Yearly Archives: 2026

My UPS (CyberPower OLS1000EC) reports ‘output short’ and cuts off power when the PC restarts, particularly when the switching is fast, like from BIOS to M-Flash (MSI’s BIOS flashing utility). It happens erratically. The PC peak load is 450W (7800X3D, 9070XT) on a 750W PSU (Deepcool PN750M) on a 1000VA […]

Since yesterday my HP ZBook laptop is now showing a black box that obscures the taskbar and its icons. I can click on the icons as if the box isn’t there. Multiple restarts have not removed the box. It’s very annoying. Has anyone encountered this before?

I have a .iso file that is an image of a CD. This .iso file contains a filesystem. I know the offset of some data in the .iso file (found it by opening the .iso file in a hex-editor) and now I want to know the path of the file […]

Symptoms: Laptop (HP 15-fd0000, 13th Gen Intel Core i7-1355U, Intel Iris Xe graphics) connected to an LG 42PC3RV-TJ plasma TV via HDMI. Windows 11: picture displays correctly, but no HDMI audio device ever shows up in Sound settings — not muted, not disabled, simply not present. Device Manager (with “Show […]

In surface 1943 not able to install WMIS from any ways tried all the ways to install but showing error in logs

For testing purposes, I installed a Debian-based distribution on a USB SSD. I first connected this bootable SSD to an old laptop. The Xfce desktop displayed various icons, listed under Desktop/Settings > Files/Launcher Icons. Since all the checkboxes are selected, I should see icons representing the partitions on the internal […]

Win11 I’m using Word 2024. Under “References” tab, there’s the ability to insert citations (footnote, endnote) from a bibliography of sources. If I go: REFERENCES > MANAGE SOURCES it shows a “source manager” with a “master list.” But (of course), the master list is empty, and has to be populated […]

I am trying to create a USB drive manually as opposed to using the supported BeagleBoard Ubuntu OS with their bb-imager tool. My intention is to put another Linux flavor on the root fs, eventually (I’ve already got this working with the BBB, now I’m working a PB2). But first […]