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  • Ensuring you don't need data recovery

    27 September 2005, 13:41

    Data recovery company Disklabs has provided HEXUS with some top tips for avoiding the need for professional data recovery, and what to do if things do go a little... wrong.

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  • Wireless Security

    14 September 2005, 00:00

    WiFi is a wonderful thing. You can take your laptop anywhere in your house and access the Internet, or access your network from the garden. However, it does introduce the ...

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  • Gigabytes and Gibibytes

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    If you've used a computer for any duration of time you'll have come across the terms “kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte” and so on. Then there's “kilobit, megabit and gigabit” to add ...

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  • SCAN2HEXUS - Free Shipping Guide

    17 August 2005, 00:00

    Struggling to get your SCAN2HEXUS free shipping setup? Use this walk through to help you get all the details you need.

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  • CPU Product Codes

    17 August 2005, 00:00

    AMD were the first to move away from selling processors based on clock speed, instead opting for a rating system that attempted to liken the performance of one of their ...

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  • WiFi – Wireless networking explained

    15 August 2005, 00:00

    Home networking lets you do great things that aren't possible with standalone PCs. Printers can be shared between PC, so there's no need to buy one for each machine; data ...

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  • What is Data Recovery?

    9 August 2005, 00:00

    Data Recovery is the process of retrieval of inaccessible or corrupt data from digital media that has become damaged or has been corrupted in some way. Data Recovery can be ...

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  • Gigabytes and Gibibytes - What you need to know

    5 August 2005, 00:00

    You might have seen Rys and I use the terms GiB, MiB and KiB around HEXUS in recent months, when talking about memory or data sizes. If you've hung around ...

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  • Customising Google News

    3 August 2005, 00:00

    Completely automated, Google News searches the top news sources around the world (HEXUS included) and then presents the latest news stories. It is capable of finding thumbnail images to go ...

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  • Installing Windows XP with a 3rd party SATA/RAID driver

    29 July 2005, 00:00

    When installing Windows XP, most of the time you'll find that it has the basic drivers it needs to intsall itself. However, sometimes you might need to intervene. This tends ...

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  • PATA vs. SATA

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    Serial ATA is the next evolutionary stage in the development of magnetic storage media, it differs from PATA not only in the speeds attainable (150MiB/s to 600MiB/s as opposed to ...

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  • RAID explained

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is used for a number of reasons including improving performance and reliability of your data storage. RAID, which can be implemented ...

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  • DDR and DDR2 Explained

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    In this article we will be exploring the differences between DDR memory and DDR2 memory and also explaining a bit about the technology behind the two.

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  • Port Forwarding

    26 July 2005, 00:00

    Let's imagine you're trying to play a game over the Internet that needs to receive a UDP connection from the other player. UDP connections aren't initiated, they're just sent in ...

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  • Installing Windows XP

    25 July 2005, 00:00

    Installing Windows from scratch for the first time can be a daunting experience. Usually you've just successfully built your first home-made PC and the last thing you need is for ...

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  • PCI Express - technology backgrounder

    28 May 2005, 00:00

    Increasing numbers of motherboards carry PCI Express slots. James Morris explains why this new serial bus standard is replacing the older PCI parallel bus and how the move benefits video ...

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  • Serial ATA - technology backgrounder

    19 February 2005, 00:00

    Serial ATA is rapidly taking over from parallel ATA in desktop PCs. James Morris explains why we need this new hard-disk connection

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  • DDR-II - How It Works

    5 February 2004, 00:00

    It's about to arrive on the desktop in a big way and we'll have DDR-II modules and supporting boards to play with in the near future, to semi-evaluate performance before ...

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  • Streamlining your cables

    8 May 2003, 00:00

    Streamlining your cables!

    I work in a garage OK..........lots of stuff to use for PC's there. I wanted to round off my cables long ago.......but the only thing I ...

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  • Spraying Guide

    16 June 2002, 00:00

    TEP 1: Buy materials. Nissan Starburst Silver spray paint from Halfords and some Wet and Dry 1500 grit paper.

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  • Stealth blowholes

    10 March 2002, 00:00

    So you have your new gaming or high performance rig and its running way to hot. So whats the solution?

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  • Stealthing a CD/DVD Rom Drive

    3 February 2002, 00:00

    Okay with all these lovely aluminium cases that are so popular today the days of the beige computer are well and truly numbered. The problem is that the computer parts ...

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  • Hexus System Guide

    16 January 2002, 00:00

    So there you have it. These systems have been put together as a guide to what I feel are solid systems based on hardware available today.

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  • How To Mod a Case

    31 August 2001, 00:00

    When will they learn? Why is that practically all case manufacturers insist on producing housings that are uglier than a Taiwanese lady-boy after a heavy night on the town..............?

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  • How to use an AT PSU

    27 October 2000, 00:00

    You may think that old AT PS’s are quite frankly useless, however I was able to lay my hands on a couple for nothing J So It was my job ...

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  • How to Build a Baybus

    27 October 2000, 00:00

    Measure and mark out blanking plate, obviously if you want it to look anything like, you’re going to have to use a rule I tend to like to make things ...

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  • World Guide

    27 September 2000, 00:00

    This is a guide of people to who want to get a system and aren’t sure about what they want, I've been sent many emails asking what I recommend for ...

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  • Modem Guide

    27 September 2000, 00:00

    Alternatives to modems are still quite expensive in the UK. Even though modems should be old news they're still with us and with quite a bit of verity. To get ...

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  • System Buyers Guide

    27 August 2000, 00:00

    So you've decided that you're not going to give that hard earned cash to dell or gateway. Instead you want to build yourself your own computer, which is becoming more ...

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