Recent content by dfusco

When installing the motherboard, do NOT over tighten the screws! The motherboard is made up of several layers with circuitry on each one. Do not crush them together. Just tighten them until firm. This is not the time to prove how strong you are, be smart.

It looks like they are giving up on taking on the Tablet market. At 12" and 1.8 pounds it's too bulky and heavy. So now they try to take on the Notebook market as the device slowly morphs into an ultrabook.

I have built AMD systems for peple that are still running 6, 7 and 8 years later. I have never had a CPU (AMD or Intel) up and die on me. Though I have killed few by my own stupid actions :)

The laptop is toast. Remove the hard drive and install it into an external case that plugs into a USB port. That way you can plug it into your new laptop and recover your data. Afterwards use it as a backup as you sound accident prone :) Remember: wine spills are not covered under warranty.

Go with the 2nd 660, it is provides best bang for the buck.

I,m sure it will be like the contract change. "We have this great new program! Yes for everyone! Eh? Well everyone except the scum that have existing contracts,. That trash needs to shut up and continue to toil away! They think that just because they have been with us for years and years they...

Good!

Let us know if it works.

Swap the memory(RAM) between to two machines and see what happens.

Go with the GTX 660 it's fast, efficient and in your price range. You can't go wrong.

GTX 660

Time for a new computer. No way is it worth putting money into a 12 year old system. That it lasted 12 years is impressive, you got a great return on investment, but it's time to move on.

CryioI think people are retarded thinking the whole OS is simply broken, nonfunctional and incompatible with everything simply because the Start has a different interface. How nice of you to break that lamprey like lip-lock you had on Balmer's butt to come over here and insult the immense...

Oh sure ANOTHER tax break for the RICH. I hope the Democrat Senernators put a hefty tax on the internetwebs that increases 1000% a year just so those rich BASTARDS don't use the innernettubes more than me.