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Am I looking at the right stuff? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3428748337&category=3668 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3429502928&category=3668 I'm not building some kind of high end server, so I can put up with used and possibly worn out hardware.

I'm going to guess the cable I'm using is LVD Terminated Ultra2 (40MB/s). If a cable is SCSI3, does this mean it's U160 or U320?

My uncle gave me 2x Seagate Cheetah 17GB 10krpm U160 drives about a year ago now. At the time U160 adapters even on ebay were £100+. So I pulled an old Adaptec 2940AU (20MB/s) out of a box and a random 50 pin cable. I recently got an Adaptec 29160N (U160) for £40 off ebay but I'm using a random...

I finally got myself a new CDRW after giving my Plextor to my mum 3 months ago. I got a 52x Lite-On for £30 and I'm starting to wish I stuck with Plextor, even if it would have cost £50 more. Sometimes while reading, and nearly every time when doing lead in/out the drive starts clicking. If it...

I don't know if video is good or not, it doesn't get that far. All that happens is the cpu fan and hard drives power up, but no hard drive activity. It could be memory, there's two sticks in there so that could be tested. Although I'm certain if it has no memory it still gets to the first...

So my mum phones me today and says her computer broke. Usually this means her mouse is unplugged or something but this time it wont even get to the BIOS. She said she was just playing a game (my mum plays PC games!) and it hard locked. Rebooted and it wont even get to the BIOS. The Scottish...

I've read reviews and it's close. It seems to be about 60% for Logitech and 40% for Altec. Both sets of speakers seem to have had their fair share of problems with some uses too. I was just wondering if many people had actually had the opportunity to compare the two at home under the same...

AOpen, MSI, Sony and Philips 52x drives are all less than the Lite-On 52x. LG, Samsung, Mitsumi and Asus aren't too much more. The Plextor 48x is £56 whereas the Lite-On 52x is £34.50. The Plextor 52x is £105.

I've been using a 16x Plextor since it came out and I loved it but I gave it to my mum so that I could get a bit more speed (it can get tedious burning 10 CDs at 5 minutes each). But I can't decide what drive to get. Ideally I'd love another Plextor but I'd rather keep the money for something...

I have a PAL tv and the output from my 8500LE is 1024x768 at 30Hz interlaced. This doesn't result in a 4:3 output though, it has tiny little borders at the top and bottom which I think are the source of the problems. If I play a 4:3 video on the tv it has small black borders on the sides...

Bump and update. When I start up with tv out enabled it appears fine on tv but in black and white. When windows starts it turns to colour and screws up. If I restart while tv out is enabled when windows boots up my monitor will be set it 47Hz interlaced. From what I can tell the tv is...

I've been using a 3 metre composite cable that came with a GF4 until today when I got a Belkin 5 metre one on a UK PAL tv. On the 3 metre cable it wouldn't properly detect the tv and would just do 640x480 at 60Hz and as long as I left it as that it would fit the tv screen. Now on the 5 metre...

ReForce worked fine on my GF2 but only the desktop with the 8500LE but Rage Tweak fixed it all. I enabled 1280x960 in Powerstrip but my monitor wouldn't do it. My monitor is really fussy with 1280x960. On my G400 I had to turn down to 800x600 before going up to 1280x960, on my GF2 it worked...

I've tried all that and Belinea havn't updated drivers for my monitor for 2 or 3 years. I know I'm not the only person who gets this problem but what I don't understand is why all the apps that worked with my G400 and GeForce 2 wont work with this 8500LE. EDIT: It seems to be working fine with...

WinXP and they're in everything.