Even though I built a new PC, I did not want to purchase a LCD monitor, preferring to squeeze more life out of my aging 21” Viewsonic G220f CRT monitor. (Edit 1/16 – Okay, I did buy one.) I always set the monitor resolution to 1280×1024 @ 100Hz. Windows XP has a 100Hz screen refresh [...]
Over the course of years, some retail Intel CPU fans may become loud and noisy. The stock fan is paired with a heatsink to pull heat from computer processor, and replacement fans are paired with a custom replacement heatsink. Heatsinks are glued to the CPU with thermal paste, requiring some force to remove. An interesting [...]
The Inspiron 5100 seems picky about what type of memory it accepts. It holds a maximum of two, 512 MB sticks of PC2100 RAM (266 MHz). Flashing the laptop BIOS with revision A31 of later, allegedly makes it compatible with PC2700 RAM (333 MHz), making the memory operate at a slower speed. Unfortunately, the above [...]