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hey all, my PC has been locking up randomly/restarting and BSODing the dreaded 'MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION' error since about 4 months ago. I've narrowed down any hardware error to my 160GB Seagate hard drive. So i ran Seatools and the only error i got was the NTFS File Structure error which...

hey all, Ive got a really annoying problem with my PC at the moment. At times, when im using it normally, it would suddenly freeze, the whole thing, like i can't move the mouse, i can't ctrl - alt - del, nothing. My only option is to restart from the button. It gets really annoying especially...

hey all recently ive modded my brothers PC case. Everything is done except for the front. I cut out holes for front ventalation, and planned to put silver mesh inside to allow for air to come through, while looking classy at teh same time. Basically the mateial is plastic for the case and...

hey all, after the swtich to intel, im dead set on buying a mac this year. I would love the MacBook Pro, but being a student, its too expensive and maybe over kill. With these rumours of the new iBook having the iSight and a 13.3 inch screen, it has got me interested even though it will...

http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/48/new-apple-patents/ i dnt think it will be a tablet like Windows lappys, but it will be Photshop etc orientated.. what you guys think?

hey all, just curious, as many people ive read have modded the PowerMacG5 case to fit a x86 PC (even the G4's and G3's) When the Intel PowerMacs come through, od you think they will have normal x86 motherboards, so you could just remove the internals like now, but without extra modding? just and...

hey all, since a mod i did on my 3D Aurora, the HDD cage has 'worn out' :p i was wondering how i would go about making a removable HDD cage for about 2-3 HDD's? thanks

is my 3D Aurora already obselete :p http://www.giga-byte.com/Peripherals/ChassisDefault.htm discuss

hey all, im in the process of modding my brothers case, which has a very similar design to this...

hey all, my 7800gt runs at 46-48c idle, and about 59c load, it is overclocked at 451/1.13 on stock cooling. I have a Zalman vf700cu laying here, that i took off my old 6600GT, that has gone to my brothers PC. should i replace my sotck cooler with the Zalman, or give it to my brother (idle with...

hey all, after weeks of deciding and selecting, i finally have my new rig, mixed with neww and old parts AMD Opteron 170 Dual-Core Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI s939 InnoVISION nVidia 7800GT 256mb 2x512 Kingston Value DDR RAM Scythe Ninja cooling :D 160 GB SATA Seagate I finally bit the...

hey all, i was sleeving the cable of my 70mm OTES fan that came with my FAtala1ty AN8-SLI, when i went to put the yellow pin in, i accidently bent it and broke it. ive tried to replace the little pin with one from another 3-pin fan, but to no avail. This might sound confusing, but im sure...

Hey all, ok the back ground story to begin.... a few days ago, i bought an Antec Neo HE 550w, which was replacing my Antec True Blue 480w. I decided i was going to give my brother the TrueBlue, cause he was running a generic 400w.. so i removed the old PSU, and replaced it with the TB. I turn...

hey all, i took off my 120mm antec fan off my Scythe Ninja, to sleeve the fan wire. I said why not turn the pc on, its only a 2.8ghz P4 s478, cant burn up too quickly, coming from a 28-30c idle CPU temp. I turned on my computer, and the CPU temperature is sitting idle at 26c :eek: :eek...

hey all, hopefully goin to AMD soon, i was originally intending to go for an Abit AN8-Ultra until they became discontinued.however i have been looking at these two boards. I can get them for teh exact same price, and weighing in the pros and cons of each.Basically i don't want to go SLI...

hey all, hopefully during the festive season ill be upgrading. This is what i currently have: P4 Northwood 2.8ghz w/HT s478 1024 mb Kingston DDR nVidia 6600gt AGP 80gig Maxtor IDE 480w Antec True Blue i am planning on keeping most of the PC, but this is what i will upgrade to...

hey all, will a non-2.0 TruePower Antec 480w PSU be able to power a 7800GT (OC) , Opteron 170 (OC), 1 80gig HDD, 5 case fans (3 very low speed), optical and floppy drive? man even after i rote this i have major doubts :( hopefully the 7800gt and Opteron will be part of a new system, but since...

hey all, ive got some problems with Synaptic Package Manager and installing some programs in Breezy Badger release of Ubuntu. I wanted to get LimeWire, Adobe PDf, Macromedia flas etc for the system, and i checked out http://ubuntuguide.org/ which helped me do this. However, some things i have...

hey all, recently received an old Dell from parents work. Its a P3 500mhz, 256mb sd-ram, Geforce 2 (put in, cause original wasnt working) 20gig hard drive. i no its a pretty old skool PC, but i guess for word, excel and internet surfing it satisfies. My brother wants to use it in the office...

