Change your Laptop Processor Easily

It's is not difficult to changing a laptop processor once the laptop is disassembled. The most challenging thing about working on laptops is the small size of the components. It's also very easy to reassemble parts in the wrong order.

Most laptop manufacturers have detailed diagrams and manuals that explain how each component fits in the housing. The laptop owner's manual also has information about the kind of processor you need for your particular model.

1) Before start you need to refer your laptop owner's manual and assembly guide as you disassemble the laptop. Touch something metal periodically to remove static charge, and work on a large table with a bright light source.


2) Turn off the laptop and unplug it. Remove the main battery, CD/DVD drive and the hard drive. The hard drive is usually located in a slot on one side of the laptop. Remove the screw that holds the cover in place, and then pull the hard drive sled out.


3) Turn the laptop over and remove the screws on the bottom that hold the keyboard in place. Some of the screws may be covered with stickers or rubber plugs. Flip the laptop over, open it, and then lift the keyboard up and out. Unplug the flexible ribbon cable that connects the keyboard to the motherboard.


4) Unplug the heat sink fan. Remove the screws that hold the heat sink in place, and then remove it from the laptop. Release or unscrew the mechanism that holds the original processor in place, then remove it from the laptop.

To remove the CPU there will be a screw with a padlock symbol, or a bar that you pull up to unlock the CPU from the socket


5) Apply a thin layer of thermal compound on the processor. Make sure it is securely attached and properly aligned in the CPU housing.

Note: Be very careful with the pins, they can easily be bent, and match the pin set, there is a pattern and match this pattern to the socket. Also CPU should fall easily into the socket DO NOT force it.

Next lock that into place, and on top of the CPU put a small pea sized amount of thermal paste, Arctic silver is good.


6) Now replace the heat sink and fan. Replace the screws, then plug the CPU fan back in.


7) Connect the keyboard to the motherboard temporarily. Plug in the laptop, restart it, and then follow the instructions in your owner's manual to enter the system's BIOS. The new CPU should now be recognized by the BIOS. Turn off the laptop, unplug it, and then remove the keyboard. (BIOS will detect the new CPU, and windows will install the new drivers)


8) Do not strip or over-tighten the screws. Follow the guide carefully as you reassemble the laptop. Replace any round stickers or rubber plugs you removed to complete the upgrade.

Tips & Warnings:

1. Make sure your BIOS is up to date
2. Careful with the CPU pins

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Guides to Buy a Laptop Online

Trying to buy a laptop online that’s perfect for you? First figure out what you are going to do with your laptop computer, you can find a great deal as prices are always dropping while technology improves.

If you're going to use your laptop for basic tasks like email and Internet, you can get a bargain price. If you’re a power user who needs more memory or a larger screen, you could spend a little more but still pay a fair price.

Whatever your needs and budget are, there are endless options for find a best and most suited laptop online.


1) First Figure out if you want a PC or a Mac. Used one or brand new? It'll be easier to determine if you already have a general idea of what you going to do with the Laptop.

If you don’t feel strongly about it, then you can start looking at all your options. As you learn more about the differences, it will become clear which one is a better buy for you.


2) Decide on the most critical features and prioritize them. How will you use your laptop? Do you have a budget or is something else more important?

If you hate looking at a small screen or do a lot of graphics design work, you might want a larger screen to work with. If you’re a love to watch movies on your laptop, consider a laptop with more memory and a decent graphics card.


3) Research and Compare at least a few laptops on one website or more. Review the specs so you’ll know what’s included in the price. Customer reviews are more important and always look for companies who have happy customers.


4) If there are a lot of places where you can research and buy online laptop but be sure to shop only at the trusted, known sites. Sites should be online for several years and should have satisfied customers and etc will always be safer to deal.


5) Narrow your search and figure out which laptop includes your most important features at the price you’re happy with. If you’re unsure of a specific brand/model, then read over the customer reviews to get another opinion and see what’s popular.


6) Read the online store’s policies. Buy your online laptop and avoid unpleasant surprises by simply checking the details. What’s the return policy? While most new laptops come with a warranty, you should review the return/exchange policy just in case.

Do you think you’ll need technical support? Many computers also come with optional technical support, which may be included, charged per phone call, or available under a renewable plan.


7) Pick out your top choice and buy online laptop. It’s simple to place your order online, just click through from the laptop page to the order page. Follow the form instructions to enter your credit card and billing information. To confirm your order was successful, you’ll get a confirmation screen and an email receipt.

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15 tips to Maximize HP Laptop Battery Life

You can use following suggestions to make your HP Laptop battery live longer during the each charge cycle. It is always recommend to following instructions for the HP laptop battery, charging and storage that came with the battery or notebook.

1. Manage battery power more effectively in Windows

2. Power Options in Windows XP allow you to control the power management features of your notebook PC. Make sure the battery gives the power you need and when you need it.
Read more power options at Microsoft:

3. Reduce the brightness of the screen to the minimum readable level. Use FN and F7 or F8 keys to adjust the brightness.

4. Remove peripherals you're not using. External hard drives, CD-ROMs, Zip drives, PC cards, and other peripheral devices can draw power from your battery even when they are not in active use. Disconnect them when you have finished using them.

