Recent content by excalibur313

Is there anyway I can just secure erase the hard drive from this point? I just want to be able to give it to someone else without worrying about them getting information.

Are there any suggestions?

I had a dual boot system with linux on one hard drive and windows on the other. I was being careless and I deleted the linux harddrive which had the information about choosing the os upon bootup. So even though windows is still there even if i tell it to boot from the windows harddrive it...

I have a laser printer at my house that is shared via an ethernet cable to the other computers in my house. I have this one for work though that connects to a vpn network outside my house. Not surprisingly, it doesn't see the printer when it is connected to the vpn but I was curious if there...

Yeah the same thing happened to me! I would love to be able to change it back.

Well I installed it and my immediate reaction isn't too good. When I stress it out it will hop between 52-53 C which is about 1C hotter than it did before. How long does it take for this pad to break in? Should i ditch it and go back to the arctic silver and live with it? Or is there...

Well I think that that version is different from the 2005 one. I was curious though. If i update mandrake through system preferences will that always be the most up to date version or how do I know when they come out with a version so revolutionary that I need to download isos and copy over...

I currently have mandrake installed and I'm interested in downloading a new version to update it. When I go to the mirrors to get the most recent one though i get something like this: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/mirrors/mandrake/devel/2005/x86_64/ It clearly isn't set up in a format to burn to a...

Will this thermal pad work with mine since it is amd? Should i consider a different heatsink besides the stock?

Sorry to keep bringing this back but I tried your suggestion. I cleaned off everything with isopropanol and put some on the heatsink and then wiped it off and then applied it to the heat spreader. When I do a burn in with my computer now it stays between 51-52 C. I know the temperature is...

So I should first clean it off with isopropanol or something similar? On the website it says that you only need to prime the heat sink for earlier versions of arctice silver but it seems like it still would help.

Should it be spread over the whole heat spreader or just the center?

Is this just a consequence of using arctic 5 instead of the pad that came with it or should arctic 5 cool the cpu just as much? If it is that I screwed up putting it on are there any tips for doing it correctly this time? When I put on the thermal compound i put a very very small amount (maybe...

Well I have two sensors in the case: one gets up to like 40 under load and the other gets to like 31 under load. The cpu got up to 50ish after running a benchmarking tool for about 5 minutes.

How much should my case temp deviate from my cpu?