Recent content by Tetsuo1981

Will check tomorrow (baby asleep where computer is) but pretty sure they're non-L modules. And yeah, the misinformation is what has put me off doing anything about it. Will have a look and let you know. Out of curiosity how can I tell if my board is capped at 2x2gb? I mainly use Aida64 as my go...

Those are numbers I can get on board with and I'm no stranger to the slow-boat from China so will give this a good look and check AliExpress out too now I know what I'm looking for. Next I'll be looking at a cpu upgrade but I'll save that for another day! Cheers again

Cheers for that. Just confusing as Aida64 states otherwise. So would you go for what you've said over what crucial recommends (DDR3L-1600 UDIMM), and if so why? I know my way around a computer per-se but my brain crashes when going into more detail, especially with ram and all the varients...

Hi all I have a Dell optiplex 380 SFF and want to max the ram. I have heard conflicting info that either 4gb or 8gb is the max it can handle. So my system has the following: A07 bios installed 64bit Windows 7 ultimate (toying with a win 10 Pro ssd upgrade) 2 x 2gb ddr3-1066 sdram 01TKCC...

Hi all. Long stroy short, my dad has done god-knows what to his Acer laptop ( ES1-521-64XK Part Number: NX.G2KEK.023) no recovery options, think hes binned the driver discs and it sounds lke the actual HDD is corrupted. I'm going to attempt a clean install of windows on a brand new SSD and have...

Around the £20 to £25 Mark really. Just want it a little nipper and a cheap no-name ssd did wonders for my old dell inspiron desktop. Only got me thinking after looking at a lenovo x230 on YouTube that made me look at msata really, as the boy has no need for mobile Internet. Got a 40 or 60gb...

Hi all Simple question which Google hasn't been overly helpful with. I'd like to add a msata drive (if possible) to a Dell Latitude E5500 by removing the mobile Internet / wwan card. Purely as storage, not interested in booting from it. Trying to pimp up my sons Xmas present on a teeny almost...

Thanks for the speedy reply. I think you're right, its been a long day and my eyesand brain are failing me! But yes, I was pretty much thinking of doing something like that video but with 2 ends of ribbon cable rather than the pins on a standard motherboard. I've no problem with a tedious task...

@Lutfij Thanks for the link, already have that and the service manual which show you how to tear down the unit. I think realistically I'm going to have to abandon this idea and go with changing the power setting in bios to boot up as soon as power is plugged in and set the arcade front end to...

Hi all I have an old dell optiplex 380 SFF computer that I am using to make an arcade cabinet from. I want to wire a standard illuminated arcade button to act as the power switch for the computer which was easy to do on my old standard desktop but the 380 has a ribbon cable that runs to the...

@clutchc I am going to use this machine for a MAME arcade cabinet, it is never going to be used for any personal data or ever be connected to the internet in any meaningful way so am not concerned about the risk of attack. Just want a clean install of the OS but do not have the original OEM disc

Hi I have been given an old Advent t9000 with WinXP Home installed but I would like to do a clean install of the OS. I do not have any of the install discs or recovery discs. All I have is the licence key sticker on the tower itself stating Windows XP Home Edition DSG Retail Limited. I can back...

Hi, really dumb question but just want to make sure so keep the trolling to a minimum if you can :-) I have an advent PC I want to do a RAM upgrade on. I get that you can use different brands so long as they match but my question is do certaon computers have to have certain brands of RAM. So do...