PC fettling and repairs thread

[Bristolian]

Many many thanks for this - used Lexar and everything very easily recovered, and free!

still curious as to what happened for the card to loose its file system - I have two canon cameras, a small one and a medium one, I accidentally used the card that eventually failed in the wrong camera, and when I plugged it back into its original camera it wasn't recognised

any way with your help, I got the half dozen pictures I wanted, so thanks again

And I do like that picture of Mr Kingfisher

Pleased to be of assistance.

The kingfisher is straight out of the camera without any editing. In the end I decided I had a couple of better ones so he got deleted again, only deliberately this time I've put a couple in the "Your days wildlife" thread.

 

[MontyVeda]

My PC fans have been getting noisy in recent weeks so i figured a load of dust must be clogging up the heatsink. It's a five minute fix so on Friday evening I took the side off, found the predicted dust and removed the fan/heatsink, cleaned out all the dust... then kicked myself for not thinking the task through.

Next time I'll make sure I've got some thermal paste before removing the heatsink from the CPU, that way i wont have to spend an entire weekend without my PC.

 

[Electric_Andy]

My PC fans have been getting noisy in recent weeks so i figured a load of dust must be clogging up the heatsink. It's a five minute fix so on Friday evening I took the side off, found the predicted dust and removed the fan/heatsink, cleaned out all the dust... then kicked myself for not thinking the task through.

Next time I'll make sure I've got some thermal paste before removing the heatsink from the CPU, that way i wont have to spend an entire weekend without my PC.

Can you not get thermal paste in electrical shops? Wouldn't surprise me actually if you couldn't

 

[MontyVeda]

Can you not get thermal paste in electrical shops? Wouldn't surprise me actually if you couldn't

Curries sell it but don't stock it. Order online then collect in store once it's been delivered.

 

[PeteXXX]

Something I saw a while ago but didn't quite know where to post it 🤔


PS I don't know the answer.

 

[DCBassman]

New machine incoming! Apple Mac Pro 6,1 Trashcan, 12-core/24-thread Xeon E5-2697v2 processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, twin Firepro GPUs.
Can't wait for it to arrive!

 

[MontyVeda]

...
PS I don't know the answer.

I don't even understand the question.

 

[Dadam]

(b) because PC 5 and PC 2 are on different VLANs?