How to Add a CISS to a Canon Inkjet Printer or Multifunction Device for Home and Office Use

How to Add a CISS to a Canon Inkjet Printer or Multifunction Device for Home and Office Use

If you need to print large amount of documents at a reasonable price, the idea of trying a CISS (continuous ink supply system) will come up sooner or later. The name of the system speaks for itself - once you’ve got it installed, all you will have to do is to add more ink and keep on working, while saving your time and money.

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Diagnosing, Repairing and Improving an ATX Power Supply

Diagnosing, Repairing and Improving an ATX Power Supply

In this article, we will examine the design of a simple ATX power supply, and show you what components are usually missing in cheap Chinese power supplies due to the manufacturer’s desire to make it even cheaper. We will say a few words about their reliability and the most widespread causes for their breakdown. We will also demonstrate how to diagnose their possible defects and measure voltage under load and without it.

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How to Recover Data After Reinstalling Windows OS

How to Recover Data After Reinstalling Windows OS

It is not a secret for anyone that at the moment of reinstalling the operating system a full formatting of all the storage media installed on the computer is performed. Of course, this process completes entirely under control and only those HDD partitions that the user will personally select are cleared. However, sometimes you can be careless and accidentally format not the disk volume, but the entire physical media.

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How to Boot a Computer from a USB Flash Drive and Recover Data After a Windows OS Crash

How to Boot a Computer from a USB Flash Drive and Recover Data After a Windows OS Crash

In this article we will look at how to start up a computer from a bootable USB flash drive and recover lost data.

Operating system crash is a common situation that the vast majority of users have encountered. It can manifest itself as a minor error when opening a file, and cause fatal problems in the form of a complete failure when Windows stops running. But what if there is valuable data on the PC? Do not panic! Any error is subject to correction and recovery.

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