Dave, Like any other businessmen, AMD (and Intel as well) probably "optimize" the boxed units (heatsink and fan). As you say, possibly adequate...
OS is short for Operating System! Christer
Dave, in terms of over clocking (which I have heard of) am I no hardware specialist either. Buying a processor in a box with a, hopefully,...
I, like Dave, am an AMD man (difficult to pronounce for a swede ... :p ...) and have during the recent week looked into a new build, not intended...
Matt, thanks for your continued interest! The owner has picked up his computer which I had reinstalled and set up from square one. Even though...
Don't worry too much about SATA I and SATA II in terms of speed. The difference between 150 MB/s and 300 MB/s is moot since the internal maximum...
After a few more tests, my conclusions are: Without the nVidia IDE driver, the SATA in the mobile rack must be powered on at bootup. Otherwise...
I came to think of my USB memory stick. It gets detected and is hot swapable. Does that imply that an external SATA hard disk, connected via USB...
Hi yarddog1953! Thanks for your input but I tried reregistering the files a few days ago, didn't work. I subsequently isolated the problem to...
I usually try to avoid installing "branded" drivers as long as there are default Microsoft drivers that are working. If there is nothing...
I removed the original hard disk and installed the new hard disk. Booted from the XP-SP2 CD. Created a 40 GB primary partition for the system,...
Matt, It is a home built BOAC (Box Of Assembled Components). A single hard disk with three partitions: C: - system, D: - data and E: - ghost...
I don't recall if I mentioned ... :confused: ... the below so here it comes: When the computer is rolled back to 2005-03, the file version of...
Dave, Do you have any inside information or is it "just" a belief? A friend of mine really need them to rework that load of "you know what "!...
I updated BIOS to the most recent revision. I had set all RAID-functions to "disabled" (boots quicker) but some RAID functions were set back to...
Evan, you're welcome ... :) ... ! I have wondered about the difference myself but have only FlashPlayer installed. Until I know that I need...
From Adobe FAQ : As I understand it, when you interact = Shockwave, when you don't have to = Flash. Christer
I am waiting for the owner to buy a BackUp HDD and a mobile rack. I want to create backups prior to messing with the MBR and stuff but I will look...
There is no other FireWall than the Windows FW installed and it is disabled. I will look into GDISK and the possibility of rebuilding the MBR....
I found an old PCI-NIC in my closet. Installed it and at startup I went into BIOS and disabled the integrated NIC's. Wasted time ... :( ... !...
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