Recent content by polke45

I wouldn't recommend taking it apart since you will need to replace the thermal paste. Dust Canister always work for me. Also, add more chassis fan will help lowering your video card temp if your chassis is not well ventilated.

By cleaning, did you remove your hardware individually? If so, it is possible dust particle got in between your connection or static electricity killed one of your hardware. try resetting your bios by removing the battery for 30 sec and put it back in. sometimes the bios may mess up when...

Try using Kaspersky Rescue CD or Comodo Rescue Disk to clean your pc

No, mobo is made to shut itself down before any hazard occurs.

I like to add don't wear sweater and any wool like clothing since they can easily create static electricity. Also, chassis is made out of metal so by touching them will ground yourself

Hi, I looked into it and Bitdefender Firewall offers paranoid mode, which notify/allowing/blocking any program for using internet connection and aggressive protection for blocking/ allowing any program. (http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l=313443&a=313443&po=9,00.asp) I am not sure...

Bitdefender uses Active Virus Control, which monitors everything applications do as long as they are active, and according to their forum, they had HIPS-based feature back in 2009 but they opted to switch to cloud-based scanner. This is because hips requires advance user and using a cloud...

It is a common issue with the 3.5mm speaker wire. Computer speaker wire does a poor job in insulation One solution is add insulation to the wire like use electrical tape and warp the wire in spiral. If your speaker wire is replaceable, you can replace it with lower gauge like 16 gauge wire

yea, the chart further shows the sudden drop of speed

Those number doesn't look high at all. I have an ssd and the number can go as high as 2 million B/sec for total. I think your ssd is faulty.

It is the quality of the cable. The regular 3.5 mm wire does a bad job in keeping the signal clean. My old computer speaker even picks up local radio signal and that is only 1.5 meters long. You can try buying a better wire that is thick for better quality Edit: i looked up your mic and it is...

Microsoft set the ram to 2GB minimum. Unless you can somehow alter the software, you will have to stay with Windows Vista, 32bit or upgrade your ram.

No, Win 7 requires 2GB.