Recent content by DASAstoria

Thanks for the tip. I cleaned out the inside, but it wasn't especially dusty. I'm wondering what you mean by the power supply getting weak or ready to die. Is that the unit in the back of the computer with the fan that blows air outside? Thanks again for the help.

I have an 8-year-old Acer Aspire desktop. The specs are here: ASE 380-UD440A Windows 7 32-bit SP1 AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.3Ghz 2 GB Ram The unit is a little underpowered, but it's fine for ordinary tasks. The problem is that recently something in the CPU starts running...

My computer is running fine but I did a Rootkit Check with Norton Power Eraser. (I know: why try to fix something if it ain't broke? I still have a lot to learn.) In any case, Power Eraser flagged a problem in the registry. It classified it as "Bad" and recommended that I remove it. After...

I recently put a new hard drive in a 7-year-old Acer Aspire E-380 desktop and then I updated the OS (Vista) to Service Pack 2. 1. Do I also need to go to Acer's website to update the drivers or were they updated automatically with the OS? 2. I plan on installing Windows 7 on the computer soon...

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the reply. I hope this isn't a foolish question, but I'm confused when you say, "You can format the new drive and then install the system and recovery discs." Do I format the drive before installing the discs, or will installing the discs format the drive?

The partitions on the hard drive (320 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA) of a 7-year-old Acer Aspire E380 desktop failed. I thought the right thing to do was to replace the drive and format the new one, because I have the factory system & recovery discs. I also have an OS upgrade disc that came with the...