Recent content by dannyc75

The hard drive on my 7-year-old Dell Dimension 9200 (DXP061) is failing so instead of replacing the drive I was thinking of getting a new PC - my old PC didn't come with Vista installation disks and my DVD tray is jamming anyway. Can you get a half-decent PC for around £300 these days? I...

It was the graphics card - I replaced with a Radeon HD7500 and the PC works perfectly again. Noticed when I was taking out the old graphics card that the fan was clogged up with dust so I imagine it must have overheated one two many times...

I've got a fairly old Dell Dimension 9200 (DXP061) with two internal hard drives - both Samsung 320 GB (SAMSUNG HD321KJ). If one is failing, can I move all my data to the other and remove/replace the failed one? I'm getting this message on my desktop: 'A drive in a RAID 0 volume is failing...

I'm replacing the graphics card on my 6-year-old Dell Dimension 9200 (it was an NVIDIA 8600 GTS) but I'm not sure if the latest graphics cards will work on my PC as it's so old! Are PCI slots still the same as they were in 2007, and would my computer provide enough power for the new card? I...

My Dell Dimension 9200 won't start and I get the diagnostic lights 2 and 4. I get lights 1, 3 and 4 on startup, with no beeps, then the fan sounds like it's about to take off and I get lights 2 and 4. The PC manual says lights 2 and 4 means a problem with the graphics card - in my case an...