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What wears out in an HDD? by
Micky
What wears out in an HDD? Is it only the tone arm that breaks? or
can the bearings the platter rides on break??? Good watches use
jewels, rubies, as bearings; and cheap watches use metal. What do
hard drives use?
I googled but couldn't find much about this. Does the spindle really
ride on...
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January 18th 16 06:02 AM
by masonc
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Graphics processing by
philo
I am now getting ready to do a substantial amount of photo editing this
year and have been using an AMD-dual core 2.6ghz cpu
It works very well but since I also have a quad core machine I decided
to give it a try. Both machines have 8 gigs of DDR2 and identical
nvidia graphics ...the quad core...
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January 16th 16 02:10 AM
by philo
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I want to downgrade my video card. by
Peter Jason
I built my own computer in Dec2010 with all the then latest
components, but I've never used all the capabilities of the Video Card
GeForce GTX480 Ultra, Model: GV-N480UD-151.
This card uses a lot of power, and covers & prevents access to one of
the large PCE slots.
I suppose this card is designed...
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What wears out in an HDD. Hybrid sleep by
Micky
For a friend with Win7.
IIRC in Vista and 7, the default for a hard drive turning off was
never. Never? Even for people who leave their computer on 24/7?
Doesn't it extend the life of the harddrive to turn it off when not in
use? Or is it only the tone arm that breaks and the bearings...
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January 4th 16 12:18 PM
by mike
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AMD - only RAM by
philo
I saw some extremely low priced RAM on eBay that was listed as only
working on AMD machines.
Since I'm working on a few that need upgrading I ordered four ...two
gig sticks from China for a /total/ price of $13 including shipping.
Before they shipped it they emailed me to confirm that I knew...
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December 31st 15 08:09 PM
by philo
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Poor quality copper in connectors of Acer Aspire E 15 (E5-511-P6VU) ? by
Norm X
Hi,
This is Xposted.
After upgrading to cat6 Ethernet cable and Gigabit Ethernet switch, I am
still having problems with an Ethernet connection that craps out at 1.0
Gbps. Also at the same time, the filesystem connection to a 64 GB
microSD (xSDHC) also craps out. The microSD is mounted in a an...
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Ethernet switch problem by
Norm X
Hi Correspondents,
I've got an Acer desktop that I recently upgraded with a quad core
Q6600. Great. I recently purchased an Acer E15, also quad core. OK. For
a long time I have connected my PC farm using a five port Ethernet
switch, D-Link model DES-1005E. Both machines sport Giga Ethernet I...
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December 26th 15 04:47 PM
by Norm X
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Don't Ignore Your UPS by
John McGaw
It seems that I manage to get bitten at least once a year when there is a
power failure -- one UPS out of the five I have (I live at the 'end of the
line' in an area with many huge trees and elderly infrastructure so power
can be problematic) will surprise me by running out of power far sooner...
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December 22nd 15 10:01 PM
by Paul
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Lost Hard Drive by
[email protected]
I have a SATA hard drive I use for storing backup data. I am in W7
Home Premium. Suddenly the drive is not recognized, either by my MSI
BIOS or by Windows Explorer.
Is it lost forever? Or is there another way I can try to make it
recognizable (and readable)? Probaby not.
Thanks
JW
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Computer related Hardware by
>>>Ashton Crusher
A social organization I'm a member of wants to get some good computer
projectors they can use for meetings and conferences and asked me to
come up with some suggestions
Here's what my quick search has suggested to me... Looking for any
feedback..
On the LCD v DLP debate I see the LCD side saying...
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They come in threes... by
John McGaw
Bad things, that is.
After a long spell of being ignored my old home-built Windows Home Server
started to show a variety of odd problems. I used WD's diagnostics program
to check each of the 6 disks sequentially and finally came to drive #5
which showed stalling and slow progress in the...
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Mobile Intel chip height by
Rodney Pont[_5_]
Does anyone know of somewhere that shows the physical dimensions of
intel cpus? I've done a lot of searching and Intels ark site does show
a lot of information about the chips but not the dimensions (that I can
find anyway).
My Samsung NP550P5C laptop has an i5-3210M in it and I recently bought
an...
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scanner ? by
philo
After many years of good service my Epson 4490 PHOTO scanner died.
Flatbed portion still works but the film/slide capability is gone.
Either during preview or the scan itself...partway through...it just
stops and locks up.
My main machine for scanning is running Win7_64 bit but also tried an XP...
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December 7th 15 07:28 PM
by philo
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FM2-A85XA-G43 Motherboard Help Please by
[email protected]
I have a MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 Motherboard. I have three bootable hard
drives SATA-connected. I want to change the boot order in the BIOS,
but I can't find a way to do it that takes and retains the order
permanently. Anyone have experience with this board and can help me
do it?
Thanks
JW
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Sleeping Computer vs. Shutdown ? by
[email protected]
Powering up after shutdown, poses some problems restablishing an
Internet connection. These are not encountered when activating a
computer that's been "put to sleep". This last seems to involve, no
activity of the hard drive, but response to a key press, so
something's still active. I want to...
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Flashing the BIOS by
Norm X
Hi,
I'd like to thank the activists here for all the help. Last year, I
tried to upgrade the my BIOS. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the 3V CMOS
battery was dead. I ran into all sorts of problems, like BIOS checksum
errors. I was happy to downgrade, so I could continue using my 3 drive
RAID 0...
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Obsolete computer...trivia by
philo
I recently scrapped out a 386 that had been setup as a voice mail system.
I decided to open it up and have a look before it went to the recycler
and was surprised to find a 1GB IDE hard drive in that thing.
So...the machine must have been a lot newer than I thought.
When looking at the file...
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November 6th 15 10:43 AM
by Paul
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Sata computer cable. by
Peter Jason
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ao-pEVeYL.jpg
This one is the USB3 version, but there seems no power connection.
Does the power come with the USB3?
The USB2 type comes as "eSata" with a power connection:
http://www.sednacomputer.com/photo/se-c-poesata-1m.jpg
and I'm using this...
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November 5th 15 10:27 AM
by philo
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Memory question by
Norm X
Hi,
I have a new quadcore Acer Aspire E 15 that has upgraded itself to
Win10. I purchased it with 4 GB RAM installed. MS Task Manager says of
the Memory, Speed: 1333 MHz, Slots used: 1 of 2, Form factor: SODIMM,
Hardware reserved: 117 MB. I presume 117 MB is reserved for video.
Unfortunately,...
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November 5th 15 07:17 AM
by Paul
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Two computers one keyboard/mouse two VDU by
Graham Harrison[_2_]
I currently have an old Dell with a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse
set for which the receiver plugs into a USB port. It has 2 VDUs
connected using DVI (it could use VGA). Runs Vista(!)
I'm shortly to acquire a much newer machine which will also have dual
VDU capability using DVI or VGA. On...
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October 23rd 15 01:05 PM
by Live
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