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| Topic Started: Sep 20 2012, 05:46 AM (205 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Sep 20 2012, 05:46 AM Post #1 |
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I am the world's worst/best procrastinator. (I have been promising myself to send out my resumes since 1974...one doesn't want to rush these things. :panic.gif: ) But I finally laid my computer on its side and pulled off the side cover. Firstly, let me recommend AGAINST Gateway....some really silly stuff. The side cover comes off readily but there are reams of internet queries about the front panel removal that is SUPPOSED to open like a door, but it is impinged at the top and does not. A pplastis piecce must be forced just short of the breaking point for those who want to pop in another optical drive. But just opening the side was enough for me. Then pulled out the vacuum cleaner and gave it a good cleaning...lot of dust on the CPU cooling fins. Suction didn't woprk so I put the Electrolux on blow...dirt everywhere followed by a sneezing fit. So I dug out the wrist grounding strap and finally installed the 4 gigs of DDR-3 ram that I bought in July (still cannot believe that 4 gigs of RAM memory cost me ony $32 including shipping...BOGGLING.) Five years ago that would have cost thousands of dollars. So now I pop in the two Corsair modules...hmmm, wider than the original 2. And oops there is no room between the the last slot and the big plastic cowl for the Pentium cooler fan to fit the Corsair...I was 1/16 inch too short. So I popped out one of the thin ones and it went into slot 4 and I filled 2 and 3 with the Corsairs. DDR-3's seem so loose compared to the old SIMMS...but they clicked in and voila, system showed 8 Gb Ram instead of 4. YAAAY. Now, I looked at the HDMI socket...not precisely centered in the hole in the case. Perhaps that's why the heavy HDMI-DVI super cable kept coming loose. I bent the slot a teeeeeeny bit hoping to improve the situation. So the I put it together as God intended, with the new cheap, lightweight HDMI-DVI to the monitor and the VGA out to the television VGA input giving me English subtitles with English broadcasts. I bought the audio stereo mini-plug splitter and ran audio from motherboard to splitter to computer's Logitech speakers and to the televisions; VGA input. AND IT WORKS...praise Lilith! TV's audio oputputs via separate left and right analog RCA plugs into my old Kennwood Pro-Logic Receiver (circa 1980) and to my 5 speaker system. Back to the Gateway, it looks like the motherboard is just a TINY bit off center compared to the holes in the case...in this day and age, that is just shoddy. I also discovered that I have PIP on the TV...You can read those manuals a million times and still find something new each time so I can stream two different movies from Netflix at the same time, One feed from the PC and one from the Blu-Ray box. :roflol:: Of course, this is a mixed blessing becasue you must choose the audio for only one. After I got through with all this my back said to me" if you try all that bending over any time soon I am going to disconnect your torso from your legs so take this pain as a warning." Groan2.gif So I took two SOMA (carisoprodyl) and took a nice aftternoon nap for 2 hours. Two SOMA later at bedtime (After 3 episodes of TORCHWOOD Season 4.) Woke up refreshed, and looked over my creation and said "It was GOOD!" And today I rest. Edited by Trotsky, Sep 20 2012, 05:55 AM.
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| wildie | Sep 20 2012, 04:24 PM Post #2 |
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And the lord smiled! |
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| FuzzyO | Sep 20 2012, 11:46 PM Post #3 |
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Haven't a much of a clue what it all means, but I am duly impressed at the accomplishment. |
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