Recent content by jwarren68

I have had a Thermaltake 480 Silentpurepower and an OCZ 520 watt (see my sig). The Thermaltake is LOUD. I would stay away if that's a factor. I have nothing but praise for my OCZ, however. My vote would be to spend a little extra and get an OCZ.

Another attribute of LCDs (or anything for that matter) that I haven't seen mentioned here yet is warranty period and ease of RMA. If you check out Sony's, Samsung's, Princeton's, etc. warranties and their websites for ease of online RMA, I think you'll find it sometimes pays to spend a little...

You can disable it in the BIOS (I forget exactly the menu choice - "Cell" something) or simply change your power savings settings to anything other than "Minimal Power Management", once you're in Windows. But you're probably only seeing 900mhz when your CPU isn't busy. When you start a...

dude...you're a slob

icepik, Can you point me to a guide for doing this, for the Neo2? Which sensors to choose, etc. Thx

I didn't read this entire post so I apologize if this was mentioned, but - you're sure Cool n Quiet is disabled?

You can use a fan controller with the Vantec Tornado, as I do. I went from 66C using stock HSF/thermal pad down to 57C heavy load when I went with the cooling in my sig, with the Tornado full blast & extremely loud. But the controller is nice for when I'm not doing heavy stuff, it'll take...

http://www.freewebs.com/hdat2/ There's a free program called HDAT2HW.EXE, run it in DOS (boot with floppy).

OK I know this is an old thread, but I solved my problem & think I should put what I did here just in case it might help someone. I found a program here: http://www.freewebs.com/hdat2/ and it worked! I reset my 160 gb hd back to 160 from 33gb. I'm not sure what I did to it, but...

Yeah; I figured as much....don't have a Linux box handy, but I think it's pretty much hosed. Thanks anyway, guys.

BTW it was a diiferent mb & BIOS, not sure which. But it also had an 80gb hd, fully recognized. Could a boot sector virus do this kind of thing? Or is it just trashed?

That was one of the things I did, Lee - I got the same issue. The BIOS only saw 33.8gb.

Thanks Redbeard - I've tried the low-level format, to no avail. I also ran every diagnostic Powermax has and every test is successful. The SMART status, reported by Speedfan (and a couple of other disk-monitoring progs) all say 100% integrity & 100% performance....It's as if the CLJ was...

I'm going to give the forum a shot, although I have a feeling my HD is shot. It's a Maxtor Model 6Y160P0, 160gb, 7200 rpm/8mb cache - and out of warranty. Now before I start, let me explain that I know about/tried: the various BIOS/XP limitations, capacity limiting jumper settings, drive...

I'd go 2 intake from the front, and 2 exhaust out the back. But get more opinions - I'm an admitted noobie. Also, someone posted this link here somewhere - I think it's appropriate to re-post it for you: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=230