How does the CPU know it's temperature? I've been having trouble turning on my computer as I keep getting "CPU fan error". I reapplied thermal paste and got a new heatsink/fan and still the same problem. Could it be a false positive? How can I tell? Any other causes of the error that don't actual...

My Maxdata Artist Harvard SL Pro laptop, dating from 1999, has this port on its back side. I have never seen this anywhere else, neither can I identify the little icon to its side. The size of the port is ca. 1×3 cm. What is it?

The CMOS battery does not store data. The CMOS battery ensures that the CMOS chip, which does store data, has power. CMOS memory requires power to retain data, so the battery is necessary when no external power is supplied to the computer. This is why a jumper is usually removed from the moth...

Pirated software is software that has been copied or distributed for free or at a vastly reduced price against the wishes of the creator. The term "piracy" comes from the music industry and specifically the illegal broadcasting of music without paying a royalty. In the early 1960s this practise ...

This option is actually within the Chrome settings. Click the options button (3 lines) Select Settings Click Advanced Settings Scroll to the section called Downloads You can change the location here by ticking the box.

I heard a story from 1 bro, that some other bro installed small OS on CPU cache and it worked very fast. Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8870 v3 has model with 45MB cache. Are there some technologies that allow to use process cache as disk? Did such technologies exist in the past?

If a user leaves an organisation who knew most of the top credentials are there any other precautions that need to be taken other than changing those credentials? Obviously there is also the standard user leaving stuff like email/VPN access being revoked, mac addresses of their devices being rem...