Posts by Brandon Ford

I'm debating on replacing the USB/S-Video circuit board or the main board. Both are less than 20 ea. on eBay. I bought a Xircom CEM2 card and am having a time with it picking up the LAN on it, modem it picks up fine...

I've broke this thing down three times and still can't get the USB to work.   Device Manager sees the USB controller, and when I plug in mice and keyboards it starts installing and the mouse is getting power (the laser is...

Alright, got the screws in today, got everything screwed in and viola! It works. Now I'm having USB issues. It's like devices want to work, they power up and kick right back off. Could it be because of the CPU draining too much juice? My...

I guess it'd be thermal tape, I've never seen anything like it, it's got like foam around the edges and a white piece of paper in the middle covering the processor with a hex-type pattern on it. Where would I get another one of these...

Well, the CPU was 'tested' from the company I bought it from, and it turned on with it in the socket, but as the screw count diminished the worse the problem got. So HOPEFULLY this screw kit will help. If not I'll do a reverse swap and...

for graphics (as a designer myself) you can't go wrong with Apple. If by any chance you "need" Windows, you can run it via Boot Camp. You get the best of both worlds with Apple and most designers use Apple because of how they handle...

  So, I purchased a working Tecra 8100, with baseline specs (P3 450Mhz, 64MB RAM, 6GB HDD) off of craigslist, and then found out it could be upgraded, maxed the RAM @ 512, working good. Got a free 100GB HDD from a friend,...