Recent content by willndowed

I've seldom had problems with new hard drives, but I have had problems every time I've tried to do an install on a used hard drive without formatting it.

10-4 on the all-in-one. I've heard predictions on WUSB, but haven't seen anything on the market, but I have used HP's all-in-ones that do a decent job across a wireless network. They can be a pain in the butt to set up, but the work pretty well. I have a Brother all in one, that's USB and...

New HD?

You might also try making sure the HD is wiped. I've ran into weird problems of locked files on the HD and windows deciding that it didn't like playing when I tried reinstalling windows.

I just got that monitor, and I love it. I haven't done a lot of gaming on it because I'm waiting on a few more parts to come in (CPU, MB, case... just minor stuff). I have run through UT2004 and Warcraft a bit, and it looks great. 1680*1050 is an odd resolution, but the games play pretty well on...

The Asus P5W DH MoBo has a Silicon Image hardware RAID chip that makes the RAID pretty simple. no drivers, no software... just plug the drives into the SI SATA II ports.

Don't let anyone here talk you out of the Monarch deal. What you get... an up to date BIOS, a burn in test, and a lot better chance of no DOA parts... is worth the extra $45. (Monarch still has better deals than Tiger Direct, Newegg, or Zipzoomfly on a lot of their parts) The big part of...