Recent content by FlyingShawn

Hey guys! I'm building a system and am trying to figure out if I can get away with using my 20pin PSU on it. Specs: AMD 3800 X2 AM2 (intend to OC) Mobo: undecided (looking at the new DFI LP UT NF590 SLI, but not sure) 1gig DDR2-800 Corsair XMS Zalman 9500 cooler PNY 7600GT (does NOT...

Yeah, I didn't think they'd make any difference because when it doesn't work, it won't even POST, but I did install them just in case (didn't help). Thanks for that idea though! Anyone else have thoughts? I'm going to RMA the mobo for sure at this point, I'm just trying to decide if I...

Sorry about how long this is, I typed out the stuff below on the AMD Forums and you'll probably only be able to offer any useful ideas if you know the whole bizzare story. Thanks for any ideas you may have (I'm really quite baffled at the moment). Cliffs: -Building new system, boots to BIOS...

The floor the computer's sitting on is carpeted, but they're all in the case and were thus insulated from it. I'm also pretty good about touching the chassis of the case before the components, so I doubt I gave it any sort of shock. I guess the real reason I doubt it's static is because...

I just purchased a Gigabyte motherboard (M55SLI-S4) and installed it in a machine I'm building (Athlon64x2 3800, Zalman 9500, PNY GeForce 7600XT PCI-E, reused HDDs, case, and Thermaltake PS). Last night, when I finished assembling the machine I turned it on to make sure everything was working...

Ok, thanks for the advice guys! I built the machine yesterday and did it according to the AS5 official instructions. It was a little tricky to lower the Zalman straight down on top of it because of their bracket design, but I think I got it close enough. Thanks again!

I'm building my first dual core rig (AMD X2 3800 with a Zalman 9500) that I intend to overclock and I'm a bit confused on the best way to apply the Arctic Silver 5. Their website recommends putting on a small bit and having the pressure of the heatsink spread it around (worked fine for my last...

I usually reformat once every year or two (mostly to fix the problems I get from trying to find an ATI driver that actually works properly with my AIW 9600xt, especially getting the dumb TV tuner to work right). Question for you guys who almost never reformat (just do "preventative...

mindless1, yeah, I can see where you're coming from. Perhaps I should have better explained that my "best bet" comment was in reference to the fact that I'm trying to figure out what is worth arguing over. Thanks to the help of this thread, I've learned that the 2006 would be a significant...

Thanks for the advice guys. I didn't realize that my 9600xt was keeping up with the times as well as you say (in other than shader-heavy apps). I'm a little concerned that they decide to replace it with an "equivalent" like the AIW 2006 AGP, which is based on the 9600 but significantly...

When I built my computer a about 1.5 yrs ago I bought an AIW 9600xt because I wanted the TV features and decent gaming performance (which it had, at least for the games when it was made). Recently, I started getting video corruption when watching TV with recent drivers (including ones that had...

Well, back to 4.8 for me. I installed 4.11 and had the same problems I've had with 4.9 and 4.10; they won't extend the desktop to my second monitor on the AIW 9600XT. I would like the increase in performance, but my secondary display is more important. Time to email ATI about it and complain...

I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about the Queens crash to comment on it. One crash that one of my professors mentioned was the one summarized in the link below (the second link is for a video of the crash): Crash information (from AirDisaster.com) Video of the crash One aspect of the...

As a pilot (private for now, but studying to be a professional pilot when I graduate college), I've gotta say Boeing all the way. Both Boeing's newest planes and Airbus's are fly-by-wire, but they have a completely different philosophy on how they do it. They need the fly-by-wire because the...

It worked! Thanks. I wasn't able to actually delete that folder because I was denied rights to it for some reason (even under a different admin login and from safe mode), but I was able to move it somewhere else on the hard drive so the ATI software had to make a new one. The bad news is...