Computer Repair n Tips

Looks as if you have tried all the normal stuff. Could be bios I suppose, but that is rare to happen. If you have not already I would check sata (or ide) cable/ribbon and the sata port (or pins) for both HDD and optical drive. If you are sure it is not the media or the optical drive make sure there are no overheating issues - this can cause a slow or no install. I can say that 9 out of 10 times an extremely slow install is almost always 1 of three things: hdd/media/ram - run a memtest if you have not and are able. Good luck let me know how it goes.

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Derek, the new cooler, is now in situ.

I'd expected a noticeable temperature drop but wasn't prepared for 25C lower at full load in Turbo Mode, and in near silence too.

Why on earth do Intel (and AMD, my old Phenom had a crappy cooler too) cut corners with their high performance gear? Apparently the stock 4670k cooler is the same as the Ivybridge chip's and Haswell runs at a higher temperature.

Derek is a hefty bugger and won't fit in all cases but he was only £25. I'm sure Intel and AMD could find a compact solution but that might swallow some of their profit margin.

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What is everyones take on Water Cooling? I have never used it, to be honest I have never really needed it but one thing I would like to do in the future is more production of Video and Photography.

It tend to do editing on my mac and I am intending to upgrade the ram from 4GB to 8GB but I would like to on my main rig make it not only into a full blown editing suite but also network all of my computers. Any advice would be appreciated.

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If you're not doing any serious overclocking, then its a waste of money. You could build a budget gaming rig for the cost of the water cooling components.

Never felt the need for it, then again the most stressful thing my PC will do is gaming so I'm not the target market for water cooling. I've got a few friends who are into Maya and video editing and they've been running liquid cooling for years. Then again, these guys would drop two grand on a specialist graphics card which would struggle to play any of the modern AAA releases.

I actually toyed with getting a Corsair Hydro instead of Derek and that seems like a handy little half way house between air and full liquid cooling. It's nicely priced too, but I just didn't feel the need for it.

One of the mates menitoned above just bought a NAS box for networking, by the way. One of these but not sure which. He showed me round it the other day and I must admit I was tempted. My music drive in the PC is rapidly filling up and the thought of dropping it all into one central hub is appealing.

great, find some knowledge here...

We all buy junk sometimes. With me it's usually getting suckered into whatever Amazon are advertising when you're buying something worthwhile.

I was buying a mouse for the spare PC the other day and spied this little beauty. It arrived this morning, before the mouse.

Behold! Super Clean! The High-Tech Cleaning Compound!



Not at all the green slime you got at Halloween when you were a kid to make it look like you had serious sinus problems. Oh no!

You slap it on to whatever needs cleaning, especially things with lots of hard to reach nooks and crannies like keyboards.



Wait a few minutes:



Wait some more:



Then peel off:



Yeah. They saw me coming.

Did it come with a tiny, little Steve McQueen?

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Ha. Awesome.

Since you resurrected this, my second monitor went out, so I'm bought a used replacement (got here yesterday) and a big ol' 27" primary one (arriving today). Been thinking of upgrading monitors for awhile. Worried 27" might be overkill, but we'll see.

27" should be epic.

My monitor's the oldest part of my setup and have been debating recently whether to save up for a new one or not. I think that if I do I'll push the boat out and either get a 120HZ or a 4k one. Siding more with 120HZ at the moment but that may change as I can't see myself doing anything for another year or so.

You know what I'm like about my 60fps and it'll take a heck of a machine (and a GPU which has a Display Port out, and I've no idea if mine does) to do 3840x2160 consistently.

Yeah, the way you're on about framerate, you seem like a good candidate for a great monitor.

One of the things that's discouraged me before is that most affordable monitors of a large size seem like they lack a corresponding resolution. So they're just "blown up" rather than maintaining a similar pixel density per inch. Hopefully this won't be like that.

Easy to forget how much old monitors fade, too, until you get a new one.

No such thing as overkill with that first monitor.

Taccy, did you follow ALL the instructions on that bag? "DO NOT RUB, JUST PRESS! DO NOT PASTE TOO LONG!"

And most importantly: "DON'T EAT!"

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Meanwhile, I am still holding off opening up my main desktop computer to upgrade the graphics card and power supply. I can't seem to find a whole day when I *know* I can do without it. The dual-monitor setup on the desktop computer is perfect for typesetting, so I hesitate to do without it and use the laptop if something goes majorly wrong. I've had the parts for months.

Wish me luck... and a lot of bravery... and maybe I'll actually get around to it this weekend.

*burp* Eh?

Chris - A monitor's something that you use for hours on end so I've always been careful when choosing a new one. Mine's a 24" 1080p/60hz which is 3D enabled - I only bought a 3D set because they had an offer on and it was the same price as a non-3D one.

The one thing this monitor's taught me is that, objectively, 3D is crap. Snake oil for electronics companies. What next? Curved screens? Oh...

I want natural colours too, not loads of enhancement settings. 'Pop' is anathema to me when it comes to TVs etc - I want what the director and cameraman saw, or near as dammit.

You should just follow my pictorial guide from earlier in the thread. That way you won't need luck or bravery. You might need good insurance, however.

Monitor's here, and I'm using it now. Good gravy, I don't even know how to use this thing. I feel so conscious of having to tilt my head to look from one side of the screen to the other. I guess I'll need to rethink my whole setup here to see if I can sit a bit further away from it.

Nice! What brand is it, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm starting my mental checklist of 'what's good' and 'what's not'.

ASUS MX279H.



I'll let you know if it's good, I 'spose. Right now the color looks a little washed out but I haven't played with any of the settings or brightness. I just know it's huge. That and it's got an impressively small outer bezel. And it's really thin--so thin it needs an external power block before going into the outlet.

My experience with anything by Asus over the years - my previous PC had an Asus mobo, graphics card, sound card and DVD drive - is that they're great quality bits of kit. My friend who bought the 4 grand PC a few weeks ago also went down the Asus route.

Is there an alternative to a microfiber cloth to clean or dust an LCD screen?