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Today I had another two units come through with the same issue (they're multiplying!) and I did the same thing by replacing the crystal. It didn't work! They're adapting! Panic stricken, I remembered something else my colleague mentioned about the Super I/O IC that's on the board, since that...

Before I get into the nitty-gritty of the title, I'll just give you a little background. I currently work for a place that deals with hardware repair of electronics and electro-mechanical assemblies, with my place being seated in the PC and PCB area. Today, a computer graced my desk with a...

Bargain. Not really, I got nothing except apathetic nodding. I facepalm at the thought of someone buying it, but at the same time, someone else will shout verbal abuse at me for buying a ham sandwich... [insert obligatory EA insult about corporate behaviour and nickel-diming.]

The Plextor M5 Pro also suffers from rapid degradation too it seems. Anandtech covered most of the recent drives and plotted their long term performance consistency, so you can flick through the results there...

From what I remember, there are two types of garbage collection, which can probably be best described as active and passive. The latter is the easiest to explain, it waits until the SSD is inactive (system idle) and then performs its routines, typically only when the SSD is full, or close to it...

I second using a Hard drive instead of BD, much better storage density compared to price, and honstly, a little more stable too (less prone to scratches). If you want to go with the free software route without the bloat (and just for strait-up data and no transcoding stuff for movies etc) -...

The application launcher and Macros will not work on a different system. While the program launchers are saved in hardware, they use absolute paths, which means they will have no effect on a system with a dissimilar setup. Macros are 100% dependant on software and are not saved to the keyboard...

Oh the joys of Intellectually Bankrupt people. Mind you, we've all done something similar in our time; Pushed a door that clearly says pull, poured water into a kettle and wondered why it hasn't boiled after a few minutes, spending hours turning a place over looking for a pair of glasses that...

I knew there was an internet protocol for this, just never knew the name. Finally, I have a meaningful project to collaborate on, to help sustain modern society. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt

Should see some of the stunts pulled by USB chargers and car power adapters. Horrendously dangerous devices - no filtering, no regulating, no fuses. It's not just people being stupid and buying cheap adapters, though that doesn't help, it's companies supplying high value devices with these...

Seen a number of ads on UK TV, Runescape, World Of Tanks, Forge of Empires and of course, WoW. MMOs seem to spend big when it comes to TV ads in the UK, as the channels are quite popular (thus expensive). Where these companies get the money I don't know.

Well, I died horrifically. No idea what hit me, but it was over fast. I got better though.

I very rarely use 'safely remove', mainly because it laughs in my face and says the device is busy... even when it's not! So I just wait for lights to stop blinking and yank it. The only time I've had corrupted data was due to a bad enclosure, not because I pulled the drive too soon.

One of these days, I'll play Morrowind again and actually get somewhere. I also have a ten-year-old save game for X-COM Apocalypse that needs completing. Shame I only have five days to complete them both before the real apocalypse.

Ten days till a super storm hits, all the volcanoes go off, a plague sweeps the planet, and an asteroid the size of 4 million Olympic swimming pools collides with earth - or so say the interpretors of the Mayan calender. So... what's everyone up to? All I have on my bucket list is: 1) Laugh...

Inside the left cheek of the inflatable buttock edition...or so I hear...

I've had stuff like that happen in so many games, I just sigh in disbelief and try to carry on. So many times, in so many games... *screen slowly fades into a nostalgic glaze of rippling water and a slowly descending fog...*

The answer might be to go the opposite direction, remove the protection. During the early years of boxing, there were no gloves, but strangely, knockouts were minimal. Why? Fighters avoided punching each other in the head because it would damage their hands. Now that gloves are required, boxers...

I have seen the future - Steam is no longer a simple distribution service for games. It distributes your life! Behold, a taste of things to come - from a holographically projected virtual remake of a calssic '3D' game, digitally remastered! Your ISP still caps you at 100GB though...

Puts my wire-wound bracelets to shame... don't judge, I got very bored and was delirious with flu at the time... For the next image, try 16-bit with something like this... http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/2639/209133-sephiroth_1.jpg