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When you're using TrueImage Restore Wizard, you're booting Linux, which is easily as complex as Windows XP. You can expect it to take a couple minutes to detect your hardware and give you control of your system.

My local supplier is listing a Sapphire x1950 Pro at $146. Newegg's got one at $165 and another with a rebate that drops it to $149. Wait a couple days and there will be more. I suspect you'll see x1900GTOs at $130 very shortly as well.

Since I rarely make a contribution to this thread... Those looking for fast and cheap GPU folders would probably be interested in knowing that x1950 Pros are starting to show up at under $150. I hadn't looked at them in a while and thought they were all $250+ cards but new ones are considerably...

US Department of Transportation won't let Vista, IE7 or Office 2007 in the door.

Stereodude, Holland and the whole state of Florida would like to have a word with you.

As computer people, we don't have much room to talk about environmentalism, regardless. Manufacturing electronics is way high up on the list of horrible things you can do to the planet, and given the lifespan and the disposable mentality of companies that make the products, we (everyone who...

I pay $110/month for my 970 square foot apartment. The average bill for apartments in my complex is supposed to be $45 - $60. I paid about $250/month for my 1200 square foot house (which was new and energy-efficient), but I had a cathedral ceiling and was paying for things like the water heater...

Factually, there is undoubtedly global warming from some source. Factually, there are undesirable consequences for global warming. Factually, there are human industrial activities - whether from logging, farming or generating power with petrochemical processes, that can be shown to have strongly...

Windows is completely retarded sometimes. ;)

While windows is running normally, insert your XP (hopefully slipstreamed with nlite or whatever) install CD. Start an install. Choose to upgrade. Let it run. It will reboot your PC. When your PC reboots, shut it off, swap your hardware and when power it back on.

You are switching the HAL that Windows is using. On "Server" windows, there's a program to let you do this. Desktop Windows has no such app. You'll need to start an in-place Windows upgrade and change your hardware after the system reboots for the first time. The process is fairly painless.

Yes. Try f11 or shift f11 or control f11 or something like that, if it hasn't been wiped.

Pro is a different disk. Suggest you grab a copy of TinyXP to make your old laptop work like new.

Al Gore takes an amount of money equal to his energy expenditures and invests it in companies that are researching renewable energy. How dare he do something like that!

For what it's worth, the 2/10/07 Longhorn Server not only can't read spanned or striped dynamic volumes created in earlier versions of Windows, but it appears to hose them bad enough that I had to break out some data recovery software to see where my stuff went. Also, RAM usage in Longhorn...

Why aren't you using the Customer Appreciation Bat?

Meh. They link back to their main site. You can find it. :P

Good thing I have records of buying those 8800GTXs... Suing nVidia out of existence is just one step to living in a better world.

Vista's Defender and OneCare Live both have pretty awful performance, even by the generous standards set by Norton and Mcafee. Here's a up to date report. Kapersky and Coug's AntiVir look like solid choices; both AVG and NOD32 fell into a lower category.

The consumerist.com site had an interesting story a couple weeks ago that suggested that senior management awarded itself some pretty massive bonuses at the end of their financial year. Maybe their VIPs are cashing out after projections of continually dismal and worse margins and the well-known...

MS has an update for XP SP2 and Server 2003. Older things are not supported or need a manual fix. I have many clients who are still using Windows 2000 on the desktop and several others that only have 2000 Server.

You can get a tool called setup manager. Setup Manager makes an .INI file which, if present with your Windows install file, lets you specify default configuration options including language, locality, keyboard type and even the product ID. nLite will also generate an even more customized...

Howell, you'd probably be surprised to know that there's a world that is not described in its sum and total by Fox News and FreeRepublic.com. When you live in a home with, oh three times more rooms than an average three bedroom house, you shouldn't be surprised when the bill for electricity...

No one has mentioned it here so I don't know if anyone cares, but running around and applying DST patches at client sites over the last couple weeks and the weeks to come is one of those happily lucrative things that is going to wind up make my contracting year. Here's Microsoft's site on the...

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A few months back, didn't you say an X1600 was doing everything you wanted for gaming, ddrueding? I notice that there are some x1800 (GTO models, sure, but still x1800s) models down around $120 now, and I understand the x1650 is a pretty substantial improvement over the x1600 as well. On the...