hey all, i was wondering if u guys could help me out with case temps, was going to ask in teh case modding section, but realised this is the correct forum for cooling :P. well im on a little quest to try and get all of my main PC parts in the 30c region. as of now my temps are: CPU: 25-28...

hey all, im on a really tight budget after buying so much :P and was looking for a cheap s478 to do some overclocking of my P4 2.8ghz. i was wondering if the ASUS P4 P800S-X was a cheap, good overclocker, cause this is not a PC overhaul, just enough to keep me by until i upgrade in full. any...

hey all, hopefully a quick q :P is it possible that the Scythe Ninja heatpipe cooler will work with the M2 socket AMD's next year? or is there a good chance they will? i was considering in getting one now (for silencing reasons, cant overclock with this mobo) then use it next year when i...

hey all, here at home, we have a network over wireless where we (dad, brother and me) share an EPSON RX630 multifunction printer. for abour 5 months me and my brother had been networked fine with the pronter that is connected via USB to my dads computer. however over the past month or so...

hey all i need help on connecting 5.1 home theatre speakers to a sound card (it has like 5 connections at the back). now the speakers are not normal computer speakers with teh Black/Yellow/Green connections but rather the home speakers with Red/White cables. Its using an adapter so Red/White...

as recomended by N H O, i have made a thread dedicated to wire management in this case :p :D as from these pictures http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc004842ut.jpg http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc004909bd.jpg...

hey all, just to share my excitement, my Silver Gigabyte aurora has arrived yay!1 :D :D will post pics later!

hey all, this is just a sorta idea that i was thinking about since i heard about Service Pack 3 for XP. with the evergrowing worry/annoyance of spyware on Windows computer, and with people complaining more and more of 'casino' and 'free giveaways' icons on their desktops etc. i thought that...

hey all, just wanted to know, what were good titles during the end of 2002 and the whole of 2003? i was sorta outta my computer during that time. and what i have is from b4 that C&C: Generals and Black hawk down and after that was far cry/hl2. actually i think those other games were in 2003...

hey all, ill start from the... start my brothers LCD, a 3 year old 17" packard bell monitor had horrendous ghosting when i temporaraly owned it with a P4 2.5ghz, 256mb ram, 9200se setup. just horrible, could not stand all the blurriness and ghosting that Half life 2 made. so i switched to...

hey all, i could really need some help with installing Windows XP Pro on a Win 98SE machine. first the specs: AMD Athlon 1.4 ghz iWill KK662 plus motherboard 512 SD ram 30 gig HDD well the porblem lies when i want to install XP through booting off the CD. At start, when it says...

hey all, my brother has seemed to venture into the mac world, but there are some q's that he wants me to sort out, so his transition from x86/Windows to PPC/Mac OS X is smooth. well he wants to no whether certain 'windows' hardware/applications are capable on a Powerbook 12" 1) he has a...

hey all, need ugent help. i was cleaning my comp from dust, and when i start it, error codes start happening. Its a long 'beeeeeeeeeeeep', then pauses, then a long 'beeeeeeeeeeeeep' with the same repitition over and over, doesnt stop. ive exchanged ram/gfx card to check the problem, and it still...

hey all, since i made a thread of wat case i wanted to get, i havent seen anything on this case on the forum. i just wondered wat u guys opinions on it were. Apparently it is very,very well made, has awesome airflow (better than many Lian Li's and Antec) has holes for water cooling and is kinda...

hey all, after reading all the new crze in comp technology that is emerging/has emerged such as X2 and new gfx and everything else (exciting to me anyway :D ) i was wondering when an upgrade would be suitable. my current specs are P4 2.8ghz w/HT Socket 478 Northwood some crappy Packard...

hey all, this is my first venture into the case modding forum so yeah :p Earlier this year i bought this I-Cute case cause i thought all the flashy lights and the huge fan at the front were cool, but now im kinda real bored with it. Sure its got great airflow, usually 25C CPU (cause of the...

hey all, as the title says, i have problems with this camera. in total truth, it looks like sh*t compared to my logitech 4000 webcam. i no theres no comparison, but this camera is grainy, flickers and is always dull, with no lively colours even when changing settings. does anyone no if the...

hello all, after reading that Pentium M is a heavly modified version on the Pentium 3 processor, i stand confused. Why is Intel adopting a prettyr old archietucture back to its system, and how can it possibly run better than later P4s and AMDs? Apparently P3's overclocked can smash P4's...