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Desktop inspiron 580 factory fitted 1tb hard drive saying self monitoring system has exceeded parameters in it's normal range and causes issues when booting up, quite prepared to buy a new drive if it's needed but not 100% sure I have a second drive fitted in desktop as backup for music and...

Just a pointer for you had this same issue with mine and turned out to be a lose connecter on the hard drive pushed it back hard and loaded up no problem, worth a look

Will a Acer Aspire i5 core 5742 laptop components fit into the i3 5742 laptop casing, as I have an i5 with a broken casing but can get a i3 laptop with a damaged internals and wondered if I could transfer the internals from the broken casing into the good but non functioning casing

Thanks will check the board when I fit the ram sticks and will put them in as required have just ordered a pair of 4gb ram which were £48 with delivery and will work in my PC

Thanks to all replies very helpful I think I'll go for 2 x 4GB sticks and use the 2x 1GB sticks I already have to make a total of 10Gb which should be plenty for what I need, do the sticks have to be installed in any certain way eg: 1 x 4gb stick then 1x 1gb stick or the 2 x 4 gb sticks next to...

Had a look at ram stickers today and they are DDR3 PC3 8500 1066MHZ 240 pin dimm did a check and model will accept 16gb max ram which I can get from Crucial but comes in at £103 tried Newegg and that's £97 with all shipping just thought it might be slightly cheaper than that, I considered going...

Sorry got called away looks like it's a dell 580 desktop when purchased had a 1tb and a Intel R core TM i5 cpu 750 2.67ghz 64 bit processer looks like the ram installed are ddr3 pc3 8500-1066mhz 240 pin dimm 4x 1gb can't see any other numbers sorry

Looking to upgrade a Dell Inspiron 580 desktop ram, has 4x1gb at the moment says it can be increased to 16gb with 4 modules had a look at dell site and the price is £103 any cheaper alternatives I could use

Hi All I need to replace my 1TB hard drive in my dell desktop it's not failed yet but has had a few problems lately I'm ok with the physical side but wanted to know is it best to use windows system image or a some sort of clone software to do this. I'm going to upgrade to a 2tb drive at the...

Hi all Have a Dell inspiron 5800 desktop with 1gb x 4 (4gb) total ram at present wanted to upgrade ram have been told system can go to 16gb ram total which is best to use 4x4gb or 2x8gb and what make is best to use any help would be appreciated thanks

Hi Wanted to ask if it's possible to transfer an old XP operating system and files from a laptop with a failing hard drive to an external enclosure with a clean/new hard drive then fit that new hard drive back into laptop with system and files as before, it's for someone who cannot use windows...

Hi Chesteracorgi Thanks for post thought about this and remembered that I had an old 500GB hard drive that I swopped in my Sky Box so I hooked that up in the desktop case and the system image then transferred onto that hard drive no problem, I then sent a copy of that folder from that 2nd drive...

Can anyone help? Trying to create a system image from Windows 7 to my Seagate external hard drive, but it keeps failing after about 25% with an error message "the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error Ox8007045D" The Seagate drive has been formatted and is NTFS system...