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So I'm pricing around for the Mini I'm looking to buy. At Macmall the upgrade from 512 to 1G is a whopping $200, which includes *professional installation* whatever that is, and the caveat:"Memory is not user-installable". Can that be true? That can't be true. Can someone please clarify? Thanks...

In an attempt to get this old G4 (667) running before I opt for a Mini, or toss it out the window... I pulled this old Mac out last week, hoping to get it running to be able to open some Digital Peformer files. Hooked it up to 4 different monitors with the same results: turn it on, get the...

I usually do music projects in Cubase on my PC. I have a large project that's being recorded with Digital Performer (MOTU-Mac only). I've been recording my tracks on the PC to a submix and then sending individual tracks to the producer for inclusion into the DP files. Thinking it'd be easier...

I took advantage of having to replace a bum 3800+ to get a 4000+ from the Egg for $79 delivered. Feels really good so far. Also got to use the XP-90 that's been lying around. Very nice with the 2x120mm fans in the Rosewill case. This isn't for me, so I'll take it to a mild O/C. How well do...

A colleague needs a scanner for her Dell laptop, so I picked her up a used Artec 1236 USB scanner that draws it's power from the USB port. When we try to use it we get a "Power exceeeds the port's capacity..." type of error. Apparently it's drawing too much juice. I ordered a powered USB hub...

Got a 3700+ or 3800+ pull you might sell cheap? I need to replace a bad 3800+. This was a replacement for another DOA one that I just got around to trying out today, and it's bad too...grrrr. It's OEM and past the dealer warranty, so I need to replace it as cheaply as possible. The Egg has open...

I'm putting together a new 3800+ build. Mounted the motherboard and realized i didn't have a spare AMD hsf. I do have an unused XP-90 that I bought a few months back before I discovered that I liked the AMD heatpipe better. I've never mounted an XP-90 before. It looks like it takes a fair amount...

I'm setting up the new T43 to give to the missus next week. My usual method of stumbling into solutions for screen brightness and power schemes. Since it won't run on batteries all that much, I chose the Maximum Performance setup. CPUz correctly shows the PM as running at 2.0. Speedfan, OTOH...

Got the T43 today for my wife. $650 delivered. NIB from Ebay power seller. While I'm doing the Windows Update, thought I'd dash off a few impressions: It's a 2.0PM / 512 / 60G / Intel 900 box. XP Pro of course. I dreaded the XGA resolution, and coming from my 20" UXGA desktop LCD, my...

I bought a used WDC 250G SATA II drive back in September used off of Ebay. It seemed to be running hot. Some googling revealed that it was a problem with the temp sensor that couldn't be fixed with a firmware update. The drive actually runs 20C under what is reported. Nothing wrong with the...

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=37&Code=2686M4U ThinkPad T43 Centrino Laptop 1.86GHz 512MB DVD/CDRW $799 shipped Lenovo is closing out the ThinkPad T43 notebook w/ Pentium-M 1.86GHz, 14.1in XGA+ TFT, 512Mb, 60GB, DVD/CDRW, 56k/Gigabit NIC...

My search for a laptop, or perhaps a labtop for my wife has followed a familiar pattern. I started with about zero knowledge, having only purchased a Z61m for my son's college machine that I've spent about an hour on. Then I start furiously reading up online on everything, whilst monitoring...

I was thinking of getting my wife a notebook for xmas, so she can web surf upsatirs and stop buggin' me about checking her email when I'm in the middle of something. I just got the Dell Holiday coupon for $310 off on selected notebooks. Thought I'd cruise over there, although I'm not a Dell fan...

...which I oughta just know, but figure I'll ask anyways. I had a 3800+ that failed me last week. While I awaited the RMA, I snatched a 3700+ from a member here. Put it in, and it's running swell and cool at 2.6. Not for me; figure I'll leave it there or perhaps kick it up another 5%. The...

I upgraded a colleague last week. New build with a 3800+. Ran great for 7 days. Then started random crashes and non-boots. Took the machine down and tried 4 different mobos, 3 different sticks of RAM and different video cards. Mainly, no booting. Sometimes boots then dies. Finally figuring that...

I just call a call from my son at college. He left his Z61 on for a while, while out of the room and when he came back he had a blue screen. He shut the computer off, and now when he turns it on, he's getting a beep series (not sure how many, possibly 3 from his description) and nothing but a...

Having built 2 nice x2 machines recently around the ASRock ULI 1695 board, I thought I'd use one for another new box. Picked up an Ebay special (these are getting scarce) that appeared to be in great shape. Started installing Windows onto a WD 160g SATAII drive. Blue screened and started getting...

Yep, another one of these "what to buy" posts. Sorry... A friend wants to buy a new computer. I recommend she buy a laptop this time, but the only one I ever bought was the Z61 Thinkpad I recently got my son for school. That's too expensive. With the roll-out of core 2 duos recently, I...

I had hoped that the final (in my case SP2) of IE7 would solve the mystery of my missing sound from MSNBC and CNN news videos; especially galling that the commercials play fine and then the news goes silent on MSNBC. All other web videos play just fine; just these 2 give me the silent treatment...

I've just been shopping for some 2x512 ddr400 at the Egg and they have a page and a half of out of stock modules. Not just the bargain stuff. All sorts. Prices seem to be climbing still. Is this due to manufacturers phasing out DDR for DDR2 and beyond? Where's the best place to get it these days?

