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Thanks, Dave. 2 x SATA HDDs, 2 x Opticals, 1 x FDD, 4 x 92mm case fans, 1 x fan controller, 1 x USB/FW front panel bay. I thought the CPU ran off the 3.3v rail? I know the P4 requires a dedicated 12v rail, but didn't know A64's used 12v as well. Of the brands I've checked (Seasonic, Antec...

I fail to see the business advantage behind this. Unless Seagate wanted Quaxtor's additional factory capacity cheaper and faster than they could build themselves.

I'm presuming XP's boot files will be on the 190GB partition. If so will XP boot? IIRC a bootable partition has to start before the 8GB boundary for Windows OSes.

Thanks Dave. How does one size the +3.3v, +5v and +12v rails? The various online PSU calculators only spit out the aggregate power required. My concern is undersizing one of these crucial rails. Let's say the system would be: A64 X2 4800 Nforce4 Ultra (non-SLI) motherboard Radeon x1600 XT...

It's impossible that's it's impossible - I see these on a daily basis! :D Perhaps the ones I see are not made by Lumileds. Just to clarify, the lights I see are a matrix of individual LEDs, whether for the red or the green signal. Individual green LEDs don't light up. Whether this is because...

Thanks jtr. An odd thing I've noticed is with traffic lights that have been converted to LEDs. I see many greens with quite a few LEDs in the matrix that are dead -- 10% or less, but they are visibly dark when the green light comes on, but they don't affect the overall quality of the signal. I...

I read the reviews at Newegg, and it looks like Seasonic's quality swings wildly back and forth. Quite a few DOA units, many units dying after a day or two. Anybody care to comment?

I wonder what jtr will have to say about this: Myths Busted, LED Lighting

Actually is quite a bit slower for me now.

Interesting idea on social change: A Lever Long Enough to Move the World

Scott Finnie says this is a common problem in FF 1.5 and recommends not installing it.

"Your dick is not only for pissing!" That's the title of one I received today. I didn't know spammers were into educating dumb fools like me. Reminds me of one of those "Height of" jokes that were popular eons ago when I was in high school. "What's the height of innocence?" "A pregnant girl...

Folder compaction has been around since the Netscrape 4.x days, at least. If you just delete, the mail goes to trash and sits there (like Wreck Bin), and when you empty trash it compacts folders. Or, if you delete the message using Shift-Del (as I do), it disappears instantly, but the space the...

IIRC, it was a Plextor.

I must have been born under the same stars as Santilli. I bought the Gigabyte 9600XT video card from ZipZoomFly on Sep. 20. Give a few days for shipping and installation. The thing croaked in the first week of November (I've been away since about then till a few days ago). Symptom: Display...

The AGP slot shares the IRQ with one or more PCI slots; make sure the Promise isn't sitting in one of those. As I said, W2k & XP don't use the BIOS and will not have a problem with resources. No need to worry on that score. My Penium-3 BX motherboard has AGP + 5 PCI slots, and every one of...

I've always refused to give phone # / zip code. If they insist, I'd rather walk away without the purchase.

Actually, no. NT class operating systems (NT, 2000, XP) don't use the BIOS at all, but manage resources and hardware themselves. That's one reason many of the earlier posts urged you to use one of those. The best you can do with the BIOS for W98 is to clear CMOS and/or reset BIOS settings to...

i, Merc, Tannin, I suspect the problem is more prevalent than is believed. Here's my guess on the population breakdwown worldwide. I suspect 49% of people fall in the above category. Another 49% consisting of the i's, Merc's and Mubs' of the world. 2% of type Tannin.

I watch with deep sorrow as this country verily turns into that against which it has stood from the beginning.

Thanks, Will. After much research and reboots, it transpires that it wasn't the profiles at all. Uninstalling still left a ton of stuff in the Program Files\Mozilla folder. Deleting this folder (leaving my profile intact) and reinstalling 1.5 solved the problem. I'm a happy camper now. I'm...

Sheesh. My daughter had an old PC she uses for gaming (kiddie stuff). She recently got a Dell P4 hand me down which I set up for her, migrated W98 and installed Dell's OEM XP as a dual boot. XP works flawlessly on it, but a once stable W98 SE (on the old m/c) keeps crashing. I hadn't had the...

What's with 1.5? I installed it over 1.0.7, and nothing happened when I tried to launch it. Then uninstalled both 1.0.7 and 1.5 and reinstalled 1.5, again nothing happened. Uninstalled 1.5 and reinstalled 1.0.7, and am using that now. Grrrrrrrr. Anybody have a clue?

