Not really hidden, but invisible. First, create a new folder on your desktop by right clicking on your desktop, then from the popup menu, select ‘new’, then select ‘folder’. For the folder name, hold down ‘Alt’ and then type 255, then let go of ‘Alt’ and hit enter. You...
Computers
This category contains several sub-categories, primarily for records of a few of the many custom desktop rigs I built over the years, and many of the laptops I’ve owned.
i7-10700K mini-ITX Z490 build with RTX 2080Ti
I updated my wife’s mini-ITX existing build around August 2022 – everything is new except the case. Her previous build (link) was an i7-7700K with an EVGA CLC120mm AiO cooler mounted at the front (push/pull), and an EVGA GTX 980Ti SC (which I later upgraded to an EVGA 2070...
Brother HL-L2360DW reset drum counter and reset toner low alert
Reset Drum Counter The average drum unit life should be about 15,000 pages. If your printer is showing the “Replace Drum” message, here’s how to resolve it. Whether you replace the drum or not (If you think it doesn’t need replacing yet), you will need to reset the drum...
Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro
I ordered this 15.6″ Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro laptop for my wife in December 2023 to replace her previous Samsung Galaxy Book Pro laptop (link). Unfortunately, a full cup of tea was spilled directly on her old laptop which resulted in the somewhat acrid smell of shorting electronics, followed...
Water Cooled Z490 with i7-10700K and RTX 3090
I built this Z490 custom water loop rig in early 2021 basically as a temporary build until I could finish putting together a Z590 rig. I probably would not have posted an entry for this build if almost all of the records of my main desktop builds had not...
i7-7700K mini-ITX build
I built this mini-ITX rig for my wife around January 2019 using a Corsair 250D case. For a mini-ITX case, the Corsair 250D is very well thought-out, and there was no problem dropping in a 120mm radiator with push & pull fans in the front. The bequiet! push/pull fans...
i7-7700K with Titan X (Pascal) AiO-cooled build
I built this rig around April 2017 with AiO water cooling on both the CPU and GPU. Overclocked the i7-7700K CPU to 5GHz stable on auto and plenty of room to go higher, but hitting 5GHz was my goal achieved. Temperatures on CPU remained around 55-60°C on full load....
ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16
The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16 gaming laptop (2023 model G634JZ-XS96) is my current laptop as at the time of this writing. I purchased it from XoticPC in early June 2023, basically the day it became available there. Although ASUS generally have very good products at the high-end level,...
Sager NP9371V
The Sager NP9371V (based on the Clevo X370SNV-G) was technically the fifth gaming laptop I owned, although I only had it for a week or two. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2023, the Sager NP9371V was the first full sized 17.3″ laptop I had owned for personal use (although...
Sager NP8852N
The Sager NP8852N (based on the Clevo PD50PNN) was the fourth gaming laptop I owned. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2022, the Sager NP8852N was a 15.6″ laptop running an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake i7-12700H 14 core / 20 thread processor (6 performance-cores and 8 efficient-cores) which ran...