Just wanted to post something in here, to let people know where they can buy fan isolators from. I found them by accident. Their goal is to stop vibration from the fan to the metal case of your PC. Anyway, good luck. http://www.siliconacoustics.com/fanisolators1.html And no, I don't work for...

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mangadude/computers/drive/one.htm ~ Adrian ~ --- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

If you're putting in that much memory, ECC memory should be considered and skip the CAS latency. Although if it's a gaming machine with a lot of memory, then you could skip it. Personally, I wouldn't skip it. ~ Adrian ~ --- "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Xenocrates...

Do sleeve bearing fans have that much of a shorter life compared to ball bearing fans? I'm referring to case fans. I like the low dBa's of the Papst fans, but I found out they are sleeve bearing, which I believe doesn't last as long as single or double ball bearing equivalents. ~ Adrian...

Yes, I seen that one, but after going through their fairly simplified wizard, it recommended a 300watt PSU for my system. One of my machines I need the PSU for has a 2.8GHz P4, 2GBs of ECC RAM, two 120GB HDDs, a CD/DVD burner, ATI video card (needing power via a floppy cable), Audigy sound card, a...

Looking at their return policy: http://www.pclincs.co.uk/Returns.htm I see they charge that ridiculous 15% restocking. To make it worse, they charge 8 pounds to test a product that the customer says is faulty, if it tests OK! Plus you have to pay them to ship it back to you! Fees, fees and...

On my system here, I double clicked to play a movie and the mouse pointer suddenly reverted back to its default, then the entire display froze. Not even the mouse would move. Then after a few seconds, the screen went black and came back stating there had been a device failure. Thing is, I was...

Hi every one, At the moment when I want my case fan and UV cathode light off I have to reach down to my case and flick a manual switch. Is there some product or way to be able to turn these off and on electronically through software on my computer that talks to some PCI card or card with a serial...

Hi there, I'm having a problem with my computer at the moment - when I built it, I put in 1GB of Corsair PC3200 DDR memory. However, I have recently been having problems with totally random lockups. Anyway, what I have found out, is that with the full 1GB of ram installed, I get these lockups,...

Does defragging a drive, which actually is a RAID 0 setup consisting of two HDDs, work? I defragged last week my RAID 0 drive and basically things got ugly after that - Windows files corrupted, BIOS changed, etc. ~ Adrian ~ --- "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." J....

http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/bz_bios.htm ~ Adrian ~ --- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

When plugging in a fan to the Rear Chassis Fan connector, and trying to access the "Hardware Monitoring" section in the BIOS, it results in a freeze. If I switch off the PC, unplug the fan, then go back into the BIOS and go back to Hardware Monitoring, it works and shows me fan speeds, etc. I'm...

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Spec1/1328812.html Anyone got any opinions about this modem? I suppose the key attraction is that it's USB host powered, so no power supply or serial cable to worry about. Do USB 56K modems work just as good as a regular 56K modem with serial cable? I've not got any...

Has anyone built a PC using this motherboard? I'd just like to compare specs. and ask a few questions regarding fan selection, out of the newsgroups if possible. Thanks. ~ Adrian ~ --- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Sir Winston Churchill...

Anyone use this combination of Board/RAM? I have the Corsair XMS series RAM and am considering switching to ECC for stability rather than absolute speed. ~ Adrian ~ --- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Oh, you mean this? I didn't even know there was a problem! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815227 Why on earth don't they let people download it? If it's performance related, I would think it would be publically available for anyone to download. ~ Adrian ~

It's quite easy to hook up the hard-drives. Yes, they are roated so the ends sit across the way. All you do is take out each drive rack, screw the drive in using the provided screws, then slide the drive, in its rack, into the case. It's your choice whether you put the power plug end towards...

Heh, thanks for the link. The IAAR v3.5 runs in parallel to the BIOS which supports it. Apparently, Intel said it does support RAID 1, but the drivers and BIOS aren't released yet. In fact, they released IAAR v3.5 *before* the appropriate BIOS update. That version of the IAAR relies on features...

Does anyone know of a web-site that details the pros and cons of ECC RAM? Thanks. ~ Adrian ~ --- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Dureing the weekend, I installed a 40gb Seagate hard drive into friend's old computer. The date of the BIOS was 1996. As I was running Fdisk after installing the drive, the program told me that the BIOS could be configured to recognise the "new large hard drives bigger than 2gb" and did I want...