The front audio jack is a connector that is used to connect headphones/earphones with a PC. If for some reason, the front audio jack is not working on your Windows 11/10 PC, then you can try some ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

As my father's first and last system administrator, I've been looking at his old Creative Labs front panel for a long time. Though it presents several useful ports to him on the outside, on the inside ...

I'm starting a foray into a basic Media Storage PC. I'm building it from spare and decommissioned parts, and the budget is virtually nonexistant. Fortunately, I think I've got just about everything I ...

The RC2014 is a slick Z80 computer kit that’s graced these pages a number of times in the past. It allows anyone with a soldering iron and a USB-to-serial adapter to experience the thrill of early ...

When you think about vintage computers from the 1970s, the first thing that should spring to mind are front panels loaded up with switches, LEDs, and if you’re really lucky, a lock with a key. Across ...

Q: Who do I have to buy lunch for so that somebody standardizes front-panel pins? A: Heh, this one’s a perennial annoyance, isn’t it? The front-panel pin layout on a motherboard varies a lot. Most DIY ...

When I first heard about the Wheatstone Vorsis line of broadcast audio processors, I wanted to evaluate them because, in the past I had specified Wheatstone audio consoles for my highest-quality ...