OT'ish - For the Vista Haters
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:07:04 +0100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3AHzffoN2c
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The End ...
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Reinstalling XP on laptop
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:36:28 +0100
Chaps,
My 5 yr old Acer Travelmate is poorly and is getting some new ram and a
new hard disk. It came with XP Pro preinstalled and has the COA stuck
to the bottom. I can't remember if I had (and i certainly can't find) a
reinstall CD, so wondering how best to reinstall.
There is I think a recovery partit ...
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Does this sound OK?
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:41:03 +0100
Right, I removed the full height bracket from the LP 9800gt I have and
installed it in my system temporarily, I am waiting for a 2x molex to 6pin
adapter in the post so I did not expect the card to work without 6pin power
but I just wanted to see what would happen ie would it beep or something
like I have had ...
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Thinking about fitting SSD in a HTPC
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:59:09 +0100
I see the price of the Crucial 64GB M225 SSD drive has gone up recently,
when the price comes down again thinking about putting one of these into my
HTPC as main system drive with the 1TB 7200rpm SATA as storage drive.
I think (correct if wrong) that you can mount those SSD drive into a floppy
drive bay, I wo ...
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Bit missing from Sparkle 9800GT box
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:30:23 +0100
Recieved my Sparkle 9800GT Low Profile card today from Microdirect
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/41473/Sparkle-GF-9800-GT-512MB-GDDR3-PCI-E-DVI--HDTV
It clearly states that a low profile bracket is included yet there
wasn't one in my box, tried to phone customer services to sort this out
but they ...
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Making PC Quiet
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:30:42 +0100
Hi all
My pc makesa right old racket and I'm thinking I can get it sorted with:
A new power supply
CPU Fan
Tower Case Fan
Has anyone any experience of what's the best bits to get please as I am on a
small budget. My pc is and old AMD Athlon 2600 with 1?gig RAM and 250gig HD
so I don't want to go crazy.
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Obsolete parts...
Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:49:17 -0700 (PDT)
Evening All,
Im in the middle of a clear out and have found a load of obsolete
parts that I dont need, but someone may have a use for. If you want
them then cover the postage and Ill send them to you, otherwise Ill
take them down the tip.
Socket 7 (Pentium) Motherboard, Award Bios (1995), 3xPCI Slots, 4X ISA
s ...
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Just pre-ordered a printer
Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:26:00 +0100
This new Samsung ML 1910
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Ml-1910-Printer-Screen-Technology/dp/B002OSAYIY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=officeproduct&qid=1254676830&sr=8-1
Reckons the supplied toner lasts 700 sheets, which should last me years as I
bought a ream of 500 sheets of paper about 9 years ago and I still have
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Retro printer...
Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:03:07 +0100
I have just found an old IBM 4072 printer in the attic. It looks to be about
15- 20 years old. I plugged it in and switched it on and all the lights lit
up, however I could not get any responses from any button presses. Is it
worth anything or is it broken and should I chuck it out?
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HTPC - opinions
Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:50:50 -0700 (PDT)
Apologies if dupe, just lost net connection whilst posting...
I'm planning on replacing my living room multimedia setup (xbox
running XBMC) with a more powerful box running XBMC and/or Boxee -
either under Windows, Linux or Hackintosh OS X.
I've currently got a d945gclf2d-based Intel dual core Atom board
runn ...
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