Recent content by Putter

My roommate's laptop hard drive busted and he took it to the Geek Squad or whatever. A week and an absurd amount of money later it comes back with a reformatted Win7 install, but now when he tries to use the wired internet it says the cable is unplugged. The cable is definitely good, it works on...

Fixed it now, by doing something similar. I hooked it up to a different computer to get my stuff off. But then I didn't have access to another machine, so I just booted ubuntu off of a CD and reformatted from there. It's back up and working now. Thanks for the help.

Yup. Had 2x 512 + 2x 256. The faulty one was a 256; I just took both of the 256s out, so am running at 1gb right now.

Internet said I didn't need to change any jumpers with SATA hard drives, so I didn't, and that seemed to work.

Safe modes a no go. Can't get into windows at all.

After what I assume is a bad reaction to anti-virus (because it only started after a critical error in bitdefender), my parents' computer started BSODing. It got more and more rapid until eventually it wouldn't even get into Windows. I managed to recover all necessary files by hooking the...

Recently my PSU died, and I have a suspicion that it occured because of the many electrical storms my area endured over the past few months (the computer was plugged in, but not in use at the time). It was connected through a generic power bar IIRC, but I'm looking for something a bit more...

Within the last week or so, my computer has been nonfunctional. It started out at first I tried pressing the power button, and the power would flick on and off repeatedly, but never do anything else. I tried this multiple times and eventually it started up for good and stayed on for hours while...

I've never actually owned an LCD monitor for my own PC, and I think its about time to give the 19" CRT monitor a rest (though I'll keep it for backup ;)). I'm looking for a new monitor, something in the $250-300 CDN range, and probably ~22 inch. I'll be playing some PC games, but would like to...

There are so many reading in Speedfan, I'm not sure what to look at. And one of them seems abnormally high. Here's what they look like: Temp1: 48C Temp2: 39C Temp3: -1C HD0: 42C Core1: 42C Core2: 43C Core: 70C (?) Ambient: 0C I'm particularly concerned and confused by the 70C (with...

NVM - Tech is coming tommorow...We'll see what he has to say.

Lately my internet connection has been cutting out unpredictably. Some days it will cut out hardly at all, other times it will cut out every 10 minutes. It usually lasts 30 seconds to a minute, but seriously messes up any internet gaming. It’s probably been going on a month now. I called...

My brothers ATI 9800 AGP card busted today, started artifacting like crazy. My bro mostly plays WoW, War3 and similarly demanding games, but nothing too big. So we went over to Staples and bought an FX 5500 as a quick replacement, but it seems to be insufficient (it was pretty cheap, so it was...

Ok, sweet. I got My front audios working, used the manual to get the filters off (they were gross, but the inside of my computer was nearly dust free). I think I'm going to get this cooler for my CPU: Newegg.com - ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan with Heatsink - Retail and...

If it could mess something up I'm just not going to bother with solder. Maybe tape will work.... The back USB ports still work, so I won't be needing a new case or add in card. I also checked the online manual, and it did in fact have instructions on how to remove the grills (IIRC the...