HA's PC Hardware Tech Support & Finds

[Badger]

Even x64 versions?

[HurricaneAndrew]

Even x64 versions?

Yeah. All versions of XP can only handle 3GB of RAM. It's really just overkill to have 3GB even. XP is MUCH lighter than Vista and 7.

Plus it's a 10 year old OS. What do you expect?

[Badger]

Then what's the point of 64-bit version of XP?

[HurricaneAndrew]

I feel like a serial killer...


You know those little "Design for ..." stickers on the front of PCs...?






Those are from PCs that I have disassembled in the last two months roughly.

Creepy, isn't it?

[Badger]

Aha, now this is a hardware problem!

My DVD/CD drive has been doing this

to my discs, recently. It does it whenever it tried to read or write to the disc, seemingly, although I'm not sure. It leaves the discs unusable. Is there anything I can do that doesn't involve buying anything or sending my PC away?

[TeamXtreemer]

Aha, now this is a hardware problem!

My DVD/CD drive has been doing this

to my discs, recently. It does it whenever it tried to read or write to the disc, seemingly, although I'm not sure. It leaves the discs unusable. Is there anything I can do that doesn't involve buying anything or sending my PC away?

lazer burn
get a new lazer.

[HurricaneAndrew]

Aha, now this is a hardware problem!

My DVD/CD drive has been doing this

to my discs, recently. It does it whenever it tried to read or write to the disc, seemingly, although I'm not sure. It leaves the discs unusable. Is there anything I can do that doesn't involve buying anything or sending my PC away?

What TX said. Not much you can do without buying parts. If you have an old turd PC with a drive in it, you could swap it out.

[TeamXtreemer]

id suggest installing everything you have on the broken discs when you fix it, the broken discs will still play the files if they're installed.
as long as you install the files with working ones (borrow or whatever).

[Badger]

They were blank discs, luckily. I was trying to put Ubuntu on them, I'll have to use my USB instead.