Recent content by Sophia

I have been pondering the H97 boards. I've used Asus in the past, but I don't have a strong brand preference. I have $250 maybe $300 in mind (not including Windows). I need at minimum a cpu, motherboard, ram, and a power supply, so I was thinking along the lines of G3220-ish, 4gb ram, solid...

The psu that originally came with it died long ago, so no worries there.

I have a lonely Antec SX630II case up in a closet. Is there any reason not to stick with it? Two front fans, one rear, no side ones. I confess I have dreams of m-itx, but I'm pretty frugal.

After looking at several major brands, I suspect I will find no "official" support for Vista whatsoever since it is no longer in "mainstream support". Perhaps that is not a bad thing since I should probably put that copy of Vista on an old XP machine I have.

As a starting point, I recently bookmarked this list of recommended psus at Tom's Hardware (but I don't know know enough about them to make a more specific recommendation).

I could use some guidance in choosing among the endless number of socket 1150 motherboards. I'm all for competition, but do we really need 321 variations (per Newegg)? o_O I doubt I'm up to date on all the newest features, but I'm looking for at least these things: ATX or mATX 1150...

I've been using Macrium Reflect Free Edition http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

After more mucking around with the stuff on the BootCD, I've managed to get the laptop booting again via some combination of deleting the partition, a fixmbr or two, and and re-running the Toshiba restore cd.

I have no fondness for restore cds either, but, alas, I only have a retail XP home cd and not an OEM one. I had wanted to do a repair install, but mixing retail and OEM versions seemed...unwise. Anyway, if I boot of the retail xp home cd--without actually installing anything--it says I...

janas19, It's a friend's laptop. The hard drive is Toshiba MK4026GAX, which I presume is the original. Thanks for the quick reply!

I have a Toshiba Satellite A55 laptop running Windows XP Home that won’t boot. When I received the laptop it would boot to the choose-your-flavor-of-safe-mode screen (normal, safe mode, last known good configuration, etc.) Selecting any of the options would just reboot the computer to the...

I know these go on and off sale all the time, but the lack of rebates is nice. Antec Neo Eco 400C - $35 Antec Neo Eco 520C - $40

I have two unused sticks of Crucial DDR2 PC2-6400 that I’ve been trying to test recently with no luck. The ram says CT25664AA800.Y16F and BL1117P.T2 First I tried it (the pair) on an Asus M3A78-EM motherboard with the Corsair XMS2 memory that I already had installed. Second, I tried it...

If you just need to open the file to read it, Microsoft makes "viewers" for its Office products. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/office-online-file-converters-and-viewers-HA001044981.aspx

Yes, each account uses the same resolution. The CRT turns off and on twice per switch--once when it switches to the screen that gives you a choice of user accounts and again when it switches to a particular account.