Recent content by cryptotooth

Hi. I have recently been given a 120mm liquid cooler from a friend as part of a job lot of junk. Among the lot was a cooler branded something like "alphenjon wasser" . Upon testing it does actually work and keeps an FX 8350 under 40c easily. I'm just wondering if anyone has used or heard of...

Hi! I am now in possession of a Pentium 133, 64mb simm ram and 1gb hard drive, currently running Windows 98se. I have a sound card and ethernet adapter all working well, but for the purpose of a YouTube video my question is, doesn't anyone know what software or tweaks I can use to get this pc...

Thanks again. After some searching around the internet Ive found that you are most likey right, and HDDs for this PC are into the hundreds before shippng, so I guess its find an old system the same or keep it as a basic antique piece... It was a good project idea but hey ho... Thanks again for...

Thanks for the advice. You're probably right. Maybe it isn't really worth taking so far. However, I do have a server SCSI PCI card lying around with a cable, but I doubt the PC would like to work with it, yet alone the 17GB drives I have. Just wondering if I could get some sort of alternative...

I have recently got my hands on an IBM model 50 PC, and initially it would boot fine into DOS 622, however not load Windows 3.1 as the HDD was full of bad sectors. My aim was to restore this PC, however today, the HDD randomly died and the error code 10483 is shown, apparently meaning that the...

I got 128mb in 2 64mb simms from ebay, but when I installed them i nthe machine, the POST memory test only shows 32mb installed, and running one stick causes the machine to not post so I assume these are paired sticks. If I install my old RAM too the PC sees 64mb installed, so it can't be a mobo...

I have an old soyo 82430VX/P54C PCI motherboard that I'm trying to restore and upgrade to use for some tests, then donate to a museum, but I'm looking at 128MB RAM on ebay, and see that a lot of the memory available has a 60ns access time, but this board says in the manual that it needs 70ns...

I've seen a lot of listings on ebay that advertise a scrap or crushed PC for £5 with a COA for windows. You apparently buy the whole machine and they send you the COA in an envelope to use on your PC without the machine it came from. Is it legal to do this? Apparently the key is valid as long as...

I have had my cse for a while and have only ever used 1 HDD in it at a time, and don't know where my other screws are for it, or if I even had the in the first place. They are like long screws with a rubber wheel on them which slots into the drive caddy and you screw them in with a thumbscrew if...

I think I may have solved this now, and it does update, however a lot of memory is used in the update process still. I got an update for the Wupdate client on microsoft.com and removed an already installed update which apparently causes it. I got over 200 updates and it downloaded them in a few...

Hi! This is really beginning to annoy me now and its been happening for over a year now. Every time I install Windows 7 on any machine I get a problem, literally just after installation or after hours of running where the windows update service goes haywire and creates a massive memory leak...