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    Very Low Powered Computer with Sata

    Yes I'm willing to spend up to $300 looking at lower power than an atom and be left on 24-7 for ever. I went from an Athlon 3500 to a Atom and my power usage and power bill went down. Now id like to go to a lower powered system. I would like a ARM based board but cant seem to find any...
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    Very Low Powered Computer with Sata

    I'm looking for some sort of low powered computer than can run linux. The system Needs to: - have low power draw. -I want at least 1 sata port, for a laptop drive. Although im considering using a large CF card or SD card. -or if no sata USB and SD card support. I was looking at the...
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    ADSL drop-outs when i turn a computer on

    ASDL drop out problem I have an open networks 624 ADSL router; I have turned off DHCP each pc has a static IP address. I have 2 pc both are identical same mother board and network adaptor. Both are using the wired network at the moment. The problem is every time I turn on one of the...
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    noob question help launching ping wsh / vbs

    For work I need to test network connections. To do this I usally launch 8 or more pings @ 1400 bits. Or ping ?l 1400 ?t, sometimes ?f I can get VBS scripts to lunch multiply pings. Fine by using Dim oShell Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WSCript.shell") oShell.run "cmd /k ping...
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    Graphics glitch problems WTF ? ?

    System Athlon 3500+ 2GB DDR400 ASUS A8N SLI PSU andtech 550 true power 2 x 200 GB Seagate sata 1 x 320 GB Seagate sata2 1 x asus dvd burner 1 x LG cd burner Gigabyte 7900 PCI-e GT 256mb no 100% of the model atm ? I have a 7900GT. When playing Games like Quake 3 I get no problems...
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    Linux Help Boot Problem

    The other day I turned on a friend laptop It has Dual boot linux. Ubuntu and win xp Who ever set up the boot menu also put access to the recovery partion on it I accidentally booted to the recovery partition now the laptop wont boot It comes up with the following error loading grub...
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    Microsoft Excel help

    I need help using Excel. I want to make a drop box that in puts data onto a spread sheet. I have done this before but I cant remember how I did it can anyone help?
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    Counterstirke help !!!!

    Me and my friends LAN every now and then. We mainly play CS source. So I have setup a CS source dedicated server. The only problem I have now. The main place we LAN has no internet. We have been running steam in offline mode. This has worked well for quiet some time. Most of use...
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    Win xp file sharing HELP!!!

    Where is it messed up? windows 2000 u could browse and share on a network and type: Admin, Guest anyother user then the password it pretty much let you use your box a FTP box. with out setting up 4 zillion user accounts eg huge lans you would type \\computer\share then a...
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    This use to work fine HELP !!!

    Simple file sharing is off this is the error i get http://users.on.net/~syborfical/error.jpg I dont want that i want a nice little user name: password window: how do i do it?
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    Win xp file sharing HELP!!!

    all computers have simple file sharing disabled. here is the error i get. http://users.on.net/~syborfical/error.jpg Its pretty simple what i want. But no one can tell me how to do it I know ti works in windows 2k but for some reason its seems M$ have f**ked up xp premmissions. I...
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    This use to work fine HELP !!!

    I use to have a win2k box. When I went to any share a little pop up window would come up and ask me who id like to logon as. I could go to any computer on my network and logon to the 2k box using any of its local uses. This was great as my 2k box was used for a file server. I have recently...
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    Win xp file sharing HELP!!!

    I want them to get a Box, so they can put a user name and password in. So I don?t have to create about 40 zillion users accounts on the local machine. I don?t want the default GAY windows permissions and crap I have 4 users Admin ? normal administrator Leech ? can read dirs ( game...
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    Win xp file sharing HELP!!!

