That's so horrible. They were even essentially telling the kid that he should have known it wasn't going to be an XBOX, because they already told him they were giving him clothes.
Whether or not they really did get him an XBOX is...
Bad hdd's will often go out slowly. Your BIOS likely changed its own settings the first time around because the drive was not reading properly, and now it's not reading properly again. Classic bad hard drive symptoms, I see this every...
Your hard drive is bad.
Also, you won't need another computer w/the exact same IDE cable. It just needs to support 2.5" IDE drives, i.e. can be any IDE-interface notebook. You can also buy a 2.5-3.5" adapter for drives in...
A blue screen means there is something preventing Windows from starting properly, be it a hardware failure or O/S corruption.
I would suggest you run a hard drive test as well as memtest. If those come up clean, reinstall Windows.
I've heard that people are having issues with the Dell LED screens...But others say it's bright and beautiful. Snoop around the Dell forums here, there is frequent mention of the LED screens.
Other than that, I say go for the 1330. ...
Sheesh, for writing you might as well go buy the cheapest laptop from your local electronics store. You only need something capable of running a word processor and a browser, that has a nice screen and a good keyboard. All of these...
I liken PC benchmarks to taking your car to the dyno. Of course it doesn't reflect real-world performance, but it still is a good measure of the basic power of your vehicle. Benchmarks won't tell you how well certain games will run on...
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First 8800GTs can be found close to $180 so yeah....secondly, NBF may have some users that know about desktops but not as many as [H].
No matter how much you guys try to beef up...
