Capacitors! - revive dead Video cards and Motherboards (and other electronics)

Disclaimer: while it is possible to repair power supply unit capacitors, just stay away from them and buy a new one!, they deal with high voltages and amperage, and  should not be tampered with ! this guide deals with low voltage capacitors!


Computers and electronics: We have made our life around them, and sometimes rely heavily on them, everything is fine and well until one day, when  you try to boot your computer, the fan noises are made, the hard drive spins to life, but there is no image on the monitor, this is possibly not a power supply issue, it might be bad ram, but if everything was well and running up to that moment, you might very well be looking into the eyes of death!. A dead Motherboard or Video card!!!  All is lost!abandon ship!

Last Part! - Hard Drives: How to certify a drive for good measure!

DISCLAIMER:
Even if you plow your hard drive trough all of these programs and get the green light on it, there is no stopping fate from making your drive die the next day, so back up often!
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Welcome back to this humble guide I hope you have enjoyed the insight on the programs that i use to test and certify  hard drives, this time we finally take a look at how to make sure a drive will perform reliably both in data preservation and  performance within windows!



HD TUNE  - Transfer rate measurement  / surface scan
http://www.hdtune.com/

PART 2 - Hard Drive Maintenance: fix a slow drive(and how some drives just cant be saved)

DISCLAIMER:
Resurfacing, Low level formatting and slow sector erasure will destroy any data on the drive, this guide assumes you have backups and are trying to reshape a slow drive, and even after doing all that is possible , some drives will still show signs of slowness and bad sectors due to uncorrectable physical damage to the surface, heads and/or arms. Always Verify Data Integrity before using a resurfaced drive!

Welcome Back today we take a look at some other awesome programs!


VICTORIA -  quick bad sector removal/destructive slow sector erases
http://hdd-911.com/
A program created on the motherland, Victoria comes as a dos solution to access drives directly for health and sector checkup, there is also a newer (4+) windows version that only runs on Windows XP, the program contains:

Hard Drive Maintenance: how to fix a slow hard drive(and bad sectors)PART 1

DISCLAIMER
As i previously mentioned, hard drives are prone to mechanical wear, and break down, when a drive fails it will be unable to spin up, move the heads in place, and make loud grinding scratchy noises and clicks, all signs of a dead or dying drive, and only hard drive forensics can help you in such case, this is not a guide to revive dead hard drives. This guide assumes you have full backups of your data.


DEFRAG VS REPAIRING SLOW/BAD SECTORS
In our daily computer use, we want our data written onto our hard drive in a single line, so that later its read in the same speedy fashion, the reality is that in order to provide read/write performance, big data files are laid and fragmented all over the hard drive, leading to a certain degree of delay when we request the file again. A hard drive Defrag will move big files in sequential order to prevent such delays, this does NOT fix slow or damaged sectors.

How to double the speed of your computer (RAID 0 + CLONE BACKUP)

We want fast computers! we want to press the start button and have our operating systems desktop in our screen within seconds, click on our folders and enjoy our music, pictures or home movies, open up our browser and visit our favorites!

But why do we have to wait for 40 seconds for our systems to be ready?, why does our system grind to a halt on the loading screen as if it was calculating quantum equations  in the background, we invest a few hundred dollars in 4 or 8 cores, 8 gigs of the fastest ram, and still we have to wait for our HARD DRIVES to catch up to speed? 

THE PROBLEM