    Recently I replaced my file box My old file box had windows 2000 on it. When ever you went to a share Eg \\pc\share It would come up with a box saying: User name: Password: This was great as the file box. This pc has stuff shared with a few of my house mates and I don?t want...
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    Making a heat pipe

    Dose anyone know how to make a heat pipe that is non gravity fed?
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    Help !!! Game problems

    Help me please ! My hardware: Mobo: Asus A8N-sli Ram: 512 x 4 Geil DDR 400 2.5-6-3-3 Video Card: Leadtek PX6600 128mb (GT6600) PCI-e Hard disks: Seagate Sata 8mb Cache 120GB 160GB 200GB 250 GB SATA2 Optical drives: LG 52x32x52 Poineer 109 Power supply: Antec True...
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    What The Funk, i tihnk my mobo is dying

    I have installed windows XP pro 5 times on 2 different hard disks. These disks both work fine in my other machine its not the windows installed all though im about to do a clean no SP2 install of windows XP Ill have to download prime thats about the only thing i havent done i still...
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    What The Funk, i tihnk my mobo is dying

    I recently bought a new mother board an Asus A8N-SLI. I formated installed everything, and everything seemed to be working fine. On the weekend i went to a LAN. Battle Feild 2 kept crashing. C & C Genrals kept Crashing. Also C & C Genrals kept Crashing on skirmish plays for a minute...
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    DDR RAM

    I have 2 pc's that use Dual channle. I have two sets of 512mb DDR 400. what do the timmings mean; 2.5-8-4-4 ? 2.5-6-3-3 ? Which timmings are faster? do the equate to like 420 mhz or something like that?
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    DEAD MOBO

    I bought another A8N-sli put my system back together and every thing works fine. So its not the video card or PSU i have Antec True power 550 PSU and have never had power issues. I'm pretty sure on of the capaitors died on the board because it makes a nice hi pitch noise when its...
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    Unique SATA issue - no show on boot, but shows on reset

    I had a similar problem but it was on on SATA 1 drive it turned out i have a faulty mother board.
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    OS X and file sharing

    I have OS X installed. On my other PC It works pretty well. I have 2 Hdd's in my machine and want to share out the other disk out how do i do it?
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    DEAD MOBO

    Today i put some case fans in my case. I took everything out. and installed them fine. I put my system back togther powered everything up. It posted i saw a bios screen. THen i lost video. So i pulled the plug. Unplugged everything other than CPU, 1 stick of ram and video card. Then...
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    QuakeC Help!!!!!!

    YAY !!!!!! it works. Most of the compilers I tired work fine. Back in the days.. Around 1998 when I was last programming QuakeC I had batch files and was using win98 so my progs.dat would always be in the same dir As the Source. Since I?m now using windows XP it just puts the...
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    what if you have more than 26 drives?

    As far as I know / can remember it only works on NTFS drives (in windows 2000+) -->Click on my computer manage --->Disk management --->Right click change drive letters and path Then you can mount disk?s CD / DVD ?s as folders I played a joke on a mate at a lan party and...
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    To anyone who has OS X x86 installed on there PC

    Yes I have installed OS X 10.2 The machine I tested it on was P4, 2ghz 1GB DDR 400 Intel 865 PE chipset Nvidia Ti4200 It worked sort of. I didn?t try and dual boot but apparently its really ?phun? when you do. I just got a old HDD put the DVD in and installed it. I couldn?t get...
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    QuakeC Help!!!!!!

    It?s been a few years since I have done any Quake programming. I can?t seem to find a copy of the QuakeC and a compiler on the net that works. I have Quakec 1.06 and a few compilers but none of them will compile a progs.dat I have a few older compilers that are for earlier versions of the...
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    GT 6600 antialiasing problem

    I installed the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 6 Rev. 2 and my temps have gone up. I think my card is F**ked. My idle temp is now 56 deg C. Is it possible the North bridge chip set would cause a similar issue? Also being one of those people that if I had a bad experience with one brand ill...
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    GT 6600 antialiasing problem

    GT 6600 antialiasing problem I have a Leadtek GT6600 video card. Every time I run certain direct x 9 games I get Green sometimes pink triangles antialiasing on some objects. If I run Earth 2160 with antialiasing I get lots of these triangles randomly going across the screen. As soon as...