Update your BIOS

Having an updated BIOS is good for a healthy PC . Here is the tweet you can

Please read the following instructions carefully before starting a Flash BIOS upgrade:
A. Create a Bootable Floppy (in DOS)

•With a non-formatted disk, type the following:

format a:/s

•If using a formatted disk, type:

sys a:

This procedure will ensure a clean boot when you are flashing the new BIOS.

B. Download the BIOS file

•Download the correct BIOS file by clicking on the file name of the BIOS file you wish to download.

•Save the BIOS file and the Flash Utility file in the boot disk you have created. Unzip the BIOS file and the flash utility file. If you don't have an "unzip" utility, download the WinZip for Windows 95 shareware/ evaluation copy for that one time use from _www.winzip.com or _www.pkware.com. Most CD ROMs found in computer magazines, have a shareware version of WinZip on them.

•You should have extracted two files:

Flash BIOS utility eg: flash7265.exe (for example)

BIOS eg: 6152J900.bin (example)

Use the latest flash utility available unless otherwise specified (either on the BIOS update page or in the archive file). This information is usually provided.

C. Upgrade the System BIOS

During boot up, write down the old BIOS version because you will need to use it for the BIOS backup file name.

Place the bootable floppy disk containing the BIOS file and the Flash Utility in drive a, and reboot the system in MS-DOS, preferably Version 6.22

•At the A:> prompt, type the corresponding Flash BIOS utility and the BIOS file with its extension.

For example:

flash625 615j900.bin

•From the Flash Memory Writer menu, select "Y" to "Do you want to save BIOS?" if you want to save (back up) your current BIOS (strongly recommended), then type the name of your current BIOS and its extension after FILE NAME TO SAVE: eg: a:\613J900.bin

Alternatively select "N" if you don't want to save your current BIOS. Beware, though, that you won't be able to recover from a possible failure.

•Select "Y" to "Are you sure to program?"

•Wait until it displays "Message: Power Off or Reset the system"

Once the BIOS has been successfully loaded, remove the floppy disk and reboot the system. If you write to BIOS but cannot complete the procedure, do not switch off, because the computer will not be able to boo, and you will not be given another chance to flash. In this case leave your system on until you resolve the problem (flashing BIOS with old file is a possible solution, provided you've made a backup before)

Make sure the new BIOS version has been loaded properly by taking note of the BIOS identifier as the system is rebooting.

For AMI BIOS
Once the BIOS has been successfully loaded, remove the floppy disk and reboot the system holding the "END" key prior to power on until you enter CMOS setup. If you do not do this the first time booting up after upgrading the BIOS, the system will hang.

BIOS Update Tips
note:
1.Make sure never to turn off or reset your computer during the flash process. This will corrupt the BIOS data. We also recommend that you make a copy of your current BIOS on the bootable floppy so you can reflash it if you need to. (This option is not available when flashing an AMI BIOS).

2. If you have problems installing your new BIOS please check the following:

Have you done a clean boot?
In other words, did you follow the above procedure for making a bootable floppy? This ensures that when booting from "A" there are no device drivers on the diskette. Failing to do a clean boot is the most common cause for getting a "Memory Insufficient" error message when attempting to flash a BIOS.

If you have not used a bootable floppy, insure a clean boot either by

a) pressing F5 during bootup

b) by removing all device drivers on the CONFIG.SYS including the HIMEM.SYS. Do this by using the EDIT command.

Have you booted up under DOS?
Booting in Windows is another common cause for getting a "Memory Insufficient" error message when attempting to flash a BIOS. Make sure to boot up to DOS with a minimum set of drivers. Important: Booting in DOS does not mean selecting "Restart computer in MS-DOS Mode" from Windows98/95 shutdown menu or going to Prompt mode in WindowsNT, but rather following the above procedure (format a: /s and rebooting from a:\).

Have you entered the full file name of the flash utility and the BIOS plus its extension?
Do not forget that often you will need to add a drive letter (a:\) before flashing the BIOS. Example: when asked for file name of new BIOS file which is on your floppy disk, in case you're working from c:\ your will need to type a:\615j900.bin, rather than 615j900.bin only.

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Boot your PC in 10 seconds

Do you want your PC to just Boot within 10 seconds?
Then Just follow this trick and see the magic,


Click on the start button then press R it will take u to Run well go to run
n type Regedit
press enter
this will open Registery Editor
now look for the key

HKEY_LOACAL_MECHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex

now there find the Key Called
"Startup Delay"
Double Click On It

Now where its Base

Click Decimal

Now its Default Value Is 4800000

Change The Value To 40000

here u go u have done it
now close the Registery Editor and Restart Your Computer
You'll See The Result

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Web Design FullForms

HTML --> Hyper Text Markup Language

SGML --> Standard Generalised Markup Language

HTTP --> Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

ISP --> Internet Service Provider

JPEG --> Joint Photographic Expert Group

MPEG --> Moving Photographic Expert Group

GIF --> Graphical Interchange Format

ASCII --> American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

LAN --> Local Area Network

ASP --> Active Server Pages

XML --> eXensible Markup Language

TCP --> Transmission Control Protocol

IP --> Internet Protocol

ARPA --> Advanced Research Project Agency

E-Mail --> Electronic Mail

WWW --> World Wide Web

BBS --> Bulletin Board System

DNS --> Domain Name Server.

