Dell Optiplex GX520 Randomly Shuts Off
byEquipment: Dell Optiplex GX520 (Small Form Factor) Original Dell Power Supply Model H220P-01 Dell P/N: YD358 (CN-0YD358-47890-64S-4075) Replacement Power Supply Model H275P-00 Dell P/N:…
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How to Replace the LCD display on a HP Pavilion G56-129WM Laptop
byMy friend’s laptop somehow ended up with a broken LCD. For $63 (at the time of this original post) on Amazon.com it seemed worth…
How to Replace the Memory in a Dell Latitude D830
byEquipment Dell Latitude D830 Notebook Computer Crucial 4GB kit (2GBx2), 200pin SODIMM Upgrade for a Dell Latitude D830 System I upgraded the RAM on a…
Dell Optiplex 320 Will Not Boot or Go to Bios
byEquipment: Dell Optiplex 320 Tower Bad HD: Seagate 160 GB Barracuda ST3160815AS 7,200 RPM 3.5″ Drive Replacement HD: Western Digital 250 GB Caviar Blue SATA 6 Gb/s…
How to Replace the Power Supply Fan in a Dell Optiplex GX520
byI did some more searching and found others who had this same issue on that particular model of Dell, which has a particular model of fan…
Photoshop CS4 Graphics Issues on a Late-2011 17″ MacBook Pro
byHardware: Late 2011 17″ MacBook Pro (MacbookPro8,3), Intel Core i7, 2.5 GHz, Model Number: A1297 A couple times now the graphics on my MacBook Pro have gone…
Upgrading the HD in a 500 Gig Apple Time Capsule
byI upgraded my Time Capsule back in October of 2010 but I didn’t have this blog at that time. Since I took some pictures…
Scanning Slides With a Braun Multimag SlideScan 4000 Diascanner (same as Pacific Image ProSlide 3650)
byEquipment: Braun Multimag SlideScan 4000 Diascanner (discontinued) Round 100-Slide Carousel 17″ MacBook Pro Late-2011 4-Core running Lion 17″ MacBook Pro Pre-Unibody 2.16GHz Core Duo running Snow Leopard…
Computer Randomly Shuts Off Power Supply Issues on a Dell Optiplex GX520 (Small Form Factor)
byOne of the computers in our lab would randomly shut down (note: it wasn’t rebooting, just shutting off). I tested the RAM using multiple…
MacBook Pro Hibernation Wake-Up Crash Problems: Updating the Firmware on an OCZ Vertex 2 Series 2.5-Inch 120GB SSD
byAfter installing an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD I began to experience system freezes when I would wake the computer up from hibernation. I figured…