Recent content by blaznee

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    Now *here's* a good mystery - dead Mobo and burning CPU?

    It's unfortunately quite a lot faster than you think.. A t-bird with no cooling lives for no more than 6-10 seconds.. And if you're unlucky even less.. This sounds mostly like a motherboard problem tho'.. But that doesn't count out the possibility of it frying your cpu in the meantime! /Blaznee
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    BIG TOTAL SYSTEM PROBLEM..... HELP!!

    Did you keep an eye on your cpu temperature while working with it? It COULD sound like you've overheated.. And that you might have burned off that nice 1.4 Ghz.. It definately sounds like a heating problem to me (or cooling problem if you like *S*) Try taking off that monster cooler of yours...
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    Strange "rubber-band" problem

    Can it be true that nobody has the slightest idea about this problem? Noone else encounters it??? :-/ /Blaznee
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    Strange "rubber-band" problem

    The Boomslang is actually native USB but can have a PS2 converter mounted.. But I use it with the USB, which as far as I can remember runs at something like 133hz.. /Blaznee
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    major HDD problem after CPU-upgrade... help desperately needed.

    Hmmm.. Who knows if it's just a "Microsoft has decided to boggle your mind yet again" error?.. What I would do in this situation is to take the 8GB drive to a friends computer and try it there.. Preferably a win98 machine.. Just to make sure that the data is actually there before you start...
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    HELP can't format laptop

    Sounds like you're the victim of finnicky laptop harddrives... Try and get a hold of a low-level format program and do a low-level format on the drive.. You can try and make the partition in fdisk a little smaller than the entire disk so that you avoid the seemingly pad part of the disk.. Ex. If...
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    Strange "rubber-band" problem

    This is a weird one. When I set a game (this happens only in games so far) to use a resolution of 1024*768 or above (the higher the res, the worse it gets) the mouse starts reacting delayed. It's kinda like the mousepointer is being moved with a rubberband. For testing purposes it's easiest to...