Recent content by Timandy

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    Help, what have I done?

    Modelworks: Nice Idea!
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    Optical drives & XP

    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I went to the movies and said to myself when I returned home if I did not get a result or find a solution from here I was going to reinstall XP.. The link to Mr. Bills site worked great. really this place is such a fine resource to the community...
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    Optical drives & XP

    Anyone - Please
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    Optical drives & XP

    Hi, Something has gone really bad in my system. No optical drive is seen by XP Pro. I have an onboard ata drive, a firewire drive, and I tried a virtual drive. Things I have done to try and fix this is: Reload drivers boot into save mode uninstall drivers allowing xp to reload...
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    Agp X8 Dual vga card suggestions

    I just lost a AIW 9600 card, I put in a spare card. The card doesnt support dual monitors. Can folks suggest a card that is inexpensive that will support dual VGA. I dont wish to spend alot, I plan to rebuil this machine in less than 6 months. Thanks for all the help
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    Core 2 Duo Photoshop test

    1:52 with a stock 3.0 Northwood with a Intel motherboard. 2007 is my upgrade year.
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    REply pliz Building my first computer NEED HELP!! somewhat a gaming rig for 900

    Ebay is risky.. but if you buy someone that has a good selling history, been around for a good long time and has some sort of warentry you up your chances of getting good working components. I recently rebuilt on of my systems with ebay components. only thing that I did buy at the Fry's was...
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    Dual Channel memory

    I am set to put together a new system this coming weekend. I bought two sticks of 512 Mushkin green memory on ebay.. I assumed it would be a matching set.. lol.. they are not. they are both Mushkin but the acutal chips are different. What are the chances that I will be able to go into dual...
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    Loss of Data after defrag

    Anyone have any ideas on this problem?
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    Loss of Data after defrag

    Last night I did a defrag on a "D" drive. Today I get home and found that one entire directory is missing all of its contents, the loss of about 600 files of various sizes. My system is Win2k, the drive is Fat32. is there any way to reterive the files, and any ideas on how this happened?
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    Removing win2k user accounts?

    HI, When I installed W2k server, it put some useraccount on this system I dont want.. IUSR_***-xbsgmt IWAM_***-xbsgmt Guest TsInternetuser (***=maching name) can I delete these acount with no problems, do they have to be on my system? Thanks
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    Antec 1030

    Thanks for the quick responce :) I plan on putting a VP6 in it :)
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    Antec 1030

    I bought a 1030 recently.. and it says SOHO in the title of the case.. What does SOHO mean? Thanks
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    AIW-128 question

    Hi, I have a AIW-128, I did a upgrade on the video drivers recently. sometime after I did the upgrade I installed ATI's Dvd software, now I'm unable to record from the TV in anything except in the AVI format. When I try and go to MPG-1 or MPG-2 the TV blinks twice and doesn't record anything...
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    Poll: Tax refund coming...what will you buy ?

    As I understand it, Single filers get aprox 300 back, Joint filers get 600 or so.. I am going to spend about half of it on my home, and the rest on a weekend vacation with my dog.