Recent content by geek9pm

Well, I have an old IBM laptop that if you press the right key on boot up it will re-install the OS and you have a clean machine with no trace of anything ever on it. Maybe somebody got to here laptop during the night and turned it on and hit the wrong key. Good bye data. Very bad joke!

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I am not sure what a Wiki. I have some web space that I do not use. I had great plans, but lack to ability to use all this web site stuff. I found in my control panel these two items: TikiWiki PhpWiki :doh: If you like, I will just give you some free space for six months. No...

:chk: Hi, hope this is not off topic. I want to put up an audio web log. I want to post something and add my voice, not music, to the written stuff. I talk better that I write. I can add a flash player, but I am ignorant as to how flash works. It is a real main to try to add the HTML ans SWF...

It was a very good question. Having extra fans is a good idea. Heat damage is much worse than dust and dirt. You can clean out the dust, but you can not undo heat damage.

How about 2 wire? If you want to go over 100 meters with a simple network, you may consider using 2-wire in place of ethernet cable. You have to buy special abaters, but after 100 meters or so, the cost becomes less that ethernet. You use cheap telephone or electrical wire and do not need...

If voltagve is the real problem you can reduce the voltage coming from the mains by using a suitable device. If taht does nto work. then voltage was never the real issue. PC power supplies normally work over a range of voltages. When set to the "220" position it should work from 195 to 255...

Can you verify the AC power with a good voltmeter and can you determine that voltage is the only difference? Repeat five times to eliminate random errors.

That is very odd! Is this a Desktop? What make? Are both Drives ATA? Are you using cable select? Do the drives show in the BIOS? How old is the BIOS? I have an old system where you have to turn on the second drive in the BIOS or it is not there.

I used to work in Hard Disk research. I think any consumer level book on this topic can not be a good book. What the average person needs to know about this can be put in a magazine article. Otherwise, you need a degree in physics to really do that sort of thing. A book written for that kind of...

Many electronic devices are now using modern power supply design which has nnear 90% output/input ration. Please see this link: Power Supply Efficiency in Active Mode

Thank you for your response. Others have documented how XP can crash when there is a LBA issue with a IDE drive that has the OS or in the lower part of a Large drive that has more that 137 GB allocated space. Any Write operations to the area above 137GB are truncated so that the write is really...

Yes! Notice where is says "However the 28-bit hard drive addressing in hardware was at 137GB" Which is an understatement. I mean, yes, it is true, but what people need to know is this: If you install any ATA drive on any Windows XP system with more than 137 GB [sic] it will fail after awhile...