I set up RC1 5728 on my old computer by pulling my old boot drive and installing on a spare scsi drive. Runs pretty good on an old 3.06 (3.4)/533/512 northwood. Vista has its own driver for my Linksys wireless G USB adapter. Got on the home network and internet without much hassle. When I try to...

I just put in a new WD 250G drive for storage. Seems to be running great. Then I ran Speedfan and it showed it running at 56C. Then I enabled S.M.A.R.T and Speedfan showed 2 instances of the drive. One at 56C; the other at about 37C. Today there is only the higher instance being detected. The...

I took an old machine that I just replaced (celeron @ 2.7 / 512 megs o' mem / Matrox P650 video card) and figured it'd be a good box to try RC1 on. Setup was really fast. I'm scoring a whopping 1.0 on the performance index, so I won't try anything fancy. As is, the performance isn't bad. I'm not...

I'm going through my son's new Z61m, while he's preoccupied in arranging his comic book (er...graphic novel) collection to take to college. Dumped Symantec for AVG first. Disabled a bunch of arcane crap in MSCONFIG. A little Adaware, XoftSpy and it's almost ready to go. The Lenovo came with...

...or rather, I got the Z61m I paid for today. My son actually gets it to take to school. But I had a coupla hours to play with it before he snatched it from my hands and retired to the sullen depths of his room. First impression. Solid. Good looking (love the titanium top) Beautiful...

... and who gets the 3800? I'm rebuilding 2 more workstations. Managed to trash a 3800x2 last week when I stupidly tried using a paper clip to straighten a bent pin. So I bought a 3800 to replace it, to save a coupla bucks. Then I picked up another 3800x2 Ebay special. The motherboards...

I ordered an XP Pro SP2 disk from Vio Software for $101. It came today, and it's marked Academic. It's a CDO (CD Only) version with key. I went back to their website and there is no mention of academic version. There is a tag that says "Not for commercial use" which I either missed or was just...

My new 3800X2 build is humming nicely at 2800 with 1.5v. I'm using a stock heatpipe AMD cooler I got from someone here. It's a 4 pipe variety, not 8 pipe like my opteron cooler. It does the job pretty good with temps running 39-45 in warm rooms. Speedfan shows Fan 1, presumably the CPU fan...

I'm looking for someone who'll depart with their 3800 X2 at a fair price. I need a cheap one because I managed to bollix my last one, which I got off of Ebay. I was having trouble getting it to run the other night, so I cleaned it real good, managed to bend a pin, and then not having an xacto...

OK, I'm pretty good at troubleshooting these things, but I'm stuck with a Gigabyte K8U-939 board and a 3800 X2 that just ain't happening. Initially, the machine would turn on but not post. Now it has the intermittent power on syndrome. Push button, fans spin for a second, turns off. I've taken...

Okay, I promise this will be my last inquisitive post on what to buy my son for college, but since either one is gonna cost $2700+ by the time I bundle the software... The Travelmate comes highly recommended for business and gaming. It's performance scores beat the Z61m, but some users...

Here's a little info for those who may be getting a Windows Delayed Write error from a HD. I have a new X2 build. All 15K SCSI. I could not get a 73G Fujitsu drive to function reliably; getting lots of delayed write and device not ready errors. It passed all diagnostics, but it was constantly...

Man this search for a laptop for my college-bound son is wearing me down. The Lenovo Z61m that the school recommends is top of the line... with a top of the line price. By the time I outfit it with Creative Suite and Creative Studio, it's gonna be $3K delivered. Looking to save a few hundred...

Okay, these have been out for a week now; time for some systems to be built and online. But all I read is O/C stats, a few random benches and lots of carping because some vendor is temporarily out of stock or has raised the price a few bucks (it's called supply and demand, not gouging). But...

OK, this is my third build with this Epox board. All 3800x2s, although I swapped an opty 170 into my work machine later. The first build was a dream. The second wouldn't post, and its replacement works only with memory in slots 2 & 4. Now I put together a 3rd one. Checked it on the bench...

I'm using a stock X2 cooler on a new 3800x2 build. Got it at 2.8 on 1.5v at about 40C. Seems reasonable, but why leave well enough alone? I have an XP-90 I could put in, but I'd just as soon find another operon heat pipe. I don't see them on Ebay anymore. Where can I get one?

I'm holding off on getting my son the tricked out Lenovo Z61 that the J-school at Northwestern recommends and is offering for $2100 It's got a 2.0 Core Duo 100G 7200rpm HD 1.5 gigs of RAM X1600 video XP Pro and the rest of the stuff. Buying it from the school saves af ew hundred over...

I built a new box yesterday, and in the freakin' heat made a typo in the user name while installing XP. Now everything I go to install defaults to Graham Honston instead of Graham Johnston for the user name. How can I change the default registration name?

I have a new build for someone in the office. 940D on an ASRock 775i65G board (rev 2... s'posed to support Conroe). Seems to be running well at 3.8Ghz at about 53C in a very warm server room on a very hot day here in Chicago, so I imagine when temps drop down to something normal it should do...

I just ordered a retail 940D for a new build for someone else (mainly out of fascination with the ASRock 775i65G MATX board which was a whopping $44 at Newegg, and purportedly will run Conroe and let me use an AGP card). I have an unused XP-90 cooler that I never used after I bought an AMD...