I do not like Generals as much as Red Alert/RA2. I think it has to do with the limits of what can be displayed on-screen. I just tried it for the first time a few night ago and it was not as nifty as I might've hoped. On the other hand, in the older games, I find myself wishing the screen...

Don't most organized network games make people wait for everyone to zone in anyway?

I am going to step in and say something nice about AVG: You install it. It updates every day, on its own. It does a scan every day, on its own (which can be obnoxious on older PCs) It's vastly lighter in terms of system resources when compared to Norton/McAfee. You don't have to fuss around...

I like that threads get the occasional resurrection after several dormant years. :) It is good to have Coug back. SF needs the occasional threat of violence. :)

I've found something interested WRT getting an activationless copy of Vista: For certain motherboards from Gigabyte, DFI, Abit, and Asus, there exist a BIOS hack which, when used in combination with a set of certificate files, mark your PC as a vomit-box OEM machine (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo)...

That certainly is a crummy thing to hear.

Several of my home PCs won't boot without a 700W PSU. I don't know why anyone needs 1kW, but it's not that hard to need 600W+ with a high end graphics card, modern CPU, 4GB RAM and a case full of disk drives. I'm actually not fond of the Seasonic 700W unit simply because the modular cables...

As I suspected, the 10th Anniversary Command and Conquer set is gobs and gobs of fun to have. Even the old school FMV sequences are awesome. Wish they would update more old games for modern PCs.

Porn costs money?

I'm not sure I'd sell an overclocked system to someone else unless they asked me to do it. In the case of current Core 2 Duos, that has less to do with the quality of the overclock and more to do with the possibility that at some point in the future they might lose their BIOS settings and wonder...

I was working from the introduction of the PC. Although I guess we could say ~32 years dating from the first microprocessor.

Probably a short someplace.

We also have camera and efficient lighting threads! I cannot fathom being uninterested in porn. Naked womens are a reason to continue drawing breath and I am frankly not likely to get any closer than the downloadable sort of naked womens. I will say, though, that finding good porn is not easy.

Why do we have all these threads about boring stuff like cars and absolutely none about porn?

That's a really big hunk of glass/plastic/whatever to have replaced when some dickhole throws a beer can out his window or kicks up a rock.

It only took 20 years for 130MHz to become a rounding error...

Well, since I refuse to put any actual effort into overclocking - I use stock fans and the same memory (Corsair's Value RAM) all the time, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that everything seems to hit a wall at around 3.4GHz ("only" a 50% overclock on two chips). I've tried everything...

Yes. A 2GHz E6400 was faster than a 2.6GHz Opteron (whichever one it was) the day they were released. It's apples and oranges per clock cycle and it's not even close to competitive. The only thing that AMD has is moderately good performance at lower-than-Intel pricing right now.

A couple thoughts on C2Ds: 1. The T4300 (low-end chip) overclocks even better than an E6300 and costs about $30 less. And I have yet to meet a low-end C2D that won't hit 3GHz/core - stable - on the stock cooling. 2. There's minimal difference between an E6300 and an E6400 at stock speeds...

Here's another idea: Chuck the internal Mini-PCI modem and/or Wireless-B for a nice Intel miniPCI wireless G card. If your notebook already has the antennae it's a two minute upgrade. Draft N is not necessary. I am the only person on earth who uses A, apparently, but I do appreciate having it...

Newegg's prices normally resemble wholesale price lists to an uncomfortable degree. I'm a big fan of Transcend's thumb drives for high performance, FWIW.

Almost everything I've built on AM2, I've used a GA-M61PM-S2 ("S2"). Gigabyte has "S3" and "S4" products but I haven't tried any yet. Its S3 Intel boards are very nice though.

OK, let's clear something up: RIAA, BSA, MPAA, ESRB et al are all formal self-regulators for their respective industries that are more or less in the business of maintaining their power and bullying folks who can't afford enough lawyers to fight them, rather than whatever it is they're supposed...

FAST has been around since XP was released and you guys have never used it? The command line versions can snarf up whole networks worth of of user data in one shot. It's amazingly useful. The problem with just copying Documents and Settings is that in some cases users are actually smart enough...