Amixa Technical Blog
I have a second monitor which is a Philips 1080p 40 inch TV (that I switch the HDMI inputs to alternate between cable and a second monitor). When I play streaming video from YouTube on the monitor, the display blinks on and off continuously. This does NOT happen when using the Philips for TEXT displays…
PFSense 2.3.x and up have removed the PPTP tab, and PPTP passthru options. This is because PPTP has been depreciated and it not considered 100% safe anymore. For those of you still in need of using PPTP passthru to allow Windows VPN remote users into your LAN, here is the easy workaround. Firewall, NAT, Port…
If you are looking to migrate or move your Sticky Notes in Windows OS to a new computer, just look here: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes Copy the file from that location to the same location on your new PC. Launch Sticky Notes and you’re all set.
This is a new one for me, and I believe it may have popped up after the recent Windows Update: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”. Now if I SAVE that same file out of outlook (or copy and paste it to a drive), and then open from there – it opens…
THE ISSUE – NETWORK DOES NOT SHOW ALL COMPUTERS FROM MULTIPLE SUBNETS **NOTE: 10/11/16 Please see this new blog post which addresses a new issue that has happened since June 2016. Both of these posts will help you resolve this cross-subnet browsing issue. I recently ran into the situation where my PDC failed and after…
We participate in the BOINC CUDA project to use idle CPU and GPU time for scientific research purposes. We recently updated to the newest NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 x64 which are version 270.61. After doing this we noticed the core clock on our NVIDIA Geforce 480 would drop from a standard or overclocked speed,…
One of the computers in our office is an ASUS G73jh which is a powerful laptop we use for testing sites and on-location visits to clients. We usually keep the very latest Windows 7 updates and ATI video card drivers (11.4) on the machine. Recently we noticed the machine locking up after a few minutes…
This is a brand new issue that I just came across while working on my new workstation, which has a 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 6.0 SSD drive as the primary boot drive into port #1 of the SATA 6.0 channel, running on a ASUS Maximus Extreme IV rev B3 motherboard running Windows 7 x64…
I recently came across this problem where one of our servers would not show up in the “browse list” under the “Network” icon in Windows 7. I also checked this same issue from other computers Network Neighborhoods and verified it was just this one server “webserver6” which was not showing up. We are in a…
Are you having problems getting your home office LAN, with varying computers between Windows 7 and Windows XP to properly share files? Here are a few quick tips & tricks to solve your issues (these are at a high level, so if you don’t understand these, ask a friend to assist you). These tips presume…