Recent content by BFG-9000

That error message is remarkably clear and means exactly what it says. The hard disk is dead or merely disconnected or corrupted, so the system has nothing to boot from. So it suggests a reasonable course of action: that you insert something else to boot from. I mean for decades the message...

The easiest antenna by far to make is the simple loop antenna. If you have one channel that's difficult to receive, you can tune it specifically for that channel. Get a 75ohm coax to 300ohm twinlead adapter, then a piece of solid copper wire such as from Romex. Look up the frequency of the...

That laptop came with a DVD burner, so the answer is "the usual way," by booting from the DVD.

There is only one purpose of an amplifier, and that is to compensate for losses through long cable runs or many splitters. So you want to put it where the signal is strongest, or it will only amplify noise--before any splitters is the correct place to put it. As jsmithepa said, you don't need...

If you see a green RCA that means it is a "component" jack. You are trying to use "composite," which is not the same.

Given that your third picture above has a green bar at the top, I'm going to assume you are running Memtest-86+ (and not Memtest-86 which is red there). I don't know how long you ran it for, but the test appears to be running fine with no memory errors. You have one stick of RAM installed...

Generally artifacts like that mean defective vRAM. Photos of the CJFHX motherboard of your 1545 show the ATI HD4330 is integrated onto the motherboard along with two vRAM chips so it's not like you could just replace a GPU daughterboard. As a replacement board is more than that laptop is...

Generally Dell and Alienware laptops will refuse to charge if it does not recognize the charger as genuine, a bit of Keurig-like DRM reminiscent of ink cartridges, but pitched as a fire safety measure. So it should not hurt anything but may not work.

Because that is what your amp or radio does when power is simply cut. If you simply unplug a home stereo or computer speakers you may also get a pop. A turn-on pop eliminator delays the amp's turn-on lead by a second or two, but a turn-off pop eliminator is going to be more complicated, and...

My suggestion was to buy a new DVD player instead because they are now down to ~$30 which is about the same price as an adapter. As there have been no analog connections on players for five years now such as your YPbPr component ports, it is no surprise that most new TVs no longer have them...

For $50, buy a new DVD player with HDMI. Component connections and analog went away from Blu-Ray and DVD players back in 2013.

Beer is 4x as electrically conductive as the cola in that video. Not only will it conduct voltage to where it does not belong when wet, after it dries it will still continue conducting varying amounts depending on the humidity. Any circuits wetted with beer should be rinsed with distilled...

Sounds like a mouse cable that doesn't work unless held a certain way--that's broken wires that touch again whenever the cable is bent just right. The screen has a cable that twists every time the lid is moved. It does not last forever. Search for your model laptop + "LCD cable" to see if the...

People often do not realize that ATSC tuners are a fairly recent thing, only being mandated for all TVs built after March 1, 2007 for the big DTV transition that occurred June 12, 2009 for all the big network stations. Larry Weber's prototype 60" color plasma TV of 1994 used a Panasonic panel...

Some notebook manufacturers put a eMMC drive on a separate board, like this