Recent content by Hatter106

Wow, they can be removed! Thanks a lot for the tip! Learn something new everyday...

Just my luck.. The new power supply I bought doesn't work with my motherboard. The cable to connect it to the mobo is 24-"pin", while the mobo only has a 20-"pin" connector. Looks like it's time to build that new PC...

*slaps head Yeah, that shows you how many power supplies I've installed. Heh! Thanks for stopping me before I mutilated my tower...

Well, the problem is, the replacement unit I want to get has a secondary fan on the top, but my PC case doesn't have any vents up there. Do I need to take a drill and put some holes in there before I install it? I'd imagine no holes for the secondary fan could cause overheating problems inside...

Hmm, well, there's my answer. Heh. Guess I'll go get that nice 465w power supply tomorrow...

My PC's power supply is at least four or five years old. It's never given me trouble until recently - a couple of times, I noticed a weird burning smell coming from my tower. Not knowing the cause, I turned it off. It was only during the third occurence that I noticed my power supply fan wasn't...

I'm over in Moncton, NB. If I was going to order parts, pretty much the only site I know of is Vibe Computers. They're Canadian, and their prices seem pretty fair.

I had considered building it myself, but I wondered whether it'd be worth it considering a) how much I'd pay in s/h by ordering all the parts online and b) I'd rather the build be in the hands of experts, since I've never installed anything more complicated than a disc drive. As for budget, I...

I'm not sure if you guys have heard of Tagar PC, but they're a Canadian company who provide custom PC builds. I've been tinkering with this AMD build for a few days, and after a lot of consulatation with my friends' tech nerd cousin, I've tentatively got it down to this: CASE: Cooler Master...

Wow! That CCleaner sure did the trick. Thanks!

Hi, Okay. My PC is somewhat outdated, with a rather small HDD. So I run Disc Cleanup nearly every day. Problem is, recently, it's been stopping partway. Not crashing, or freezing really, just not progressing. The HDD lights aren't flashing, nothing's happening. It stalls when it's a few %...

What's an MTU value? And how do I lower it? Well, I was using the whole Norton SystemWorks/Internet Security Pro package, but now it says that the license is screwed up and needs to be uninstalled and re-installed. Another problem caused by this whole iPod mess. I enabled all the...

Please. I really need to fix this!

Anyone?

I think this has happened to me a couple of times in the past, but I can't remember how I solved it then... The other day, I bought an iPod and it took me hours and hours to get it working. To do so, I had to go into "msconfig" and change a lot of the startup settings, mostly which programs...