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:lol: Actually he doesn't live locally (actually 200 miles away, just outside London). But yes you're right :D It in't exactly the centre of the known universe when it comes to entertainment.... Having much younger siblings isn't something entirely new for me though - I've also got a 12 year...

:lol: My old man is still turning 'em out, so I guess I'll have to wait (and yes, you read it right - I'm getting a baby brother at the ripe old age of 35 in a couple of weeks time). I'd certainly consider it, but I've gotta find the right lady first.... GM

Hmm interesting - I'm in the same position as Handruin (as a user of InnoculateIT), and I haven't made up my mind as to what I'm going to replace it with. Sophos is one possibility (we use that at work), whilst Grisoft (www.grisoft.com) do a decent free one (AVG Anti-virus) that I've had good...

Guillemot do appear to have done a good job with the remains of Hercules, as Tannin rightly said. They seem to be turning out quite a varied range of cards at the moment, with products based on the Geforce2, KyroII and ATi Radeon 7500/8500 on offer from my local retailer of choice. GM

No major problems to be had there with the right board. We have 50 or so boxes with the 450Mhz version of the K6-2, and another 200 with the 500 using an ATX board and midi tower case instead of the AT mini tower. All use Soyo boards - 5EHMs for the 450s (AT) and 5EMA+s for the 500s. Problems...

Yup, I've seen them on sale at my local computer trade fair. It's an IDE drive with a 40-pin IDE - 50-pin SCSI plug-in converter. GM

I'm planning on waiting 'til the summer for the new 0.13 Thoroughbred. Like you I only tend to upgrade when I can get a significant performance boost - one of those newbies should be much quicker than my venerable T'Bird 800 :D . GM

I started from very modest beginnings - namely the need to upgrade my RAM to 32 MB a few years back. I've been lucky in that I've two friends who've both been in the PC business longer than me, and they taught me the basics of assembling and troubleshooting. From there, my own intense...

2-3 times a week on average :D . In fact I learned of the latest 4-in-1 from there (and went off to download), so it is useful. I couldn't log in either though, so I tend to come to the forums first, then use the link from here. GM

I've had 384MB in my box for quite a while now, and that seems to be quite sufficient for my needs (even with Photoshop). I may well stick with that amount when upgrade time comes along, because as Tony says, the price of RAM isn't likely to drop significantly anytime soon. If I decide to go...

An ice-cold cider for me Bartender thanks!. Hi there James - guess you got my e-mail then :D There are plenty of friendly and knowledgeable folk here, so you know where to come if you have any problems - they've certainly done me a favour or two since I first started posting at SR. Enjoy! GM

I'm a happy ATi user - I've used a Rage 128 and Radeon AIW (original) in my home box, and the Xpert 98 is the stock card in our student workstations. I have had the odd problem with buggy drivers, but not recently, and the performance is first rate (in DirectX at any rate - I haven't done much...

Just to update everyone on this one - the PSU was indeed the culprit, so it seems my worries about the 8KHA+ were unfounded :) The unit killed the A7A board (known to be good) that the 8KHA+ was due to replace, in addition to the two boards already mentioned, after the supplier returned it...

From what I've seen and heard on my travels, the K7S5A is rather tempremental when it comes to DDRAM (but not as much with SDRAM - lord knows why) - some brands boot without problems whereas it won't boot at all with other types ( e.g Samsung). Very odd... GM

Returning to the subject line, one of the two problematic 8KHA+ boards was fixed with a bios update :D , but the other one AND it's replacement have proved rather less co-operative. It may be that the new PSU supplied with it is faulty (as two boards going in the same system is somewhat...

BTW I'm referring to the I.E 5.5 SP2, not Win2000 SP2 (I've got that). GM

Cheers Tony - much obliged :) GM

I.E 5.0 Problems Cheers Tim, is there something similar available for Win98 also? (I'm running that OS at home on one machine, 2000 on the other). GM

It was me Tony :) Thanks for the info and the link. Up to now, I'd heard plenty of praise for the 8KHA+, and I've been running one of their KT133 boards in my system for 12+ months and been very happy with it (rock solid stability-wise). But two dead ducks out of two is a tad worrying, so I...

Oh dear - what a shame :D Don't think I'll be losing any sleep over it either. GM

I.E 5.0 Problems Sounds familiar :cry: My IE 5.0 installation has also become rather flaky, so I've upgraded to 5.5. Problem is I've only got a clunky 56K dial-up connection at home and SP2 is a 17MB download :( (I got IE 5.5 off a magazine cover disk BTW) . I'd love to get the service...

Win98 and 768MB of RAM Ahh the old Win98 memory mismanagement problem :D I've had more than one puzzled computing novice come to me asking about that one, wondering why their RAM upgrade slowed the machine down and/or crashed it. Once the VCache setting has been changed (to 512MB) in...

What software do you use? Hi there - nice to see some familiar faces :D I use quite a lot of progs, but some more frequently than others. Anyway here's a list of the ones that are installed and used at least on occasions: Office 2000 Pro (used at work also) IE 5.5 Acrobat Reader 5...

Rather too old for my liking :lol: - just turned 35 (on the 10th of this month). GM