Freezing Your Hard Drive.

Well I came across a couple of posts about freezing your hard drive to revive it.

So this is basically what I understand, you have a broken hard drive which wont boot anything.

So you stick it in the freezer for about a day (24 hours) and this should allow your hard drive to to contract.

After you’ve frozen it for about a day you take it out leave it to dry out for a couple of hours, be careful when plugging it in as you have condensation which could make it blow up in your face (which you don’t want), so this will allow your hard drive components to expand again which should fix your hard drive.

I would love to hear your comments on this post if you have anything to add or any experiences with doing this, please tell me in the comment section.

Building your perfect pc, for you.

Well first off we need to find out what you’re likely to use your pc for lots of people I find just say “hmm I just want to use word”, but they don’t really take into account about their kids they might want to play games, or do some graphic editing.

So once you’re sure you can get started, for word processing you only need a very basic machine that can run something like Microsoft XP, I’ve found the best spec for word processing is

Processor speed: 1 GHz – 1.8 GHz

RAM: 256mb’s

Graphics card: 128mb’s

I actually have a 1 GHz machine that is brilliant for using word or excel and also a 1.8 which I can’t really see the difference in until hitting the games, which the 1.8 is slightly better.

Now for your graphics editing machine, here you will find a lot of company’s using Mac pc’s because they allow you to get the most out of a machine, using less resources and they are based around UNIX, well as you might no they can put holes in your wallets, so here is a spec I recommend if building your own pc.

Sony’s lithium-ion batteries could overheat or catch fire.

First I heard about a laptop catching on fire was on about.com when it caught fire on his lap, which was about 1 year ago.

Then around a month ago I heard that dell had to recall around 4million of their laptops because they where catching fire.

Now looking at my BBC news feeds I just found out that Fujitsu have just recalled another 287k laptops.

So in total, Sony’s batteries have affected around 10 million laptops, costing around £250 million.