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When I click on search results after performing a search in Google, Yahoo, or Bing, I get re-directed to some spam site. I have tried Spybot, McAfee, and Malwarebytes in Safe Mode, but the virus either doesn't get deleted or it re-spawns. How do I get rid of this thing?

I intentionally shattered an old hard disk platter. Then I used several magnets to try to pick up the pieces, but the magnets wouldn't pick them up. Why?

I was looking at this new HP laptop which comes with an AMD CPU, the Athlon II dual-core P360. I can't find much info or opinions on this CPU. Can someone give me their thoughts on it?

No one seems to have answered my original questions. (1) Does a hard drive only have the physical ability to write?, and (2) Is the same true of other media (e.g., optical discs, flash drives)?

Is it possible for a hard drive actually to delete a file? I mean we talk about "deleting" a file, but from what I've been reading, the file isn't actually deleted from the disk when you empty the recycle bin; its space on the disk is simply marked as available. In order to get rid of it, you...

Thanks for everyone's advice. I finally put one together, and I've had no major problems for a month. The final rig is in my signature. By the way, the 12-year-old above who said I wouldn't need a sound card was wrong. I compared the onboard sound of my new mobo to my old Dell computer which had...

Well I finally tried it out. The rig in my signature [see below] has played Blu-ray movies for a month just fine. I've had a few skips, but I think it was the discs. My monitor is only 1024, not 1080, but I assume my system would do just as well with a 1080 monitor. Furthermore, my motherboard...

I bought a Sapphire HD 5450 card, and the text quality improved significantly. That improvement alone made the video card worth the money.

I recently upgraded from XP to 7. My only complaint is the strange font sizes in Windows 7, particularly while using the Firefox browser. Some fonts on the same page are large and others small. Can anything be done about this? Screenshot of Firefox browser in Windows 7

Okay, here's what I did. I set an alarm in the BIOS to go off when my CPU hits 60°. I then lowered all my fan speeds and ran a bunch of programs until the alarm went off. My various temp programs showed anywhere from 46 to 50°. So my programs must be around 12° below actual temp.

I took out my old Dell HDD loaded with Windows XP, and put it in my new rig. My new PC works fine when I have my new HDD loaded with Windows 7 hooked up. But when I disconnect the new HDD and replace it with the old Dell HDD, the OS won't start up, and I get blue screen. I don't have both drives...

Mobo BIOS: 28° Mobo SpeedFan: 29°, 37°, 36°

The sensor's name in SpeedFan is "Core" and in HW Monitor Pro it is "AMD Athlon II X4 640". :cool: I downloaded CoreTemp. Same readings.

Both SpeedFan and HW Monitor Pro report that my four cores idle around 16-19° and under load are in the low 30's. How can this be? My room temp is probably 20-22°. My BIOS reports CPU idle temp at around 40°. What are the real temps of my CPU cores?

With no programs running, my Sapphire 5450 graphics card hovers around 33° celsius, with a few programs running it stays around 52°, and after playing a Blu-Ray movie, it is at 65°. Is this too hot? I have a side vent with no fan on it. I also have a 4-pin case fan at the lower front whose speed...

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and Hardware Monitor Pro. Out of the three, I liked HW Monitor Pro the best.

I have a dual-core processor on my laptop, and the temps show as "Core0" and "Core1". But with my quad-core desktop, the temps show as "Temp1", "Temp2", "Temp3", and "Core", with Core always being much lower. Anyone know what these readings represent? Since the core is so low, I assume it's not...

I recently built a new computer and compared the sound quality to my old Dell. The Dell sounded a little better, so I was planning to pull the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit sound card and put it into my new rig. The card has a cable that runs to the front I/O panel on the Dell, but I don't see a...

I just built my first PC using the Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H mobo, which I thought would be enough to display pretty good graphics by itself. The resolution is decent, but not great. I don't plan on doing any gaming, just use the Internet and e-mail. I might watch some Blu-Ray movies in the future...

How many people here actually sell the PC's they build and do it as their primary career? How difficult is it to do this? How do you get wholesale prices on computer parts? Newegg must buy their products much cheaper than they sell them. How do you get the prices they pay? Comments? Links...