The problem can be frustrating for nontechnical users, because they are unable to determine the cause of the problem and then fix it thusly, so that they can resume their actual work. Black screens can be scary if they do not return on. In this post we are going to discuss what causes this problem, and how you can mitigate it. What Causes Display Driver to Stop Responding A display driver that was functioning perfectly a second ago can go haywire in the blink of an eye....

A Bad System Config Info error mostly occurs due to a critical system file either being corrupted or duplicated, and the system does not understand how to react, hence throwing a BSoD to protect the device. In some cases, users see a stop code 0x00000074 when they see a blue screen stating Bad System Config Info. This error occurs when your device has a corrupted system registry or when something is wrong with the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file....

This guide explains how you can start getting new Windows 10 Insider Preview updates again. How to troubleshoot Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds not available in Windows Update There can be two reasons why the update is not yet available through the Windows Update: Either it has not yet been released on the Channel which you have subscribed to, or a Windows Registry tweak is blocking the update. How to change Window 10 Insider Ring/Channel As mentioned in the blog on everything about the Microsoft Insider Programs, Channels are what the Insider users subscribe to when joining the program....

If you have just started your own blog and have done everything right, it will take a few days or even a few weeks for Google to find and index your blog posts. Most bloggers create an account in Google Webmaster Tools and submit the sitemaps in order for Google to find their blogs quickly. But the fact is that Google will only start crawling the pages until it sees some links pointing to your blog....

This file is usually, but not necessarily, accompanied by a Media Descriptor Sidecar (MDS) file that contains the metadata for the MDF file. An MDS file can include the pointers for starting and ending layers, which data in the MDF file belongs to which layer, values and locations of the layer breach bit, and other file information. An MDF file can operate fine without an MDS file. Therefore, it is not necessary to have an MDS file to access the content of an MDF file....

You can now translate almost anything you see on your screen in Windows 10 using Google Translate. Be it an image, a file, or something on the web. The most exciting part is that you do not need to be online for the translation! Learn how to do so below in the article. What is Google Translate Google Translate, as the name implies, is a language-translation tool by (drum roll) Google....

More Google Messages Users Can Now Check the iMessage Reactions with the Latest Update According to reports from various users, Google Messages has received a beta update that finally supports iMessage reactions. Users are seeing this feature in the Google Messages version 20220121_02_RC00. The new update also adds a toggle in Settings > Advanced > Show iPhone reactions as emoji to let you enable or disable this feature. With the latest update, Google Messages is now able to translate all iMessage reactions into emojis and show it on the messages they are intended for....

Intel Flex GPUs take aim at the Nvidia A10: up to 5x faster in 8-bit decode and HEVC transcode applications The Intel Flex 170 is a 150 watt affair with 32 Ray Tracing units and 32 Xe Cores and a full height PCIe design. It features the Xe HPG architecture with 2 media engines and a single slot design. The Flex 170 GPU is shipping now to customers. The Intel Flex 140 GPU is a 75 watt variant with 16 Ray Tracing units and 16 Xe Cores and a half height PCIe....

Two Intel mobile Raptor Lake CPUs appear online, showing the same core counts as the Alder Lake mobile series The tweet from Momomo_US reveals the two 13th Gen Intel Raptor Lake laptop CPUs in what appears to be two Acer notebooks. The Intel Core i7-13700H is equipped with 14 cores so we are looking at a 6+8 configuration while the Core i5-13500H is equipped with 12 cores which points out a 4+8 configuration....

Intel 13th Gen Mobility CPUs Official: Raptor Lake Core i9-13980HX Is The World’s First 24 Core Laptop Chip This CES, Intel is bringing its quad Raptor attack with four diverse 13th Gen Mobility CPUs family covering the entire laptop segment. We have the HX series that sits at the top and cover the ultra-enthusiast segment, we have the H series that covers the thin yet still enthusiast laptop segment, we have the P-series which are designed for thin & light performance laptops, and finally, there’s the U-series which are designed for entry-level thin & light designs....

