Small UPS Battery Backups can range anywhere from about 300 VA to 750 VA. They can give devices such as modems, routers, networking switches, alarm systems, Mini PCs, and low-end desktop PCs between 2-15 minutes of Runtime depending on the load. As an example, I have a 425 VA UPS for my Frontier FIOS ONT, […]

We can’t expect Windows 11 to have every single Driver for every device in the world to be included in the installation Package. We could see this in the uprising of the Mini PCs, in which I wrote articles for downloading the Drivers of the main players such as GMKtec, BOSGAME, MINISFORUM and Beelink. Recently […]

I’ve started participating more in providing free tech support online, whether it be in Forums or Reddit. Back in the early 2000s, I had started my own forum which racked up more than 4000 users worldwide. One thing that immediately caught my attention, is the amount of detail that is lost in most modern responses. […]

The APC Back-UPS Network 40, or BN4001 is one of those units that has an awkward battery size (5.94″D x 2.01″W x 3.74″H) that may be hard to find at your usual go-to such as Amazon, Newegg, Tractor Supply, Batteries+, and others. However it is an excellent battery backup and purchasing a Battery in 2026 […]

Many applications or programs create temporary files as well as Registry entries when opened. In some cases, if you open a file on the network, whether it be on a Server or NAS Device, this can create a problem once the Network path is no longer available. In this particular situation, right clicking a File […]

There are a few well documents bugs with the both the AMD Software Adrenalin Edition and also the AMD Chipset Installer. With the Adrenalin software, in Windows 11 the start menu or settings will stop working properly after installing. With the Chipset Installer, after the install, the Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE network card may disappear – […]

In recent years, if you are building a new Gaming PC, even after installing all available Operating System updates, you may notice several drivers missing in your Device Manager. PCs built with AMD Chipsets and Processors have many components that require drivers – this has been a hot topic in the Mini PC community in […]

There are still many older computers out there that will work just fine with Windows 11, but some drivers or updates may fail to run properly on the latest versions of Windows 11, such as 25H2. Recently, I updated the BIOS for a bunch of Lenovo M710e workstations, with 16 GB of RAM, an M.2 […]

This…is Important… Any Hardware device, whether it’s a camera (CCTV, Digital..etc.), a printer/copier, hard drive/SSD, mouse/keyboard, headphone/headset, motherboard, VoIP or cellphone, Arduino or Raspberry Pi, has a built in memory or storage chip housing software specifically made to communicate with the Device’s hardware. This is called the BIOS (sometimes referred to as CMOS), UEFI, or […]

The Dell Optiplex 7040 is an amazing Mini or SFF PC for homelabs and even office workstations. It is flexible, offering both M2 NVMe 2280 as well as a SATA 3 drive ports. And even though this one in particular has an Intel Core i7-6700 at 3.4 GHz, a Kingston SATA SSD with 16 GB […]