5. Reduce the speed of your processor. The faster your computer works, the more quickly it uses up the supply of power. By cutting down on processor speed, you can extend the charge of your battery. Methods for reduce processor speed vary from model to model, so you may need to refer your manual before going through this.

6. Turn off the Wireless On-Off button when it is not in use. If your notebook has one, press the Wireless On-Off button so that the light turns off.

7. Store Li-Ion batteries between 20°C and 25°C (68°F and 77°F) with 30% to 50% charge.

8. Do not leave batteries exposed to high temperatures for extended periods. Prolonged exposure to heat will accelerate the deterioration of Li-Ion cells.

9. Remove the battery if the notebook will be stored (turned off and not plugged into AC power) for more than 2 weeks.

10. Remove the Pavilion DV2000 battery if the notebook will be plugged into AC power continuously (via a wall adapter or docking station) for more than 2 weeks.

11. Short discharges and recharges do not fully synchronize the battery's fuel gauge with the battery's state-of-charge. This can result in the amount of power available in one cycle being less than expected or the laptop battery meter being inaccurate.

12. Under normal usage, batteries should be calibrated a minimum of once every 3 months.

13. Regular Laptop HD defragmentation can help you manage the data to be more efficient and make the hard drive (HD) a little faster to access the data. When HD works quickly, the more you can spare of laptop battery energy.

14. Suspend the Scheduled Tasks (virus scan) that uses more battery energy.

15. If you don’t use laptop some time, make sure that the laptop is 40% filled, pull the battery, and store in some dark place.

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How to Reduce Noise in an Audio Recording

In studio they are using expensive microphones and noise reduction foams for eliminate noise in audio recording but this could be not identical for home use and also it is expensive.

Here I have listed some tips which I found for noise reduction using almost any microphone in your own home, even with the internal Mic in your computer. Article divides into two parts, naturally reduce noises while recording and as well as eliminate noise in audio already recorded.


1. Recording Environment

Before worry about anything else get rid all possible noise in your recording space. Pick the least noisy area to record. Turn off any fans, heaters, air conditions, and other non-essential applications. Even an extra laptop or idle gaming console makes noise, so if you're not using them shut them off. Close the doors and shut the windows.

Place your microphone away from any remaining noise sources. Don't record next to a window, even if it's closed. Remember that your computer makes noise too! Even non-audible sounds will become noticeable once you amplify your recording. Finally, turn off any cell phones. Not vibrate, but off. You don't want to get any GSM buzz while you're recording.


2. Get as close to the Mic as possible.

The closer the microphone is to the audio source, the less background noise will show up in the recording. Positioning for tonality and comfortability has to be taken into consideration, but beyond that you simply want to get the mic as close as you can. Speak louder, or if you're recording an electric instrument turn up the volume. If your levels start clipping, bring the volume down on the mixer.


3. Tweak the EQ.

Once you've got your audio recorded, you can often eliminate noticeable buzz or hiss using the equalizer. If your mixer has equalizer presets, try playing with those before you start recording to see what bands you can turn down to diminish noise.

If you're mixing digitally, you can record the audio straight in without any EQ and apply one during the editing process. Finding the right equalizer band to mix down is often trial and error.

If it's a hissing sound, it's going to be in the higher spectrum. If it's a buzzing sound, it's probably coming from the mid to lower spectrum. A graphic equalizer is a great mechanism to form a valley in the EQ and move it around until the noise is reduced.


4. Use a Speech Enhancer plug-in.

All good recording application has inbuilt Speech Enhancer plug-ins. If you couldn't find one, try searching the internet for a third party plug-in. The Speech Enhancer will let you apply some quick tone settings to make a speaking voice sound more professional.

More importantly, it will give you the option to dial back the more quiet sounds in a recording. This will help isolate the vocal and push everything out. While this type of plug-in is meant for spoken audio, it can be used (with mixed results) on any kind of audio.

Note: speech enhancer can deteriorate the quality of your audio. While it's fantastic for several minutes of audio, using it across an hour long podcast where levels and noises are frequently changing could have undesirable results. The more noise you reduce, the more likely you are to find additional compression noise.


5. Know your noise gate.

The noise gate is your key to absolutely silent pauses and crystal clean audio. What the gate will do is take all noises under a certain level and turn them down however much you tell it to. If you find that your desirable audio never gets any quieter than -20dB, you can tell your noise gate to turn the recording down any time audio is not exceeding -25dB.

You can even tell it how much to turn it down - all the way for a clean recording, or maybe just a little to allow some natural hiss in. The noise gate appears easy enough on the outside, but can be a little complicated to master. If your settings are too high, you will clip out parts of your recording making it obnoxiously unlistenable.


