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Ummm... so I reset my bios to defaults, and it works. :o I'm still yet to put the drive in the right way up. Fingers crossed.

I have Dell's 2005FPW 20-inch wide-screen. Looks great. No problems yet. Only complaint it the PIP doesn't work with two inputs other than S-video.

Hey guys, might be an easy question. I'm yet to do a full diagnosis, I just noticed it last night before bed. I switched on my computer, and an error message occured along the lines of "Insert a system disc that you can boot off.". Strange! I hadn't moved anything. The disc is a 3-month-old...

Well I really havn't taken a look at the CPU. Everything seemed to slip into place perfectly. What would you expect to happen if the CPU wasn't in as expected? No fans / anything happening?

Uhhh... yeah, replaced PSU. Same story. Guess it's new mobo time... right guys?

Time: Thanks mate. I did originally try without the adapter, mainly because I didn't even realise the difference when I bough the gear. Nothing different happens. Bozo: Yeah I tried it, made it hella-stupid, still no luck :/ Tannin: I'm guessing you're on the money. I'm going to buy a new PSU...

Hey guys, I just put a new PC together: Asus P5LD2 mobo Pentium D 820 Something X300 Thermaltake xp550 np psu I had to get a 20-24 pin adapter for the psu. Basically, I press the power button, and the chassis fans spin maybe one step, but there is nothing after that. If I press the button...

:evil: Telecommunications pricing in Australia SUXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dead pixels are just not acceptable. One dead pixel would shit me. Since when has the consumer not cared about inferior product?

ICQ really WAS the one and only in IM hey. I'm still on, nobody else really is. In response to the origional question. The networks are all much of a muchness. The question you should be asking is where are the bulk of people you will want to be IMing? All my friends use MSN, so I reluctantly...

A fellow canberra boy. Howdy! The street next to me is osbourne drive. Am I destined for IT? :)

Gigabit Ethernet cards will work faster that 3 or 3 times faster in almost all circumstances. But anyway, back to the original question. I don't know how much you know, but heres a quick education on hubs/switches: -Hubs increase the size of the collision domain (not cool) -Switches decrease...

If he's on a budget then maybe he should consider waiting until after Christmas? Parts are cheaper then, right?

I've been recommended a group called Tyan going for an SMP motherboard.

I contacted Photorescue. Now I have to decide whether the data is worth more that the service. I can't remember what was on it. I've found a backup of my big program that is only 300 lines lighter than the latest one. Eh. I don't know.

:o chkdsk... I'm scared. I'm going to take a disk-dump of my FF's first. They're all I have! PS I know I'm in data loss denial here! HELL!

After looking at the disk in WinHex, I see that there is just some small header data that has in it "FAT16" among other things. Then the disk has a small portion of 00's on it, and is covered almost completely with FF's. I've always had write cache disabled so it's not like I've damaged it by...

I'm guessing this is futile, but I plugged in my 256MB PNY USB flash drive thismorning and there are no files. None. I had quite a lot on there that I would love to recover. Why has this happened? I really doubt the files have been manually deleted. Is there anything I can do?

So hang on. Some of the guys said they would be packing it if they had say > 20GB formatted as fat32. What, other than performance, would someone with a 80GB and a 120GB drive formatted as fat32 be sacraficing. Performance? Integrity? Security?

Thanks mate, clears up a couple of things.

Does the amount of sectors per track get larger as you move from the centre track to the outer-most track on a HDD? People say that the sustained read gets faster when the file is placed on the outer-most tracks. I only see that as possible if there is more data in outter tracks.

then again, I wouldn't be buying non-compliant gear. I'm holding out for 11n before I upgrade my AP.

If price is what you're after, then buy that 11g stuff. If you want decent transfer speed and distance, and you don't worry about price, then buy the pre-n stuff. Easy.

Huh? Uhh I don't get it! What the? So much storage! Why so much storage!? :o *lies down*

The article doesn't lie, but it does fail to address that fact that that simulation is very favorable to TCQ and doesn't at all represent how the disk is actually going to be used.

I saw this a while ago, might be old news, but the good guys at ASUS have released BIOS updates that allow you to unlock the clock multiplier on their boards. This isn't just for their new boards, they are doing this for boards that go as far back as the P4P800 (and a couple of earlier ones)...

