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There's always UPS/FedEx overnight. :D

Some years ago, I worked in a small company where the telephone operator would page "Technical Support, you have a call holding on line 3" if they didn't answer their phones when she transferred to them.This happened several times a day, and one could hear the page in all open / public areas of...

Gee, you're a pretty violent bunch here. :o :D

Too late for Anathor21, but just for the record, I found these links in my travels: MS: How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows MS: How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP Google

I guess my situation is a bit weird. I've never had a motherboard, processor, RAM, video card, any PCI card, powersupply, disk drive, optical go bad on me. I started building my own PCs in 1991. I've had about 4 fans fail - CPU HSF fan, GPU fan, case fans. And one floppy drive. That's it. I...

Good luck, my friend. If they're having you back, they're interested. If you took the job, would you be moving out of your present location, then? If I were you I would have asked for a different schedule, at least for the outbound part of the journey (I know it's too late, though). It's no...

For me, Gigabyte is in the shit house. I feel the same way about them that Merc does about Western Digital. The new video card I bought died within 2 months. They've had it on RMA for 1 month now, and I've called 2 times to follow up. The staff I talk to are polite and courteous, but that does...

War's stunning price tag: Economists estimate between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. LA Times. Registration required; get an id from BugMeNot.

Tannin!

Thanks.

Enermax's Noisetaker line of PSUs are designed to exhibit "diseling" characteristics - fans run on for a few minutes even after computer is shut down. See 4th item in product features here, labeled "Smart Fan". IIRC, Merc's power supply couldn't power an X2, so he bought a 600W Enermax that...

Thanks for the info, Bozo. Had no idea they worked like that.

Bozo, where do you buy the Dow 340? I can't seem to find it anywhere online (pricewatch, pricegrabber, google).

According to Dow Corning, AMD uses Dow's TC-5022 in it's factory heatsinks for A64 Proc-in-box. Dow claims "TC-5022 improves thermal performance 10-15 percent compared to existing materials". This page at Dow lets you compare the compounds, including TC-5022 and 340. Not that I understand all...

Thanks for the opinions, folks, I really appreciate it. Buck hasn't chimed in yet, though. Having built 0.01% of the number of systems you've built, I'm not sure I understand, Tannin. I thought all of them were white. When you say to avoid white goop, are you referring to a brand / type? What...

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Which thermal paste is best? I'm looking for good performance, and more important, long-term stability - I shouldn't have to clean up the goop and re paste it every year or two. Then again, I might be moving in a few months and will most certainly need to take the planned heatsink (Thermalright...

How many minutes did you have to microwave him to thaw him? If he was out ! 24 hours, I thought the poor bloke would have died. Glad he's ok.

The weather heah is really crazy. Was hot as summer, then the last 3-4 days has become verrry nippy. Forecast sez it's gonna be nippy rest of de week.

Not if they use crazy glue and let it dry properly.

Clueless customers pay for iPod lessons. £100 for a 40 minute lesson.

Go to Pricewatch --> cards - Controller --> sata card --> scroll to middle of page to see adapters. Have no idea how well they work. And I presume there are adapters that go both ways.

Sorry, Merc. It's just me insecurities showin up. Linus (Van Pelt) wants 'is blanket. You're absolutely right, I don't need that kind of staggering I/O.

If I'm talking crap, ignore me (the coffee hasn't kicked in yet). 1) Can't you buy one with the pseudo raid and use it in JBOD mode? 2) Here's an Adaptec that's 32-bit PCI 2.2. $38 according to PW. 3) A very quick look found this via pricewatch: Promise FastTrak TX2300 SATA PCI Adapter. "PCI...

In DD's "HTPC Build...recomendations?" thread, CityK provided a link to Wonderboy's CES 2006 report. Maybe I should wait a while; this paragraph woke me up from my slumber: Elsewhere on the site, Wonderboy says the RD480 is even better than sliced-bread. Not that I care for SLI or XFire; my...

er., which board might this be?

The present web server is starved for RAM, IMHO. Shite, most of us have 1GB on our personal machines, and this sever has only that much even though it's hosting several sites. They need to up it to 4GB with the new one (or this one, I'll bet they see a substantial jump in performance).

Whoa! Can you elaborate?

Intel seems to be hinting that pre-Vista Windoze can run on MacIntelitosh.

Sir Bill: thank you very much. Your explanations and those links were most useful. You are a scholar and a gentleman.

Sounds like they're taking a page out of Coug's book....

Because you'll be sitting too close to the thing, you'll need a cranial implant for ADPPVC (Additional Direct Processing by Primary Visual Cortex). Your eyes alone won't be able to handle it and will need to be supplanted by a cranial interconnect a la The Borg. This will also prevent you from...

You're most welcome, gentlemen, glad to be of service.

I'm pretty sure they'll make small ones - they'd be stupid not to. After skimming the market for expensive large screens, of course. All of LCD monitors' problems solved in one stroke. At the very least, those in the graphics business will make a nice market for them. That's not to say that our...

CES 2006: Toshiba's SED - Plasma/LCD Killer Prototype at CES: Claims of 10,000:1 contrast ratio. "Blackest blacks, vivid color and detail". Shipping version (late 2006): 100,000:1 contrast ratio. 1 ms response. Size starts at 55".

Make a cheap light tent.

There's a hack out there somewhere that lets you use VMPlayer to build a virtual machine.

I like dAMD best. Very apt, no?

Bad news then for me -- I am planning to build an Nforce 4 SLI based system and need to dual-boot W98. Anybody here can confirm for certain that W98 will / will not work on Nforce 3 and later boards?

No sweat, Doug. I was just trying to give Tannin a hard time. The lazy bloke just cut-n-pasted my post, looks like.

Now posts are getting duplicated, with some distortion in the process!

This has been happening to me for the longest time (1 year +).

Coug, I guess I didn't say it like I intended to. I'm grateful to you for your suggestions, and did check out the Asus ATI-based board. But I feel one of the DFIs or MSIs suit my needs better. My post certainly wasn't meant to disparage you. I'm only concerned my skills are nowhere near yours or...

In my other "building a new PC" thread, I had listed an Asus board I was considering (recommended by Coug). After visiting Asus' support forum - on their site - and seeing the comments about various boards, I'm going to say no thank you. Reading reviews on hw sites about other brands, I've...

Are you sure your notebook is using DDR2? It's probably DDR (1). IIRC the physical slot is different for DDR(1) and DDR2. Instead of relying on Sandra, I suggest you look in the user manual; most certainly the spec page will tell you the kind of RAM it uses, and most manuals have a section that...

Thank you, Doug, but I'll second what Coug said. It's not worth you spending extra time on it. Take more pics instead. :)

Interesting use of a pet door, digicam and PC to solve a problem.

Check out this "Office supply store". Really funny. Make sure you browse the online catalog and read the bios in "About us".

I know this is blasphemy: but could Gigabyte be losing their touch on quality? I bought a new GB video card, retail, from a respectable vendor (Zipzoomfly) and it died in under 2 months. I drove it over to their U.S. office (they're ~ 20 miles away) and I haven't heard from them in over 20...

Thanks, Merc. I'll try to wangle a free copy. :D Thanks for the input, Sol. Can you please tell me what RAM you're using? Like Maxburn in the other thread, I've spent a lot of time reading motherboard manuals. Most of the DFI LanPartys are 16x, 2x, 1x, 1x in non-SLI mode. 2x ain't so bad...