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    Laptop HDD to Desktop

    Sorry, I fixed the link. It was to a 2.5inch HDD enclosure to connect to a desktop USB. I'm hoping the Fujitsu will connect into it, and through the usb without trouble. Do you or anyone else have any experience with an adapter like this?, would it be suitable for me? Thanks again for the...
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    Laptop HDD to Desktop

    Hi there, I've dismantled my busted laptop and removed a FUJITSU MHN2200AT HDD, I googled it and found this link: http://www.baber.com/drives/internal_ha...es/laptops/fujitsu_mhn2200at_specs.htm However, I count 47 pins on it and I thought laptop HDDs had 44 pins which makes me wonder if...
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    Leadtek A6600GT Problems

    ok guys. What is going on. Upon rebooting DOS was kinda messed up, so I thought has to be the card, and it started locking on the post again. Removed the card and put the FX5200 back in, the pixel corruption was still there !?! Please someone tell me how this pixel corruption has...
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    Leadtek A6600GT Problems

    Hi, I posted a motherboard problem relating to this card here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...?catid=29&threadid=1834544&STARTPAGE=1 But as I'm now conerned it's a graphics card problem I thought I'd drop a post here to describe it. All the previous problems are described...
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    New 6600GT in older motherboard

    I cleared the CMOS and it booted, and was playing PoP:Warriors within fine. Tryin' to optimise I went into the BIOS and noticed clearin' the CMOS set AGP to x4. I set it to x8 and rebooted, turn on ok, then reset. After resetting it went into the same behaviour as before, locking on post...
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    New 6600GT in older motherboard

    Hi, The card has a direct line from the PSU. And the PSU is a QTec 550W Rails are 3.3v - 30A 5v - 40A 12v - 20A Still same issue, won't get past the initial motherboard post screen. Displays the info then locks before can even get into BIOS.
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    New 6600GT in older motherboard

    Thanks, good idea. I was going to take out my Tagan PSU and try it, but such a pain in the butt to get it out along with its millions of cables.
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    New 6600GT in older motherboard

    Hi, My friend has a MSI 746F Ultra with AMD XP 2000+, 512 RAM. Was running an nVidia 5200 graphcs card, but bought a Leadtek A6600GT. However, upon installing, the WinFast BIOS screen comes up from the graphics card, which checks its onboard ram, then the normal boot screen appears...
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Also, does anyone know if all the 9150 range have AGP or PCIe ? Or would the cheaper 9150's have standard PCI slots with no AGP ? I'm just thinking another option is to get a cheap one (general spec would be P4 3Ghz, 1gig RAM, 160GB HDD, Radeon X300) and stick a big card in it.
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Ah ok, gotcha. It's for a friend though, so if you think it's similar performance to my sig rig that'd be great cause it can run nearly everything at 1280x1024, drop it alittle for the filtering, but generally I'm v.happy with it.
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Sorry I'm not sure what you are referring to, a sidewards move from what? I don't want the support, but I would do it if I could build a better one for the same price. I just don't think it's feasible to get a better machine with a more desirable 7 series nVidia under ~£550 I would be...
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Doesn't mention the PSU, but it is Dell making it and sticking a 6800 in it, so if the PSU wasn't up to stratch then they'd have a lot of returns and therefore putting that PSU in it in the first place wouldn't be very smart. So I'm assuming the PSU will cope. On the prices thing, this is...
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Thanks, I 'costed' (grammer ?) building a rig Athlon 3200+ Antec PSU GF 6600GT etc Including OS etc came to £550, which is the same as this. But if something goes wrong with this I'll fire it back as opposed to weeding out dodgy components. I understand the upgradability thing, but as...
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    Opinions on this Dell spec pls

    Hi there, I know alot of people want a good gaming system that is as good as possible for the money. However I maxed at £550 without requiring a monitor. There are some Dell's going around this price for this spec SYSTEM SPECIFICATION Dimension 9150 P4 630 3.0GHz, 800FSB...
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    Could someone explain the AMD Rating System...

    Acer http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/pr...store&product_id=10284311&pid=45&tid=2 Dell Inspiron 1300 http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/produ...x/inspn_1300?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs (Middle One) At a guess I'd say the Acer is a decent bit better, cause to upgrade the Dell from a...
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    Could someone explain the AMD Rating System...

    Hi, I was always under the impression that AMD called their chips XP + etc, because they wanted to advertise to general joe public that although their CPUs ran at a lower frequency that the longer clock cycles meant that they ran at an equivalent speed to their selling name. Hence an...
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    Graphic Card Choice

    Hi, I have to build a cheap rig for a friend and the 3 cards in price range are GF 6600 ATI X700 ATI 9800 Pro The 6600 and X700 are the base models, no GT no XT etc and I seem to be having difficulty finding any real benchmark/comparision info on them. Anyone have any advice on...
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    Recommend a PSU, Antec or Enermax

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me alittle guideance. I have a choice of buying either a Antec or Enermax PSU. But I can get the Antec quickly, or a possible ~6week wait if I want the Enermax (so is the Enermax worth no computer for 6 weeks). Here are the choices : (Specifications...
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    Tagan any good for PSUs

    Thanks, I noticed the Enermax has only 18A on the +12V rail ? How come they are so reliable to such clean power since this is so low ? Or is that 18A across 2 +12V rails, 18A on each ?
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    Tagan any good for PSUs

    Thanks, I am quite tempted by the Tagan. Though I can get the top OCZ here : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/OCZ.html A OCZ PowerStream 420W. Would this be a Fortron ? I presume its the same as this one : http://www.ocztechnology.com/p...werstream_power_supply with specs of +3.3V...
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    Tagan any good for PSUs

