Recent content by Martinrub

I ran Spinrite from the boot cd on my 3 year-old Vaio on both its new ssd and its original hard drive. On both occasions it hangs at Initdisk. The only thing you can change in the BIOS is CPU C3/C6 stuff, Intel Virtualization, boot sequence and passwords. No SATA/IDE stuff. There's...

I looked at the list of programs allowed to communicate through the Windows 7 firewall. Soluto, Dropbox, Webkit, Teamviewer, iTunes, Core Networking and Network Discovery were listed. Seeing Microsoft's mild warning that any program allowed through the firewall punches a small hole...

Please detail how to manually install the driver; I'm having problems. Martin

Thanks, Brett. I'm sure you are right; i'm just reluctant to actively participate in the "throw-away society". On the other hand, there's no point in throwing good money after bad. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Artin

The chipset that controls the power input has failed on my Sony Vaio VPC-F13M0E/B and cannot be repaired. The Sony authorised repair agent has quoted a price that would still be uneconomic at half the amount. The motherboard number is A1796418A I really want it fixed but not at any cost...