Intel’s Core i9-12900K & Core i9-10980XE Will No Longer Be Available In Custom Packaging, Back To The Standard Box Intel has chosen to release the i9-12900K and i9-10980XE with identical size boxes to ensure that shipments will be more optimized for volume cross-generations. The notification comes from the Intel PCN, or Product Change Notification documentation. Initially, there was speculation that the Core i9-10980XE would have been discontinued by now but it looks like the chip still serves the HEDT consumer space on the X299 platform though given how old the chip is, most users would have moved to newer processors from the company....

Recently, an Overclock.net (OCN) user was reported to have purchased and received the Intel Core i9-13900KF Raptor Lake CPU before it was available to consumers. The user sold the processor to another OCN user, who then put the chip from Intel to test to see if it could surpass the reported boost clock frequency, which is 5.8GHz. User Coodiee1337 from OCN connected a Corsair iCUE H150I RGB Elite AIO cooler to the Thermal Grizzly CPU contact frame that held the powerful Intel processor....

Intel’s Core i9-13900KS 6 GHz “Raptor Lake” CPUs Rips Apart The Core i9-12900KS 5.5 GHz “Alder Lake” In CPU-z Benchmark Leak The Intel Core i9-13900KS will be the flagship Raptor Lake CPU, featuring 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. The CPU is configured at a single-core boost clock of 6.0 GHz (1-2) cores. The CPU will be featuring 68 MB of combined cache and a 125W PL1 rating that goes beyond 253W....

Intel open-source team sends new updates for the Linux 5.19 merge requests, adding significant graphical driver improvements to the Linux operating system The newest update improves Intel ARC DG2 and Alchemist graphics, including two new user API inclusions. The first supports the process of reading a binary table and describes the GPU configurations from the firmware blob. The second inclusion allows for additional API sysfs aid for platforms with multi-tile capability....

Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition Graphics Card Official Performance Benchmarks Show Up To 17% Faster Performance Than NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 The Intel Arc Limited Edition graphics card was teased by the blue team in early Q2 2022 when they announced their Alchemist GPU lineup along with the mobility variants. Since then, the Arc lineup is only launched in certain markets, first rolling out in entry-level laptop solutions and now rolling out to higher-end laptops....

Three Xeon CPUs power the Intel VCA2 purpose build accelerator for visual cloud computing The most significant purpose of the Intel VCA2 is that it allows users who establish Windows or Linux instances and link instantly to the remote device. The cost-effectiveness of the device is crucial as multiple users can access the accelerator and use the machine for several cloud applications, ranging from business to gaming. Intel’s VCA2 was released six years ago and found use for QuickSync video acceleration via integrating Iris Pro P580 graphics technology which is an integrated GPU featured on last-gen processors....

Assembling Giant Pegatron Was Reportedly Forced to Stop Its Hiring Spree After Just Three Days, Likely Due to the iPhone 14 Plus Production Cut With a production cut between 70-90 percent rate, Economic Daily News reports that the iPhone 14 Plus order reduction is perhaps the largest in Apple’s history during the short time span of the smartphone’s launch. Remember, when we last reported about the iPhone 14 Plus production cut, we stated that this model did not even cross the two-week sales cycle before Apple made this decision, and this setback puts even more pressure on the company’s assembly giant, Pegatron....

Camera Issues Show up When Apps Like TikTok, Snapchat, and Others Are Used Update: Apple has responded and said that it will issue a software fix for this issue next week. It will likely be an iOS 16.0.2 update whenever available. Be sure to download it when it’s out. The problem appears to be widespread as iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners are complaining about it on various platforms....

The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max Have a 1/1.65-inch Sensor, so a Bigger Part Warrants a Larger Area to Be Housed In A boatload of specifications have been mentioned by Weibo user Fishing 8, claiming that the 48MP sensor on both the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will have a 1/1.3-inch sensor size. With the calculation done by MacRumors, that equals to a 21 percent bigger sensor area compared to the 1/1....

Apple Has Not Issued a Statement if It Still Intends to Maintain Its Original Shipment Goal of 90 Million Units for 2022 On its newsroom page, Apple says COVID-19, and not lower demand, is the reason why it expects to see lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments. The firm has not said if this setback will affect the overall shipments goal for 2022, which was previously said to be 90 million....