If the above steps don't eliminate the noise in your recording probably you have some serious noise issues. For the really tough jobs you can use a noise reduction plug-in (like the one in Soundtrack Pro) to take a noise print and eliminate that print from the recording. You can also try a denoiser plug-in. These tools will get the job done, but not without sacrificing the quality of your recordings.

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Few Major steps to reduce the fan noise of your computer.

If you have any experience surly you know how fan noise is really annoying, here are some simple tips to make it reduce.

• Allow better air flow:

Always clear additional space around the computer so it allows for better airflow. Cooling fans will have to work less if there is enough airflow.

• Replace newer Model:

If your fans giving too much noise one thing you should consider is the model. Old fan models are make more noise also if your fans are too old then there can be some technical issues. So it is best to replace newer model fans for your existing cooling fans in the computer.

• Using soundproofing foam:

You can use soundproofing foam in the interior of the computer. Insert a thin layer to the inside of the computer case. Soundproof padding will help you to reduce fan computer noises.

• Upgrade the power supply unit:

Power supply unit one of the most important part you should consider and it can make noises for several reasons. You should be aware about those otherwise it can burn your some computer parts too. Old power supply units are often noisy and a newer one will run more efficiently and with less noise.

• Area between the fans and the computer case:

Cut a small cloth gasket to place between the fan mounting and the actual computer case. This will reduce computer vibrations and also computer noises.

• Have additional heat sinks:

Additional heat sinks draw air away from various areas that tend to heat the most. This will make the computer run better. Less overheat and run with less noise.

• New Computer case:

Buy a new case for the computer that is sound-resistant. Fewer sounds will escape the computer as it is running and you will automatically reduce the fan noise.

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How to Add "Copy To" / "Move To" to Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

In other operating systems might you see there is an option available in right click menu for coping and moving files easily without navigating by opening windows.

When you right click on a file and select Copy to Folder or Move to Folder, there will be a window will pop up and let you choose a location to either copy or move the file or folder to.

With windows operating systems you can implement the same thing via simple registry hack, you can either do this by manually or downloading the files which I have given at the end.

1. First open the registry editor by typing "regedit" at run (Start -->run)

2. Then as we do usual, back-up your registry for just in case.

3. Next find the key in below.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Once you find that key, right click on it and choose "NEW" --> "KEY"

Name the new Key as "Copy To" and double-click on the (Default) value (Right side window) and enter the following.

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

If you want to add "Move To" option same as "Copy To" repeat the above steps and once you create a new key name it as "Move To" and set its default value to given below.

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

If you don't like to do this in manual way, simple download these registry files which make all above changes to the registry with one single mouse click.

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Make your Blogger Post Images fancy with Border Styles

Using border style we can give extra look for images on your blogger posts. It can make images more attractive with extra beauty to the text.

I have discussed about wrapping text around images in my earlier post. We can do lot more with Style sheets.

Keeping or removing the border is depending on the template you’re using and you need to find the best suit for your site.

• DELETE, REMOVE POST IMAGE BORDERS IN BLOGGER

1. As we usually do Login into Blogger and Navigate to Layout and then Edit HTML
2. Before do any changes backup of your existing template.

3. Now search for the “.post img “this is the tag which applies styles for post images. Peoples, who are using blogger templates with external stylesheets, must do their search with external style sheets.

If you couldn’t find “.post img” then narrow the search for “img” and you should be able to find CSS portion similar to bellow.

.post img {
padding:4px;
border:1px solid #333;
}

Or

Img {
padding:4px;
border:1px solid #333;
}

4. “Border:1px solid #333;” This is the part which define border for post images, you can do either simply remove this portion or change the value to “border: none; “

• ALTERING THE BORDER STYLE OF IMAGES

Even though I have discussed about removing the border I do lot more concern about altering the border with many different styles. With ongoing text I have show you varies values which can apply with border property.

Bellow code and image demonstrate how styles are applied to images according to the code, change the code settings as you prefer and find best match to your site.

.post img {
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:5px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright:5px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:5px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:5px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius:5px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius:5px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:5px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;
background-color:#F7F5F7;
border:1px solid #E5E5E5;
margin:10px;
padding:5px;
}

We can do lot more changes simply altering the values of background-color and border of above code.

Replace these values with “solid” part of the “border:1px solid #E5E5E5;“. With first two values you don’t need to specify a color as they are removing and hiding the border of the images. 1px define the thickness of the border.

none --- Specifies no border
hidden --- The same as "none", except in border conflict resolution for table elements
dotted --- Specifies a dotted border dashed Specifies a dashed border
solid --- Specifies a solid border double Specifies a double border
groove --- Specifies a 3D grooved border. The effect depends on the border-color value
ridge --- Specifies a 3D ridged border. The effect depends on the border-color value
inset --- Specifies 3D inset border. The effect depends on the border-color value
outset --- Specifies a 3D outset border. The effect depends on the border-color value
inherit --- Specifies that the border style should be inherited from the parent element

“background-color” provides a frame for the images here, do experiment and find the most suited settings for your site. It is up to you.

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