When he was in high school, Josh Geise, a fifth-year computing security student, was involved in the Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment Program. Through the program, Geise became a program ...

Christmas time means packing up your daily troubles, forgetting work for a week, and heading home to … troubleshoot your parents’ broken computers and gadgets? Oh man, is it that time of year again ...

Carol, a Smith alum, had a big problem. She was sitting on a trove of old photos of her student days. Her plan was to donate them to the Smith College special collections. But her computer, Dell’s ...

Discover causes of unexpected restarts, from power and overheating to software glitches, and find effective fixes Reviewed by Jon Fisher Check your computer's power source and cables, as a loose ...

The residual charge in capacitors can cause boot issues with computers sometimes. You can drain this residual charge by performing the hard reset. The steps to do this are as follows: Turn off your ...

Imagine working retail and being switched from one job you know really well to another job you don’t really know how to do. If you saw a problem in your new job that you knew how to fix, would you fix ...

My buddy Doug had a problem with his laptop: After putting it to sleep (i.e. into Standby mode), he’d come back awhile later to find it wide awake. There are countless culprits for this kind of ...

So I have the music machine (2 GHz Athlon) sitting on the floor in the music room. On the 23rd, one of my roomates kicked the Yamaha 24x cd tray while it was open. No one confessed. When I found it, ...