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Well, you could use it to also experimentally measure the current absorption of a fan, or the voltage level coming out of fan motherboard header ..... More seriously I simply cannot conceive the idea of someone dealing with electronics mods (or assembling PC's) having not at least an el-cheapo or el-cheaper multimeter handy. Particularly with "loose" connectors such as (example): http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=49396 I personally would never even think of connecting them before having made triple sure of which is what with a multimeter . (exchanging data connectors is not an issue, but +5 V, the - and the GND make all the difference between a working something and that peculiar smell of burned chips - no, not potato chips - that usually translates to "bucks flying out of the window") And now, for NO apparent reasons and spuddenly : jaclaz

Good, this one, then: http://www.delta-americas.com/products/FanUploads/Specification/AFB1212HHE-CF00(REV00).pdf it says that the power consumption is 0.51 A and consequently (at 12 V) 6.12 W, with a MAX of 0.70A/8.40W. You didn't post initially this info. That fan will normally use 0.51 A with PEAKS of 0.70 A. Your motherboard provides (your specs that I did NOT check) 0.74A or 8.88W and provides a 12 V level. You are well within any limits and you can safely use that fan attached to that motherboard. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/quotes?qt=qt0373704 jaclaz

Naaah, been there, done that (remember to search ): "My" link is - strangely enough - still valid . jaclaz

Well, it's OK, he is asking a 2nd opinion . JFYI : jaclaz

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Just in case : http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/0/8/c0872b4c-ddfc-4dbc-b3e5-ef385a4d349e/wucsp.exe jaclaz

Just for the record, in the good ol' times I used for a few years a Compaq Concerto. It had an optional 4 Mb of RAM added to the base 4 Mb and it ran Windiws 3.11 (and Windows for Pen Computing 1.00) exceptionally well , CPU was a 486/33Dx. I talked about it a bit in the "windows 8 deeper impressions" thread. Two or three years later I tried upgrading it to 20 Mb (by swapping the 4 Mb extension with a 16 Mb one) but with Windows 95 it became slow as molasses, evidently the CPU was not fast enough. That thingy there, having already a Pentium and a (relatively) fastish one should be OK with WIn95 but the 16 Mb are on the very low side. I would guess that if it can "backfitted" with Win 3.11 it will fly, really 8 Mb were all that were needed with 3.11 for "normal" use (exception made for graphics programs, etc, as usual) The idea of running Win98 with it is "pure folly" IMHO, to give you a term of comparison, another laptop I used to have, an Extensa 355 came with Win95 and 16 Mb, I tried 98 after having added 32 Mb (total 48 Mb) and still it wasn't as snappy as with WIn95. So IMHO (and if some drivers are found/issues are solved) the idea of running 3.11 on this thingy here is not at all a bad idea . jaclaz

Which motherboard? Which case? Compare with (as an example): http://www.eggxpert.com/forums/thread/600167.aspx Or with : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/307986-10-where-plug-bias jaclaz

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508311/the-woman-charged-with-making-windows-8-succeed/ Missing end of the sentence/interview: Too bad that the space on that page wasn't enough to contain these last statements... jaclaz

You can try the Toshiba ones: http://web1.toshiba.ca/support/isg/drivers/archives/files_Archive/Index/display_drivers.htm jaclaz

Where exactly did you get the data for the fan? Unless I am mistaken, the specs are here: http://www.delta.com.tw/product/cp/dcfans/dcfans_product.asp?pcid=1&ptid=1 http://www.delta.com.tw/product/cp/dcfans/download/pdf/AFB/AFB120x120x38mm.pdf or here (more likely): http://www.delta-america.com/Products/FANUploads/Specification/AFB1212HHE.pdf jaclaz

Do we have ANY valid members who identify their OS as Vista Business x86 AND are not lying at it? jaclaz

Never said that you were telling me lies, but maybe the actual specs may contain additional info that I would like to see and that you omitted as you rated them "unnecessary". What about the EXACT Delta fan model and motherboard make/model? You know. like : jaclaz

Who knows? It depends from which issue is your disk suffering from, actually WHAT caused the issue. NO guaranteee of any kind. Take some time reading ATTENTIVELY the read-me-first: Normally yes, the data is back "as it was before", BUT sometimes partition or file based recovery is necessary (and sometimes even these fail) In any case you DO NOT attempt booting from that disk, you try first thing (if the BSY or LBA0 issue is resolved) imaging it on another disk surely working and attempt recovering the data. jaclaz

