Recent content by LostPersonality

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    SATA HD Help

    ASUS P5E WS Professional LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard I have just recently purchased this mobo in my new system and during the first install of XP it recognized the HD just fine with the settings that came with the manufacturer. Later i tried to overclock the processor and...
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    Info On Building Media Center PC

    Im looking into building essentially a pc that will controll my movies music and pictures and in essence display it to my tv (through hdmi?) so thats pretty much what it will be used for now all im really familiar with is building a computer for gaming and not so much well media. ive never...
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    Help! Driver issues from Vista to XP

    Meh screw that im goin back to ubuntu.... Just wish there was hope for reverting back to xp :(
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    Help! Driver issues from Vista to XP

    Alright here is the deal.... i finally got a version of xp to recognize my hard drive during install and when everything is all nice and loaded and i get to installing the simple drivers. such as the audio and video, i hit a brick wall... it seems all i can find are drivers that are for...
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    Thank you kindly Would any of that be thrown off by the fact that im running Ubunto atm?
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    Heh..... Mind telling me how to do that?
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    Heh that sounds all sorts of fun...... well this one is a Toshiba Sattelite a205 something or other and the gateway would be.....MT6840 laptop
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    Well i just checked for that and thats a no go i have to be missing something here....
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    I think i just might..... i cant seem to find any options that will change my hard drive from SATA to IDE i have heard this before but im just not sure how to go about setting it The bios is Pheonixstar and from the main f2 menu i am unable to see where i could change the harddrive...
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    Reformating Issue From Vista To XP

    Well the problem is hopefully an easy one. After a while of using vista on my new laptop i realised that i missed xp alot more then i thought i would. When i tried to install xp on to the laptop it kept giving me errors that there was no hard drive.... this though me though a loop because...
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    AMD or Intel?!

    I think i probably did. Thanks : )
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    AMD or Intel?!

    Alright let me first say that I"ve been out of the game for quite a while basically just trying not to get caught up in the endless process of updating your system. That being said i haven't looked into a new computer for quite a while and last time i checked AMD had a good handle on the cpu...
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    Simple Backup Inquiry

    Hello, This is my first post here on AnandTech and i do hope that the response is every bit as good as i would have hoped. My question is a simple one i do hope. I am looking for some software to use for my fathers computer that will give him the ability to backup his entire system (or at...