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  1. Cluttermagnet

    View Files In Restore Archives?

    I'm working on a friend's HP Pavillion 8754C computer running WinME. It has a 30G HD and 192M of RAM. The CPU is an 800MHz P IIIE. I'm not very familiar with ME. I'm wondering if there are any search tools which allow you to look inside the archives and selectively fetch files. I'm trying to see...
  2. Cluttermagnet

    What is the difference between heat sink compound and themalgrease?

    As I mentioned before, both mating surfaces should be coated with a thin even coat of heatsink compound. With a thin coat, there would be no danger of any excess getting into the IC pins area. I would not rely on most heatsink mounting methods to cause a 'blob' of the material centered in the...
  3. Cluttermagnet

    What is the difference between heat sink compound and themalgrease?

    The two terms are used pretty much interchangeably, so far as I have seen. That being said, there are a couple of different types. The more basic compound is a silicone-based gel that comes in a tube and is semi-transparent. It does help increase heat conduction between a heat source (IC) and a...
  4. Cluttermagnet

    Get message; "CMOS Battery Low"

    When the battery in my old 486-66 Win95 box started to give out, I found that I could still get the computer to boot up by making a few simple choices in the BIOS such as to auto-detect drives, etc. When this stopped being fun, I actually changed the battery. In my case, it was a 2/3 AA size...

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