Recent content by Magnus Blade

A few days ago, a really horrible thunderstorm came through here, and lightning even struck a pole near us. This just so happened to knock our internet off the whole night (yet all the power remained on in the house, somehow), which made me believe it hit something on the line that affected our...

Well, I'm not making this issue up. It's happening, and it does do that. I have no idea why it drops and pick back up the next day like that.

Yep. It's DSL. I believe this router in particular is around... 2-3 years old? It may be age, because they've given us this same router for years when others of it's kind went defective. I'm surprised this Motorola lasted this long. We called tech support again this morning, since the...

Hello, Lately for the past several months, we've been having issues with connectivity, yet it's a tad different than the average "frequent disconnection" problem. And when I explain it, it kind of seems hard to believe. But trust me, it happens and this is just weird. Now, generally our...

Thank you for the link! And as for my hard drive space, it's a simple 500GB drive (It's got about 256GB available space at the moment). How big are partitions generally for an OS? I'll see if I can create one for this PC's OS. You are right though. It's not the best option, but anything to just...

Ohh, I see. I'll definitely have to keep that in mind then. Sorry if I'm asking too many questions (I'm still somewhat of a beginner), but how do I go about creating recovery media when I manage to get some clean DVDs? That does sound like my most convenient (and less expensive) route.

Hmm. Thanks for all the replies. I have a 16GB USB handy on me, but I don't think that'll be large enough for the OS backup, since 32GB is recommended (@Kenmitch: or was 32 an estimate?). But if it is too small, I could try the GNU/Linux route. EDIT: Sooooo...my dumb self didn't realize the...

Darn... I see. I only saved up enough money for all my essentials, so I unfortunately won't be able to afford another drive at this time. And I want to work on this in between the 30 day period in case something goes wrong. Guess I'll just have to hope and pray everything goes well. Thanks.

So, I had another concern arise when thinking about my new build. There should be no reason whatsoever if anything goes wrong with new PC after it's properly built, but if in the worst case scenario that something does happen, I'll be in a bit of a pickle. You see, I only have one hard drive...

Oh, thanks for the quick response. That's great to hear. Now I'm pretty much worry free about my project now. =)

Hey there. So, I plan on re-using my optical drive from my pre-built eMachines EL1360G desktop in my upcoming custom build, as advised in another topic I made a few weeks ago (I didn't want to necropost there, so I made a new thread). I do have one little concern, as I figured I'd try to get...

Hello, I have a new PC build that I'm satisfied with, and the very last thing I have to buy for it is the OS. I'm not very knowledgeable about OEMs, but I see that they are relatively cheaper than a Full version of a Windows product. Now, I noticed that several places like Amazon and NewEgg...

Oh wow! Yep, that's definitely my machine. Glad to hear I can cut the price down by a good bit. Too bad I'm not a student. Would have been nice to get a free Windows 8.1, heh. But that's still pretty reasonably cheap (as far as gaming PCs go)! Thanks for all the links and information. I'm...

Oh...I see. That is unfortunate indeed. I should have seen this outcome coming, but yeah, I'm less knowledgeable about this than I thought. Hm. Unfortunately, it is a pre-built system (from eMachines). I guess I'm really out of luck then. Thanks so much for your helpful responses, guys...

Hello, I'm new here. =) I'm not very tech-savy about what makes a computer good or bad when it comes to it's components, only by what I know from my brother. But I DO know that my desktop computer is quite terrible. Now, I've recently been dissatisfied with how weak my computer is for...