Recent content by salz

I have 1GB of RAM and two 40GB hard drives. I used to use the second hard drive as backup, but right now it's empty and since I'm much better at keeping my hard drives clean of junk, I don't really want to use it as backup anymore. I've read about the Windows XP's paging file and I'm a little...

Sorry for the lack of info, but when I was posting about this problem a long time ago (before I sent in my RAM for RMA) it took so long to write I thought most people would see it and not want to read it. Anyway, I'll try to keep it short again if I can. I used to have 512MB of RAM and that's...

To make a long story short I thought I had RAM problems. I sent the RAM back for RMA and I bought a new stick. The company told me the RAM was fine. Before I sent it to them I used MemTest86 (RAM test) and got thousands of errors. They ran their own test, then they ran my test and both times...

So a little while ago I found out that I had something that looked like a RAM problem. I couldn't install without errors. I even had errors when trying to install both Windows XP and 2000. My games were crashing to the desktop and sometimes locking up, and every once in a while my computer...

I found this somewhat odd when I was disconnecting some cables from my case. I have a Lian-Li PC-65 case and I have a webcam and a usb sync connected to two of the front four USB ports. My computer was off and when I disconnected the two cables, the computer turned on! I thought this was...

What is the best thing to use for cleaning the screen? I sneezed and some stuff got on my monitor. So I took a tissue and wiped the screen which is what I normally do, and most of the time my screen will be fine. However, now I have a problem. I wiped my screen and there is this really thin...

I don't understand why it would be so bad to upgrade the BIOS within Windows. Giga-byte has a utility like this as well that came with my motherboard's utility and drivers cd, and although I haven't used it because when I upgraded my BIOS, the version was not yet available on the utility, I...

I could get the straps, but I think one or two heavy duty case handles would add a little aesthetic touch to the big, black and blocky case. Some rubber washers should take care of any screw rattling, and the handle is spring loaded (although I don't know how strong the spring is) so I don't...

I have the Altec Lansing 641 speakers and as many of you may know, the subwoofer for this setup is the size of a mid-size tower and weighs about 50 pounds. I want to put this beast on wheels (forunately, there are already rubber feet, so I just have to replace those), but I was also thinking...

Hmmmm, last bump for good luck.

It's interesting, but I like clean cut, basic cases....and then I let my dremel do the rest ;) . This one looks too pretty to cut into!

If you go to Soulsend's site, it says that he got his LCD from partsexpress.com. The difference is that his LCD is not a touch screen. If you turn his screen into a touch screen, then that would be exactly what I want.

I'm thinking about building a 5" LCD video module into my 5" bay for my own case modding pleasure (something like this ). This LCD screen would be used primarily for Winamp or instant messenger (little things that just get in the way sometimes). However, I'm looking for a touch screen so I can...

If you read more of the thread, you'll notice that it's for the 128MB cards too. My card was a 128MB card and it had the same problems. forcesho- Could you tell me more about diamond stealth/s3? I've never heard of them (hell, in the early 90's I was in 2nd or 3rd grade).

To Jeff7, if you look closely at the pictures, you'll notice a difference in the capacitors. Now, I'm definitely not very educated in chip design, but the one thing I noticed was that the capacitors on the good card had green letters and the capacitors on the bad card had black lettering (like...