Recent content by WeezelDS

Well, I took a rest and masochistically decided to give it one more crack...at some point while googling somebody mentioned something about a program from a hdd manufacturer that would return the disk to factory settings....I found western digital's lifeguard program for doing diagnostics on...

I swapped in a brand new SATA dvd drive that has been confirmed as working on another machine. It displays the disk read error for the Vista CD, and all the XP CDs boot into a black screen. Also, I've tested all 4 copies of Microsoft's OS's on other machines, they work fine. I've swapped IDE...

Yeah, its stripped down as it is...I think i'm gonna borrow the dvd drive out of my friend's brand new machine...i know that one works...I'll give it a shot tomorrow... its just a non-stop battle to make computers work...like I don't upgrade or touch anything while its working, cuz every...

Thanks Joe, Just to clarify, the Sempron isn't overclocked...the video is factory overclocked...the memory just happens to have OC in its name, and its downclocked for stability... I actually have 3 copies of xp, all on different brands of disks...they all behave the same... I originally...

Yes, the correct hdd has the correct boot priority...This has been correct for all my tests, cuz I usually clear the cmos and this forces me to edit the boot priority as it always whines about not having a floppy to check on.... I've researched this problem on google for several hours and...

Hello, I've been tearing my hair out trying to get an OS up and running after my old hdd crashed. I have brand new copies of vista ultimate and xp pro sp3. I formatted my 320gig hdd w/ the xp install disk, but when i returned, it appeared to have restarted (after finishing the format?) and...

Its freezing in Pittsburgh right now, so I'm gonna miss the extra heat this thing kicks off in the winter keeping my room warm :\ ....also all the stickers it collected all over it after a decade of use thanks

Okay cool, thanks for the info...that seems like a good feeler Those KillAWatts look pretty sweet...

interesting...thanks for the reply... however, I wonder if anybody has done this w/ a CRT monitor as they are fundamentally different...also by a contrast of "60", did you mean 60 on a scale 1-100? Thanks again

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Hi all, I have a hulking 21" CRT ASTVision 20P refurb made in 1997, and I was thinking about how much electricity it sucks down and came up w/ a few interesting numbers. The back of the monitor doesn't say the wattage rating. It says "100-120V/200-240V 50/60Hz, 2.5A/1.5A". So, I figure using...