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CityK: Thanks for the suggestion. I've installed the little guy, and so far so good. The Madog NEC 16X dual layer arrived today, and it comes with Nero, for 89.00. Amazing, simply amazing. Nero works great, and, at Fry's, is 99.00, alone. The burner works great, burning DVD single layers at...

Hmmm. I put the external DVD player on top of the box, and that's got rid of a good bit of vibration. I guess a couple covers on the front wouldn't hurt, either. Try and keep it cheap. Still, I've been looking at all the really cool sound deadening stuff I could use if I built a house, and...

So far, the answers appear to be no, and no. The options are non-existent. The video out is confined to a 4mb graphics card, and I think that might be the limiting factor. The options aren't avaliable as with other laptops. However, it's under 4 pounds, and works reasonably well. Just...

While I'm thinking about it, is there something that would absorb vibration that I could put on the inside panels and, perhaps on the top, like rubber tile or something? Thanks gs

By the way, the Swifttech heatsinks are kind of strange, since they appear to use 80mm case fans for cooling? I could just as well screw on a 80mm Stealth, I think. For the longest time I couldn't figure out what kind of fans I was supposed to buy, since the numbers Swifttech gives are a bit...

When I go to a higher res, 1024x768, it does a really weird thing. It becomes much bigger then the avaliable screen, and to get to the edges, you have to drag the mouse to the sides. It's like the screen area is only the center of the bigger screen. Weird. Besides, I thought the deal with...

Well, I'm using 80mm Sunons that are supposed to be the quietest around. 24dba, or something like that. I could be wrong. It's better, but still not silent. s

Forgot to mention the inspiration for the upgrade. My machine was REALLY noisy. REALLY. Went with expensive, but good, Swifttech heat sinks, with low noise Sunon 80mm fans. Also put in a 120 CM Vantech Stealth fan, with 92mm Vantech Stealth fan, two, one over the cpus, and the other at the...

Hi A friend asked for a decent internet provider in the bay area. SBC has been good to me, but, I've been lucky. Anyone have a good experience, and the cheaper the better, for an internet provider in the bay area? Thanks GS

Hi I'm running email off a Panasonic CF-37. I have limited space, and, the CF-37 seems to like 800X600 for resolution for an external LCD. Anyone have a cheap, easily readable favorite, in 800X600 resolution? Thanks gs

Well, Friday my raid crashed, and the computer wouldn't get past starting with user, without freezing. I assumed it was a dead drive, pulled my 4 drive array, and took the machine into my favorite shop. Could have been my subscription to Trendmicro, but, I decided to move that, and email, to a...

Turns out the floppy I bought was DOA. S

Splash: This brings to mind the 1994 purchase of 32mb of ram, for a 4000 dollar Apple Powerbook 540C, for 1200 dollars. A year later, it was less then 200 dollars, and, my girlfriend that worked at Hitachi Ram in South SF, was looking for another job,... No raises that year. 4 billion dollar a...

Yes, I'm in line. My Panasonic, I'm using for email, could really use the speed, and capacity boost. s

I should have been more specific. Right now I have disks that are about 4 gigs, and not encrypted. They show up as something like "logical identifier" when put in a DVD player, and then play. They aren't encrypted, just home movies. Thanks S

I've used two floppies, one new, one about a year, both act the same, light on, all the time, no matter what I do, cable wise. I'm about ready to revamp, install silent fans, with big Swifttech heat sinks, and go only SCA drives. When I do this, I need to be able to do a clean install, and...

Sort of vintage: :wink: Supermicro X5DA8, with 4 x X15 Raid, plus hotswap 5 drive, SCA box, dual Xeon 2.8 ghz, a gig of ram, and an ATI X800XL video card, along with a variety of peripherals. I'm having problems getting the SCA box to work, and, if I want to boot from it, Windows asks for the...

I was wondering if with Disccopy you could copy the entire disk from one to the other, without ripping? Thanks Greg

I paid something like 50 bucks for it, and, with a PC monitor, it works fine for the little I do with macs, and gives great graphics. I just hate to think how I would have felt if I had bought it new and retail, first release. I'm rarely THAT stupid... I was just reminded about it, since I...

Problem is, I've tried every possible cable position, switching the cable on the drive, and on the motherboard, and no joy. Very strange... s

Yes, the bios is setup to recognize 1.44/ something floppy drive. I have the feeling it's a jumper that fell off, but no idea where.... or, a bios setting I don't know about... No One lives forever 2 rocks, and Unreal Tourney is pretty good, too. s

The award goes to the Mac version of the Voodoo 5500. It hardly runs any games, and, despite very nice visual quality, it's lack of the most basic stuff running on it makes it my candidate, and award, of the worst money I've spent on a video card, and, I only paid 50 dollars... s

Whatever. Still light on, and no read, no matter which way the darn cable is setup.... :owneddnce: :bounce: :arge: :-? :spiderman:

I'm using a NEC floppy, and I have no clue where the jumpers are. s

Light is on all the time, but, I've tried every possible cable position, and the darn light is still on. changed the bios to 144/125. still no joy. Gs

OK: This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to get my floppy drive to work, and it won't. I've replaced the drive, and the cable. No joy. I'm getting power to it, and, in Device manager, it shows up as FDC generic floppy Drive \6&6A032C4&2&0 and working properly. Device Instance ID. However...

