Recent content by Recycling1

Just in time for my b-day. lol Great giveaway!

No library scans as far as I know. Thats the strange thing about this is its a fresh install of win7 with almost no tweaking or scanning of files and both of the drives eject fine on an 32 bit xp machine.

Nope, no readyboost enabled. Its like something in windows 7 just takes over the drive after a certain amount of time and wont let you eject. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I'm having some trouble ejecting any type of USB mass storage device from windows 7. I have enabled quick removal and tried disabling write caching on the external drives but every time i try to "safely remove" the drives i get a message that its currently in use(even though im positive there...

Not sure if id use a standard air compressor on delicate electronics, Typically when you compress air it causes condensation from the moister in the air and will spray small amounts of water along with the air. Its not a lot of water and I am sure plenty of people use it without issue but is it...

Ok, here they are! http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2400/img2876b.jpg http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/557/img2884c.jpg http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/651/img2882o.jpg http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8922/img2880p.jpg The 300 sure doesnt play well with cable management unless...

Well shes up and running(first psu croaked during OS install!):( ! I tweaked the parts slightly based on some good deals I found. Final build turned out with these components. Total cost after rebates and BCB was $450-460 SAMSUNG Spinpoint 500gb LITE-ON DVD Burner iHAS424 Corsair 650w...

Well figured I should do an update since my initial frustration post.:) Got replacement PSU and everything seems to be good. Seems that most of the time things like this either fail in the first 24hrs or not for a long time(i hope). I have to say I am impressed with how quiet this PSU is...

Oh yeah, and quit cheating your trackers! ;)

LOL no actually pretty far from it but i did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. And the name is actually from my old job with a huge electronics recycling company.

Yeah, I know guess I was venting. Just such a let down when you get to that point of a build and bam! Well at least i know the rest of my build works. Hmmm now i get to use the paper clip trick twice in one night, once to check the psu and once to get my dvd drive to gimmie back my win7 disk! lol

Nothin like getting your new build completed, all your cables routed and half way through installing your OS the power supply goes dead! I know these things happen but while i was searching for a cause/diagnosis noticed a whole lot of similar stories about these psu's dying really early or...

Ahhhhhh I gotcha! That will save me some dough and i'm sure i can find a use for the surge protector. Sry i'm so slow it was a long night. lol You guys rock.

To be honest i was kicking around between the Athlon II X4 620 or Phenom II X2 550 but then i found the 945 for about $30 bucks more and figured it would keep me from having to upgrade the cpu later and the only thing id need would be my video card. I do quite a bit of multitasking on my pc and...

Ok, well it seems I waited too long and missed deals on a couple of the parts you guys recommended. :( I have since decided to go ahead and wait on the video card for little bit. Hoping someone would be kind enough to look this litst of parts over just to make sure i havent made any glaring...