Recent content by Hercules1946

Hello CountMike, and thanks for your response. Looking inside the front section of the case, it looks like the external port connections and the cable would come as part of the case fittings, and are not removable. In view of what you say, I think that my only option will be to try plugging the...

Hello I have two front facing USB ports on my tower desktop that are both connected to a single 9 pin socket on the motherboard by cable. One port works and the other doesn't. I've tried to find info on the port in device manager, but I can't figure out which data is referring to the port that's...

Installing Windows 8 on a Vista Machine Hello KYHI and thanks for your response. Sorry if I confused things by using the term upgrade. A clean install of Windows 8.1 has been done on the (empty) SSD, with the intention of leaving the HDD as is. The idea was to allow me to boot either from the...

When my computer stopped working while I was doing a clean install of 8.1 onto a new SSD, I had to send it back to where I bought it. They fitted a new power supply, installed 8.1 on the SSD, leaving my Vista HDD System disk in situ as I asked. When returned the machine had got some serious...