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In my 30 years of experience as a computer technician, a motherboard is one of the most challenging components to diagnose due to the number of components connected to it. If a motherboard fails, you could have blue screens, freezing, beeps, inability to detect USB drives and other hardware, and more. This guide will teach you how to test a motherboard with a multi-meter before installing other PC parts. Necessary Tools You will need the following tools to complete your motherboard diagnostics testing....

Many users are having different queries regarding viewing messages on iCloud. If you are also wondering if you can view your messages, iCloud backs up all the messages from Apple, iMessage, SMS, and MMS. When you turn on sync from all your devices, you can view the messages from those devices. There is not much that you will need to do to view messages on iCloud. You can easily turn on sync and backup from the settings of your device and view the messages....

An upcoming Battlemage discrete GPU, which will compete against thebest graphics cards, has been benchmarked in Geekbench, giving us our first taste of what Intel’s next-gen GPUs might offer. Discovered initially byBenchleaks, the listing highlights aCore i5-13600Ktest setup paired with an “Intel Xe Graphics Ri” graphics card featuring 160 CUs and 12GB of video memory. The GPU carries the 8086:E20B PCI ID, which coincides with Battlemage entries from aLinux driver. The PCI ID confirms that the GPU that emerged in Geekbench effectively carries the Battlemage G21 silicon....

We’ve previously reported onindustry rumorsthat Microsoft’s Copilot AI service will soon run locally on PCs instead of in the cloud and that Microsoft would impose a requirement for 40 TOPS of performance on the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), but we had been unable to get an on-the-record verification of those rumors. That changed today atIntel’s AI Summit in Taipei, where Intel executives, in a question-and-answer session withTom’s Hardware, said that Copilot elements will soon run locally on PCs....

XeSS might be one of the hottest new upscaling technologies in gaming, but XeSS isn’t the only upscaling solution Intel is developing.Phoronix reportsthat the silicon fab designer and CPU manufacturer is building a new adaptive sharpening filter for Linux aimed at itsLunar Lakeprocessors featuring Xe2 integrated graphics. The new sharpening filter is designed to enhance image quality with minimal impact on power and GPU performance. The tech uses hardware inside the Lunar Lake Xe2 Battlemage iGPU, the “pipe scaler,” to execute the sharpening and upscaling work....

Arrow Lake might not be out yet, but that hasn’t stopped the rumor machine from spinning up new claims on architectures after Arrow Lake. Reputable leakerHXL on Xreports that Arrow Lake could be the only architecture to run on the LGA1851 socket with the purported cancellation of Arrow Lake Refresh. Meanwhile, Razer Lake is purportedly arriving after Nova Lake. According to rumors, Intel was reportedly going to opt for two variants of Arrow Lake for its LGA1851 platform: the vanilla Arrow Lake CPUs arriving soon and a rumored Arrow Lake Refresh, which would succeed the former....

Intelhas reached an agreementto transfer a majority stake in its Altera division to Silver Lake for $4.46 billion, which values the business at $8.75 billion. The deal is part of Intel’s effort to streamline its operations and improve its financial position, while making Altera the world’s largest pure-play FPGA provider. Under the terms of the agreement, Silver Lake will acquire 51% of Altera, while Intel retains 49%, ensuring it continues to benefit from the unit’s future performance....

Clearwater Forestis turning out to be an entirely different beast. It will incorporate not only the latest goods from Intel Foundry—like Foveros Direct 3D, RibbonFET, PowerVia, and EMIB 3.5D—but also 3D cache, which Intel calls “Local Cache,” per an interview with Intel’s Florian Maislinger conducted byder8auer and Bens Hardware. And sadly, Team Blue has no plans to introduce AMD 3D V-cache-esque capabilities in its desktop CPUs. Intel’s next-generation E-Core, a Xeon-only series codenamed “Clearwater Forest,” willleverage the flagship 18A nodeon which Pat Gelsinger has staked the entire company’s future....

Today’s deal headline doesn’t feature a typo - this modern gaming laptop from HP is genuinely on sale for the unbelievably low price of just $429, but there is a slight catch if you want to take advantage of this great offer. It’s not even Black Friday, and the deals seem to be popping up earlier than ever this year as retailers try to nudge shoppers into spending their hard-earned money ahead of the biggest sales event of the year....

Xbox Game Pass Ultimateis a popular subscription service allowing you to play hundreds of first- and third-party games (which are rotated regularly) for $16.99/month. One key component of the service included isXbox Cloud Gaming, which, while still in beta, allows you to stream Xbox games using an Xbox app on supported devices. Today,Microsoftannounced two new devicescoming to the Xbox Cloud Gaming support list: the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the Fire TV Stick 4K Max....

Have you ever wondered where Windows' classic 3D Pipes screensaver (or 3D Maze) originated? On June 11,Microsoftdeveloper Raymond Chen droppeda dev blogdetailing how the 3D Pipes screensaver and its contemporaries (including 3D Maze and others in a video embedded below) came to be within Windows NT 3.5 and other classic versions of Windows. An important sidenote on the above video for those of you with the most discerning nostalgia: the speed at which the old screensavers played out relied on the hardware in question....

Last week, MIT researchers published ablog posthighlighting apaper detailing work on fully 3D printable electronics— namely a simple, semiconductor-free logic gate. The original paper was written by Jorge Cañada, a grad student in electrical engineering and computer science, and Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories. Logic gates can be used for undemanding workloads including controlling the speed of a motor, and MIT researchers have proven that for such simple electronics, usage of 3D printing and a biodegradable copper-doped polymer can forego the need for semiconductors at such a small scale....

If you recently got a new pair of headphones or speakers, you’re likely searching for the correct audio ports on your computer. While it is possible todirectly connect them to a monitor, using the integrated ones on the motherboard would be the best option. Well, there are different types of audio interfaces, and modern circuit boards can havesix or moreembedded in them. However, this depends on the model, and you may even find comparatively fewer ones on yours....