Recent content by hamltnblue

I cant stand the activation process also but if I was MS I'd do the same thing. I worked in an office in the 90's that had 35 machines. They bought one copy of windows and office and installed on evey machine. Then allowed the employee's to take it home and install on their machine. Multiply...

I found this forum that works good and also shows how to auto clear prefetch http://www.prabhums.org/weblogs/?postid=70 Hope it helps

2 things I'd suggest. 1 take side of case off and see if problem clears 2 set bios settings to slower setting. start with default settings

The kid probably got into the bios or changed a setting. You can go on google and type in the model number of the putr to get the correct bios settings. Mine once switched to 800 mhz from 2.2Gig. Never found out what did it but machine ran slow and hotter. Good Luck

Check your bios, often you can turn on/off ports and even set the mode they run in.

If you turn down particle density, which is a setting on most games, you'll see a big improvement. You'll even see through the smoke. Good Luck

If you want extreme cooling use a peltier water block, or if you are worried about condensation, sandwich a peltier between a second CPU200 block and a standard cpu heat sink/fan Hot side towards the Heat sink of course.

When you drill make sure there are no electronics near by, I.E. motherboard. Metal shavings and electronics dont mix Ham

I had a koolance on my 2.8 P4 and upgraded to the Koolance Tower with water built in when I switched to my FX-51. They are very nice and easy to install. Just follow the instructions and you'll be fine. The water/glycol solution should be replaced every 6 months and is easy. I have mine with...