That's one heck of a purdy, purdy puddy tat.

Sabrent quality is questionable, in my experience. My PC has 2 USB-1 ports in the back. I have a USB 2.0 PCI card in my PC, and have done what Andy did - have a 6-foot USB 2.0 extension cord plugged in the back and coming out to the front. May not be pretty, but works great for me.

Tony, you may want to read the thread I started a while back.

Tannin, have to agree with your last post. WRT to the first link, if you read the "Details on Data and Method" page, they say Italics mine. What??? Why is that the fault of the aircraft?

I have a DOS-based dBase-IV program that runs fine in a command window in Win 2k Pro.

So then it should obviously be mothballed, shouldn't it, Orange-Haired one?

A list of sw known to work with S2003 would be awesome; maybe it can be in a new thread in the Toolbox Ref. Section? Not that I have the moolah for a new system or for S2003.. :D Tannin'll be happy to know I'm still on Coppermine/W2k!

Another quaetion: some sw will not install on a "server" OS; it's also difficult to get drivers to run on server OSes. Have these issues been a problem with 2003?

A quick check shows that a copy of Win 2k3 is ~ $600. Other than the free trial at MS, can it be had for less?

It may be that the card isn't getting enough clean power?

Sheesh, I forgot to add that the AGP slot in the Dell is 1.5V as well. There are too many damn variables. Check out these links: ATI KnowledgeBase - AGP Compatibility. Says 9800 uses 1.5V, 0.8V signalling, is 4X, 8X compatible. AGP Compatibility

I have a Gigabyte 9600XT (8x/4x) running in a 4x/2x AGP slot (Intel D845PT in a Dell Dimension 4400). Works flawlessly. Incidentally, Gigabyte's website lists it as an 8x (only) card. Are you having problems? I went with a 9600 because the 9800 gulps a lot more power and the power supply in...

I may be borderline with the tread-depth. I have a guage somewhere, I'll have to fish it out. In any case I will be away for a few weeks, so the car won't be used at that time. Thanks for the tip, Groltz.

Thanks Howell, but which model do you have? I checked their website and read the manual for many models, and many don't have an automatic calendar in them. As for dual time, I called their info line and the lady said that in most models with dual time, only the hour can be changed, so if the...

I've read that it's the OEM NECs that are dying; apparently the retail versions are ok. I bought a retail NEC ND-3540A Black from Newegg on 08/31.

Congrats, Doug! You certainly didn't trade quality for quantity; every one of your posts is well considered and meaningful. Keep 'em coming!

Me too. And like Coug, I'd like to give some buddy time but I don't have the resources to fly out there and am not sure I'd do any good (I'm not exactly Mr. Popularity). If you're willing, Merc, I'd be glad to talk on the phone. Callous as this may seem, it appears to me that the only way...

Then I guess you'll find all blonde jokes, Polish jokes and the like offensive, LM. When I was in college, there was a guy who would regale us with jokes about a particular ethnic group, and he would laugh the loudest and longest. Funny thing was that this guy was from that very ethnic group -...

Thanks everybody, for the sound advice. Yup. The three oldies certainly have. Strangely, the spare looks to be in excellent condition. Maybe because it's been sitting there in the trunk in the wheel well, protected from the elements. My reasoning was that it would be better to have the wheels...

Preamble: 1) Car is 11 years old, 175k miles. Will keep it for at most 9 months, and put a max of 10k miles on it in that time frame. 2) Car will be driven in the city only; including local freeways with speeds up to 65 MPH (I will cut back on my usual 85 MPH speed). When I'm on the freeway, if...

That was hilarious, Buck! "Always on, because you're always blonde" :rofl:

I didn't even know L.L. Bean made/sold watches. I'll check them out; maybe they'll have something that'll meet my needs. Thanks, Buck.

Fluffy, large puddy tats! Thanks Greg!

This Casio G-Shock is what I have my eye on. It has everything I want, and does everything the way I want it to. Looks like a new model just being introduced, so I'll wait a bit for better availability and the typical 40-50% discounting.

Thanks, Fushigi. I'm certainly aware that the Visor has the world clock, but don't want to lug it around with me. The Z22 is about half as thick, an inch shorter and the same width as the Visor. But I still don't want to lug it around :D

Nah - too easy. Hang him by the scrotum.