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Depends on who you talk to at Seagate. You will likely have to your case elavated to a manager to get them to take it back since it passes all their diag tools.

A PC is the orginal gaming machine. If you buy a game on a DVD you can always reinstall the game after a hard drive crash. Same goes for buying games on Steam you can always redownload it. If the game is purchased as a digital download you can always burn that to a disc or a back up hard...

Partitioning a drive doesn't improve performace with modern drives. In fact it will reduce performance on the drive since the heads will have to move between partitions. Coping data from one partition to another in particular takes a big performance hit. Also the indexing done in Vista and...

I've had computers with and without missing PCI clot covers and worked on many as well. I've never seen it make a differnce. I will say though that my new system I built last week has all the covers and I'll be sure to make sure it always does.

This is the first draft of a "canned" response I've wrote for your question since it comes up alot. I believe I've covered most things. Getting the Most Out of Your Computer 1. Use an Uninterruptable Power Supply. A Surge Suppressor can’t protect against brown outs. 2. Use a router even...

Yes it's called common sense and it's the only thing that can do a 100% job of keeping your computer from getting infected is you. The problem with AV software is that the malware has to be on your system before it can detect it and no AV is 100%. You don't even need an AV is your half way...

Crimsonnaire it sounds like you got a sh*t drive. Considered it lesson learned and just go to your local Wal-Mart or Best Buy and get a PNY USB thumbe drive. There about $25 for an 8GB stick. Any type of drive can be fried while plugged into a computer. A power surge can take out any...

Certainly if your buying something for yourself you can use what ever you want no big deal. When selling to a customer it's best to use only the best and avoid cheap parts it's just good practice that not all shops follow. I never buy any computer parts or anything else for that matter off...

Changing a PSU wouldn't require doing anything to the motherboard unless you had certain OEM systems mostly from Dell. Theses are mostly pretty old at this point and none would be worth upgradign at this point.

@kona I included a link to the proper nvidia drivers at the end of my response. This isn't really all that hard. Finding drivers is a simple task that most computer users should be able to do. When a user is unable or unwilling to learn how to do basic tasks with a PC that means he has to pay...

The two best palces to capture keystrokes is at the driver level when you hit the button on your keyboard it has to be read buy either the system driver or even if KeyScrambler replaces the system driver it's still open till it's scrambleg. When you send the keystrokes to a website or program...

Twist86 I think you mean RTM or release version not OEM. No OS is good after Dell or HP gets done adding crap to it but at least it can be unistalled.

I've seen more then a few people bring in computers that won't power out and they have some cheap 3rd party power adapter that's under voltage or can't maintain a constant voltage.

Well unless I'm missing something the OP says he has audio. It's video he's having trouble with.

One Antivirus program per computer. Not only will multiple virus scanner slow your system to a crawl they will likely see eachother as virus. It's not best to run in much of anything in Safe Mode anymore. If you check with the makes of the software they say to run in normal mode. Infact...

Are you having problems of some sort? How about some PC specs?

I don't think you understand what a keylogger is. A keylogger is malware on your computer that records your key strokes looking for information like credit card numbers. Any thing you type in a chatroom can be copied it off your computer at that point. Like speaking in public. I also have...

You have such a heavely infected system you just need to format the drive and do a reinstall. I wouldn't even bother trying to fix Windows at this point.

Your an idiot for using limewire on any system with or without an AV program. That's not a moral judgement is a statement of fact. Even if your AV detects a virus on your system that means it's already on your computer. No AV is perfect no matter how good it is.

What are you trying to protect yourself from? Ccleaner and Defraggler don't protect you from anything. AV programs should never be your first line of defense against malware. Once they detect that means it's already on your system aka your already infected. Malware is getting harder and...