We have a dell optiplex 390, shipped in June 2012. So 5 1/2 years old.

In June 2017 the OEM hard drive failed - not spinning at all.
Put in a couple / few year old hard drive that we had lying around.  Restored from backup.
Blew out accumulated dust (which wasn't much)

October 2017 - that hard drive failed. Not spinning at all.
Put in another couple year old hard drive

Used a couple year old digital power tester like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q8SUYHW/ref=asc_df_B00Q8SUYHW5223423
and power tested good per this:

https://www.lifewire.com/power-supply-voltage-tolerances-2624583

Within a couple weeks - that 3rd hard drive failed -  put your ear to the drive, you hear it spin up for a couple seconds then silent whenever power is supplied.

Change out the original oem power supply? walk away from this?  thoughts?

the 3 drives were seagate and western digital (not fly by night brand).

yeah all 3 were not new when they died but I checked smart settings with crysttal disk info on the 2 replacement drives before putting them in. I forget the number of hours the app said they had been running.

I;ve taken the failed drives and connected to other power supplies - same thing - no sound or on the 3rd, it spins for a second then shuts down.

Tried to download the sata driver for the HP8200 Elite SFF mentioned in your Experts Exchange.  The site is gone.  Trying to Dual Boot XP onto a Windows 7 OS.  I need to Slipstream that driver onto my XP install disk to be able to use XP on the 8200.   What sata driver do I use for this machine and where can I obtain a copy.  The 8200 machine I'm working on has Windows 7 Professional installed with your bios v 02.06.  Any help will be appreciated.

We have an old 2850 we are going to setup for a small client of ours, but this morning we noticed there is some kind of black goop on the motherboard (picture attached), its sticky and takes a good scrubbing to get it off your fingers.  I did some searching online and compared the area where the black substance is to pictures of 2850 motherboards online and I it looks like this little black pyramid/tower thing in front of the RAM slots turned to goop (I circled the black thing i'm talking about in the second picture attached).  Can anyone tell me what that thing is for, what its made out of, why it might turn to goop all of the sudden, and if it poses any threat to continued reliable operation of the server?  Thanks in advance for any help.
2850_goop.jpg
new_mobo_pic.jpg

Is this possible? I have a Windows 10 Machine at my business with wireless functionality. I also have a television in the same room that has WiFi Direct capabilities. Is it possible, with no external hardware, to connect these two devices to share display to the television. Let me preface this by saying that I also have an HDMI extender kit that I could use, but I would like to avoid running cabling if that isn't necessary.

Hello and Good Morning Everyone,

           As an extension to my previously closed questions regarding Playstation 4 consoles, I am wondering if they support playback of DVD and Bluray media or disk.  I will be purchasing a PS4 this month and wish to harness all of it features and potential.  

           Thank you

           George

Hi,

I bought an Acer 8th Gen core i5 8250u based laptop model A515-51G.

Does the laptop support M.2 SSD in the second SATA slot.

Can I have a configuration where I can install the OS from the SSD SATA slot and also have the 1 TB hard disk that comes with the laptop for storing data.

Does this model support dual SATA configuration?

Does this laptop support booting from the M.2 SSD SATA slot with the default hard disk as the data disk?

What is the size and specs. of the SSD that I can install in the second SATA slot and whether I can make it bootable?

Please reply asap for this question.

Thanks for your support.

Warm Regards,
Sriram.

I need to wipe several SAS disks from some servers, can I just connect them up to my SATA interface on my PC? The connections look the same. I obviously am not expecting the same speed, just need to wipe the data off them.

Thank you

Hello experts,
This customers simply does not want to work with windows 10...
its psycologycal ... has no cure...

the hp prodesk g3 is so small has no dvd drive ...
it has a ssd 256 Mb with win 10 ...

the customer has purchased a ssd 1 tera ...

we can replace it but how to install windows here ?
please your advice....
steps to follow if possible.
Regards,

Why do you think the below #3 would fail after I made
sure HP says the server can handle up to four 8GB sticks ?
============================================
1.  My Windows 2012 HP ProLiant ML10
      server came with one memory stick
        **  2GB 1Rx8 PC3-12800E-11-13-D1

2. I then installed three of the below, making
    sure it showed 5GB total after booting
        ** 1GB 1Rx8 PC3-10600E-9-10-D0

3. I then replaced ALL of the above, having only
    two of the below, but the system would NOT boot
        ** 2GB 1Rx8 PC3-10600U-09-10-AD

I bought several of these servers off ebay and need to configure RAID (50 hopefully). After pressing F9 how do I get to the 410i controller (or whatever it is) to configure a RAID level?

We require software / hardware for a small business that we support.

We need software that will block access to social media sites etc . We are aware that DrayTek routers have a web filtering solution which we have used but we need a more advanced software / proxy program to control which users access which websites on our network.

We want to allow for example some pages in youtube but not all so it needs to be fairly advanced.

Any recommendations would be much appreciated :)

ESXI host is experiencing random disconnects of VMs. The host itself is still powered up and VMs on it are reachable via RDP.  This has occurred periodically with this and other hosts within the same physical rack (and most likely the same switch). I believe it is a hardware networking issue or a configuration between the host and vCenter. The VMs within vCenter will gray out for approximately 15 to 20 seconds.  Any idea where the solution is or where I should begin looking to resolve this problem?

It's via HP auto updater

Can't believe it's taking this long on an i7 with 32 gigs ram

And there is fast broadband here

Anything to be concerned about ?