Recent content by mavroxur

It will require removing, reflashing, and reinstalling the BIOS chip, or replacing the BIOS chip with a pre-flashed one, since it's in an unusable state. Some machines have a recovery mode that will allow flashing from a USB stick, but if yours won't turn on, that won't be an option (if you...

Does regular TV have this issue, and it's just gaming? If it is, i'd try your device (xbox, pc, whichever) on a different TV or monitor. Maybe switch to a different input.

Social engineering at it's finest.

Your password is ID10T

Unlocking your wireless is about the dumbest thing you can do in terms of security. With no key, anyone is welcome to connect to your WiFi and use your internet, snoop your network, monitor traffic, etc.

I'm curious as to how this was pulled off. I know pin pads / credit card terminals include several layers of security, from physical mechanisms such as firmware wipe / chip destruct from case switches to epoxy potted cipher chips and firmware chips with anti-probe mechanisms, to software...

USB DVD-ROM drive, or a bootable flash drive.

If the board doesn't support unlocking, then no, it won't be. Boards that unlock extra cores don't make any changes to the processor itself.

Critical security flaw found in IE? Holy crap, hold the presses. In other news, water is wet.

That's a really, really old laptop. If you JUST want to listen to music CD's and that's all, just go get a $25 cd/mp3 player. That laptop probably isn't even worth $50 in great condition. It's a 1.3GHz Athlon 1500+ for crying out loud.

I, for one, welcome our new silicon-based overlords.

Win, Lose, or Draw, v2.0

Just be sure the card you go with only uses two antennas. Some N-wireless laptop cards will have 3 antenna diversity and will have (3) UMCX / U.fl connectors. Your B/G will only have two.