    Thanks for the info, but if I'm gonna spend around £55 ($110) I want very good, not just better than what I have. biostud : Do you have a link?, I searched on Toms site and couldn't find much with Tagan in it. Through google I did find this though ...
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    Tagan any good for PSUs

    Hi, I'm in the UK and lookin for very reliable PSUs, my system is : Windows XP Home SP2 Athlon 2800+ running as 3200+ [ FSB 200 ] 1024 Gig Geil DDR400 running at 400 [2x256 + 1x512] in Dual Channel Mode Abit NF7 Galaxy GeForce 6800 GT Maxtor 80Gig Hard Drive Internal Teac CDRW Freecom...
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    Will this work

    You mean XP sorts out virtual IRQs so there is minimal sharing, no matter what the mobo does ? 98SE was workin' ok when I left it (is I hope), so I'm leaving as is so I can try and enjoy my own Christmas alittle without having to think about it. Just hope he plays away and everything stays...
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    Will this work

    ok, by disabling the Radeon "Secondary Display Adapter" in DeviceManager I've got Shogun Total War working, so movin' on step by step. I'll leave the soundcard and radeon to share an IRQ for the minute (hope it doesn't crash it), I can live with some slowdown for now as long as it runs.
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    Will this work

    Do I have to move the soundcard from PCI Slot 4 to get it off of the IRQ of the Graphics Card though ? I presume I'll have to do this for WinXP as well?
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    Will this work

    Hi, the vid card shows up fine in the DeviceManager, it was the sound card that wasn't. I got a lend of a XWave-7000 PCI soundcard (ironically by CMedia, same as the integrated AC97) and it installed, and I got sound. But I keep getting new problems. Firstly, this machine needs to run...
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    Will this work

    ok, a step closer, haven't installed XP. I used the latest Omega Drivers and the Radeon seems to have installed. I think everything is running except USB2.0 (cause I haven't put on the 98 drivers yet) and the AC97 audio. I installed the drivers for the CMedia sound, and everything looks...
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    Will this work

    I'm gonna format it and install WinXP, too late in the day to try and fix these kinda problems. My worry in this mobo won't work with this card, I've heard that getting an ASUS/ASRock+VIA+ATI to work can be a real pain in the butt.
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    Will this work

    ok, I'm kinda worried now. It booted straight away, and took ages installing stuff loads of PCI to Host Controller etc etc. I then loaded on the VIA 4in1 driver from the motherboard disk. BIG PROBLEM. The display adapter keeps showing up "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter" and "Standard PCI...
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    Will this work

    Thanks, off to try that this second. I hope a)There is no 'boot detection' of the BIOS b)The HD ain't too old for the mobo c)That this works :D I'll let you know by either a drunken reply (worked) or a drunken reply + crying (didn't work). Cheers
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    Will this work

    Thanks loads for that. Really helpful. So your saying delete the entire "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> enum" key. Thats LOADS and LOADS of subkeys being deleted, yea ? As in, it has about 20 children, which have between 1 and ~30 keys, ie:LOADS ? Just making sure incase I grind the system to...
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    Will this work

    Sorry, was being stupid, Do you mean delete the hardware enumerator key for the Primary IDE Controller ? Inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> enum -> MF ->child0000 -> PCI&amp;VEN_8060&amp;DEV<lots more funny charactors> In here there is a key: DeviceDesc : Primary IDE Control (single...
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    Will this work

    Took me a second to understand what ya meant :D I've bought a separate case and Power Supply for it. The only thing I'm harvesting from the PackardBell is the Samsung DVD-Rom, the FloppyDrive and the HardDrive (as well as the monitor, keyboard and mouse). A new hard drive would've made...
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    Will this work

    Thanks for the info guys. By deleting the hardware enumerator in the reg, what will this do exactly, just reset all the hardware drivers that Win98 recognises ? And will this mean I don't have to change the IDE driver too ? And if I just edit the reg, I should turn it off and then fit it...
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    Will this work

    Hey there, I have a Packard Bell Pentium3 800Mhz/Intel 810e Graphics here, and my friend wants an upgrade (very cheap..... extremly in fact). I've bought him a Radeon9600XT,ASRock mobo,512DDR333 and a Sempron2400+. But I need to recycle the old hard drive. Now I really don't want to...
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    Graphics card on a severe budget

    Thanks guys, from every benchmark I've seen the 9600XT beats the 9800SE in every game. The sickener is that the company I'm buying from SAY they will have the 9700Pro possibly in on Friday, otherwise on Monday. Problem is, how often I have heard that, only to ring on Monday to hear another...
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    Graphics card on a severe budget

    A few problems, -I'm from the UK, doubt there are many here from the UK selling a Radeon9700 -The company I'm gettin' it from go by Amtrak, therefore will get it in ~3days. Normal post at Christmas is a disaster (at least over here). -There can be no eating of the budget ;-) Its that...
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    Graphics card on a severe budget

    mariok, yea probably not, the 256MB cards just happen to have more memory. Its just the nVidia FX5500 and the Radeon9550 happen to have more RAM. But from what I know they are slower anyways, just thought I'd check.
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    Graphics card on a severe budget

    Thanks for the info, yea the 9700Pro is a wee beast, used to have one. Problem is I'm buying all the kit from the one company to save on shipping (costly to me) and the 9700Pro has 3-5 days wait from order to dispatch, and this system NEEDS built before Christmas, as its a present. I'll ask...
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    Graphics card on a severe budget

    The system I'm building is on a really small budget, to the extent that this is it thus far : AMD Sempron 2400+ 512 PC2700 RAM ASRock K7VT4A+ As you may notice, its a majorly small budget. Now these are the 4 cards I can get, could anyone recommend which one. To my knowledge the...