I used ATTO and a flashdrive. 3 mb/sec write, 10 read. Plus, device manager indicates it's working as well. Thanks Greg

Hi Ihave a Tempo Trio card, and I'm wondering how to tell if it's working as USB 2.0, which it's supposed to do. Thanks Greg

I'm wondering if you can capture video from a VCR using the ATI Radeon 800XL, and if so, how do you do it? I've noticed with WinDVD, it's showing the ATI card as a source of video input for recording. Thanks Greg

Well, you are both right. I've just jumped off the deep end, and picked up ATI 700X and an 800XL. I've use the prior with the 1.4 ghz I have at school, and the later I just installed in my home machine. Both 256 mb of ram. Quake 3 is like an entirely different game, and speed. I've been...

How can you tell? Thanks GS PS 3500 Mad Dog external USB 2.0 for 99 dollars? Good deal?

Hi guys. I've been looking around the house, and I have a bunch of stuff. Plextor DVD and CD-rom, scsi, and 2906 card. P-650 Matrox card Voodoo 5500 Matrox P-450 Adaptec 2940 UW card Promise 133 ATA card I'm wondering what AGP motherboard, box, ram, and processor, I could use to build a gaming...

Pricing is weird. the 3500 is more expensive then the 3520? s

I gather the 3520 is a better burner? How does it work with DVD-r Memorex disks? Thanks GS

Anybody know if this burner is any good? http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=11030435&cm_mmc_o=1zFBybEpzj9iCjCR5fbgzkKybMwlCjCNICjC4zpKBTKeKPAyEwyj9i Who makes Maddog? s

Thanks. That's GREAT info. I was ready to try and buy a new player, rather then the Toshiba stand alone I have, but now, I don't know what to do... s

"The rest of the system is pretty much average: 1GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive, 10/100NIC etc. Does it take that much processing power to capture video? " Hi I think the answer is yes. Also, if they wrote, or have a particular program in mind, perhaps it recommends duals? I imagine capturing...

If you want resale value, buy a firearm. s

Why I don't buy macs, now. First G3, powerbook, about 6000 dollars. One year later, street value, 1500 dollars. The only thing that depreciated any faster then that were some of the tech stocks I lost on, like MSFT. s I guess what I'm trying to say is resale does not equal tech products...

Why I don't buy macs, now. First G3, powerbook, about 6000 dollars. One year later, street value, 1500 dollars. The only thing that depreciated any faster then that were some of the tech stocks I lost on, like MSFT. s

Currently I have a non-digital Canon Eos Rebel. Nice zoom, and lens, and inexpensive. I keep seeing Canon hitting lower price marks with SLR's, but they seem to hold back on the features, to encourage you up to the next level. I'm waiting, as Olympus, and Nikon enter the lower priced waters...

One counter point: G5's are 64 bit processors, and, if Apple gets the OS right, finally 64 bit instead of a 32 bit os on a 64 bit chip, I suspect the g5's might give the Athlon's a run. On the otherhand, G3's and P3's used to be at the top of the heap at the same time, as well. s

"Viable" depends. I have a couple that I use for OS 9, and, my 7 year old, little used, Powerbook runs OS Jaguar reasonably enough to do email on, and most other computing tasks. At a point, you just realize you can't afford Apple, or you can afford apple. If you don't mind paying premium...

Problem is getting the flash to recharge fast enough so you can take the next picture. The goal is FPS, limited by the recharge time of the flash unit. I suspect an external flash unit will help, as well. Thanks s

What's the fastest flash shooting solution for a reasonable price, for an SLR? I'd like to be able to take rapid fire flash shots, of my cat, with as much depth of field as possible... Thanks S PS Nice to see Splash back. By far my favorite in the family :wink: :mrgrn:

a useful cpu comparision link: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/ s

*Forgot to mention USB 2.0 is used on this computer.... Likewise in the scanner... s

My Sony Burner experience is similar. 8x burner with 4 time firmware, finally upgraded months after I bought the burner. Also has a serious preference for Sony DVD blanks. Looking at a Plextor... s

Likewise intrested. Also include, if you would, any changes you would make to motherboard selection, etc. :?: :?: s

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=35836301 Bought one of these, new, for around 200. Found the Firewire requirement wasn't important, since using usb 1 this scans fast enough for my use, and transfers the data fast enough. s