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Gee, ya think? :D Technology makes us feel more connected but in fact many people are becomming less and less able to deal with others face to face because of it... Toss in video games where the only problem solving skill necessary is violence... then add in a whole generation of "me...

See... now I'm all disappointed...

And if you think I'm saying "Awwwww" anywhere near that... think again! (Actually that was a pretty impressive DIY project!)

You can swap hard disks... If you have linux on one and windows on the other, the system won't even care... it'll just boot whatever's at the loader segment of the drive. I was thinking that if you should accidentally damage the connector... Rob's suggestion of Dual Booting is probably...

It was humour... A concept increasingly lost on far too many people...

Changing the OS shouldn't void your warranty but changing the hard disk might... There should be a restore disk program (probably on the desktop) that will let you burn DVDs to return the computer to it's factory condition. If you make the disks you can re-create the system any time...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=mini-itx+motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=mini-itx+case Happy shopping! (FWIW... I have an ASRock ION-330 that's been...

Win 7... click restore defaults then start... you get a fast format.... but I think it does more than just format the drive... Or at least it seems to because I've seen that "fix" half dead drives that wouldn't format...

Trash it.

Smaller seems better these days... First there was the Shuttle then came ASRock all offering smaler and smaller boxes with adequate performance. Two years ago I predicted that "nettops" would make a huge mark on the desktop market and although the growth is slower than expected the...

Thing is ... don't format... use the reset button...

In windows... Computer -> right click the drive -> Format -> Restore Factory Defaults. The result is a new partition table and fat-32 but I believe (without knowing for certain) there are some config bits reset in the process. I've gotten a few semi-dead thumb drives going that way.

Well, here's one answer.... http://www.surplussales.com/electrical/Fuses/ElecFuses-7.html

"He's dead, Jim!" If you have a formatting tool that will "reset to factory condition" you could try that. I have a mess of the Datatravelers that I use with Windows 7 and I keept getting lost chains on them until I reset them to their factory states... But then, it also depends on...

More accurately it can provide up to 500ma ... many devices draw considerably less... eg. a mouse probably works on about 15 or 20, keyboard maybe 100...

Tell you what... the day my Dentist plugs his drill into a USB Port... I am Soooo out of there! :eek:

I'm not waiting till some idiot brings me a burnt-to-a-crisp USB cable and complains that his hedge trimmer damaged his power supply. This is yet another case of "Technology looking for a home"... I'm quite content with my little collection of wall warts, thank you...

My point exactly.... I see this stuff all the time... Audiophiles who claim they can hear --actually hear-- bit jittering in a latched sound chip... measured in nanoseconds... Gamers who argue high frame rates on 60hz monitors... hot rodders who debate the merrits of different paints in...

100 watts at 5 volts is 20 amps... Why do I feel skeptical about that? 10 watts I might believe...

No worries... I should probably not have assumed you would understand I'd done the required tests in a semi-credible manner. I'll be more concise next time.