Recent content by sco0001

Funny, just last month I took out my 13 years old Zip drive (with 10/12 lightly used zip discs) only to remember that my newest PC doesn't have a parallel port. Went on ebay and bough a USB to Parallel IEEE 1284 DB25 Adapter for $2.34 + downloaded driver from Iomega website, and walla, it works...

That's actually a very good idea, why haven't I thought of it! Just a few months ago, I gave away a P3 (which I bought online from Quantex in 1999 for almost $2k) to my x-co worker, who still uses dot matrix printer! I do keep small parts, like the ones I can recycle, as adapters, small...

Good tips! I just retired an ADM Athlon XP 3200+ CPU system with ASUS motherboard, ASUS video card and few hard drives & harware. Ebay is my first choice. Ebay just started a promotion, which will run from Sept 28, through Jan 2011 - you won't have to pay for any listing and u can list at...

Thanks mfenn, Auric and vailr for suggesting tools. I am aware of these tools, especially BartPE and UBCD, just never played with them. Anyway, I finally gave up on driver loading at XP setup time, because even w/o driver load attempts were failing. So finally I updated the BIOS firmware, I...

Well, all attempts have failed so far. One last thing I was trying to do is connect the SSD to the GSATA 2 port and set on the BIOS to RAID. It shows up nice as a RAID drive on the screen at startup. Then I start the XP setup process with F6. I put the GSATA RAID driver on a floppy, it seemed...

I've been reading all about TRIM/NAND etc. retaled to SSD yesterday and that SSD is perfect for Win7. I am not worried about wear & tear, after all even 10,000 times (is it the right number?) read/write is more than life tiem, and as for speed: what I've already encountered is lightning faster...

Modern OS meaning Windows 7? and what about disabling/enabling ‘SATA Port0-3 Native Mode’ option in the BIOS? Is it more Native mode friendly or Legacy? As far as driver, they are the latest, from the Gigabyte download site. I read somewhere that when doing F6 to load the drivers from floppy...

Last several hours I was looking for some answers. I have found a lot of information, but a few questions remained unanswered. So I hope that I will get some answers. My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R rev.2, expect to install OS on the Corsair Nova series SSD and secondary HD is WD Caviar...

Thanks.

Update: They sent me the replacement (new) video card and it's all good now. My overall experience with CyberpowerPC has been positive. When I configured online, I had WD640GB SATA3 (6GB/s) & CPU i7-940, but I received WD 1TB SATA3 (6GB/s) and i7-950 3.06 GHz without being charged extra. Even...

I wish I had access to another PCIx vga or another system to test the card. My other system is old and AGP type. So I am waiting for the replacement card to arrive (hopefully already mailed by CyberpowerPC) and test. If that does not work, I am certain it's the motherboard and/or BIOS. I have 3...

..well, I got my PC last week and when I turned on I saw nothing. The mobo lights are one but no video. First I connected to a flat screen with DVI port, then I tried with a CRT on the VGA port, but nothing. I took out the video card and re-installed, then I saw the initial motherboard logo...

That's very nice, thanks for providing details. My price isn't bad either, total $1220 and yet not counting the $50 rebate. Yes, buying online all the time, especially from Newegg, I know I could've gotten everything lot sooner. So I am going to get the rig in 2 weeks. But I can deal with...

I am going to checkout that. I just never reconsidered Gateway anymore as I had hard time with it and a lot of people I know-it's just a bad taste that once you go through, you don't want that anymore. They might be good these days - and that's what I will check out. Thanks again.

Yes, time will be the same wether I build myself or have it built. I am just swamped with projects and I don't think I can spare anymore time to build it myself. Thanks.