Category Archives: hardware

dead computer

Posted on August 29, 2009 by xilcoy

A few weeks ago, the power supply on my desktop computer went out. A capacitor on the inside exploded while I was away. I bought a new power supply to replace the dead one and my computer ran fine until … Continue reading →

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New hosting service

Posted on June 15, 2008 by xilcoy

What a hassle that was! I’ve spent the past month trying to get my website up and running again. The problem was I my website was hosted on a site called pages garden. I’ve had very little problems with them … Continue reading →

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Yes!!

Posted on May 4, 2006 by xilcoy

I just got in my SB Audigy 2 ZS Card. After a little bit of fiddling I managed to get sound from it. I guess the card has some type of strange digital output that you have to disable to … Continue reading →

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Computer Parts

Posted on May 21, 2004 by xilcoy

I am now a few steps closer to building my new PC. I recently ordered a motherboard, memory, and a video card from NewEgg.com. The parts just came in today. My motherboard has an AMD 64 socket, gigabit ethernet, 5.1 … Continue reading →

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Dell … grrrrrrrr

Posted on June 15, 2003 by xilcoy

Well I am once a again computerless (I’m in the CS lab now). My computer crashed while I was browsing the internet so I thought, “Oh well. I guess I’ll just turn the power off and on”. So off it … Continue reading →

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FORMAT RELOAD (again)

Posted on May 4, 2002 by xilcoy

Today I got sick of my computer so I decided to start from scratch again. I re-set up the partitions, this time creating a 400 MB suspend-to-disk partition. I have a 2 GB primary partion for Windows ME, a 10GB … Continue reading →

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Starting all over again

Posted on January 19, 2000 by xilcoy

I deleted all of my html files and decided to start from scratch. I first made my index page. Right now I am working on my journal. I need to study up on computer hardware in order to do well … Continue reading →

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