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You need some thermal paste/compound between the sink and the processor before you go any further if it's not already too late. Clean the old off with a CPU and heatsink cleaner. I don't know about the monitor. Does it sound and look (the hdd light showing) as if your computer is booting up...

Today I tried connecting the "faulty" disc to the motherboard and power supply using the leads normally connected to the "working" disc. Still no joy. How could the computer have continued to install to the faulty disc? Is there a BIOS or whatever bug which could have caused this? – of the...

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OK, so I've gone into the case and tried disconnecting each of the hard drives in turn and it seems that when I disconnect the 10000 rpm 36GB drive the Fedora install disc will offer to let me shrink the partition on the 72000 rpm 500GB drive and presumably allow me to install there. But if...

I just tried updating the BIOS with ASUS EZ Flash and now I don't get the: Press DEL to run Setup if I keep hitting Tab or Del from when I switch on and otherwise still sticks on the motherboard flash page. Something similar here (though I haven't tried disconnecting the hard drive or done...

I have a 30GB 10000rpm disc and a 500GB 7200rpm disc on my machine. I had Windows 7 and Fedora 12 installed on the faster disc with the larger one as storage (for videos etc etc). Today I tried to install Fedora 13 on the fast one wiping off Windows 7 and Fedora 12 in the process. So I told...

No, just a Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz. Wouldn't dream of it. Actually I just successfully installed O3Spaces for the first time. Opening that up it went above 60℃ again.

That's basically with just a few applications open (Thunderbird, Firefox) but essentially running idle. Opening something up, e.g. VMware and another operating system with it, will force the temperature up something like another three degrees, but the temperature will then drop back immediately...

After a clean and new thermal paste: $ sensors w83627ehf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore: +1.19 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V) in1: +12.41 V (min = +13.46 V, max = +13.25 V) ALARM AVCC: +3.34 V (min = +2.03 V, max = +4.08 V) 3VCC: +3.34 V (min =...

Thanks for the input. The computer is now just over two years old and I have not cleaned the heatsink on it before, so perhaps it is indeed time.

My CPU has a heatsink and fan like: Installing an additional hard-drive I noticed that there was a considerable amount of grungy fluff on top of the vanes. I cleaned it off as best I could, got a stiff stencil brush and a tooth pick to clear out as much as I could from the vanes and set the...

Tried connecting my new computer to the monitor via VGA. Initial problems - horizontal position, a sort of moiré effect and character sharpness which, except the moiré effect, occur using VGA connection with my old computer – solved with a couple of pushes of the “Auto” adjust button, I cannot...

But shouldn't one get a clearer screen with DVI - isn't that the idea of DVI rather than VGA? The DVI KVM switch seems to be "only" about £15 - £20 dearer than a VGA KVM switch and would be more future proof, I would think. No, I'm not expecting to be able to set up file sharing, run one...

Except I'm now thinking it might be useful beyond setting up a network and not needing to have both running at the same time - maybe use the old computer for text/audio IM/Skype and general Internet searching at which it is perfectly capable and the new one for more advanced tasks.

The new computer video card has both DVI and VGA output terminals; the old computer has only VGA output. The monitor has both a DVI input and a VGA input.