Recent content by colin_bc

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    Laptop killing ssd's

    I just saw this and had to chime in. I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 laptop that has had 4 SSD's (all OCZ Vertex II, RMA'd repeatedly) go belly up within 6 weeks. I've had a couple more Vertex II's die in the same manner in a couple different PC's too. They work great until they go. Always...
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    Dell Vostro 460: 3rd monitor intermittent on on-board VGA

    Hi Diana, I have two Vostro 460's in the office, however I opted for the "AMD Radeon™ HD 6450 1GB DDR3 (DVI, VGA, HDMI)" video cards in the two I ordered. On one of the 460's, I'm actually running triple-monitors by using 2 ports on the AMD Radeon GPU, plus the built-in video on the...
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    Dell Vostro 460: 3rd monitor intermittent on on-board VGA

    System: Prebuilt Dell Vostro 460 MoBo: Dell Inc. 0Y2MRG A00 CPU: 3.40 gigahertz Intel Core i7-2600 RAM: 8GB GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6450 (1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA) OnBoard MoBo Video: 1x VGA, 1x HDMI OS: Windows 7 Professional Hi everyone, Here's my situation at work: I have a new Dell PC for one...
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    User screen resolution resets by itself

    I realize this is an old thread, but as I have spent hours on this issue, I thought I'd post the problem and solution as I found it. I had a coworker brought me his home PC to repair it. After replacing the PSU and getting the PC operational, I noticed every time Windows restarted, the...