Posts Tagged ‘ Repair/Maintenance ’

Blackberry: Loading Hybrid OS

Jul 11th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Blackberry: Loading Hybrid OS

RIM doesn’t provide updates as often as I would like, so I went out looking for custom OS builds or unofficial updates.  What I cam across was BBHybrids.net.  Here you can download official Blackberry software releases and custom Blackberry Hybrids of leaked OS builds. In my case I used a Blackberry Storm 9530.  I first
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Windows 7: Create System Image

Jul 1st, 2010 | By CBrookins
Windows 7: Create System Image

Windows 7 has made it easy for any user to create an image of their workstation.  They have a built in tool to do a complete system backup that can be restored at a later time, if needed.  System images are one of the best ways to back up your workstation.  For most users, this
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Windows 7: Fix Boot Loader

Jun 5th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Windows 7: Fix Boot Loader

I was playing around with a Linux distro (Backtrack 4) on my netbook and accidently overwrote the Windows boot loader with the GRUB boot loader.  My workstation would not boot anymore but I knew everything was still in place.  All I had to do was restore the Windows boot loader. To do this, you will
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FreeNAS: Disable ACPI on boot

Apr 4th, 2010 | By CBrookins

I ran into a problem on a particular computer where FreeNAS did not like how the bios was reporting the temperature.  FreeNAS would constantly prompt that the temperature was “absurd”.  I found that booting to option two from the boot menu, disabled ACPI, would fix the problem.  The next problem was locating the file which
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UBCD

Feb 9th, 2010 | By CBrookins
UBCD

Ultimate Boot CD is collection of tools to help diagnose and fix problems with computers.  It is a full collection of hardware diagnostic tools that gives you the ability to test memory, wipe hard drives, manipulate partitions, and much more.  This CD includes around one hundred and twenty individual tools in twenty one different categories.
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