So I've built a few computers and installed a few operating system but this one has me completely stumped.
My room mate's computer was slow and had random red pixels in the black spaces, games would load but go all off-pink and what not. I wasn't sure what the problem was but we decided to...
thank you all for your replies. I am going with the 3 locations method. The safety-deposit-box, someone else's house, and my own house in fire-proof saves will at least ease my mind. The chances of both the bank and my local home getting hit by some kind of disaster are, for sure, a real...
I won't actually be accessing this information for probably 10 or more years. Hence I cannot really store it online as there is no gurantee the site will still be up after all that time. Also, this is off-site storage. I just want to cover all the bases I can.
Hi all,
I am still quite the PC novice and would like to store a back-up hard drive I have. I was thinking of throwing it into a fireproof safe, but then I started to get worried about "what if the temp inside the safe gets so high it damages the drive?"
Is this fear unfounded or reasonable...
Thank you for your expertise Hefemeister. You are a gentleman and saint, worthy of emulation.
Looks like I've got a processor to sell as New Egg does not accept returns on stuff like this. Case closed I guess, thanks again Hefemeister.
I appreciate the speedy reply and the nifty program, but I can't run that without the processor in the unit.
This isn't an upgrade, it's a blind buy. The computer is not yet operational and my other machine is a laptop...
Hi all,
I am still a novice at building PCs and I think I made a major mistake. I bought a barebone PC and had to buy a CPU to go with the PC's mobo. I saw it covered " Quad Core Phenom" processors so I bought a Phenom II (See the problem?)
Now I need to know if my Phenom II will work with...