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Hardware Tips: Create Your Own Emergency Boot Disk

Create an emergency boot disk, identify mysterious components.

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Whose Modem Is It, Anyway?

Are you stuck with a mysterious piece of ancient hardware, such as an unmarked modem or video card? It may look like something extremely useful, but unless you can determine the make and model, you can't find the right drivers for it, so you might as well throw it away, right? Not so fast. Most computer hardware has an FCC identification number. Go to the FCC's database, and you may be able to match that number to a name, rescuing the device from the scrap heap.

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