Thursday, April 30, 2009

Twitter Mania Has Got to Stop, Solano 1000 Case Review, and Phenom X4 955 In-depth


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FEATURE STORY:












AZZA Solano 1000 Full-Tower Case
This enclosure builds a case for itself with incredibly effective cooling--at the cost of some minor noise. Read this story

MORE STORIES:

Twitter Mania Has Got to Stop
Celebrities use Twitter as it was intended, and the real users are interacting with it in unique ways. But those celebs will drive Twitter into a death spiral. Read this story


The Phenom X4 955 Black Edition—AMD Reaches Higher
AMD's new $250 CPU pushes the clock speed to 3.2GHz. With unlocked core clocks, DDR3 support and new Overdrive software, will AMD capture the hearts and minds of PC users? Read this story


Is Verizon Running Scared of the iPhone and Pre?
Five unsourced articles in the past few days have spread rumors that Verizon Wireless is working on some sort of super-duper wonder phone. If you believe USA Today and The New York Times, it's an iPhone. BusinessWeekplumps for an Apple media tablet.   Read this story



DISCUSSIONS:

Black Screen After 4 Hours
After running for 4 hours, my comp rebooted to the Start Up screen and hangs at FF, boot initiated. This happened with two different motherboards and two different CPUs. Tried disconnecting every thing and running up outside of case. Same thing. Swapped out memory, same thing. Found out that MOBO +12V was 12.56v. Changed PS. Worked good for 4 hour, then same thing, black screen, hung up at FF. Then I set it for 15 mins, booted up, checked voltages, all good, CPU 36c, went to reboot out of BIO setup, black screen, FF. Could a bad, or cable cause the problem?   Read this story


Questions regarding Transferring Office 2007 License
I have a copy of Office 2007 Professional, and I wanted to transfer the license from my desktop to my laptop. Is this possible? and if so, how would I go about it? Both machines are running Vista Home Premium, the desktop is 32bit, the laptop is 64 bit.  Read this story



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