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I had a similar problem with an older system a while back. Turned out the hard drive was to blame. I use a program called spinrite that found and relocate a handful of bad sectors at the beginning of the disk. The system ran for quite a while after that without problems (at least until the...

If the MBR is corrupted or damaged the notebook may not recognize the drive as it is the only one. In the external drive enclosure windows can often find and read it. I have had this happen more than once. However, I would backup everything on the drive ASAP as usually the MFT starts to...

It sounds as though the backlighting is going out. As far as I have seen it is fixable. However, replacing the backlighting on most lcd screens is not and easy thing to do as the ccfd is usually tightly integrated into the panel. In most cases if you were to take it into a service center they...

Could also be an IRQ conflict. But would need more info to really say anything for sure.

Arch works really well on my P3 400 with 128Mb ram. Just be careful with which desktop environments you chose. I would suggest XFCE4 (personal favorite) or Fluxbox as both are easy to setup, use very little memory and have detailed HowTo sections in the ArchWiki.

When using FreeNAS from the CF/IDE adapter route just make sure you use the proper install option for that. I have noticed that it does boot faster from the CF setup in the event you have a power failure (been a regular thing here with all the storms as of late) or should ever need to reboot...

Also you might check the Accessibility options. If I recall correctly there was at one time a feature that acts like what you were describing. It worked sort of like the "sticky" button option for the keyboard. I could be wrong as it has been a while since I have done anything with the...

Sorry for the long delay as I was out of town for work. Came back and tried genomon's idea and no dice. Same problem. Tried linney's link and so far so good. However, just a basic reinstall has worked for a short while in the past. I am looking a link that G0AOZ suggested as I would find...

The Nvidia drivers are not usually included as they are closed source (but still free) drivers. Try this: http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ It worked for installing the for the older GeForce 4000 in my daughter's computer.

I am not sure if this is a windows problem or what! Girlfriend's mother has an HP computer running Win XP Pro (I think). Her HP office jet all in one printer works fine most of the time. However, in the last couple of months it will stop printing anything. The print jobs will just pile up in...

If it is easy you are looking for go with Ubuntu. The 7.04 Server version runs quite well on a system I have with similar specs at home. The setup is very straight forward and a LAMP setup is a standard install option as BiJae said. The only drawback to the server version may be the lack of a...

I have a Dell laptop with a similar connector on the hard drive. However, mine comes off. I just had to pull rather firmly on it to remove it and then just plugged it into the new drive.

Also you should make sure the BIOS allows for booting from a USB device.

SATA drives should all be identical. It is a standard like IDE or PCI.

Mine is very quiet! But it very much depends on the radiator and pump setup. However, there may be cheaper means to get a silent PC. For example, using a single larger fan that spins at a lower RPM (i.e. quieter) still moves the same amount of air as two smaller higher RPM fans. The liquid...

The only time I know of that a discreet sound card will help for gaming performance is the XFi cards from Creative. They are the only ones that have a dedicated processor for handling audio processing. But all of the reviews I have seen only up game frame rates by 1-2% (maybe 1 to 10 FPS...

On my parent's computer all I had to do to get the drive to open was slip the front bezel off of the drive tray. Just hold both sides of the bezel with your thumbs and lift up while holding the tray with your fingertips. Shouldn't take much effort. Just be careful not to flex the tray. It isn't...

could try: http://www.stresslinux.org/index.php meant to "burn-in" a system from a Live CD. just run a few of the basic tests to run a "normal" workload sim. As it is a live linux distro it doesn't make a difference what the host OS is.

Does the BIOS recognize the drive? If so I would try a different recovery program first. If not the controller swap might just work and usually isn't all that hard. As for any further internal DIY work, most drives I have seen do not have the clearance to pull the arms back far enough to get...

I have used it many, many times to recover data from otherwise dead drives with a great deal of success. The only thing it can't do is recover from data from a mechanical failure (ie. click of death or bios won't recognize, etc). Otherwise it has never let me down! As for it being a proactive...