Recent content by UnheardEcho

Thanks guys, I'll try a new one and see if that fixes the problem.

A week or two ago I began seeing, particularly when doing something in AIM, that the AIM window would lose focus, as if I had clicked my desktop or something else. Firefox also does this, though it frequently regains focus immediately. Now when playing Guild Wars, which I do often, GW will...

Disregarding the price factor, if it were pick one or the other, with no other factors involved, it would be more wise to buy the newer part right? I'm beginning to think that $50 is relatively small in order to get a newer generation part.

Thanks for the advice so far. Unfortunately my main computer crapped out on me so I can't really afford to wait and see how things develop. I don't plan on running SLI immediately, but I'd like to have it as an option to upgrade in the future. Wouldn't nF4 be suitable for SLI in this capacity...

I'm looking to build a new socket AM2 system and I don't know whether to go with the NForce 4 or NForce 500 chipset. I'm looking at ASUS models and aside from costing a bit more, I can't see any obvious must have features of the 500. I'm looking to maintain upgrade potential, but if it's all the...

Bring it up

I'm creating a website using Dreamweaver and made the navigation buttons in Flash. Dreamweaver recognizes the imported buttons as movie clips, and as such will not allow me to use them as buttons. I'm using a site with frames, and through using actions in Flash, I'm able to direct the buttons to...

Well I found that the CD drive was causing the SATA drive to hang, and it boots in 2-3 passes without it, however with the bare minimum hardware the IDE drive still took forever to boot. If I could get it back into DMA mode that'd ease my mind a little and probably help the troubleshooting. As...

One of the things I've discovered is that my Hitachi hard drive is running in PIO mode. How do I force it into DMA?

I'm sure the hdd cable is fine, especially since the SATA one has problems too. I'll try unplugging the other drives though and get back

Bump. Thanks for the help so far guys

I looked around and saw no pertinent bios settings, and the IDE cable is good. I guess it could be motherboard drivers since I don't install the IDE ones for mine as they are notoriously bad. Plus this happened on both the ATA and SATA drives with different cables and different drivers(I...

Shamless bump before I go to bed since this is already 3rd page news

Long story short (sorta), awhile ago my 200gb 7200RPM Hitachi ATA HDD began booting very slowly into Windows. I'm lazy and procrastinate and didn't notice any other problems so I didn't really try to fix it, I'd just get home, turn on my computer, have a snack or something, come back, and it...

bump. . . I'm lost here people! Maybe my 9600Xt is going?