Recent content by averagejoe

To some one who works in the electronics indistry this looks like a surface mount capacitor. What you could do is take the card to a local elctronics shop. They can solder wires about the same size as the leads to the cap and then to the board. THe wires should be no longer thane they have to...

I don't know what I realy mean. Just looking for ways to personlize, change things, and experimnet with the old lap top. As far as I have gotten so far is taking off the heat sink and putting on some good heat sink coumpound inplace of the pad. So far so good with that. Oh and have put...

What are people doing to mod thier laptops? Espicialy thier top lids. My old Dell insperion 2650 has some scratches and discoloration on the lid. It has had a hard life with its various owners. Would like to make it look preaty again with out havint to spend $100.00 for a new lid. Any...

tinyme works good on my old lap top but has small problems with streaming audio. From the same forum as tinyme thier is also PCFluxboxOS . Works good too and nothing fancy to take up too much memory,hard drive or time loading so may keep you cd rom cool.

Just recived a batterie from what I belive to be thr same manufacture but differnt Ebay seller. Ottoman Trade ships very fast from the USA for just a little bit more cash. It holds a charge well, dose not over heat or seem to have any other problems. I used to race battery powered remote...

If you need to use another distro instead of Ubuntu for hardware compatibility with your hard ware and even for ease of use try PCLinuxOS. The PCLinuxOS2007 is a rolling distribution. This means you do not have to reload it onto your hard drive every time they update the kernel. You can...

Ok were is the Superfetch off button :D. I did recently lose 1 gig of memory to a bad mother board. I thought it wise to use my old stuff and not the new good stuff to test a new motherboard. It went with a little puff of smoke and took out my vidieo card and memory along with the boad it...

I have too much acessing of my had drive when useing Vista Home Premium. I know it is a Vista or Vista driver problem as it dose not do this when useing PCLinuxOS on this same system. The hard drive is in almost constant use. Did not do this for the first eight months or so this system has...

First off yes I know intel is a better buy right now. The thing is unless you are going to give me a Intel CPU that is better than a AMD 64 x2 4200 I realy don't care if Intel is a better buy right now . As I all ready have a CPU that only needs a motherboard to complete a computer. Just...

If nothing else works try a SystemRescueCd. It is a free bootable cd which has hard disk partition tools such as Parted. The down load link is http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php You will be able to format the free space as fat16 or fat 32 if you wish. Yes I know this is a linux...

For all of you who wanted to know when this monitor went back on sale it is now. http://officemax.shoplocal.com/officemax/default.aspx?action=browsepagedetail&storeid=2420547&rapid=510734&listingid=-2092084506&pretailerid=-99861

Can;t win the lottery, Might as well try this.

If you can afford a 24 ips screen then get it. The Soyo 24" at $300.00 is a very good deal. I listened to every one saying how other screens are so much better and almost did not get the 24" Soyo from Office Max. As it was I went in the Saturday after Black Friday and they had one left in the...

I was lucky and was able to get one the Saterday after black Friday. After hearing about some having problems with it almost did not buy it. If I knew then what I do now I would have been standing in line at midnight to buy one. The only problem I have with it is the video card it takes to...

Problems that EVGA needs to see to. 1. Not posting or publishing about shutdown and extended wait time so people would know not to expect speedy service and waste money on fast shipping. Heck I emailed and when I did not get a good answer other than the standard policy line for the rest of...