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Monday, December 14, 2009
Here's how to repair these Viewsonic monitors when they have garbage on the screen. You replace C19 with a 1 uf to 4.7 uf at 16 volts capacitor. Now I want to add that if it has a reddish picture with green streaks to the right of the text, you can replace C67. Again use a 1 uf to 4.7 uf at 16 volts capacitor. The capacitors should be available at Radio Shack. I have also encountered one monitor that would not turn on for 5 to 10 minutes. I replaced the capacitor that is just to the right of the C67 labeled IC to fix it. I think it was 22 uf at 16 volts but it might have been 47 uf. I have only encountered that problem once.


Monday, December 14, 2009 3:35:14 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [0] | LCD Monitor Repair#
I installed Windows 7 64-bit on a Dell Inspiron 530 with 4GB of RAM.  I noticed that under Computer > Properties, Windows was reporting 4GB of RAM but in parenthesis it said "(3.25GB Usable)".  Upon further research, I discovered that the motherboard is a FoxConn G33M02 which has a 64-bit chipset. 

The problem was resolved by running the latest BIOS update from Dell to correct the 64 bit memory addressing issues.

See the link below for the latest update as of this post:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh&releaseid=R212148&SystemID=INSP_DSKTP_D530&servicetag=CYV4LF1&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=14390&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=9&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=1&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=299050


Monday, December 14, 2009 3:16:12 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [0] | Windows 7 | Dell Desktops#
The hibernation file is called hiberfil.sys and it’s under the root of the system drive. It’s the file that system writes the contents of physical memory to when you put the computer to hibernation. The size is uaually the size of your physical memory.

If you use the power options in Control Panel, you can turn off hibernation. However, the hibernation file remains. To disable hibernation and delete the hibernation file, you have to use powercfg command line tool. Follow these steps.

  1. Open up an elevated command prompt (run command prompt as administrator)
  2. Type this command:
    powercfg -h off
If you ever want to turn it back on. Just type powercfg -h on
Monday, December 14, 2009 3:10:11 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [0] | Windows 7#