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Correction: Otari Electric Co. not Otan

I have a quite a few old HD's including multiple of some on your list. I didn't start accumulating them till after HD's got in the multiple GB's so all of my really interesting ones are now lost forever. For example, I at one time had one of these IBM 2315 Disk Storage. Currently the oldest...

Isn't Germany heavy into subsidizing solar panels for the consumer? Perhaps, in their future view, they see solar as being a valid and safer alternative while nuclear is just too risky to be worthwhile long-term. Solar isn't ideal for you still need to deal with generating electricity when the...

Clarification to the new Intel 5Y SSD warranties: Your warranty ends when the smart E9 attribute (Flash wear-out indicator) goes to 1. The warranty does not include excessive writing to the point that the flash wears out regardless of how little time that took. Intel clarifies five year...

Since it is just for a very short time period try eggs (hard boiled is easy but can be in any form) and mashed/baked potatoes with some margarine. Gives protein, fat, and carbohydrates and is incredibly inexpensive. Long term it lacks veg/fruit and variety but short term it will keep his...

Is there anyone here that finds the Bookmarks block at the end of each thread of any value? I really don't see a need to advertise Digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, or Google unless we are getting a cut somehow.

I ended up pulling the trigger on this purchase. I really never found a compelling competitive alternative that I could purchase. Since I'm giving this as a graduation gift, I'm not going to be able to report back a review of the machine for I'm not the end user... As a totally independent...

I've really had much worse luck with Seagate than WD.

My there is a lot of speculation here. First, when your finances are precarious, is not the time to shop for a big purchase unless forced. Most people wouldn't consider a noise to be forcing unlike a dead motor. A purchase delayed is money saved! Even if the car does die in two years, that's...

I thought I was quite clear in my previous statement. Let me paraphrase - I see no advantage with the Z68 over the P67 unless you're interested in things that are advantageous.

Well, now that it has been released from the NDA's and there is some public information which would you want? From the person that obviously is not respected by you...

I really want to do mITX but the inability to put a big honk'n heatsink and OC a modern high performance CPU has stymied my urges.

I've used Outlook without Exchange for a very long time with absolutely no problems. I've heard the evils of Outlook since it was brand new but I've not experianced those evils. I will note that when the pst file gets very big (>2GB) Outlook will slow down to a crawl. I have kept every email...

P.S. I live in an apartment ...

I bought my stereo setup for my main HDTV. I bought a very inexpensive 1906 Denon AMP ($130) and Paradigm Cinema 90's ($850) from a local Hi-Fi store. I started with their recommendation from the maximum budget I supplied of $1000. I then compared it against several other choices (in their...

Whenever, I get consistently bad temps (w/o OC'ing) with a factory fan+heatsink then it has always been the thermal grease/paste application (i.e. user error). However other alternatives are that your heatsink isn't flat or that you didn't tighten it down properly.

You could swap the actual flash chips on the bad SSD with the flash chips on the good drive (making sure that the chips stay in the same order), assuming your soldering skills are very good. When done, see if the data can be seen on the the replacement drive.

Doesn't the logs of event viewer need to be refreshed manually if left up on the screen?

XP may be generally slightly slower, however on any given specific test it is quite possible for Win 7 to have been optimized to do well.

How do you know that the performance increase was the x64 capability as opposed to other differences between XP and Win 7?

How often do you all need to re-thermal paste your CPU's (if ever)? I just re-did a q6600 that had been running several years. It used to run all four cores in the low 50's@100% but it had slowly creeped up till it was in the high 80's when at 100%. I re-did it and now it is back down to the...

Isn't the z68 chipset about to be released (May 11th?). Why would anyone want the current crop of Sandy Bridge MB's with their old outdated chipsets in preference.

I disagree. While a good quality robust PSU has some good voltage tolerance built in there are limits. If the power is bad enough the only real solution is a top quality uninterruptable power supply that can deal with everything from a total loss of power to a full blown lightning strike. It...

You are correct a trade balance is not inherently a bad thing if they sell you back your money by buying our companies and treasuries. Other than the fact that you are selling off America so that eventually we won't be owning anything but rather just working our collective asses off to make the...

It is not a question what happens domestically if the debt ceiling is capped. What I was addressing was the effect on the international monetary exchange markets. Even the potential threat is a massive increase in risk from an economy that is historically considered very stable compared to...

It is my understanding that China (a major buyer of US treasuries) has recently (i.e. 2011) decided to limit its investment in those bonds causing a significant worry in the exchange markets for the US dollar. Lets face it that if the US can't find buyers for it debt that is potentially real...

