Recent content by GoblinToe

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    DELL 2005FPW wavy scan lines on left side of screen.

    Gah! It never fails! As soon as you make a post you figure something out. Turns out the nvidia drivers were remembering the Front Porch settings, but those settings are specific to each resolution. I had them set properly for 1680x1050, and the scan lines were gone, but the game I was...
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    DELL 2005FPW wavy scan lines on left side of screen.

    Hi, all. I recently purchased a Dell 20" 2005FPW, and am having a bit of problem. I initially was getting these wavy scan lines on the left side of the screen, about 2" wide, and most noticeable with a dark green wallpaper. After doing some research here, I found a forum topic on how to fix...
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    Should it be World of Warcraft or Everquest II?

    I couldn't agree more with this statement. Reason enough to choose WoW over EQ2, and is the reason I did. Aside from the fact that you need a $5,000 machine to play EQ2 reasonably well in zones like Qeynos North/South, Qeynos Harbor, etc. Blizzard has my support because they make FUN...
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    Replacing boot PATA with a WD Raptor SATA in XP?

    Thanks, everyone! This helps me tremendously! Can't wait to get that Raptor in the mail now!
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    Replacing boot PATA with a WD Raptor SATA in XP?

    Well, what I was curious about was, can I just clone my existing installed XP system on the failing 40 gig drive over to the Raptor? Just like I could do with another PATA drive, easily. But when I boot again with my OS now on the Raptor will my OS recognize the boot drive since it'll be...
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    Replacing boot PATA with a WD Raptor SATA in XP?

    Hi, all! I'm about to upgrade in a few days and would be very grateful if someone could answer this question for me. Currently I have this system: 3.0ghz Intel P4P800 Deluxe mobo 40 gig WD PATA as Primary Master 160 GIG Maxtor PATA as Primary Slave 160 GIG Maxtor PATA as Seconary...