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Certainly, but having the clutch pressed down isn't gonna hurt. How long does it take to lift the clutch? :-?

The funny thing to point out is that I initially failed my driving test because of "improper use of clutch". They fail you if you press it down at over 1000rpm when coming to a stop. Apparenty it causes "loss of control over the car" or something ridiculous... Perhaps on a heavy loaded old car...

Personally I never put it in neutral unless I'm stopped for unusually long periods, or if I'm in the front at a pedestrian crossing in which case I put on the handbrake as well. I had a friend once who was in gear with his foot on the brake and clutch at a crossing when someone rammed him from...

Apparently they tweaked it to make the sound of the original MG...

Sorry, I mean Cougtec ;)

You should drive the old version of the Corsa as we call it here. That was one of the most horrid cars on the planet, very bouncy ride, no room for anything or anyone inside, cornered on the door handles, and the base version was a miserable 1.2 8v unit that developed... wait for it.... 45hp! 60...

you're crazy, Merc... that said, I did boot my Celeron 333 when I was running Win98 first edition and faulty memory... not much damage though as I kicked the bottom of the case.

I like the Antecs. Pretty quiet and good quality. As I've become a reseller for quiet stuff, I've had the chance to test the Zalman 400W PSUs... they're extremely well built, weigh a ton, and are very quiet. I mean really quiet, even under load. They look infinitely cool as well with that black...

What I never understood is why they don't make heatpipes like that which will utilise the entire case for dissipation. It would not be easy on a normal case for several reasons, the key reason being that each side panel etc is removable and separate from the rest, but certainly a suitable case...

Whats the problem of providing a link to the apps own page on the manufacturer/authors website? I have some webspace I can donate, its not much, I can spare around 100mb, and I have a 2gb limit per month, but anyway IIRC most of these apps aren't that big right?

Not very impressive drive. The older 'Cudas were slow but had the low noise that made them of some use. The new 'Cuda is neither fast nor very quiet. :-?

They also made a 75Gb version... which it is possible Mercutio had as he does have lots of storage.

Just plugged in a Duron 1.1, and a P3-800. Eat that. :bravo:

Speed seems fine to me.

No thanks. (though with the Slot 1 version one might manage, but the PPGA versions would be painful I think :o ) Whatever you say, massively overclocked Celerons rocked :mrgrn:

I tried that, it won't see it in Windows or the BIOS. Device manager reports nothing also... latest drivers are installed. :( I will check the Amdmb forums, thanks.

CityK, Thanks, I tried that when I was checking out all the options, IIRC there are three options, create, delete and resolve conflicts. Because I only have one drive hooked up it won't let me into the submenu of any of the options... But I'm more concerned about getting the CDRW on there as...

Hi, I didn't try boot from SCSI which I guess is pretty obvious but hey I'm tired :) The reason I want to use my writer on the S-ATA channel is because: a) It now shares a cable with a hard drive, which causes the burnproof to kick in if I want to do something "heavy" on the drive it shares a...

Only when I need to due to software/driver updates etc.

One more thing... would it support ATAPI devices? I'm using the Asus Dongle (converter) which I purchased separately.... no relevant info on that either (both manual and asus site) Thanks

Hi, I'm wondering how to boot off the Silicon Image S-ATA controller on the A7N8X deluxe. There is no option either in the system BIOS or the S-ATA BIOS which seems to concentrate on creating RAID arrays only. Any ideas? Manual says nothing about it. Thanks

Well its definately better than England (hey at least they have some sun over there, at least in the south) so I won't speak. The ladies are also very nice compared to our rubbish :wink:

Its a conspiracy between Dell and Opticians to sell more glasses :lol:

Looks good... thanks for the link

I'd make one of those hard drive racks and put it in the living room... its nice decor.... just like I have the top cover of my 'Cuda IV that I accidentally killed last week (put a screw right through the inspection hole!) as a drinks coaster - its really rather good in fact, its got that...

I've got to say, my A7N8X Deluxe and a friend's Shuttle SN41 both work fine (for the time being at least). The article implies that this is a standard problem with these boards, but it seems its probably only true under some circumstances, or some batches?

I just got an A7N8X Deluxe, and a friend got the Shuttle based on the NF2... working fine so far, thankfuly.

The heatsink on the Asus northbridge hardly gets warm at the 145MHz FSB that I had it set to. However, the southbridge gets hot enough to cause serious burns even at stock speed so I glued on a small heatsink to it and now its much cooler.

What on earth is a BlueMagic PCI slot? :-?

I'm using the Asus A7N8X Deluxe, very happy with it.

You can get some crazy things in Japan, I gotta say.... like those chopsticks with the built in 40mm fan to cool your noodles... :lol:

Nice one, just wasted half an hour :lol:

Damn! :o

:D

Giving it a try... Please use normal English for us mere mortals? :eekers:

Hmm.. tried it to no effect. Reinstalled Windoze and everything OK (obviously). Thanks anyway!

DC can get pretty adictive and expensive. I remember I was content running a Celeron 700@900 or so, then when I started messing with Seti and saw my friends P3-933 finishing a unit three full hours ahead of me I started upgrading... again and again. Buying more hardware. Faster hardware...

Thanks, will try that and let you know. :)

Came across this on a friend's XP machine - take a look: It suddenly decided to change the icon of the C: drive to a generic one. Tried changing it under "Tools" menu, but the correct icon is displayed and I tried to change it to something else and then change it back again but to no effect...

Looks good, thanks 8)

Amiga OS...

Nice one :salut:

Hmm. Last Saturday I was enquiring at a shop about Yamaha's 44x drive - they only had the external firewire one, and that at a low price as well. So i asked how much the internal one was, out of curiosity. The guy said he's sold out and only the external ones remained, and that Yamaha is no...

True... Since the coppermine, Intel has used 256 bit, makes you wonder why AMD doesn't do the same?

You said you might run them below stock speed, I now see you meant the fans, not the processors :)

Got this in the mail from AMD today, I've never used the news feature on the front page so I'm not quite sure how to use it - if someone wants to add it then go ahead: SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-FEBRUARY 10, 2003-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the AMD Athlon(tm) XP processor 3000+ - the world's...

Old, but nice :)

http://zdzich.wsh-kielce.edu.pl/~zbylu/sprzet/smscan.exe Here it is

blakewry, Platform is referring to the idle noise - an occasional whirring that comes and goes, very annoying but that app will fix it.

All half decent A/C units these days use "inverter" technology. I know the cheap one we had fitted in around 97 or 98 runs constantly and adapts its power accordingly.