My optical mouse was beginning to get balky...the left button was only working intermittantly. So I shut down, unplugged it, took it apart, and the lever for the button was getting worn down, as was the corresponding part of the button circuit assembly. Time for a kludge. Got a thin scrap of plastic from a vacuformed model kit, glued it on the ( Read more... )

Just heard over the radio that there will be an e-waste drive at Knoxville's Fairgrounds two weeks from Saturday. And that will be that.

A couple years ago, we inherited a piece of nondescript hardware from the estate of our departed neighbor Otis. Dad had no idea what the black box was, so he had me go through the paces of finding out. It was a satellite receiver box from DirecTV. Since we neither had cable nor a satellite dish it was pretty much useless to us, although it was ( Read more... )

So far so good. Back running after replacing the motherboard fan and adding a expansion-slot-mounted fan as well. (Knock on Formica.) The fellas at Computer King suggested that if I upgrade I should get a power supply with an integral fan too. I just might do that.

FP

After suffering yet more Stop Errors with my compy today, I decided to take the original motherboard fan and heat sink off and get them replaced ( Read more... )

It looks like that problem I was having earlier was due to the computer possibly overheating. I looked inside the CPU case and found that the case's fan was only set on LOW. So I put it on HIGH and I'm seeing how it does ( Read more... )

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