Once again, I experienced a battery swelling issue. This time with the TEGIC Block 01 Power Back I received about 2 years ago and was a Kickstarter project I supported. The battery swelling issue happened on its own. The unit was fully charged before and didn’t present this issue. However, last week, when I attempted to use it, I noticed it got swell. The battery swelling seems to affect one side more than the other. It seems to be swelled…
Hi everyone, Today, I want to show you the Fenvi Mini PCI Express to PCI Express Adapter. This is an adapter that turns those Mini PCI Express Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapters commonly found on older laptops into a PCI Express adapter that can be used on Desktop computers. I wrote about me having installed the Intel Centrino Wireless-N 135 Mini PCI Express Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card with a U.FL to RP-SMA antenna cable into my Media Center PC some days ago. Before that, I…
Hi everyone, On the past few days, I struggled on making a Windows 11 ISO for the version 22000.318. For some reason, uup-converter-wimlib failed to create it and it seems it may have to do with some weird downloads. Yesterday, we got the version 22000.346 and I also downloaded the UUP files for it. uup-converter-wimlib was able to create an ISO for this version, so clearly something is wrong with the 22000.318 files. In fact, looking at the UUP file…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing the Bingfu Mini PCI-Express to RP-SMA Female antenna cable. This is a converter cable that converts from the tiny Mini-PCI Express Wi-Fi/Bluetooth cards antenna connector to an RP-SMA connector normally used on desktop cards. This allows the use of external antennas with our Mini-PCI Express cards and is useful when we use these cards on a Desktop PC. The cable has a length of 12 inches, which should be enough for most installations….
Hi everyone, Today, I will show you the InWin BP655 Mini-ITX Computer Case. This is a Mini-ITX computer case which includes a 200-Watt Power Supply. This desktop computer case came on this box: And it came well protected inside: Unopened, it looks like this: It came with the Power Supply cable, a stand for vertical standing, and the required screws for the motherboard installation. Installing the board was very easy. I placed my Jetway NF9G-QM77 motherboard in it: Here’s how…
Hi everyone, A few months ago, I purchased the Silicon Power DDR3L 16GB 2 x 8GB CL11 1.35V SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM Kit for my desktop computer which uses a laptop 3rd-gen Intel i7 CPU. The RAM Kit I got is from Silicon Power. It’s 2 modules of 8GB, having a voltage rating of 1.35V and a latency rating of CL11. The motherboard I’m using is a Jetway NF9G-QM77, which effectively makes using Intel 3rd-gen i7-3610QM laptop CPUs as a desktop…
Hi everyone, Today, I will show you the REKONG Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 M.2 Kit. This kit is designed to add an M.2 Wi-Fi card to a compatible desktop motherboard like the ASRock X570M Pro4 that I’m using. It uses the latest Wi-Fi protocol, Wi-Fi 6E and also has Bluetooth 5.2. It comes with everything needed to add Wi-Fi to a motherboard. The kit includes the following: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210 M.2 card. 2 Brackets to pass the Wi-Fi antenna…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see the ULANSeN 7-Port USB 3.0 PCI-Express Expansion Card. This is a USB 3.0 PCI Express Expansion Card that provides us with up to 7 USB 3.0 port, of which 2 are USB-C. This card is also a PCI Express x1 card, so it will fit on any PCI Express slot you may have available. I got this card because I was having some issues with the integrated AMD USB 3.0 ports where my devices…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be unboxing the SilverStone TOB04 9.5mm Slim Optical Blu-Ray Writer. This is yet another Blu-Ray Writer for internal 9.5mm optical drive bays. This drive is able to burn all major optical drive formats, including BDXL discs. Upon opening it, we see it comes with a slim SATA cable that helps us if we choose to use it in a desktop machine if it has a slot for a drive like this, or other compatible 5.25…
NOTE: This post was originally posted in Spanish on August 11, 2018. I’m posting the English language translation today. Hi everyone, Today, I’ve took some time to improve my “DLNA Player” software, which is capable of streaming music tracks to DLNA-Enabled players. Up to this point, the software was able to play back local files as well as music files stored on Google Drive. It wasn’t able to play Audio CD tracks. Because I have a bunch of Audio CDs,…