can i put windows in one to make my programs work? Like if I put my msn program on there or my graphics program, could I use them from my G: drive? Or would I have to put Windows xp on there first? Thanks for any help
does anyone know if its possible to make programs run from an external drive? Or do i have to install (or can i install) windows xp to it to make it do that?
Hey Kizzmit5 Here is a post from the search link below it. Hope this helps: programs on external drive
Hi jephree , good to see you. Thank you so much for all your help. I do have another quick question if you could help. My computer keeps getting hot still and is turning off even when I have an external fan on so I was going to try to clean the heatsink but I wanted to make sure I did it correctly. I just need some instructions of how to do it that have pics. I found a site before but I can't find it and since then I haven't been able to find it again. I have been looking for a few days and I don't think i'm looking with the right words or something. I get a few sites with pics but they don't show me where my heatsink is for my computer. I have a vaio PCG-GRV680. I saw one that got to it through the bottom of the laptop but I'm not sure thats where mine is. Last time I thought it was under my keyboard so i really don't want to start if i don't know what i'm doing, ya know? Should I put this on another topic or.. something lol? Sorry if i'm not in a good spot. I'm just tired of it turning off when i'm in the middle of something and i don't want it to ruin anything in it. Thanks a bunch for any help
well i found the manual here vaio pcg-grv the only internal option it shows is to replace the RAM, which is on the bottom/ middle. not being familiar with notebooks, i dont even know if you can open it up. did you ever run Everest? it could ID the motherboard from which we could find where the processor is.
wow, you are good. I'm loading the page for the first link and reading the other link. I haven't ever run everest. my poor puter is a bit slow at the moment lol.
everest is more than a scan ... but for now just the id of your motherboard ... make model etc yes actually also you can check under Computer > Sensor ...for drive temp
oops sorry about that. the temp is (are those too hot?) Field Value HITACHI_DK23EA-60/a 70 °C (158 °F) Field Value HITACHI_DK23EA-60/b 43 °C (109 °F) and the motherboard is Field Value Motherboard Properties Field Value Motherboard ID <DMI> Field Value Motherboard Name Sony Corporation PCG-GRV680(UC) Field Value Front Side Bus Properties Field Value Bus Type Intel NetBurst Field Value Bus Width 64-bit Field Value Real Clock 99 MHz (QDR) Field Value Effective Clock 398 MHz Field Value Bandwidth 3182 MB/s Field Value Memory Bus Properties Field Value Bus Type DDR SDRAM Field Value Bus Width 64-bit Field Value Real Clock 133 MHz (DDR) Field Value Effective Clock 265 MHz Field Value Bandwidth 2121 MB/s Field Value Chipset Bus Properties Field Value Bus Type Intel Hub Interface Field Value Bus Width 8-bit Field Value Real Clock 66 MHz (QDR) Field Value Effective Clock 265 MHz Field Value Bandwidth 265 MB/s
Field Value HITACHI_DK23EA-60/a 70 °C (158 °F) Field Value HITACHI_DK23EA-60/b 43 °C (109 °F) That first one is way hot! The second is average. Are these two different drives? or?
oh i'm not sure, it just said tempatures, well here is all it had on the page lol. Field Value Sensor Properties Sensor Type HDD Sensor Access SMART Temperatures HITACHI_DK23EA-60/a 70 °C (158 °F) HITACHI_DK23EA-60/b 42 °C (108 °F)
found your drive here: X they record 2 temps, i.e. operating/ non-operating: Temperature Operating 5° to 55° C (41° to 131° F) Non-operating 40° to 70° C (140° to 158° F) why non-operating exceeds operating i dont know maybe someone else can add something here anywho, you are within those limits (barely) ... i would guess your heat problem is with the drive rather than the processor but beyond my guess i dont know where to go will keep thinking tho
thats really strange wonder if that means that it can't operate at 158? lol they just have to make it harder than need be. Does that mean its not my heatsink causing the overheating? I don't really know the difference between drive and processor lol. Thank you so much for your time. I don't know what i'm looking for on the driver but i tried to read it all. I'll keep checking back to see if you have found anything. Ya know that error message I kept getting about memory? (its ok if not i know you read alot of other peoples messes lol) but i don't know if they are related or not. I mainly just get them still when i close the IE window.. or how they say the original window.
i sorta remember that other thread ... i'll look back here's an all you ever wanted to know (& more) etc. http://www.pcguide.com/topic.html
this time the temp was Field Value Sensor Properties Sensor Type HDD Sensor Access SMART Temperatures HITACHI_DK23EA-60/a 70 °C (158 °F) HITACHI_DK23EA-60/b 51 °C (124 °F)
Perhaps you could get some info from viao web support https://e-support.vaio-link.com/eSupport/PortalJSP/Portal.jsp also you can run hitachi's drive diagnostic found here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
