Recent content by anonymousal

Re-tightening worked, the vibration stopped. I'm kind of loathe to try any maintenance myself without advice these days since every problem I fix creates another one. Case in point that when I logged back on one of my external drives was having problems. I did the windows diagnostic and then...

A week or so ago I fixed a problem with some hardware on my tower (thanks to a user here) and a few hours after fixing it, closing up the case and starting up I noticed a low hum sound. Any audio playing on the computer drowns out the noise but it's annoying without headphones. The noise is...

For anyone coming to this page from search engines. I first tested with a friend's older GPU and it worked fine from what I could see (no more artifacts). Then I replaced it with a new GTX 750TI and installed the included CD drivers and had no further problems. The problem was definitely the...

Could it be the motherboard instead? Some people with a similar problem reported a busted capacitor and another entirely replacing their mobo fixing their issue. The majority had people tell them to upgrade/replace their card though. I don't want to use money on a new card only to find the...

While playing a graphics intensive MMO my GTX 570 would sometimes fail (screen turn black) but Nvidia's desktop component would say it recovered and I'd have no further problems that day. It failed and recovered maybe 5 times since November last year. There was also one hard reset before this...