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I was gonna write a tutorial but realized it's way over my head trying to get it all written in a short, novice friendly way. I'm still thinking to write an upgrade guide when I have some time. But needs to be short and in layman's terms. ...

Read this on The Folding Wolves Forum and thought y'all might get some info out of it. I sure did! Thanks a lot to Mike Hyatt for posting this:

"SSD Solid State Drive Misconceptions

Postby mikejhyatt » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:59 am
What a can of worms. So let's try and keep it simple.

So what do we know or think we know about SSD's.

There are no moving parts,
There are two main ...

First off, you need a more than basic knowledge of building a PC. I have built many dozens of PC's but this was my first attempt at setting up a RAID of any kind. I studied a lot of different sources and finally bit the bullet.

I bought 2 new Western Digital Black 500Gb hard drives, and an external SATA II to USB enclosure. Cost about $150USD.

Searching the manual for the motherboard gave no ...

1. Place the driver installation file on the Desktop.

2. Right Click the driver installation file and select Properties/Compatibility Tab. Select the appropriate options in from the list in the following image.



3. Click Apply/OK.

4. Right Click the file and select the Run As Administrator option to install.

The above step could also be used for windows 7 :)

It's the Cooler Master PSU Wattage calculator...
http://www.coolermaster.com/support/psu_calculator.php
Make sure to click the Advanced tab which gives you much more options on what's going into your system. ;)
I'm sure it's not 100% accurate, but it does give you an idea of what you'll need.

I was surprised at the power requirements for my system.
Seems right now I'm ...

Thanks to Roshi at VIA Arena for this neat article: http://www.viaarena.com/a-guide-to-unde ... 4&MCatID=1 So now you know! Chris.

Didn't know what to call this thread as these utilities I just came across recently work in the other OS's as well.
Both of these one trick ponies came in handy this week for me while many other I tried failed.

First is CDCheck. I had a problem recently with my SonyHandyCam which records Video to DVD. Two DVDRW's I just made had CRC errors and I could not copy them. I always make backups ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGKBXgbmCOk&NR=1

This is just a link to a how-to, this website does not guarantee any results. Chris.

Saw this at TRP (thanks, Wizzard!) As the title says, it's a tool from MS that you can run on your PC and it will tell you how well (or even if) your PC/ laptop will run Win 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... visor.aspx Give it a spin! Chris.

Thought I'd try this out, see if anyone is into sharing what cool stuff FrieFox does. I recently installed it, as per Advise from

HJ and Chris etc. The Pressure, and the Constant IE7 crashing Issue I had, also IE8 I tried with the same Damn Crashing for no

reason, that I could ever figure out, I looked everywhere for answers, got suck of it so now I'm a FireFox v3.08 User!! ...