Recent content by Gregg Eshelman

Does anyone have some idea of the largest capacity drive an old Western Digital MyBook WD3200C032-002 enclosure can take? I got one for free with a very dead (motor doesn't spin) 320 gig WD drive. I connected an old 160 gig SATA drive to it and that worked so the USB to SATA and power board are...

I decided to upgrade the CPU from an FX-6100 to an FX-6300 because I saw that two people had done so with the Asrock 770 Extreme 3 and posted to userbenchmark. With the knowledge that the CPU would work, I went hunting for one at a sane price on eBay. I determined I would not pay over $35...

I had a 3TB MyBook drive on which the 12V protective shunt got shorted by accidentally plugging in a 24V Dymo Turbo 400 power supply. Removing the shunt from the drive restored it to working. (Great job, WD, putting over voltage protection only on the 5V line for the USB adapter!) While I had...

No, it's NOT 'dead simple'. I mentioned that the IDE controller gets hidden when booting from USB. Please READ EVERYTHING people write before replying.

Because the CNC control software must have absolutely uninterrupted, 100% control of the serial port. NOTHING can get in the way even for a millisecond or the milling machine stops. It's a safety thing. The S30 is also small, so I can mount it on the back of the mill instead of having to park...

I need to install DOS to a 64 megabyte IDE SSD while it's connected to an IDE-USB adapter plugged into a Windows 10 x64 computer. 64 megabytes, not gigabytes. DOS is *tiny* stuff. The target system is a WYSE S30 thin client. It has USB ports and can boot from USB to flash the SSD, but it...

AM2 is compatible with AM3 CPUs, if there's a BIOS update for them. AM2+ is compatible with AM3 CPUs. AM3 can be compatible with the AM3+ Bulldozer/Zambezi and Vishera CPUs. S1 CPUs fit into S2 sockets. The sockets are physically the same. But what about electrically?

What's the cross compatibility among AMD S1, S2, and S3 CPUs? I don't expect the earlier sockets to support the newer CPUs, but will the newer sockets support the older CPUs? Or is it like the three or four generations of mobile Intel CPUs that all share the same 478/479 pin socket but are...

What I find crazy is the high prices people are asking for the pre-1000 series nVidia GPUs when a new GTX1050 goes for as little as $100 and will meet or beat most any older model.

Of course a few minutes later, some deep Googling finally turns up the info, after a couple of hours of completely useless "hits" that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with HP/Compaq laptops...

I have an old Compaq NC6000, it works but I suspect the battery is getting weak. I can't find anything online that explains all the information in the battery status in the BIOS setup. BSN, obviously the serial number of the battery 00159, and the date 10/14/2004. Then there's C1 C2 C3 ME CC T...

I have an FX6100 on an Asrock 770 Extreme 3, the board on which I had the Phenom II x2 555 unlocked to 4 cores. Performance of the FX 6 core is very underwhelming. On multithread it has only a tiny boost over the Phenom II. On single thread it's slower. A dual core i5, probably even an i3, will...

I'm going to have to pick up a real 4 core Phenom II for it. I have a x2 555 Black Edition that's unlockable to x4 - but not on this board.

I want to max out a two DIMM board to 8 gig without breaking the bank buying RAM the CPU can't run at its maximum speed. The board is a Biostar N68S+ Says it supports DDR2-1066 but do any of the supported CPUs actually benefit from that high (and high priced!) speed RAM? DDR2-800 is much lower...

I have a 500 gig 2.5" SATA drive on which I know are some bad spots. I want to QUICKLY scan it and mark the bad sectors without wasting any time on recovery attempts. There's nothing on the drive and it's been given a quick format. If I try a full format it fails partway through. Attempting to...