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PS - to satisfy my own curiousity about whether there is a performance increase, I'm going to do an apples to apples comparison later on (i.e I'll take a boot image that loads the driver vs the same boot image with the exception that I'll rem out the driver loading line).

I took a look at this again last night. My previous night's difficulty with the udma driver was due purely to a clerical error which I was overlooking. I got the UDMA driver working fine but with just one exception. * Although I wasn't doing an apples to apples comparison (because I was using...

Alright, you're all excused.....this time. Excellent! I'll get the vicious rumour mill going - Psssst! Hey, did you hear the news? Doug's going to merge the forum with SR!! My resurrection of this thread, of course, did not mean to overlook Mark's many recent contributions. In fact, I highly...

Its very, very quite around here lately. Come on people! Greg and Gary can't float this boat all on their own!

DVD43Free too. I only used it once - Shaun of the Dead has "bad sectors" anti-ripping protection which a prior version of DVDDecryptor choked on. With DVD43Free in place, the older version of DVDDecryptor was able to rip away. I believe the newest version of DVDDecryptor can now circumvent...

For shame mubs - leaving me hanging like that. I got a hold of the enclosure last night. It employs a Cypress CY7C68300A chipset, which is indeed a "fixed function" IC (i.e non-programable...i.e firmware programers need not apply). However, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it...

All hail Jan's journalistic debut!

Pre Purchase Many media manufacturers not only provide supply for the name brands, but also sell under their own label. For example, a quick check at NewEgg revealed that they do carry some spindle cakes of Taiyo Yuden discs. In terms of the name brands (like Fuji, Memorex, ...), if you can...

mubs, what kind of thoroughput are you seeing on the USB? By the sounds of it, my cousin is only seeing a horrid ~4-7MB/s. I won't get a chance to look into this until the weekend. However, it doesn't sound particularly promisiing -- I was reading a thread on CDFreaks about external...

Generations of inbreeding....its a little known fact that the Confederation bridge was constructed only as a last ditch attempt to increase the gene pool.

Oh, gee, a joke. Um... Um... Uh, funny, uh, okay. Uh, this guy walks into a bar and takes out a tiny piano and a twelve-inch pianist. Oh hoho, no, wait! I can't tell that one!!

Sechs, the Progressive Conservative Party (which, indeed, had become all but crushed) and the Canadian Alliance merged as the Conservative Party about a year and half ago. A brief overview of how it came about can be found here.

Spec wise, I think the only difference is that the newer 3520 can do 8x RW (versus 4x on 3500) and can also handle -R DL (whereas the 3500 can only handle +R DL) .... I could be wrong though. Anyways, DL is dead in the water as far as I'm concerned...on the other hand, a quicker RW burn time...

No, they're essentially equivalent. If anything, casual observation (of CDfreak's NEC forum) leads me to believe that people might perfer the older 3500, but by the slimmest of margins (i.e would fall within statistical error...if anyone was doing such a study)....but I'm also a bit biased...

Yep. That's a NEC 3500AG

Couldn't agree more. The NEC drives are awesome burners.

time, are you familar with the old ABC after school, Schoolhouse Rock material? The infamous "I'm Just a Bill" was obviously the source of inspiration for the Hitatchi clip. At this second, the only other skits that I can remember offhand are Conjunction Junction and the Football one, but...

Thanks for sharing that Groltz, I got a good chuckle out of that.

The unsuspecting customer would be wise to know that there are two models: the older one which is the ME350U2, but also refered to as the ME-350U2 (see the url). and the newer one which is ME-350....which they apparantly distinguish as the 355 (i.e see the url, ... also conveyed in Newegg's...

Or maybe you could find a cheap copy of Norton Systems works professional circa 2003 or 2004.

While I don't know if its true of the OEM version too, but retail Ghost 9.0 includes Ghost 2003...see "more details"

Apparently the Hauppauge Tweak Tool will take care of that motion blur you're noticing.

In light of the fact that there has been some recent A64 OC'ing discussion, I know for sure that the following will be of interest to some (Time and Liam, at the very least). The following two articles present excellent raw data. Unfortunately, both authours make some errors in logic (amongst...

Oops! Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that the mem controller only works/utlizes multipliers 5x and up, so both ClockGen and CPU-Z are obviously programmed correctly. I'll go dig up the article from which I originally gleaned this info a little while back. Actually, I think I'll create a new...

