Re: How are Hitachi HD's for reliability these days?

They run cold, fairly quicky and deadly quiet.

Only issues I have found with them is that they vibrate a lot more than other drives, so make sure it's screwed in well.

Re: The beauty of modern hard drives

I've got a 64Gb SSD drive, but I would probably buy a VelociRaptor if I could go back in time.

SSD have major freezing issues, which has something to do with the way Windows writes to the drives. Apparantly Windows 7 will fix most of the problems however, but that means moving away from my beloved Win XP.

Re: Industrial Strength Spyware Remover



I do onsite repair so every minute saved is precious.

Doing a disk clean and removing temp files and cookies FIRST saves about 1 hour each job, no joke. Your computer is much quicker at deleting files than it is at scanning them for viruses and spyware, so if you do it first it means your scan programs don't have to go through a whole heap of junk each time, plus a lot of spyware/viruses sit in the temp files folders anyways so it's a good idea to clear them out....

Re: Industrial Strength Spyware Remover

I do this stuff for a living.

You need to run this king hit solution:

1. Boot into Safe Mode with Networking(Tap F8 just before Windows boot screen)

2. Go into control panel and choose classic menu on side, select internet options, then advanced. Click RESET to reset internet explorer back to defaults.

3. Download and install CCleaner run disk cleanup - Clears out your temp files, cookies and other stuff and makes scanning heaps quicker

4. Download Malwarebytes Antimalware,...

Re: Hello to all, first post and nc8230 hell

Got a laptop with exact same problem however I have the solution on how to fix it!

[url]http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us[/url]

HP/Compaq have made a ton of dodgy laptops(yes designed poorly!) all with 3rd party graphic chipsets, so if your laptop has a Nvidia or ATi graphics chipset you will be prone to the same problem.

The problem is not with the graphic chipsets themselves, but the cooling. HP has these chipsets connected to the heatsink,...