Use credit cards to fund the short-term debt needed to buy parts. Custom orders, should always be at least 50% non-refundable pre-paid deposit especially with new customers or old customers with poor paying habits. If the man pays upon delivery, then you should easily be able to pay off the...

It should be easily testable. Just switch a working drive to the SATA port of the failed Hitachi drive. If it also fails then it is likely the port. If the Hitachi works in one of the high speed SATA ports then again it is the port but if it doesn't then it is likely the drive. I doubt that...

You still have to have x64 media. While I don't know about Lenovo, most OEM's don't ship media anymore. You are lucky just to get a free restore disk that will get your machine back to its startup state.

I'm sure that the outlet had only a very few, perhaps only one, and they sold them (it) to someone with a faster trigger finger.

That is the first machine that I think is actually competative. At $100 less an inexpensive SSD wouldn't be out of the question. I really wish it came with 64 bit Windows though so that adding more RAM would actually be useful. That being said, there are no more at that price.

All I can say is as I was doing my research at Best Buy, the salesmen/women were certainly striving mightily to convince people to upgrade from their starting point. When listening to the customers, they appeared to be quite naive and generally easily swayed by the salesmen's insistence that...

I'd consider it but there are issues. First is the concept of giving a used item as a gift but if it is a big enough price differential I can live with that. A bigger issue is that the discounts for a refurbished machine is not so large that a post-sale extended warranty wouldn't absorb it all...

I do note that she already has a notebook. An ASUS that she bought new for $175 and it is missing 4 keycaps. When I suggested that it really needs those replaced, she just replied that they still work she just has to press the nubs. To me, that is just plain unacceptable. Time to get a new...

I started out thinking Thinkpad, but to get at a similar price it wouldn't be even close to this functionality. The only Thinkpad's less that $500 I found were X120e and they really are in the Netbook category with large sacrifices in capability that I didn't think were acceptable. Just by...

I'm intending to give my niece, that is college bound, a notebook as a graduation present. Price matters, but so does functionality and reliability. Using my research a reasonable low-priced model to give would be a Levono B560 @$379 at Best Buy. Any significant gotcha's?

I thought it was WD that bought them out, rather than Seagate.

I'll ask what is the point of these drives? While I recognize that theoretically you can boot windows using 16GB, but you still need space for applications and data. So I feel that 40GB is the minimum useful size. You said that size didn't matter because all you were going to do is boot from...

I'm an outright believer in headphones for computers. If speakers are necessary, then route the sound and video through a home-theater and use those speakers with its screen.

I live in an Apt. that pays for water/sewer and garbage. They used to pay for Comcast TV+Internet but they decided to increase my rent by dropping that service. Electricity a steady $30-$40/month the rate is 5.2 cents per KWh Heat is via electricity but I've never needed to turn it on. TV...

OK, when I saw the problem occurring on a machine, I dutifully started the event magager and looked at the log. The Cause of the wmi process is svchost which does not really surprise me much since I can see that svchost.exe is also using up lots of CPU time (the wmi and svchost correlate with...

I like Microsoft's World Wide Telescope for my interactive synthesized telescope needs.

That hint has potential to be useful in this situation. Thanks!

I have several Win7 and WS2008 server machines and have noticed that frequently WmiPrvSE.exe and svchost.exe tends to use up a lot of CPU time. When I mean a lot, I'm talking 25%-35% total CPU usage (observed using task manager) using quad-core processors (q9450, q6600, etc.). Sometimes, they...

Ddrueding's "Event"

When my father died suddenly, the college he taught at payed out, to his estate, his entire salary for the remaining of his annual contract. This was in addition to the life insurance policy they kept for all their professors. I really don't think they were obligated to, for he obviously...

If I were to vote on the likelihood of what kind of hardware failure, I too would vote MB over the SSD. I agree, that the fact that it wasn't a problem with another MB is highly suspicious. You can't totally rule out a compatibility issue between Sandy Bridge chipset (Intel) or Gigabytes...

Not that I know of. That being said, I think I would test to see if not allowing the machine (not just the HD's) to go to sleep at all helped. I would also see if your CMOS setup has the ability to delay/stagger drive detection (Some SSD's are too fast and some MB's have issues with drive...

I would try to disable power-saving for your HD's and see if that helps.

Considering your choice of video card, I would go for the onboard video version of the Sandy bridge and save that money. I would also use the retail heatsink and fan rather than the Coolmaster and save that money. That should save you $100 which would enable you to get the 2600K which is a...