Hard to find fixes for those done gone stubborn problems you encounter in every day tech life.
It’s working great. Got my Thermalright Venomous X installed and going. However, the temps I’m getting isn’t that great. It’s all the same across the board, for the most part, but it’s a little high for this supposed “best” heatsink.
I’m a little disappointed but I digress. I will be looking into water cooling next. The Corsair H50 is what I’m going to probably get within the next six months. Anyways, off to work on the Norton review.
I was about to buy a Western Digital 1TB slim external hard drive today. It’s a good thing I read a few reviews on Amazon and the Best Buy website. Although not all reviews are legitimate, I kind of gauge my purchase and the product’s worth by looking at and reading the reviews.
I found something that caught my eye. Western Digital is installing this crap that they call “SmartWare” which is basically embedded into the actual firmware not the hard drive itself.
The best way to explain this is that the hard drive is separate from this SmartWare and the SmartWare is built into this microchip. Because of its separation from the hard drive, you cannot just wipe the hard drive out by formatting it. Not even removing all partitions will do it. That’s again because it’s located in this chip’s firmware.
Why did they do this? That’s beyond me. Nobody likes extra crap being installed onto their already slow computers. In any case, I’m glad I read those reviews. That saved me time and grief.
I hope this will help someone skip these hard drives. I would advise you to just build your own external drive. You can buy an internal 2.5” laptop hard drive for under $100 and put it into a $20 dollar enclosure and you won’t have to deal with the “SmartWare” that Western Digital provides.
Can’t wait. My Intel QX9650 is on its way back. Hopefully a good one too. I plan to overclock it with my Thermalright Venomous X heatsink and Delta fan.
I will probably pick up the Corsair H50 water cooling unit. It’s so easy to install and is all closed up without any worries of having any water leak out.
That and to review Norton is my goals for the next month. I want to get the system setup, stable and then review Norton.
I encountered this problem yesterday. I found a solution by way of troubleshooting. You will have to get into safe mode with networking and then download the latest wireless card driver.
The main symptom of your Dell computer getting stuck at the welcome screen is due to the fact that there is a compatibility issue with the wireless card driver and Windows Vista Service Pack 2.
Ideally just get into safe mode with networking, get online and go to the Dell.com website. Look for driver updates via support and then find the wireless card driver. It should be updated as of 2008. If there is a newer one, great, otherwise just get the one from 2008.
Install this wireless card driver, restart your computer, you should no longer have any problems where the computer gets stuck on the welcome screen.
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Apple’s new iPad was a completely failure up until they announced the price points. They knew that without the multitasking that this gigantic iPhone would not sell right if priced at or around $500+. They knew that people would want more than what they have on their iPhones right now. They knew that people wanted multitasking and I’m sure it will come eventually but they had to have known that people would be up in arms.
I was up in arms right up until I saw the price point. I immediately comprehended Apple’s logic behind this product. They wanted to aim low with the price point, introduce it in between the iPhone and a full fledged notebook as well as a netbook.
Do you want to know how I know? Because the minute they announced the specs and with no mention of multitasking I immediately said I would never buy this. Again once I saw and read that it would be priced at $499 with just wifi, I said holy crap, I AM BUYING THIS. That’s how I know. I can’t wait.
I finally got around to sending my CPU out to Intel. When I get it back I assure you my review for the Norton Internet Security 2010 will be completed.
I’ve had this problem for roughly two months now. The problem description is as follows: Open up any PDF with Internet Explorer 8 within a new tab. The first thing I noticed was that I would receive this pop up box which would ask me to choose certain settings on how to read this PDF file. There was a box on the bottom which indicated that if you check here, you won’t have to see this again – so I did. The second part to this problem is that when I close the tab that houses the PDF file, IE crashes. It indicates that there was a problem with acroread.dll. I have searched long and hard but could not find a proper solution.
I tried your basic troubleshooting. Uninstall program, reinstall. Try updating to the newest version if possible, no dice.
I tried searching around on Google and even posted to the Adobe support forums but have not heard a peep from anyone. This normally indicates to me that either the problem is in its infancy stages and nobody is really doing what I am doing therefore, no one else is experiencing this and or that it’s just my setup that has this problem. The thing is, I have two computers both running Win 7 64-bit and they experience the same thing. The only thing in common between the two is their operating system.
I have tried another forum and hope to hear back from someone. Post in the comments if you are experiencing this problem and or if you have a fix. Thanks.