, file corruption
- Graphics Card - graphical errors rendering different aspects on the coputer
- Fans - cause computer to overheat, leading to problems with CPU and graphics card since the computer is exceeding functional operating heat
- Motherboard - these are extremely tough to diagnose, BSoD are frequent and
- Power Supply - this is also tough to diagnose, the power supply might not be delivering the correct power to the needed device of the computer.
A sure fire way to fix a hardware or software problem is to reinstall a fresh copy of windows or repair your current copy of Windows.
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