Recent content by discoross

Hi all, My dell laptop came with the Fn keys mapped to multimedia keys (like play/pause, screen brightness, wireless switch, etc). I want some of these to keep their original meaning, and some of them to be mapped to the normal F1-12 keys. So I went into the bios, changed the fn key behavior to...

Turns out event logger shows an Ide Controller Error immediately prior to every slowdown. So either I have a hard drive that coincidentally became faulty when I copied the pictures over, or the files corrupted my hard drive. I would hope it's the former. Am I at any risk copying the files back...

I just got a new i7 with windows 7 64 bit on it yesterday. Everything was slow, and I figured out why, but don't really understand why, or what I can do to keep it from happening in the future. Yesterday I attached it to an external NTFS drive that had a bunch of bad sectors, copied over...