Recent content by mdaniel73

Lots of drives come in black. Go to newegg and browse around.

Cool. I'll check it out.

Yep. Losing an important file or corrupting a Windows file because of a 3 second power outage sucks.

Dumb question: Doesn't XP Home only support single processor systems? Will this be seen as a single or dual processor by the OS?

Explain slipstreaming. I've slipstreamed service packs into 2000 & XP, but never done drivers. Do you just extract them into some folder on the CD (\i386 maybe) and then setup will have the drivers without having to ask?

I saw a FAT16 drive the other day. A guy was complaining that he tried to install a 200-300MB-ish program on his Dell 8100 (WinME) and he was out of space but didn't believe it. Turned out, his hard drive had died a while back and the "tech" Dell sent to replace it installed WinME onto a 2GB...

I just looked it up. It'll burst @ 150 but sustained tops out in the 70's.

SATA interface is faster (150 v 133) although no drives can actually sustain either speed yet. The biggest advantage is no more jumpers and no more pain in the ass wide cable.

What about people on that say Macs can do anything a PC can? Do they spend all day and all night searching for shareware or are they just defending their platform?

What's the advantage of BTX over ATX?

Centrino Mhz > Pentium 4 Mhz Actually, its the Pentium M chip you're talking about. Centrino is just the marketing name for a system containing the Pentium M chip and Intel's wifi. Centrino systems are also optimized for lower power consumption. The cost has more to do with supply and...

Although if you do have gigs and gigs of music, movies, warez, etc., having them stored on another partition makes it a lot easier to reformat your C drive and reload Windows should it ever take a dump. That's the only time it really makes sense to me, other than on a server.

It doesn't really matter where you install the program. c:\program files\whatever, d:\program files\whatever, or d:\whatever. That's the easy part to remove after an uninstall. The hard part is the stuff that will get dumped in your c:\windows folder and registery. That will happen regardless of...

The OS restore CD Dell gives you is not loaded with any crap, not even any drivers above what Windows has built in. Its just Windows. That's the reason I still recommend Dells to people who don't need anything really customized. That said, I'll still build my own desktops because I love 100%...

I don't play games so my systems usually last 3 years. After two years I usually add some RAM and maybe reformat and load a newer Windows. But this system will break that cycle. I built it as a P4-1.8/512MB/120GB (mirror)/XP Pro almost three years ago and all I've done is add a DVD burner and a...