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Awesome! Thank you guys very much. :) Those links are very helpful and tells me exactly what I want to know. It looks like a 500VA UPS will be more than adequate for my tower during quick brownouts.

Hi, everyone. I've been looking to get a UPS for my desktop computer, but the thing is that I'm only looking to back up my tower and nothing else. So I've been trying to decide which UPS model is best for me, but I'm not sure how many watts my tower consumes. The tower itself is an old...

Thank you so much for the detailed clarification. I contacted the person who wrote the messages regarding the fan switch and he pointed out to me that the switches he referred to are silent, and that the clicks I was hearing were probably from power switch of the hard drive, which I've found...

I've been experiencing double clicks (2 clicks at a time) eminating from the computer tower when power is on. I don't believe it's the hard drive because the click is much louder. It is identical to the single click I hear as I press the power button. A brief search indicated the fan switch on...

Thank you guys for the clarification on the susceptibility of USB drives to magnetic/electric currents. Aviation Man, the reason I want to find an alternative method to testing the capacity of a flash drive is because I had once purchased an 8GB secure digital memory card from China, and the...

Hi. I'm looking to get a USB flash drive and found some that have metal bodies. Can someone tell me if digital files are susceptible to corruption if an electric current contacts the metal body? I remember floppy disks being susceptible to losing data if placed near a magnetic source, and...

No, this was first time it happened since the new motherboard was installed, which was about 8 months ago, and it hasn't happened again in the following 4 restarts I recently performed since. I don't restart often, so out of the ones within that time period (I'd say less than 30), this was the...

Hi. On a normal restart, the system shuts down and eventually you hear a faint click indicating the power switch has reset, followed by the keyboard LED's (lock buttons) blinking off and back on with the usual brief burping sound from the CD-ROM along with a high-pitched beep from the tower...

Can someone please tell me if it's possible to encrypt common picture and text files so that they can only be accessed on your computer? I'm wondering 'cause I remember I had songs that were locked after I transferred them to a portable device. When I transferred them back onto my computer...

Cool, thanks. I like to have the hard drive as separable as possible to avoid having to go on a technical crusade to retrieve locked data from internal drives when the computer fails, or to lose data altogether after crashing.

Awesome! :) Thanks a lot, guys.

I've been thinking about getting a portable USB hard disk drive to store files as a backup instead of using flash memory cards. But with a USB hard disk drive, would I need to install an operating system in order to start taking advantage of its capacity, or can it just be used as a storage...

Hello. I just wanted to ask if any special tools are needed to perform a motherboard swap, or if it's simply a matter of hooking and unhooking wires? Also, do you install operating systems on motherbards or is it only the drivers and whatever else is in the CD that comes with the...

Even if a file is transfered silently, is it possible to find out if a particular file has been uploaded by accessing some part of that file directly? If not, is there any other way to find out if files were uploaded, or is there no way to tell with it being the price of using the computer and...

I recently picked up a virus in my hard drive that reads the following: recycler\s-6-9-14-100021152-100016575-100018154-1780.com (worm/generic.vsn) Soon after I deleted it with my AVG, it detected this one: system volume...

Are there viruses/trojans that are capable of uploading your files (like text files and pictures) through the internet and ultimately onto another computer/server without showing any indication even with a firewall installed? I've read that trojans typically download files/programs onto your...

Hello. I'm a novice concerning website designs and was just hoping to get some advice on the best way to start an independent (not a free one) site and to set up a chat function (like chat room, not message board). Also, is it possible to design a webpage with affiliate links that will...

Thank you very much for verifying that. Just out of curiosity, is that grille meant to keep objects that tend to break off of the power supply from falling or just protect your hands when you work on the tower with the power on? I was wondering 'cause none of the other fans have a cover.

Hello. Lately, my power supply impeller fan blade (facing inside of tower) has been hitting the metal screen on startup that quiets after a few minutes. I've checked the blades and they're all intact, so I assume it's caused by a misalignment of the fan. What I'm wondering now is if it would...

I'm currently running the service pack 3 of the Windows XP. My main firewall is a very old Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (v 5.5). Recently, when I activated my Windows firewall along with having my Sygate firewall on at the same time, the Windows firewall is shutting down by itself on startup. So...