Personally i'm nibbing a GB of the stuff because the news reader (News Rover) i'm using pops all the binary groups in yer interest groups into one huge list, and according to task manager this can nick 300mbs at times! with BF1942 also running memory becomes rather scarce :)
The manuals says i should hook the centre speaker and sub on that multifunction socket but i don't see how its possible as the sub has to go through the amp first, and you only have either the two analogue cables for 4 channels or the 'special' spdif convertion thingy which hooks into the one...
<< Uh, I'll get behind dropping the serial and parallel ports, but PS/2 ports....nah. They're still perfectly fine. Show me what improvement a USB mouse or keyboard has over a PS/2 version. Ok, 1 IRQ. When was the last time anyone ran out of IRQs? Especially with those aforementioned ports...
The logitech dual optical is wonderful! 1600dpi, perfect for games like CS (makes quite a difference i must say) and no balls to clean unlike that boomslang. You won't be disappointed with this little beauty ;)
here i have:
XP1800+ on a Epox DDR oojar wosit mobo
currently sitting idle at 21c\37.5c
hottest i've ever seen it at is 46c i think.
this is with a standard 5200 coolermaster HSF with a vail of stock thermal grease btw.
The more the merrier! :D
tho you must endeavour to keep to the same manufacturer of ram if you can.
even better is replacing it with one single 512mb dimm to ensure top stability
I usually keep the data on the previous harddrive intact for the first two weeks, as thats usually the point when you can say "ye or nay" on a new piece of hardware.
Its very strange how games that use A3D or EAX, play at a much lower volume to the point where if i turn up the speakers to counteract it i can hear the buzz of my subwoofer. At least i don't get that hiss anymore unlike that SBLive! :)
they probably splodged on a thick layer of grease on the HSF, which would run for a short while so they could say "it works", when after some extended use it falls over...
Well i shall just say that its behaving just fine - no crashes, bugs or anything.
The ATI card had a bitch about it, but a reinstall of its drivers shut the hoe up :)
Damn this thing is fast! 3x faster than my ole duron :D
5 minutes into windows kinda temps, its risen to 39 after half an hour with some gaming thrown in
as far as i'm concerned the machine is in Beta now, so its time to give it a thoro testin!
Just what i wanted to hear! ;)
I'm currently prepping my system up for a fresh install i.e. backing up those things that matter, but i'll give just changing the hardware a go first, as the words spoken by xtreme2k and soulm4tter pretty much sum my situation anyway. :D
For my next Q, seeing as it was my first 2k install, and not yet had to reinstall it.
On booting off the cd and selecting reinstall or something to that effect, will it wipe out the original config but keep my existing data? with 98 i used to find that doing a reinstall without first removing...
Because when i move the slider up or down my benchmarks aren't affected one little bit :(
I tried that radeon tweaker thing and upon adjust the clocks in any way it immediately garbles the screen and the system hangs :Q
Does that LED go dull when you push the power button? i installed a new celery mobo at work the other week, and the power cable of the original psu wasn't long enough.
But i had 2 spare 200w psus nearby and both of them did that to me, yet they were the same specs as the original psu which...
When it seizes up, does it seize up as in the mouse n keyboard stop responding and the screen is frozen, or is it a BSOD? Random BSOD's can be as the result of bad ram you see.
The psu could also be the culprit as said throughout this thread.
Another thing, that TnT2 may well be overheating...
My Geforce256 SDR! The darn thing would overheat and crash UNDERclocked to the lowest settings. I went through two room fans blasting in the case before i plucked up the courage to make a more elegant solution :)
Got a Radeon 8500 in the case now and its purring along just fine :D
Well i just had another hack at it today and its behaving real strange. If i run the detect function it always comes up with the Standard VGA driver.
if i try to add any other driver it copies over the new files i've given it, says its installed, restarts and on return it declares a new driver...
I recently setup an NT4 server at work as a Proxy for our leased line, and i'm now doing the finishing polishes. Its video card is an age old Rage64 and its currently running on standard vga drivers. I managed to snag the latest appropriate drivers from the ATI website, and then going to the...
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