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Comment on Upgrade Your Motherboard Without Reinstalling your OS by Paul Spraglin

Paul Spraglin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:42:41 +0000

I am currently running an AM2+ mobo (770 chipset), Athlon 5000+ cpu with 4GB ram. My new Gigabyte AMD 970 mobo will be here in a day or two and will be installing an Phenom II X4 960T cpu and 8 or 16GB ram. I mainly just want my data (pics, music, etc..) saved. I’ll be trying your process in a few days. I’ll probably be doing some backing-up to be on the safe side though. Thanks for the info and will keep you posted.

Comment on Cleaning a Laser Printer by Scottie

Scottie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:10:40 +0000

Uh-oh, that would be the imaging drum, I think. Usually it’s shiny green or blue. If it were me, I’d try to wipe it with alcohol with a soft, lint-free cloth. On the bright side, if you need a new imaging drum, you can’t make it any worse.

Comment on Cleaning a Laser Printer by Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:07 +0000

I accidently touched the drum surface (the shiny part that has the “DO NOT TOUCH” sign). I have one of those printers where the toner part is separate from the drum unit (the new Brother printers come this way). Is there a way to remove that ugly finger smudge that shows up every time I print something? Is alcohol safe on that surface? or will it ruin it?

Comment on The Difference Between Neutral and Earth Ground in AC Installations by Saif

Saif — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:58:30 +0000

This article really helped me out. It is written so well! Thanks a lot mate.

Comment on Seagate Agrees with Scottie about Green Hard Drives by Roseanna

Roseanna — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:54:06 +0000

Good point. I hadn’t tohught about it quite that way.

Comment on The Truth About the Performance and Capabilities of Intel’s GMA 500 by Scottie

Scottie — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:11:48 +0000

Absolutely!! I just upgraded a friend’s lappy. It has a Core 2 Duo and 3GB of RAM. It was kinda old, but it had Vista. I put Win 7 on there, and WOW there is a huge difference. I’m pretty sure even Win 7 still doesn’t have full support for the GMA500, but that may have changed with various Windows/driver updates since I wrote this post. I would encourage anybody – no matter what kind of puter you have – to ditch Vista and go with 7 like yesterday.

Anyway, I’m glad to hear that somebody got their GMA500 to perform well without having to resort to backflips and magic tricks!

Comment on The Truth About the Performance and Capabilities of Intel’s GMA 500 by Adam

Adam — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:47:40 +0000

I just thought I’d throw my 2c in here. I currently have an Acer Aspire One 751h. It has a 1366X768 display, and Pretty much fromt he start it has barely been able to run Microsoft Word, much less play any YouTube videos even at lowest quality. It had Vista preloaded when I bought it, which probably didn’t help much.

However, I finally got HD videos to play pretty smoothly, but only, and I mean ONLY with Cyberlink Power DVD. No WMP or VLC, just powerdvd. Worked fine for a while, and only with certain codecs.

Well, after giving up on it when school ended (didn’t need it for class anymore), it sat around on my shelf for a few months, then in a drawer somewhere, and ended up in my camper, totaling about a year’s worth of minimal Google searches.

But about a month ago, I decided that I just can’t let it go to waste, I mean the screen is just so beautiful for an 11.6″. So I caved and put Windows 7 on it. I… was speachless, to say the least. I can now play 1080p video, in just about any codec, absolutely lag free at 60fps, while the computer is connected to a second monitor, watching a YouTube video, WITH NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. I mean, it’s truly like a new computer! It’s super reliable, super snappy, and will run just about anything, aside from most 3D games Halo Combat Evolved or better.

ANYONE who has a GMA500 would absolutely END the frustration with Windows 7. It’s still nothing like it should be, but you know what, being able to play 1080p videos and 480p youtube videos at the same time on a computer this small is just beautiful in my book.

Comment on Why You Don’t Want a Green Hard Drive by Seagate Agrees with Scottie about Green Hard Drives | Scottie’s Tech.Info

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Comment on Upgrade Your Motherboard Without Reinstalling your OS by will

will — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:24:38 +0000

you are a champion!! thankyou so much for posting this guide – saved me a lot of work

Comment on Upgrade Your Motherboard Without Reinstalling your OS by Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:59:55 +0000

I cannot believe this actually worked! I just built a new system (Asus Crosshair V Formula mobo, AMD FX 8150 8 core CPU, 16 gig DDR3 RAM…). My old system (gateway mobo with AMD phenom x4 9100e with 6 gig of DDR2 ram) died but the data in my two hard drives were still intact. I did as the instructions described but I got a BSOD on my new pc (with the old hard drives). I checked the CMOS on my new computer and changed the SATA to IDE and it worked!! Even though my old hard drives are sata, they worked as IDE in CMOS. I am now running my new computer with all my data intact!! Thanks and I will definitely remember these steps when I have to upgrade my wife’s computer.