lol my little brother (about 11) thinks the motherboard looks like a city - and when I booted the system, he said "some of the houses in the city have lights" :P
the surgery, well...the Inspiron 2650 is one of those beasts where one RAM slot is very accessible, and the other RAM slot is under the EMI shield and the keyboard
so, I had to take the keyboard out, the emi shield, and one or two other parts, (fairly simple) and change the RAM... when I tried to boot, it didn't even POST... so I was like... I'm gonna do this another day :P
@studiohack: with thinkpads, pop off the keyboard and there's one. there's one more underneath... I think once i got the hang of how the slots worked, took me like.. 10 minutes ;p
its actually less painful than that dell 530 desktop i keep yammering about
Lets see, the current running network is.. 3 core2 duos (one self built laptop, one self built desktop, and the dumpster dell), two atoms of some sort (netbooks, one HP, one dell mini 10), one core i5 (my x220, which still hasn't been fixed).
@JourneymanGeek it was given to me by my grandfather, who upgraded his small biz server, and it has 100GB hdds (three 33GBs) and I only have 67GB space free - max if I run RAID 5, I think it is
so I have to sell them on the idea of a server and how nice it would be to have centralized backups and be able to access all of our digital photography in one place!
so one of the biggest things I like about this, is that I can set up permissions and users very simply, and then when we need to transfer a photo or a document, we don't have to fire up our email, we can just put it on the server - I've even created a special folder with special permissions called Exchange :P
@studiohack Oh pretty good. Finished drivers ed today and stuff, at last! Spent all last week bottled down with work, and now im back to... not picking up a pencil until 13:00 each day
@studiohack downhill and starting park a bit more since I liked it last year. The hill is really quite small - takes maybe 45 seconds to get down. But has 25 runs! So I can do about 45 a day :p everyone in town goes out there
Also, November 3rd I put a MSO question on about including rollbacks in edit history. Nearly two weeks later and a 100 bounty its finally been tagged with [status-complete]
Yesterday I rolled back this answer and, as it was my first rollback, got the "cleanup badge" and all was well in the world.
However, when I go to my "activity" tab I can't find any trace of the rollback, only the fact I got the badge. Is a rollback not an action that needs to be logged/easily f...
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I recently purchased a GTX-460 and expected it to be able to supply 3 monitors. However, this does not seem to be the case (that's what you get for trusting a random store clerk instead of doing your own research I guess). However, I have also purchased the screens already, so just settling for d...
I'm pretty sure that the drive is toast, except for the fact that this error is only showing up on one partition (it's out of a Dell computer, and has a couple of Dell partitions, which boot and work fine.)
I've already purchased another hard drive, and re-installed WinXP, but when I re-connect ...
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Yeah, that's the problem. Dunno about other tools.
I'm not really experienced with bad disks though, I haven't seen any of mine fail and my last replace was to replace some smaller external hard drives by one bigger one.
@slhck Thanks, I don't really mind that it took time but would still want to know if mine got lost somewhere (not that I can do anything about that, but then I don't have to wonder about it :P). Nice to know there was an update on the progress...
@IvoFlipse: The problem is that the stocks are smaller due to the flood, causing higher prizes.
@IvoFlipse: You could freeze it and get whatever you can of it.
When I went to Task Manager of my mother's laptop, it showed 100% usage on boot. I believe it causes explorer.exe to crash over and over, and random freezes/crashes.
I've stopped using scanners for a while, I just make sure that it's not in Autoruns (so, it doesn't load) and occasionally run a memory/quick scan and only a full disk scan if the former's have found something really serious.
@WilliamHilsum: It seems my computer hasn't crashed for about a week or so, while it was at a daily basis before that. I've increased the ReadyBoost log file size, installed the latest drivers for all devices and such. And something seems to have resolved it (I hope not for now) but I don't know why.
There was a mention of a fix for the Nvidia driver that was kind of related so it might be resolved in the Nvidia driver itself. Perhaps they were bored of receiving crashes from me...
Or it could be related to chipset drivers.
The computer is on as long as before, I've switched between StarCraft II / Skyrim. I've watched quite some YouTube on some days, as well as other video plug-ins and streams.
I'm running Win 7 x86 on a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m in dual boot mode with Win XP, both OSes are running on separate partitions.
I have a faulty battery and if left unplugged my laptop shuts usually down within 10 minutes.
Last night, it shut down due to this, but after plugging in AC power and start...
Pretty weird that my hangs seems fixed after updating all my drivers, while this is my third install since I experience this... o_O
@IvoFlipse: The gist seems to be to try to boot in Last Known Good Configuration, if not you'll have to go the the recovery environment, hit SHIFT+F10 and enter sfc /scannow
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If you prefer using something with a GUI there is HD Tune, which comes in a free and a pro versio...
