Recent content by Scotboy35

Hi, Umm i'm confused, I have a blanked out pin slot on the cable and a pin missing on the bottom so you know what way to put the cable in. I now have one at the top where I assume we forced in the cable and broke it off (cant see the broken pin) is this normal. Is there sometimes two pins...

Hi, During a recent M/B upgrade it seems that when replacing my hardrive the cable seems to have been forced in the wrong way, now the 10th pin from the left on my Quantum AS Ata-100 is broken. My H/D is working but I cant enable the DMA mode on it, any time I click Dma to auto in the bios or...

Can anyone help ?

Hi, I'm having a couple of other problems with my upgrade, I'm upgrading to a EPox 8RDA+ M/B, Barton 2500 and a 9600Pro everything seems to be okay except my hard drive is listed as 'Generic IDE Disk type 47' under device manager instead of 'Quantum Fireball' which I'm guessing is Ultra DMA...

Yip I'm sticking with the onboard sound for a bit anyway. Anyways couple of other problems with my upgrade, hard drive is listed as 'Generic IDE Disk type 47' under device manager instead of 'Quantum Fireball' which I'm guessing is Ultra DMA. If I enable the DMA mode in the bios, windows wont...

Yip I dont understand it, it came with the 'overclockerable' sticker on the box and as they included the Redline disc I thought it would be no problem. As I say I contacted Sapphire Tech support and they said the Redline doesn't work with all the cards and I would have to wait till a new version...

Hi, I got it from www.komplett.co.uk for 137 pounds UK based company, well I think there German but you know what I mean.

Hi, Can anyone help me with the overclocking of this card, it's supposed to be the 'Fireblade' and it does come with the Redline tweaking software but it doesn't seen to give me the option to up the speeds. I contacted the Sapphire Tech support and he says that I might have to wait until...

Hi, Thanks for replying. Fun is one thing I aint having, it's the first time upgrading and it's been a bit of a trial, but I think I got things working okay now, although the CPU seems to be a little hotter than I had hoped. It's sitting about 49c now and I haven't even tested it with a game...

Hi, Just upgraded to a Epox 8RDA+ M/B and Barton 2500xp, does anyone have any opinions as to if I should put my 'Soundblaster live Value' (not the 5.1) back in or stick with the 'Nforce 2' sound on the M/B. I'm guessing they'll sound much the same but was unsure which one would be less...