:o nice. Thats an awesome response, thanks.

Ok this might sound dumb. But when a storage controller is on-board, it is not using the PCI bus is it? What kind of bandwidth does it then have? What bus is it?

Thanks guys! Tell me, has anyone here ever experienced cross-talk interfering with a PATA cable?

:O Ok, because I've been reading a relitively good book called "Operating systems" (duh), and last night I walked away with the impression that the OS had some idea of the rotational position of the heads and actually made a somewhat informed decision about what instruction to send next. Are...

Could you guys list possible hard-disk-related (and IO) reasons for slower than expected application performance. For example, excessive fragmentation. Cheers

Nice. Thanks. Hey don't OS's provide disk IO queues anyway?

Just install it. The biggest thing that shat me was the "security center" that pops-up a balloon EVERY SINGLE TIME you start the system. Then I figured out to make the service a manual one, now it's gold.

I'm no authority on the subject, but here's what I've gathered: PCI-X (Extended) is an upgrade from old PCI. PCI-X provides 64-bit IO @ 133MHz. (1 GBps) There is also a PCI-X 2.0 which goes to 533MHz or something insane. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1087&page=1 Anyway...

Before they went underground, they were called AllAdvantage. Of course there were many MANY more after that. If you do a search for alladvantage, you will surely find all the cheating sites still available that will have the mouse movers.

I've had the same problem. You got to ask yourself, what' more valueable to you, all that junk, or the space it occupies. I was holding all this stuff until about a month ago when I was like, damn, if a computer is not a 2.4Ghz or more, I want nothing to do with it. So I turfed all my junk that...

Ok it could of been the power supply of that particular machine. It was a good board until the blue fire incident. *shudders* I'll retract the statement of Gigabyte being a mistake, I would probably buy them again to tell you the truth, second to Asus of course.[/b]

Well I guess I'm the only Asus lover. I've made the mistake of trying out boards by MSI and Gigabyte, but now I stick with Asus and love them! I've only had one minor weirdness problem with Asus, otherwise they have been great!

uhh thanks guys, problem solved. Really obscure problem, don't want to talk about it :evil:

I am lucky enough actually. I'm in canberra. I might check out this DrayTek you speak of. Thanks guys.

help me out guys, I just can't seem to think strait. It's an old motherboard, an ASUS P55T2P4. I've ripped a CD drive from another computer, I have nothing on the HDD. The computer has recognised the HDD and the CDROM. I have selected a "CDROM,C,A" boot order. The computer just doesn't do...

amen brother.

I'm running a small network at home to provide wireless/wired access to our broadband connection for the 6 family members computers. I am using a linksys router/WAP/4-port-switch to hold everything together. The only thing that pisses me off is complete disregard this thing has to bandwidth...

Weird, I live in canberra, in fact my girlfriend goes to ANU. Small world huh!? Don't go amazon, the gift certificate will be eaten up by shipping costs. As Pradeep says, Angus & Robertson are available (and there is one in a mall that is close to ANU). Anoher close bookstore is Dymocks. I...

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Adcadet, surely you have a floppy drive lying around somewhere. The easiest thing you could do is open up your case, temporarily plug the fdd in, without physically installing the drive. It'll only take a minute! Thats weird, I just thought about edlin last night. Did you know it comes with...

The general consensus is that gmail can be unreliable, with occasional downtime. But it's only beta, so thats acceptable. As for slow, I don't know about that. It's one of the most responsive web-based email interfaces I've used. Then again, high-load in australia doesn't happen at the same time...

They say not to bother with 256MB cards. My mate is running doom3 on a 3.2 prescott with 1GB PC3200 and a ATI 9600XT 128MB. It chunks up every now and then when walking into a new room. You'd think thats because it's doing a lot more texture loading. Wouldn't more vram make this a less? On ultra...

I have a 40GB Quantum Fireball. And as a lot of the others have done, mine has gone up in flames, quite literally. A loud pop, followed by a puff of smoke, and the fireball was no more. This was a little while ago. I read up on some forums, and this happened to heaps of people, I'm sure you guys...

I still have 6. I can't even pay people to take them off my hands. msg if you want em