Recent content by sabka

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    Mouse pad/mat with adhesive - anyone try one before?

    hmm...I have some teflon tape - i could try covering the bottom of the mouse. i'll report back...thanks for all the suggestions!
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    Mouse pad/mat with adhesive - anyone try one before?

    I don't use a mousepad with my optical mouse, but my dark-colored desk is getting "chaved" and the surface is scratched up pretty badly. Has anyone tried something like CS Hyde's C4 classic? http://www.cshyde.com/c4web/C4Classic.htm or anything similar to that ? do they work well? Do...
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    How do I connect my computer to my LCD TV and get full screen scaling?

    The whole reason i'm connecting the TV to the computer is to watch movies on my TV instead of the 19" LCD. When i extend half my windows could swap over to the TV side when i work on the computer. Besides, i already tried that and i couldn't get the picture to get any bigger than it already is...
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    Problems with my new computer.

    return the creative junk and get yourself a nice firewire or USB m-audio box M-Audio Products
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    How do I connect my computer to my LCD TV and get full screen scaling?

    I have a Sharp 45" LCD Aquos that i connected to my Gigabyte GeForce 7300GT graphics card using component cables. I also have a 19" dell connected to the same card via DVI. I used Nvidia's control panel to set the displays to Dual View Cloning and I get acceptable picture quality on the 45" LCD...
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    Using eSATA in RAID 1 configuration?

    I have a 250GB boot drive and a 500GB storage/music drive. Would it be feasable to get a external 500GB drive and set up a RAID 1 configuration to mirror my internal storage/music drive using eSATA? Has anyone done this? Or am I better of doing internal RAID? I have a ASUS P5B...
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    Turning on SATA support on already running system

    I have a Albatron KX18D Pro II mobo and till now, just used the PATA hard disks with SATA disabled. I'm going to start upgrading the system over the next 6 months (due to lack of $-flow) and wanted to upgrade my SLAVE hard drives to larger capacities first (a few 500GB'ers would do) - SATA...
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    Turning on SATA support on already running system

    nobody has an idea?
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    Have an Athlon XP2500+ with DDR1 PC 3200

    i would assume you could use something like this: http://www.satacard.com/sata-ii-pci.html i've used the PATA ones before, but never the SATA ones.
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    Turning on SATA support on already running system

    I have a Albatron KX18D Pro II mobo and till now, just used the PATA hard disks with SATA disabled. I'm going to start upgrading the system over the next 6 months (due to lack of $-flow) and wanted to upgrade my SLAVE hard drives to larger capacities first (a few 500GB'ers would do) - SATA...
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    DVI not working?

    any more ideas?
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    DVI not working?

    the cable that came with the LCD is DVI-D. I assume that the vid card supports both DVI-A and DVD-D
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    DVI not working?

    does anyone have any ideas?
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    DVI not working?

    i just hooked up my LCD to my computer but i can't get the DVI connection to work. The regular VGA works, but when i switch to DVI (both in the display properties and on the LCD itself), the screen just goes blank. When i hook both connections up at the same time (VGA and DVI), the display...
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    Hard Drive Failure

    I can boot into windows fine, it's a slave drive that's corrupted. Isn't knoppix just a bootable OS?