Good , and the reason why I asked for them is because those data you provided are NOT enough for me to give you an accurate suggestion, and they sound "queer" to me. If you prefer I would like to read myself the specs, or if you prefer even better I don't trust you on the info you posted . . Mind you I am (was) trying to help you, it is only logical that if you cannot judge by yourself if that fan is suitable , you evidently miss some related electric/electronic knowledge , EXACTLY the same one that would allow you to decide what is necessary and what it is not. And, as a standard, preventive disclaimer : jaclaz

Just for the record, I am not a sound engineer nor a certified electronics technician. (but I did stay at a Holiday Inn ) jaclaz

Generally speaking PE 2.x and 3.x (and most probably 4.x) tend to have some issues with enumerating drives (when compared to BIOS enumeration). Since you booted from the USB stick, that stick became "first disk" in BIOS, whilst when you used the CD/DVD the internal disk remained "first disk" in BIOS, it is very possible that this somehow altered the order of the other disks too. See also: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/uk/configmgrosd/thread/d703ce21-dc70-40e0-a347-e9bfc5b845a5 jaclaz

@MagicAndre1981 Do check the mentioned Courier links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WYWGKnVkEw http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20128013-75/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-killed-its-courier-tablet/ As I see it (and as said before) a pen interface makes much more sense than a "touch" one by itself, and still IMHO the "book-like" two sided thingy looks a lot more usable, besides being a "common gesture" to open a book. At least it would have been "new". jaclaz

(8.96-8.88)/8.88=0.009 or less than 1%, well within common tolerances. No issues whatever with voltage, if the motherboard provides 12 V (usually and more likely 12.2 or 12.3 V) this value will never be increased. The 12.8 is the max rated voltage of the fan, if it has a max rated consumption of 0.70 A it will consume at the most 0.70 A (+ or - some tolerance, typically 2.5 or 5%) Voltage levels and current absorption are not linear when it comes to electrical motors. Loosely, you can: Think at Volts as you would think at the inner area of a water pipe. Think at Ampere as you would think at the pressure of the water flowing through it. Think at Watts as the quantity (instantly or per unit of time) of water coming out of the open end of the pipe. To get more water you increase the pressure (the diameter of the pipe remains the same), as well if instead of flowing free from an open end of the pipe you make it deliver water in a container that is in depression, more water will flow (actually the delta of pressure is increased as well) An electrical motor will normally attempt when under heavy stress/load (and this is not the case of a fan unless you "brake" it or it gets clogged with dust or whatever) to compensate a lower level of voltage by absorbing more Amperes. As well, there could be issues with the (very brief in time) increase of Amperes needed to spin up, but any hardware manufacturer would take this into account when rating the current a header designed to have an electric motor connected to it can provide. I see that you were not satisfied by the replies received here : http://www.overclock.net/t/1337574/fan-amps-and-watts where at least you provided the make of the fan, Delta. Now if you would be so kind as to provide the EXACT model of the Delta fan AND the EXACT make/model of your motherboard, one could have a look at the spec sheets of both and possibly give you some more detailed advise. jaclaz

It didn't seem right to me, but its easy enough to do a test. Now I do recall that WinPE 2.x diskpart operated a little differently, so perhaps it is knowledge leftover and not corrected. However, at least in WinPE 3 and 4 (x64) it is easy enough to test. I can confirm that if you use the CLEAN command on a GPT disk, it does indeed revert the disk back to MBR format, or at least it ceases to be GPT. Consider this result: Sure , this is "logical" but, I am afraid, "general/generic" . What I suspect is that the specific hardware the OP has *somehow* implements some non-standard features that (still *somehow*) "connect" the BIOS with the disk device and it's partitioning, at least this is what I can understand from the given links. And still I have not seen any mention in the OP posts about having attempted the conversion using either Disk Manager or diskpart.from GPT to MBR. In any case following to the letter that tutorial, that seemingly has worked for several users, cannot in any way make things "worse" than they are now. jaclaz

No more simply "check if there is no full moon when sending spinning asterisks" or "only do that during daytime": jaclaz

And be aware of the risk of unclogging cables sending asterisks through them! jaclaz

Well, as I see it, it is more or less the same trend that led to the idea of replacing a simple, plain text file like BOOT.INI with a Registry Hive (\boot\BCD) additionally "always in use" by the system, they all seem like having been not in class when they were teaching about Occam's Razor or the KISS principle. The combined effect of unneededly complex implementation with scarce or no proper documentation will eventually lead to the extinction of the human race, through building systems so complex that no one will be able to manage them properly.... .... the machines will get self aware soon jaclaz

I was passing by and a few random links fell off my bag-o-links http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/410 http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b28051/tdppt_degrade.htm http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070728035026AAabNLU jaclaz