If I have a hard disk with more than 50% free space, will it become slower if I consume 30% more disk space? Why or why not? It never made sense to me that more free disk space would equal better...

I think your motherboard is probably defected since all of the optical drives connect to the motherboard. I could be wrong of course.

I dont think this is the right place, but could be. Anyways, some laptop optical drives only pop out a little so it doesnt get hurt <the drive>. Maybe somehow you got a laptop drive for your son?...

Error number 163 and 161 mean specificly that the time and date is not set. But ya, your cmos is also dead. Got that from http://www.ibm.com/us/ (http://www.ibm.com/us/) <dont know how to...

You could try switching the parts around with another computer to see whats wrong if nothing else works, even though that would take eternity it would tell you whats malfunctioning or what you need...

I don't really know what happened to your computer, but Sony is telling you to open up your case and check the IDE Ribbons connecting your optics drive to the main board. The one on top of the...