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As per the titles really, is there a compatible product that someone knows about? Many thanks, Steve :)

Thanks for the quick replies... I only posted 2 mins ago! I will search Tom's hardware. However, might it be a good idea to get a normal USB TV tuner and an external Digi-decoder thing? Will it be able to put the input into the Composite or S-Video connections of the TV tuner? Thanks...

Or, if there is a better USB Analogue/Digital Tuner out there, do you know where? Thanks, Steve :)

Start with the basics... With the power plugged in to the wall and switched on, plug the power into the computer, does the PSU make a quick crackling noise? If so, power's working. Check the BIOS jumper is in the correct position. If shorting the wrong pins it can cause this. Check...

You can clean the CPU and heatsink with a cotton bud and some isopropanol (or similar residue-less substance), or just buy the proper CPU/heatsink cleaner in a bottle, it dosn't cost much. As a rough guide, use a 'pea-sized' amount and no more. With a small piece of card or similar, gently...

It's effectively obsolete. All soundcards these days support digital audio extraction (DAE). Steve :)

You don't even need DAEMON tools. If you have the ISO, just tell VMware to use the ISO as the CDROM/DVD drive, et voila! Steve :)

I have the same card but in All-In-Wonder guise. I retro-fitted an Arctic Cooling IceBerq4 and put 8 copper ramsinks on the ram. They hardly warm up at all, so I don't think they're needed. Steve :)

Although I run a Shuttle SN45G, I've got Athlon XP 2500+, 80Gb HDD, 1Gb DDR, Audigy II soundcard, and Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder. It all worked with a 200w PSU until I added the Radeon, then I needed to upgrade to 250w to make it work. If you've got a standard 1 drive system and nothing...

I've been reading up a lot about this Cool'n'Quiet stuff. I was going to build a desktop Pentium-M based system because low power consumption and low noise is what I'm after. Enhanced SpeedStep adjusts CPU performance in about 20 stages... automatically, down to about 600Mhz - from what I...