Recent content by supster

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    Hows the stock thermal compound on the Zalman CNPS7000ACu & recommend me a good <$60 case w/ no PSU!

    Ok thanks, but is there a reason I would use Ceramique over AS 5?
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    Hows the stock thermal compound on the Zalman CNPS7000ACu & recommend me a good <$60 case w/ no PSU!

    How good is the stock thermal compound that comes with the CNPS7000A-CU HSF? Should I bother getting some AS or just use what comes with it? It will be put on an Athlon64 3000 with barely an overclock. I will just be pushing the FSB up to 217mhz from 200. I'm also in search for a cheap $50ish...
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    Cheap, passive cooled, decent card for linux box?

    Can anyone recommend me a cheap video card for a linux box with no fan <$70ish?
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    Running higher resolution

    I was just reinstalling WinXP and after the initial reboot I was changing the resolution from defualt 800x600 (this was before display driver update) and noticed that I could take the slider one bar past the normal 1600x1200 I run. After installing the latest nvidia drivers I was back down to...
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    Need a new sound system, any suggestions?

    Or the Altec Lansing 251/5100??
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    Need a new sound system, any suggestions?

    Err, nevermind how about the the Z540 VS Inspire 5200?
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    Need a new sound system, any suggestions?

    I've got sound from an an integrated sound on an 8RDA+, which reads: Realtek ALC650E 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound I'de like a new speaker system, looking to pay < $100. Any suggestions?
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    Prime95 failing after 45 mins?

    I came back after leaving it running for about 5 hours and saw this: [Sat Mar 15 10:03:54 2003] Self-test 10K passed! FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file. What could my problem be? Its an Athlon XP 2400 @ 166x13 = 2.17ghz...
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    Checking temps

    epox 8rda+ i tried sensors 1, 2, and 3
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    Checking temps

    How can one check system temps after boot? I am able to see them at POST but not sure how to check them while stress testing. I tried MBM and it would only read 0C temps.
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    Hanging on 'Detecting IDE Drivers'

    Any other ideas? Should I RMA it?
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    Hanging on 'Detecting IDE Drivers'

    I just tried it as jumper on single master, and master with slave present (cdrom being the slave). no go =( I also don't hear the hard drive spinning, in fact I put my ear up to it and i hear nothing! I used the same power cord that gave power to the CDROM a second ago, so I don't think its a...
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    Hanging on 'Detecting IDE Drivers'

    Ok thanks, I'm going to try some different jumper settings now. I thought the cutting pin1 wire was if the hard drive was not being detected, my problem isn't that its not being detected, its that it wont POST with the HD in =/
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    Hanging on 'Detecting IDE Drivers'

    I had everything going fine(except floppy) just finished installing windows. I was getting "floppy disk error (40)" so I was trying some different combinations to try to fix it. The last thing I tried was changing the power cable that was going to it, when i turned on the system the power LED...