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Sniper

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  1. Hey doc, DjLizard is right. The higher the VA the better. On the average computer, 500VA should give you around 20-25 minutes of power. My local power grid sucks, MY lights dim when someone on the next block turns on their electric toothbrush. That's the main reason I got a UPS, to filter the power. If cash is a problem just get what you can afford. Any UPS is better than a surge protector alone. I'm running a 2.7Gig HP with a 17" monitor on a APC 350VA and have it set to do a controlled shutdown 1 minute after the UPS kicks in. I had a CyberPower 300VA that lasted 4 years. The electronics gave out from repeated surges, voltage drops, etc. but the battery was still good. Here's a tip for you. Reserve one outlet on the battery side for a cordless phone. Then if the power goes out during a electrical storm, you can still use the cordless and not worry about a lightning strike knocking your shorts off.
  2. Seems everyone is going the same route. My HP came with a System Recovery partition. The disk you got from Dell will NOT have any 3rd party software on it, such as CD burner, imaging, games, etc. All the extras are in the Recovery partition only. You should have a Recovery CD maker program that will allow you to burn a set of recovery disk. Took me about 2 hours and 10 disk. On my HP, the program included a tool disk maker. The tool disk allows you to delete the data in the Recovery partition after you have made the recovery disk. This leaves you with a empty partition with about 4-6 Gigs of free hard drive space. It also lets you make a partition. You must have unallocated space on your Basic disk to make a new partition. You can have 4 primary partitions on a Basic disk or 3 primarys and a extended partition. You can make a unlimited # of logical drives in the extended partition, each logical drive can be formatted and given a drive letter. If you don't have any unallocated space, you can download a 3rd party program to resize existing partitions. http://www.globalshareware.com/Utilities/S...Expert-2003.htm In XP go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management, click on Help / Help Topics / Index and look for Partitions and Volumes. This will tell you how to setup a new partition. That's where I got most of this information. Hope you didn't think I was smart enough to come up with this on my own. LOL
  3. Memory checking might not work. I ran MS's memory tester and it passed. When the computer was running, everything would check out ok, then there would be a temp change, a door slam, or somebody farted and it would reboot all by itself.
  4. Had a friend's PC acting up, random reboots, failing to start, etc. Searched MS support and found that a bad PCI card or memory could cause random reboots. Only PCI was his modem, pulled it and no joy so I pulled both of his DIMMs, one at a time, and it cleared the problem. Both DIMMs are working so I guess they just needed to be reset in the slots.
  5. Sniper

    RAM Upgrage

    Tried to find some more info on your computer but HP's site has very little. Most low-end Compaqs and Hp with 2 memory slots are rated for 1024Mb of RAM. Know my HP a305 is. If you put more than that in, you will need to make some changes in your BIOS to handle it. If you are thinking of more memory for gaming, go with a meg of RAM and add a graphics card. Check your power supply first , you'll need at least 250 watts. A lot of the latest game require a 5200 FX Nvidia or better and will not even load up if you are running on Intel intergrated graphics. I'm running 2.7Gig Celeron, 768Mb RAM, and a 5200 FX card and can run most any game out there. Granted, I can only run "Far Cry" on mid-level graphics but it takes a NASA computer to run that game flat out. LOL
  6. I have a APC ups and it works great. It has a USB cord that connects to my tower that lets the computer monitor the battery charge. If you are running XP, there is no need to load the software that comes with the ups as XP has Power Options in the Control Panel that will let you set the computer to shut down after the ups has kicked in.
  7. Before you buy anything, check your power supply to see how many watts it will put out. I'm running a XFX brand Nvidia 5200 FX 128Mb PCI card in my HP computer with a 250 watt power supply and it works great. Newegg has the same card in 256 Mb for a little more. Didn't have that when I bought mine. DAMMIT.
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    RAM Upgrage

    I did a little checking on HP's website and found that the s5030il and the s5000nx use the same memory (HP part# DB222AX). Here is the Crucial page for the S5000nx. Should be what you need. http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp...5000NX&tabid=AM
  9. Will CCleaner get rid of the new Persistent Identification Element cookies that hide in the Macromedia flash player?
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