Raven, You say the CPU was in the range of 59-71. (Celcius?) This is getting fairly warm for the CPU. It may be below the critical heat spec,...
Apart from Fred's not to subtle attempts at getting us to purchase his plus edition, I enjoy reading bits of his weekly "free" newsletter, and...
Interesting article Bob, even if the reviewer is sitting on the fence regarding which way to go. All I need now is an article to explain why...
SATA (Serial ATA) efectively replaces the old Parallel ATA drives, and are manufactured by most of the major brands as you mention. The PATA...
James, Your previous post suggests you are using a PCI Video Card? If so dump it and go AGP. You won't do a new fast system justice with an old...
Well said Jim, and as I said earlier. If the machine is used 24/7 in a 24/7 business or as a Web server leave it on. If not, like 99.99% of home...
If you have a second drive... easy it should install and setup as a dual boot system. Don't believe MS have installed a time bomb that restricts...
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm
Yes, Newts mention of cold boot/ warm boot is a term we use with the old PDP 1173 we STILL use at work. I like to use it as well when refering to...
James, The 235W power supply will be enough for a small(ish) system as long as you don't use a full complement of PCI cards and are not using a...
Yes agreed, SATA in real terms is only marginally faster than PATA. Although had I not bought a 40Gig PATA drive only 3 months ago for my old...
Power down (off) and restart (power on) is more detrimental to hardware as the power on "inrush current" can occasionally cause component...
Providing you haven't made any major hardware changed like a new mother board then you shouldn't have any major problems. The system will be very...
Christer et all, I had some recent issues installing a SATA drive along with a PATA second drive on my newly assembled system. BIOS would put the...
Think about the humble TV. Switched on and off two or more times a day for how many years (10,20 or in my case the old set has been going strong...
If the PC NEEDS to run 24/7, then reboot when installs suggest this, or stability issues seem to be related to uptime. At work we run 2K servers...
I would change to the new drive and use the old one as the backup/storage drive. 7200 is faster than 5400 and has the 8Mb cache that's faster than...
Sounds like a hardware device is incompatible. Suggest you remove ALL PCI cards and ALL externally connected hardware, except the graphics card...
Installed into a new case with 3! fans. side fan, blower fan on top of case and one in front of the hard drives. Temperature of SATA HD is now...
According to AIDA32 the drive hit 51 celcius with an average around 46. This is more of an idle temperature with a small amount of use after an...
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