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My Windows XP 'hangs' for ~62-70 seconds on the "Windows" loading screen.. I have gone through as many guides as possibly disabling processes, defragging bootfiles, optimising my system with BootVis e.t.c. but none of them have really speeded it up at all. Didn't Microsoft state 30s as the...

Thanks very much for the help :) I'll try and put some of those things into use..

I have a Thermaltake Soprano (my first proper case) but am having a bit of difficulty with airflow and organisation. Ignore the case fan - I have taken it out as it is too noisy. They are the following: 1. If I kept the orange fan in the stock position at the front of the case to get...

it just confuses me why my Seagate has no rubber gromets and is so quiet compared to my WD2500ks that is really noisy. I just wanted to check that the silver cover meant that my hard drive wsa different in some way. And I probably won't bother with transferring my OS the WD as I don't...

I have just bought a new Western Digital wd2500ks 250gb SE 16 Hard Drive and have a few questions: 1) I bought a refurbished version and thought it would be black but the top metal is silver, is this how it should be? 2) My other hard drive is a Seagate 7200.9 160gb. I put in this hard...

I don't know how accessible the outside of the LEDs are, but a small blob of bluetack might work?

If I take the side off the case the temperatures drop 3-4C, does that mean anything of importance or is that what always happens? Thanks for the help.

Thermaltake Soprano?

Hi all, I got my first real case in the form of a Thermaltake Soprano and have a few questions: 1) The fan at the front of the case: Is it supposed to be useless without the front of the case open? When I open the front of my case, all my temps drop about 5-6C as the fan has a place to...

I assume the 1.9v was a typo? :eek: Theres a chance your cpu IHS is concave or convex giving higher temperatures than normal. . .Try looking for a lapping guide.

I had an old 36gb Raptor that went up in sparks and smoke recently and it definitely didn't seem to be the psu. . .

Wow, you can say that again :D

possibly the RAM with an unstable timing or maybe faulty. Try running Memtest.

Have you made sure you don't have the blue/black fan monitoring cable plugged in. Some SP 2 have this problem (mine for e.g.) spinning the psu fan to full speed. My PSU is nearly silent now, or certainly not louder than my stock fan on my Ninja.

Ah sry, that picture was before I installed the fan properly and all the reported temps in this thread and stuff are with it installed properly on the left side. My ambient temp is pretty cool I imagine currently, around 18C as I'm in the UK with no heating in my room on. My NB, (which has a...

thanks for all the extra info. A few snidbits: Arcygenical: I am currently running caseless until I can afford one lol. Here is what my setup looks like (a bit of a mess really lol) http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a231/Sam11235813/Caseless.jpg I will try to check my surfaces are...

ok thanks for the info, I knew about the 'cpu' bit, I just lose words to loosely I guess :p I will reseat the heatsink _again_ bearing that in mind :)

I have an Athlon X2 3800+ Toledo LCBIE 0618 :D However I am having some trouble cooling it. I have installed my Scythe NInja mutiples of times re-doing the As5 every time but still every time I am getting idle temps of 32-36c and load temps of 45-49C at stock. Obviously this gives me no...

My Dell Inspiron is getting onto a year old so is probably getting a bit dusty, but my cpu can reach 70C after 10 minutes of Prime. It idles from 32-45C (i don't think the temp sensor is great) However I never really do a lot thats that stressful. . . My CPU is a Pentium M 1.83ghz. . I...

My stability requirements are for Prime95 to not fail within many hours and for me not to have a clue that my system isn't at stock as it's as stable as at stock.

Argh, wth is the 'administrators password'? I thought it was just the password for the adminstrator's account but that won't work. . . Deleting the top line rather than the bottom line looks like it has caused me to have to format my hard drive and spend about a month getting everything...

thanks for the help, but I'm just giong backwards. I am just trying to install Windows on another partition but I can't even do that. . .After it restarts from copying the files, I either can boot from the cd ang go back to the beginng of the setup, or I can not boot from the CD and get...

What would I type in the command prompt? Remember I can't get into Windows. . Thanks

Hi all, I have messed up my Windows install, I will try and explain the situation. I have a 160gb IDE Seagate HD with my Windows XP Home Install and al my other documents on 1 large partition. I recently got 36gb Raptor for my Windows install. I also installed XP Home on that HD...

I very much doubt it - I had two fans in, neither of which were high power/cfm. No cathode lights were installed at the time. . .hmm

So I am currently running my computer caseless and things were going perfectly until today. I looked at my Vantec fan controller and did something. I can't remember if it was shifting it like an inch, or plugging another fan into it or even nothing, but immediately the leds on the...

Funny, I read this thread yesterday, received my new SLI-DR today and I'm having the same problem I think. (Ive got a Scythe NInja Plus) Install everything, boot up and open Smartguardian, and after a short delay the cpu temp, jumps to 71C. I had a 'shut down at 60C' setting, so the...

1) I don't need SLI, any reason to get SLI-DR over Ultra-D? 2) How suitable is an Antec Smartpower 500W II for powering one of these mbs with the specs in my sig? 3) Is there any way to tell from a picture or anything what revision the mb is, and how important is it? THanks for any advice

Thats what I keep thinking - I wnat a large roomy case with lots of space. But then I think cases like the Armor are overkill in size and for 'servers' when my home pc is anything but a server. . Thanks for the info though, If I can afford it I probably am going to get the windowed black...

No advice on this?

I am having difficult on deciding on a case for my build, these are the specs: 2 hard drives (raptor + 160gb IDE) Antec Smartpower II 500w Asus A8n-Sli Deluxe (? might sell and buy a better one) AMD 3800+ X2 Geforce 6200TC I have a few questions: 1) Is the Armor worth £30 ($55) more...

did the auction describe the cpu as de-lidded? That does not sound very clever, I would consider filing a item not as described claim .. What was their feedback, and was their picture? Just curios. .

I really want one of these, but in the UK they can be as much as the equilivant of $110 I'm kinda waiting for a battered G15 to come on eBay so I can pick it up for cheap and still have all the functions.

Why does the first K seem to be K5. . . Did they start at K5, or were the first Ks so ancient there are no records of graphs of them ..

Hmm, I'm having difficult (I've tried acronis so far) because this is the situation: I have a 160gb Seagate HD with the OS progs and docs all onto the whole thing with no partitions or anything. I want to be able to have Windows on the 36gb Raptor exactly like they are on my main hd as...

Ah, I had a feeling it was something to do with 'ghost' , thanks for the info I will look into it. Do you happen to know any free versions?

I didn't, and its really useful now I know so thanks :)

No. . .unless your ram is faulty. (e.g. cant run its stock timings, maybe try a memtest to check). Also, have you locked your PCI frequency to 33.33mhz?

Lower you HT multiplier to 3x or 4x. THats very likely your problem, as its is sending the HT Link over 1000mhz causing instability. Edit: In fact take that back, your HT link appears to be fine in the screenshot Rereading your post, I don't think you quite understand how the RAM and the...