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OK, I've had a CDRW for a while and use CDRW to backup my data. Last night while copying stuff across, I started getting errors saying that the source was unreadable. To cut a long story short, it turns out that the CDRW disk had turned to crap and I'd lost everything on it. :( Luckily, I...

Problems with EPoX 8KHA and GeForce 4 cards Saw this link on The Tech Report http://www.hardocp.com/articles/visiontek/epoxvtti4600.html Apparently (according to the [H]ard guys, any GeForce 4 (real one, not the bastardised MX) card that follows the reference design won't fit into the AGP...

Cache What is the purpose of cache? To stop the processor going to memory or to stop the hard drive from actually having to read the disk. What does this mean? It means that more (or more effective) cache will hide the seek penalties incurred in reading the disk - this translates into the...

I have had some "difficulties" with WD in the past - poor transfer rates in the main (funnily enough, only on Abit boards) and so tend to avoid them - but I did go and buy a 1000JB for my main system - performance will win out with me every time. Having said that, I have used a few of Maxtors...

Only saw it a couple of years ago at one of those midnight theatre sessions. All I can say is, wierd....

You and your droogs eh? Up for a bit o' ultra violence... Gotta stop watching Kubrick films... :)

Nice hatchet job Tony :) I think SF needs a Crap-O-Meter for reviews - one that goes to 11 :)

Here you go http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/1.shtml Care with DDR 2T/1T. 1T is faster but it usually brings data corruption errors.

I've had both a 15GB 75GXP and a 41GB 60GXP fail with ye old grinding noise. My first reaction was #@%^ing IBM drives. This happened about the time the story broke. Since then I've had time to think about what happened. This is what I've learned. At about the time both crashes happened, I...

The JoJo, you don't need to lower your AGP speed because the bug has no relevance to the AGP speed setting. The bug only impacts when your GART is using 4MB tables instead of 4KB tables, *and* if bit 21 is set high, *and* the software does an invalid page table buffer flush. Only since...

Bastich! How did you get an unlocked AMD chip? If you unlocked it yourself, you may have a slight short that keeps jumbling up the FID pins. I'd try redoing your bridge shorting. On pencil unlocked Tbirds this was a common problem if it wasn't done right. You'd get one or two multi either...

Move to Linux? Ditched the WPS Laser for a Brother on the Linux compatible list, Ditto the modem (Winmodem to hardware one). Video cards are NVIDIA. If I buy *any* hardware now, I check to see if its Linux compatible. Haven't made the move completely, but I'm getting there. But XP has...

Thanks Barry

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Linux Fonts Hey Tannin, guess I'm not the only one to run into the font problem with Mandrake (8.0). Opera is a little easier but I agree that Nutscrape really looks bad... Anybody, do you just randomly choose fonts with the browser or do you have to install the 96dpi fonts in K?? Thanks...

Tony, anyone, are more people buying whole new systems or are they upgrading? I know I haven't bought a whole system since 1995 - just upgrade a CPU/motherboard here, vid there, disk, monitor etc

Tannin, my experience is slightly different. I look after a few small business networks and (as with most small businesses) $$$ are everything. I've found that Celerons teamed up with SiS or VIA chipsets to be slugs, but I personally had a Celeron 300A and BH6 450 :) - and that simply put...