DSU --> Digital Services Unit

EDI --> Electronic Data Interchange

FAQ --> Frequently Asked Questions

FTP --> File Transfer Protocol

GUI --> Graphical User Interface

CUI --> Character User Interface

IAB --> Internet Architecture Board

IETF --> Internet Engineering Task Force

ISDN --> Internet Services Digital Network

SMTP --> Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

MIME --> MultiPurpose Internet Mail Extensions

NCSA --> National Center for SuperComputing Applications

NFS --> Network File System

NIC --> Network Information Center

NOC --> Network Operations Center

NREN --> National Research and Education Network.

OSI --> Open System Interconnection

SLIP --> Serial Line Internet Protocol

TIFF --> Tagged Image File Format

URL --> Uniform Resource Locator

WAIS --> Wide Area Information Service.

href = Horizontal Reference

img = Image

src = Source

br --> Break

hr --> Horizontal Ruler

wbr --> Word Break

OL --> Ordered List

UL --> Unordered List

DL --> Definition List

LI --> List

Father of HTML --> Tim Bernes lee

Father of INTERNET --> Vincent Cerf

table
****
tr --> Table Row
th --> Table Heading
td --> Table Data

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Attacks on Twitter,FaceBook by Hackers

Facebook and Twitter were attacked by hackers on August 6.The attackers has used denial-of-service attack.It is believed that same attacker or group of same attackers have have attacked both the sites.Internet users were thwarted from logging on to Twitter for several hours and Facebook members saw delays logging in and accessing their online profiles, raising speculation of a co-ordinated campaign against the two sites.

Facebook issued an early statement on its site saying that, "Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial-of-service attack that resulted in degraded service for some users.

The service--while was restored later Thursday. Meanwhile, the company said in its status blog that it was "continuing to defend against and recover from this attack."

The hackers have used denial of service or DOS attack on both the sites In a denial-of-service attack a Web site or server is bombarded with more traffic than it can handle, effectively causing online congestion. Such attacks are done from multiple computers and usually hackers send malware data to the target site in unison. After initial denial of any such attack, both Facebook and Twitter have now acknowledged attack on their site by denial-of-service attack.

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How to Prevent Spam Mails from Orkut!

TRICK 1 :

1. Change your Primary Mail

a) Log in to Orkut > Go To Edit Profile!
b) Click on Contact tab and change your Primary Email address to some other id, which you don't use much.
c) Your login id will remain same but your friends will see your other email id and mails will be sent there.


TRICK 2 :

1. Log in to Orkut then Go to Settings > Notifications.

2. Now you will see the option that there are many notifications which orkut sends you by mail. Uncheck the unnecessary options to prevent spam.

3. Thats it, You are done. Enjoy!

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AUTO DELETE TEMPORARY FOLDER

what i prefer is %temp% " without quotes..

at Start -> Run..
this opens ur temp folder n den u cal erase it neatly// still try dis one too..


First go into gpedit.msc
Next select -> Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services/Temporary Folder
Then right click "Do Not Delete Temp Folder Upon Exit"
Go to properties and hit disable. Now next time Windows puts a temp file in that folder it will automatically delete it when its done! Note from Forum Admin: Remember,
GPEDIT (Group Policy Editor) is only available in XP Pro.

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Super Speedy Shutdown

Some time ago I published a tip for forcing Windows to shutdown quickly, without worrying about exiting running programs and the other behind the scenes goings on that can make shutting down Windows XP a long and tedious business, and that’s without having to contend with unresponsive programs. Well, here’s another one, this time using a command entered in Run on the Start menu.


The command in question is shutdown.exe, and just by typing ‘shutdown -s’ will start the normal shutdown process, but we can beef it up a bit by adding some command line ‘switches’. These are extra instructions that tell it to do things in a certain way. Putting –f after the shutdown command, for example, tell it to force the shutdown, closing running applications without any warning.

Here’s another one, adding –t xx tells your PC to wait a specified amount of time (xx represents time in seconds), before shutting down.

So here is an example command, and feel free to modify the switches and time delay to suit your way of working: ‘shutdown –f –s –t 3’.


If you want to experiment here’s some other switches. –r restarts the computer, -c “text” lets you add a comment to the shutdown dialogue box (up to 127 characters) –l tells Windows to you to logoff the user.

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