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I received it today (friday) and swapped the psu just now. Typing from the computer hooked up to the new psu. It's alive again!

I dislike strongly the trackpoints. I'm fond of the touchpads, though I disable the click features on them and use the buttons instead. But I carry a mouse with me in my laptop case and use that whenever possible because both trackpoints and touchpads don't compare to a mouse. And I like...

Order the new case & PSU. antec NSK2400. No my board won't fit in it but I can temporarily use that psu while I wait for july 22nd to buy the motherboard and processor.

Okay my new computer plans just moved up a little. My computer doesn't boot. When I push the power button nothing happens. If I unplug it wait and then plug it back in, I get power lights for a brief second but it doesn't turn on. I assume this means I have a bad power supply? I've tried...

udaman, I think we covered the negatives in another thread. In this case what's done is done. And the reality of it will teach him more than your post ever will. Congrats to Clocker as well.

Catch up on sleep _now_. You are going to need it. Congrats and good luck (you need that too).

Too much fertilizer I guess.

I'll be in LA (near LAX) for training July 9th through the 20th. I'm wondering if any member was in the area and wanted to meet up and hang out.

I have a system freeze happening but have not been able to find the cause. Frustrating to no end. I feel your pain. I wish their was some software to monitor the system and help diagnose causes of system freezes. If it gave me the dll name or something I could research it but there is nothing.

Whew, good thing I bought a couple weeks ago. I bought some decently priced 667 without a mail-in rebate. I only bought it then because I heard it was going up and didn't want to get sticker shock around july 22nd when I get the MB/Proc/Case.

When I was in auckland, new zealand there was no american type pizza in the stores. You had one that was pineapple and ham and stuff. And some other one I forget. But no real plain or pepperoni pizza. They also had lots of other interesting food stuffs to an american. I had several giggles...

I have no concerns with Handruin's plan of action.

I've already got my wishlist saved at newegg and ready to purchase when the prices come down. How do RAM prices look coug? staying flat or going up?

You know they ship pizzas. Chicago style even. One of our developers here got one shipped to him in dry ice. Maybe they do same day shipping?

Our neighbor down the street has nine kids. We live in row homes. Our house is an end of row so not so bad. But these houses are small. And somehow they have 11 people in the house. That should violate some fire laws or something. They are nice people and all but ... nine kids is just...

Consider the case of my in-laws. I married the good daughter. The other daughter got into drugs early on. She is a crack addict, though currently she is on the wagon after having spent a couple months in jail. She had two kids. The father died of a drug overdose a few days after being released...

Then don't have them. Wear that rubber man. And time commitment is putting it mildly. It is more like life commitment. You aren't talking a 30 year mortgage here. It is a lifetime commitment to another person. No matter how prepared you think you are, you are always woefully unprepared.

I wouldn't bet on very similar. Heck even shift differences could cause quality differences in just one warehouse location.

It probably isn't exactly newegg which controls the quality of shipping but which warehouse is shipping it to you.

I don't think a format change is practical. Developing a new format or shape requires a lot of research and development which means money that none of these companies want to spend. While the current format might not be ideal because it is based on film based cameras, it has evolved over the...

From the wikipedia link I provided, AHCI seems not related to USB but to SATA. You need it to get hot plug support and native command queueing according to the link. It applies to the Intel ICH southbridges I think, not sure which number but probably at least ICH8 and ICH9.

I wasn't aware of this AHCI thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface I'm looking at the GA-G33M-DS2R to throw in an Antec NSK2400 case.

Sweet board But I thought the Intel P35 chipset wasn't released yet?

I really like what I've heard of this case. And the idea of moving my PC onto my desk is appealing. The little fingers will no longer be able to push the buttons. I'll readily see the dust build up and can attend to it. Any concerns with using it on the desk? I suppose the monitor can't be on...

Thanks merc. I saw on silentpcreview it only supports coolers shorter than 12cm or 4.75 inches. The ultra 120 extreme is 160.5 mm. Way too big.

Still using the NSK2400 case? Did you use the stock cooler? Anybody think I'll have a problem with the ultra 120 extreme cpu cooler in this case?

