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  • Try to fix one thing..

    .. and it all goes wrong. I found a chipset driver on the Gigabyte website for my mobo, a GA880g, and thought that it may be a good plan to install it and maybe get beyond the involuntary shutdown issue. Ha.. first sign that it may all go wrong. The ‘America’ download server could only give me a corrupt...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Jan 5 2013
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  • No more Kernel power (Event ID 41) errors

    The modifications I made to the Styrofoam base appear to have worked. Just to put you in the picture.. The black part is the case, the brown part is the floor, and the white part is the modified Styrofoam. The idea behind it is to keep the case off the floor such that it doesn’t suck dust in so readily...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Dec 12 2011
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  • Lost restore points.. It really was Diskeeper

    After years of running Diskeeper, it is no longer on my system. All gone. After reading that Diskeeper could be the culprit, I just couldn’t get my head around it. However, I did disable auto defragging on the boot drive, and guess what? Restore points do NOT disappear. As there is no point in defragging...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Feb 26 2011
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  • Noisy case fans..

    There is not much worse in life than sitting beside a PC tower which has noisy fans. It is like living next to a hamster, continual squeaking, droning, air rush sounds in the not-so-background. It is time to do something about it. If you have to change the fan because it is squeaking or droning, don’t...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Feb 20 2010
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