Recent content by MadMan2k

The XP license from OEM computers will be valid to install windows XP from a standard disc, but will not usually activate over the internet. If nothing has changed in the ~9 months since I've done it last, Microsoft WILL give you an activation code over the phone. Tell them it's only installed...

It might be possible... we moved some prebuilt systems into cheap custom cases a few times when their original power supply died. I don't know why you'd want to waste a nice lian-li case on a dell personally, but it's up to you...

An Xbox with XBMC installed works great as a low-budget and basically rock solid HTPC - rip the movies, FTP them over, open it on the Xbox and watch it. I did a project for my boss where we ripped his collection of 400 DVD's onto 2 Xbox's with a 250gb drive in one and a 400gb in the other...

Yeah, I'd just install windows on the 500 and then copy the files over. It will recognize it fine, it'll just assign the partitions a different letter than they were when the drive was the system drive (C becomes E if D is used for a CD drive, D is F, etc) Keeping the 160 as a spare is a good...

They were sure freaking out at the movie, then there wasnt much volume change near the end.. heh

Probably broadcast power, as regulated by the FCC (or whichever org does this).

Recording levels, ambient noise, amount of fluid/wax in your ears all come into play there. You can't really duplicate a sound level in that environment. As to raising the volume to counteract hearing loss, that's a really good question that I don't have an answer to... Seems to me it would...

Apparently they dont really care what people think, because in surfing, some of them must come across boards where people say how they don't like the new channel. I used to like the screen savers, I'd watch it every day if possible, but now it's total crap. The only decent show now is...

I signed up a while back. Great host, its down occasionaly, but for the price, who cares? Shell acess is great, and the speeds between it and my other server are pretty dang decent.

My dog doesn't like AC/DC too much, heh. He has gone over to check out the TV when there were dogs barking on the show, but he decided the dogs were fake after all...

Is the hard drive NTFS formatted, or not partitioned? That would explain command prompt not seeing it. As to the CPU thing... Not really sure there. Can you change the settings and get it to run at the real speed for a 2500? Probably 200MHz FSB, and 9x multiplier.

Did you try it with the old PSU again?

I upgraded from an 800MHz celeron with 384 of ram and a GF2. Even if I didn't game, it would have been time for an upgrade. In a couple more years I probably wont upgrade just yet, even if some good games come out, since I'll need the money for other things.

I know someone who has an acrylic case. He loved it at first, but changed his mind. He did say he could stand on it without it breaking... no idea why someone would stand on their computer though... I guess the dirt and etc just showed up really well, and it wasn't designed well so it took...

I think just formatting is good enough to restore a new windows configuration... The file system won't be able to see the previous files, and windows won't have any reason to look. I've always done it by just formatting, never had problems. If you don't have sensitive data, just delete the...