Actually Time, your mem speed is 217. A number of apps incorrectly calculate the mem speed when using memory ratios. Allow me to demonstrate: First off, the correct determination of memory frequency when employing a memory divider on the A64 is given by: Mem Frequency = CPU clock speed / mem...

Interesting read exemplifying Sony at its finest....I don't think it takes much, given the experiences of some of the members of our community, to realize that what is purported in that article is likely factual. Speaking of lies and deception - if you've followed or are aware of nVidia's...

See Free's post. I would deduce that either: 1) he forgot whether the drive's capacity was 400 or 500 GB 2) they have 500 GB 3) he had access to the Hitachi 500 GB My bet is on 2.

No. SDR SDRAM uses 168 pins DDR SDRAM uses 184 pins (DDR2 SDRAM) uses 240 pins

I noticed the other day that MS had a revised hotfix for this problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885222

Greg, Athlon 64 2800 = socket 754, 512KB L2 cache, 1.8GHz as for the A64 3200+, well, there are three versions out in the wild...two of which are readily available: Athlon 64 3200 = socket 754, 512KB L2 cache, 2.2GHz Athlon 64 3200 = socket 939, 512KB L2 cache, 2.0GHz, but dual channel...

Response time. It matters more then just for gaming. For example, scrolling up and down pages and trying to read the text; mouse trails as its dragged quickly across the screen -- two annoying things that screens with quick response times would likely resolve. Contrast ratio. Feature that...

Seems like someone's highpriced team of corporate lolly-gagers has been busy (i.e. click the link above).

On a positive note, making use of one of the available PCI-e lanes for the gigabit nic was a nice touch.

Whatever happened to Via's VT8251 southbridge?

Freeborn is our man on the spot at Seagate.

Maybe its just me, but I haven't noticed too many nF4 mobos. In comparison, ~5 months after the nF2's launch there was a plethora of that platform.

No, but I certainly am! :D Oh man, I'm really being a monkey. For some reason I thinking along the lines that using the commandline swithches would launch ghost in a non-gui mode....then I got obsessive with trying to figure out the ini business. Oh well. I relearned a few things along the...

I'm using the GUI

Ah yes, my powers of explaination continue to astound even me! Anyways, what I meant was in regards to the duration between the time that I submit a post and the time it actually registers.

Noticed it yesterday and it continues to be the case for me again today.

Precisely me experience too Will.

I'm a monkey. I should have remembered that. But thanks for refreshing my memory .... the ol' grey mare she ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be!. The ol'..... Close! The winning (relevant) code was: copy %cddrv%\ghost\ghost.exe %tmp%\ghost.exe...

oops, I guess the " cd \ " means its in the root of the cddrv ....or maybe the root of the boot image...either way, its not were I want to be

That's a thought. I'm not even certain what the initial working directory is, but anyways, I'll give this a go: #if_exist %cddrv%\ghost\ghost.exe Symantec Ghost if "%dmpdrv%" == "" goto _ghost %dmpdrv% cd \ echo. echo You can store your ghost images on drive %dmpdrv%... echo...

The autoexec.bat of the boot image sets up the ramdisk as follows: xmsdsk 8192 %ramdrv% /y /t and the xmsdsk /? verbose is as follows: XMSDSK : adjustable XMS RAMdisk (v1.9I - 08/98) Copyright (C) Franck UBERTO 38000 Grenoble - FRANCE - Install driver either in config.sys...

But it was in the path that ghost was run from. The ramdisk is Q: The cddrv is R: The files ghost.exe and ghost.ini reside in the directory R:\ghost Both files are then copied into the directory Q:\tmp (Note: both Q and all related paths, such as the tmp directory, have been correctly set...

FactsUsing Bart's Corpmb bootcd altered the relevant menu entry so that a ghost settings file (ghost.ini) is also copied over to the ramdisk (Frank Uberto's xmsdsk.exe) #if_exist %cddrv%\ghost\ghost.exe Symantec Ghost if "%dmpdrv%" == "" goto _ghost %dmpdrv% cd \ echo. echo You can...

xbits had some info last week

So who wants to bet that MS tries to market this feature off as being unique only to them?

Just saw on ARS that dell.ca has a non stackable $350 coupon (NMG5T8ZC9K$6WB) that works on the 2005FP, bringing the price down to $599. (I confirmed it works) I tried it on the 2405 but its not applicable. Booooo! Hopefully this is a good sign that Dell.ca will start to offer all kinds of...