Dell deal this sunday was $400 for AMD X2 4000+ 2GB DDR2 (two sticks not four) 80GB Drive Dual Layer DVD Burner nvidia Geforce 6150 integrated graphics 1 year warranty. I thought it was a good deal. I bought one for my mom.

wow quoted by udaman... I feel somewhat honored.

I just took the plunge with the Nikon D40. It's sample images were just so much better than the others. Only $525 with free 1GB SD card and shipping.

When I create installs with the Visual Studio Installer which is an msi creation utility for VB6, VC6, etc., the install it makes prompts you when it is already installed to uninstall or repair. So even this one is semi-smart. I can see not spending the time to make the installer bullet proof...

Spoiled brats. Only one way to deal with them. Take it all away.

Canon Powershot S5 IS press release Canon's Page Samples New review from dpreview.com of Canon TX1 that weird vertical digicam/camcorder gadget. I'll save you the read - they thought the controls were horrible and it is a nice gadget but nothing more. And dpreview.com review of Nikon D40...

Help me choose Okay I've got the money and can wait till around july to buy if need be. So let's say a budget of around $500. Got to have 10x or better zoom. Not really concerned with the megapixels. Highly concerned with the auto mode function in low light (indoor) shots. What would you...

I have a data recovery situation on my hands and need some advice. So my uncle's PC blue screened with unmountable boot volume. I figure no problem the mbr is probably hosed or something run the recovery console and do fixmbr. Only the hard drive is SATA and hooked up to an intel raid...

I'm officially a storage freak. I took apart my first hard drive today. So I guess that makes me an official storage freak. I actually took apart two of them. But I couldn't get the platters out of the second one. I was surprised that the circuit boards on the bottom were so swappable. They...

Finally got around to installing something similar from cpuidle.de on my dad's computer. When I came over the computers idle temp was 66C. This is an athlon xp 1800. The idle temp dropped to 29C. I was going to reinstall the heatsink but I don't think I'll bother now.

Memory Bought at DDR2 667, thanks Liam.

Shouldn't it be the same as the front side bus speed? Anything change for the new intel P35 chipset?

Bah all these DDR2 memory speeds. Seems 667 is cheap right now but 800 is a bit more pricey. Which speed do the core 2 duo's want? Which will the new AMD quad core (barcelona) want? ddrueding, I think it is AM2 with a bios upgrade but not supporting all the features. See here...

Why are all the Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe boards on ebay from Canada? Anyway I've decided even a $60 939 board at this point is probably a waste of money. I can just swap out the motherboard, CPU and RAM. I'll wait till AMD releases their quad core to do that thought. But I should buy the RAM...

woot!

I don't get this reference. Whistling in the wind? Wasting my time? Everybody seems to like the board, maybe I just got unlucky. I'll look at the choices on newegg and just pick one then.

So I have an AMD x2 3800 - socket 939 in a GIGABYTE GA-K8N ULTRA-SLI. But lately I've been getting lockups. I checked temps and that isn't it. So it is probably a driver or software problem. I don't really want to diagnose. This is a nforce4 chipset. I think I want to replace it with...

A reference to Don Quixote

I'm just talking about kernel versions not full distros. With a full release you are talking memory and disk space requirements for all the installed packages. Those are likely to increase the requirements. But the nt kernel improved for 2000 -> XP -> server 2003. The kernel got better &...

Made a little table of dollar/GB using neweggs prices GT Voyager ---------- GB Price Dollar/GB ---- ------ --------- 2GB 26.99 13.495 4GB 49.99 12.4975 8GB 94.99 11.87375 Voyager ------- GB Price Dollar/GB ---- ------ --------- 2GB 24.99...

Come on ddrueding, think about it. Having a new OS be better on the same hardware isn't a crazy idea. The opposite is what is crazy. Linux has been improving performance with kernel changes. For those using vista good for you. But be sure to report the bugs and get them fixed before I have...

Other articles of interest regarding the 4GB virtual address space limit. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/18/216492.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/14/699521.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/22/218527.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/17/215682.aspx

I worry the academic version won't update the tax tables or do online updates or similar. Intuit obsoleted the online downloading of my bank information from quicken 2004. You would think that process does not even involve intuit. But sure enough they but a timebomb or something in the...