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Hey all; Up for sale: BNIB - Visiontek Radeon HD7970 3GB PCIe3.0 Bought a pair of them but only ended up using 1 so I am selling the second one. I'm looking for $420 FIRM I am in Canada, Northern Toronto to be specific. I am willing to ship but it will be at the buyers...

Hello all; For a year now I have been running a FreeNAS system at home and for the most part it has given me no headaches. When I started I knew next to nothing about FreeNAS and muddled my way into a working server with the following setup: eVga 780i, E2200, 2 GB Ram, 2 * 2 TB Hard...

Hey all; So I have been running a simple FreeNAS setup for a couple years now; e2200/2gb ram/evga 780i/4xWD 2gb HD/ZFS. Its setup as a file server on my GB network as a movie/music/tv show/backup unit and has done its job flawlessly. Fast forward to last week, parents computer dies...

Hello; So I am building a new HTPC as my old one has out lasted what I thought it would do when I first built it. When I say "building a new' I don't mean new parts, here is what I have laying around not in use right now and am thinking of using: CPU = P4 3.0G Northwood @ 200MHz FSB MoBo...

Hello; This is driving me NUTS! OK, so you can plug your Wii mote into the guitar that comes with Guitar Hero using the nunchuk port on the bottom of the Wii mote... So if I want to take an old guitar and mod it into a controller I need to know the button mapping thru the nunchuk port...

Hello; Yesterday I bought a new Western Digital 500 Gig Hard drive (WD5000KS) and plugged it into my system. Here are my specs: Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 DirectX...

Hey, I have had a virgin webplayer project sitting on a shelf for over a year and a half now. The wife told me to toss it if I wasnt going to finish it and all i need is a 44 pin Laptop IDE cable. All the moding guides i have found say to go for a 10 inch cable so that is what I am...

Hello; I am having a problem with my laptop battery. I have had my Compaq Presario 3077 for about a year and a half. 95% of the time the laptop is plugged in to the wall, I even keep it plugged into the car while on the road. Mostly because whenever I take it somewhere I am going to...

Hello; OK here is the issue. I have a HighSpeed DSL internet connection and it is connected to a broadband router. The router has no wired connections, only Wireless connections. Basically I cannot connect an RJ45 cable to it other than the one that goes to the DSL Modem. My home...

Hello; I have a question, I have recently been promoted and transfered. I find that for the next 20-30 days I will be living in a hotel while seting up my new life basically. I have an apartment for the 8th of next month and I have contacted the telco and dsl provider so that I have...

OK so this picture looks extreamly bad on my LCD, and I cant figure out if its the LCD or the picture. Does the red in this picture look odd, or burned? This happens with alot with deep red on some of my pictures and I cant figure it out...As reference I am going to add another picture from...

So I was out driving today and and I came across a rose garden. So I got out my Camera and snapped about 130 pics, I love macro's so here are some of the best ones.

= Teh Win!!! :eek: Why cant I get these all the time. :p

OK, So I am back folding again. Here are the 4 systems that are currently folding and my problems. Sys 1 - Abit IC7-G / P4 2.4B @ 3.0G / 2*256 Megs Ram (Dual Chanel 166MHz) / Voodoo Banshee Was crunching out about 1200 pts a week and I switched the video card out from a 9600pro to the...

So I have build a computer in a box to fold but I have run into a problem, how do I turn it on?? I have no switch like I would in a case. I have tried to jumper the pwr switch jumpers with no luck...

OMG!! When did they get this fast?? :p

Free Mag Mondays?

Picked it up for $5.00 and the kicker is that it works. Planning on gutting it and cracking out the dremel to create my new HTPC Case.

Hello, I have played with linux off and on for years now but have never really gotten into it (not much past the install...But I have decided to give it another chance. I am trying to decide on Mandrake or Debian but I have used RedHat back when it was redhat. My concern is that I want...

Hello; I have the following parts lying around that I can use for my HTPC, just trying to sort out which to use: CPU's P4 2.2B P4 2.4B AMD XP 1700+B Does 166FSB without break a sweat. Multi unlocked AMD XP 2400+B Does 166FSB as well. Multi unlocked MoBo's Abit IC7-G Abit...

Hello; So i am wondering a bit here. I have changed MSN Messenger so that is does not start on startup. I have also changed the options in the program so that 'Logon when connected to the internet' and 'Start automatically' are unchecked. One would think that the program would not...

So Canada Day is tomorrow and I am going to Ottawa for the fireworks. The nation's capitol is going be a beautiful backdrop for some pictures. So here is my concern, what are the settings I should be using for my digital camera?? I am using a Canon A70 and there are a few drawbacks to this...

I took this picture with the same camera as my last post. I did EXTENSIVE work on the color. The original is good but a little dark, I think this is one of my best pictures. I have been experimenting with Macros alot lately and this is probably the best. The reason I spent so much time on...

Hello; I used a couple tutorials and added my own touches, I did my own border and I like the way it turned out. I took this picture with my Canon A70 on a recent trip to Stratford, Ontario for the Shakspeare Festival. What to you think of the post production? I can post the original...

Hello; I am having an issue with a program stopping a service. I have to go in an maunally restart the service if I want to use the service while the program is running. There is no conflict between the service and the program and when I stop the program it restarts the service...

Like the title... My laptop screen and my Desktop LCD could both use a good cleaning, any suggestions on a safe way to do this? Kroz

Hello; Last week I bought a new 160 GB Hard Drive and installed it in my system (currently 2 WD 80 GB Drives installed) and when I turn on the computer the BIOS finds the drive. I booted into XP Professional with SP1 and it found the drive. I used Drive Managment and partitioned the...

Well it looks like I am out of the race to 25,000. I am out of folding all together too as of last Friday. It’s kind of funny that I had my AMD system fail around the end of January and I finally decided on what I was doing. I had chosen a blade setup and I had the 3 2.4c P4’s, ram, pen...

I Finally broke the through the top 1000 people on the team! Got my production up to almost 1000 PPW too!!! It's just a personal goal. Next stop, spot 500...Probably 8 to 9 weeks from now. This was just a pat myself on the back post. I dont think i broke the rules. :D Have a good...

Well I seem to be asking alot of questions in here as of late, hope no one minds me picking there brain. So I started up F@H graphical client from the command line WinFAH -forceSSE 5 days ago and it started folding away. So over the last few days I have seen the Time Per Frame creap back up...

So which would fold faster? Tualatin is a celeron tualatin1.1 with 256k cache...if I am not mistaken the durons have 64k cache. How cache dependant is the folding client? Is folding a purly clock depandant task? Does FSB play an important role? Thanks Kroz p.s. Reason for question...