running CHKDSK on a regular basis is not a bad idea though automatically fixing errors (/f switch) may preclude the ability to easily recover data...
in a mobile device we suddenly have a whole new set of variables as well as technologies. impact damage to a HDD is largely a derivative of the...
its what I do :P (errr.....did) Intel Pentium D Presler? 631 = 84 > 95 Watts thermal design power (Prescott 630 series at 84 but the Presler...
ignore the total wattage what you want is the model number\manufacturer (if given) the amount of amps on the +3.3V +5V and the +12V rails (which...
off and safely out of the way of "accidents" ;) :thumb: HDDs are a lot more robust these days, but treating them like unstable explosives...
Ive had sensors read as the most wild readings possible (-130C CPU for instance :o I wish :P) and its happened with most aps, sorting it out is...
what the hell :P a little "reliability" article Ive been working on about why to overclock and how it can kill (a work in progress...for a long...
seadog Id consider a click when your not actively trying to access data on the drive something worth hunting down and eliminating. The first...
Re: EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE QUESTION interspersed throughout the platter(s) on a HDD are what are called servo bursts, think of them as GPS markers,...
a broader quote sheds a bit more light ;) factor in that SMART has always been of limited utility value (it does what it does well, but is blind...
they are small system image caches you can get rid of them if you like http://www.pchell.com/support/thumbsdb.shtml there are a few hidden...
On my old Abit KR7A I bought an IOSS RD1 BIOS Savior for it. Luckily I never had a pressing need for it, but a dual BIOS is a must if your...
;D we had a short list of possible culprits I assume you had some sort of dual BIOS to reflash from? sorry you ended up with a 2nd FDD
well thats not good the quality of the builds of FDDs arent that great these days (as you might have gathered from the $10>$20 its replacement...
one should also keep in mind that there is typically very little "extra" power capacity in a cheap OEM computer Its been selected to do its job...
actually the FDD channel isnt part of the IDE channels and doesnt use either the ATA or ATAPI protocols (being a much older standard)...
W2K on this box Suse 10 on the other and a bootable Slax USB drive
so damn easy to get the cables backwards\inverted check the power, another cable till its recognized at the POST and by the BIOS its a physical issue
not till you tell us what it was :P
I actually don't see that the two assessments as mutually exclusive rather that they dovetail together. Microsoft as the driving force in...
from the safety of their Y2K bomb shelter valiantly fending off the jumbojets falling from the sky and the zombie hordes loose in the cataclysmic...
most software monitoring aps pull the basic temp data off the SMBus (System Management Bus) http://www.smbus.org/ but that has gotten a bit more...
actually they are pretty common of course they are buffered and ECC but most server boards require registered and error corrected RAM more to the...
stop teasing me *puppy* :P Im just happy that sometime in the future when I have the $$$ I'll be able to drop 2 dualcore opterons into my...
its a little hard to say what might have accounted for the shrinkage, not all the displayed MFT is normally employed. Most of it is "reserved"...
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