Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

Finally got back into the rebuilding of the main PC and was a bit upset to realize that the motherboard has only one plugin for an EIDE hard drive while it has two for the SATA.  I hadn’t even thought … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Why make a CD/DVD Burner and not offer software that allows it to burn?  It took me hours to find a free download that would allow my neighbor’s unit to work–and this was just purchased–because Sony bought NEC and doesn’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is the toaster I’ve used for many years.  It hasn’t been manufactured since the 60s.  I found it at a tag sale and you know, I wonder how many toasters the folks who gave it up have gone through … Continue reading →

Sans hard drives, monitor, keyboard, mouse, the new pc still should have beeped when I plugged ‘er in.  No beep.  Likely it should have made many beeps, shrieking about the lack of keyboard, mouse, etc.  I’ll drag it into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And the mess until it’s born and learns to talk…

…when you can’t find your thermal paste? Continue reading →

Well that was easy; don’t know why I’ve been putting it off since August.  Went to replace the drive in my neighbor’s pc and once I saw what was originally in there, I switched the Plexor I’d gotten for her … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sitting here since Tuesday afternoon, two boxes of computer guts.  Itchy fingers want to dig right in and so I let them just to play around in popcorn like an archeologist discovering the bones of some great dinosaur in plastic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well I spent some time today under a self-established deadline (because I need one, it’s my nature) and ended up getting a barebones system that gives me 2 GB of memory, an Intel Pentium D 3.0 Ghz Processor, a 200-GB … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It never used to be this hard to upgrade but then again I never had to just replace a motherboard and CPU before.  And that’s where the problems merely begin. Form factor (ATX), Socket type (though the CPU and m/b … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Interesting article by Doug Eshleman at The Princetonian regarding the swing towards Macs evidenced by the incoming students choice.  This also makes the point that it might be worth waiting for the new Leopard (–is that what it’s being called?) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Something tells me that my laptop is fading and while I can revive it, I think there’s a bigger problem eating up its insides. So a fast fix on the main PC which I’ve been putting off in the face … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Amazingly, the burned-in line of the former desktop image has completely disappeared! Once I realized that a thin white jagged line across the bottom of the screen was not a scratch as it seemed to get longer and spread out, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even as I still hem and haw about the main pc repairs (meaning, which level of upgrade and repair is most cost effecient), the laptop was making me nervous with some little squiggle lines on the screen. It looked like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was happily surprised to find a comment by Morris Rosenthal, the author of a pc repair book I use and mentioned in this post. Even better, Morris is putting together one based on the same flowchart style for laptop … Continue reading → Continue reading →