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Really want to know your view of Seagate hard drives

A very knowledgeable techie on another website said : "I avoid Seagate like the plague and few other people I know in the business do too. From personal experience over the years, Seagate drive failure...

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no Power at all (Gigabyte Z87X)

Hi, My PC was running smoothly since a few weeks but I decided to add something (1st mistake maybe). I installed "a bracket" to inject digital sound from an external soundcard via an internal S/PDIF IN...

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Help me with Security Camera Feed?

I have a wireless camera set up in my house to check on the dogs. I can see the feed in my network fine. I want to access it outside the network. I set up an account with afraid.org for a free dns...

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Choppy System

Hey, This is about my laptop. It's a Dell Studio 1747 running Windows 7 & Ubuntu (Wubi) About 2 weeks ago, my laptop started to "slow down" all of a sudden. 1) Any action/application takes more...

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I can't format my 8GB SanDisk Cruzer.

It will show the formatting window, and it will start formatting but it always says right at the and Window cannot format this device. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Getting more ram question

In my desktop, I currently have 2x4GB sticks of ram http://www.supertalent.com/datasheet..._Datasheet.pdf . I would like to upgrade and get some more ram and found something cheaper than the ram I...

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Why won't any of my Windows PCs bootup when an XFS-formatted drive is plugged...

I have a healthy XFS formatted drive here. 500GB WD Blue. Neither XP or Win 7 Pro will bootup when plugged in via S-ATA cable?

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PXE-E61 Media Test Failure Related Problem

Hi! I am very in need of tech support. Hope you guys can help. I have an Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop that works fine then suddenly it gives a blue screen. Here's my story, I was able to finishing...

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PC reboots during intensive online games - new PSU, PC doesn't even boot

Spec: intel 4670k gtx770 4gb 16gb ddr3 ram gigabyte z87-d3hp 120gb ssd 2x 1tb hdd ocz modxstream 600W antec 902 4x fans New PSU: evga nex650g 650w gold full modular Playing planetside 2 and battlefield...

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Stuck.

Hi, I am not even sure if this is a hardware problem :)) Okay, so here it goes. I want to back up my files to my external hard drive. Now, when I connected my external hard drive, it says that i have...

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should i get this laptop?

http://www.computershopegypt.com/en/...-110-076-79001 I need it for basic use, although i might do some chess analysis on it, i think the only drawback is it's 2 GB ram but i can upgrade that right? i...

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External 2 TB HDD getting write errors

My 2-3 year old Seagate external USB 2 TB hard disk drive is having read/write errors and is having difficulty even being recognized. It's over 90% full and has some critical files on it. I used it as...

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White Screen Lockout Dell Laptop

My Old Lap Top died. My sweet sister gave me her old Dell Lap Top. There is only one BIG Problem, She forgot the user code for access on the White Screen. We have tried all the I think it was and now I...

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Upgrading my system

I'm not a knowledgeable person when it comes down to computers. I want to upgrade my computer this year for casual gaming. I have a video game console, so i don't use my computer for the hardcore...

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Solved: Can I leave dead pixels on my screen alone

My laptop was dropped on the ground and there is a large black spot on the corner of the screen. By now I have figured out they are dead pixels. I really don't mind them much and would be fine using...

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missing controller

Not real sure I am in the correct section, but here goes. I bought a used dell desktop, then upgraded from xp to 7. Now the system tells me there is no video controller driver. Cannot find one that is...

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en.ofweek.com batteries

Has anyone used the batteries from ofweek?

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Getting a semi-gaming pc

Hi! I want to get a new pc which I will use for gaming among other things. I am not a real pc gamer, so I don't need need a real gaming pc, just one that is decent and can play games at decent...

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Installimg W7 64bit & W8.1 64bit on seperate SDD'

Hi All, I know that I can install W7 & W8.1 on separate partitions on a Hard Drive, but I just want to pose the question is it possible to install W7 on a SDD and w8.1 on a separate SDD on a PC...

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Reading CPU temps in speedfan

Hi, I'm using Speedfan to measure my CPU temperatures when stresstesting my system. I found out that my CPU has a max. (tcase) allowed temperature of 72.4 degrees celsius. In speedfan I'm reading the...

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