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I've been using Office 2003 for a good chunk of the evening. Word is word. No big change. The only thing I really noticed was the "reading" layout which puts two pages side-by-side. Word uses 35 MB when I've got a single document open, which is not appreciated on my school-owned laptop that...

I seem to remember that Sun split their office suite into the paid version called Star Office, and an open source one called Open Office. I've used Open Office and am generally happy with it, but have never used Star Office. Through my school I can get Star Office for free....just wondering if...

Does the foreign disk, even though it is a dynamic disk, still maintain a FAT table somewhere obvious that the new OS (Win2k or greater) will recognize?

no spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID 5 in any of my systems ever. So it looks like I'm safe. But how will the new OS find the partition table?

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed here or some other place, but my searches come up empty. Anyway, I'm wondering what hoops I have to jump through to read data off of a HD that's been converted to a dynamic disk if I decide to install it in a new computer. Since the FAT table is...

I installed my wife's video card, and hooked up the new HD and Windows sat at the splash screen. I haven't had time to do anything else with the machine, so I don't really know what the deal is. Hopefully it's just Windows freaking out over the hardware changes. A new Windows install never...

threw in my wife's video card, and Windows started up and asked to be reactivated. So it looks like Windows is back to its nagging self, so it must be a bad video card. RMA request placed.

so after gutting the turkey that my father in law got us (wifey and me), I decided to give things one more shot. No IDE stuff hooked up. Started it up, screen stayed black. Rebooted a few times, and finally got a BIOS screen that was garbled. Later tonight I'll try my wife's card, and...

good to know. My wife has offered her computer. So I think later tonight I'll put her graphics card in my computer and pray that it works.

So Mark - what do you think about my bad graphics card hypothesis? Any comment you wish to share?

ah. Back on my first PC I built in 1998 or 1999 I distinctly remember using 40 pin cables for the CD-ROM.

anybody know what the warranty length of retail ATi stuff is? My card is 1 year 7 months old.

Oh. I guess I just never got past 1998 when I was working with computers that probably did not support it.

hmm....who says I've ever had HD problems? My complaint has always been that "the screen goes blank." Sure, I've gotten the machine to boot a time or two without any IDE stuff hooked up, but I never ran the machine for much more than enough to get past the log on. commnets? Am I just...

I start up the computer from a dead stop, and during the Windows splash screen one of the monitors flickers, then they both go blank.

great, and now this AM my system is not booting even without ANY IDE devices plugged in. I reset the motherboard and it seems back to "normal." I boot into Windows with no IDE, and during the splash screen the machine reboots. Next time it gets into Windows, but after I log on the screen...

I've tried so many cable settings by now.... I've been hesitant to use cable select as I'm not sure my motherboard (Tyan Tiger MP) or other drives supports it. I thought it would be wise to only hook up the questionable HDs and work from there.

I simply did a drag and drop to get the stuff over onto the new HD. Nothing fancy. Then I formatted the old HD, creating a 10 GB partition for an OS and the rest I used to store setup files, as this HD is going into my parents new computer.

no, I don't have any old PC here to test with. Though I did just order a new chip/mobo/ram for both my parents and wife. Perhaps when I build their PCs I'll see about my data drive. It sure would be nice to have that data, but I guess I can re-download my Lectures Online and MP3s. The...

oh, and I'm hesitant to approach my wife about letting me mess with her PC. I'm fine killing my own drives, but I would feel horrible if I did anything to hers.

yeah, to disable the drive easily I would unplug the molex while leaving the data cable in ..... are you sure that can hurt drives? I've done that for a while and never had a problem (that I know of).

no, my swap files are on my "OS" and "Data" drive, both are SCSI and both are working perfectly. It's just this damn IDE crap.

posted in wrong forum...posted in correct forum. Feel free to delete.

So I got a WD 1200JB for $90 through an Office Max special. Transfered the stuff from my old 800JB onto it, then removed the 800JB (for later inclusion into a new PC I'm building) and put the 1200JB in it's place in my case. That's when the problems start. The machine won't boot. Windows will...

So I got a WD 1200JB for $90 through an Office Max special. Transfered the stuff from my old 800JB onto it, then removed the 800JB (for later inclusion into a new PC I'm building) and put the 1200JB in it's place in my case. That's when the problems start. The machine won't boot. Windows...

I'll be getting a copy of Office 2003 from my school next week - I'll let ya'all know what I think.

Hey all - so my parents IT support staff (me) has about given up on supporting their old P2-266 machine. I'm building them a new machine for Christmas, and I'm trying to decide between a motherboard with onboard video vs. not. Here's the specs (feel free to comment): Without onboard video...

man will I be happy when I can run Linux on both my monitors. I still feel the need to use some Windows programs, but that's what my two laptops are for.

anybody know of a Linux distro that can easily be configured to run dual monitors off an ATi Radeon 8500? I hate editing X config files.

Thanks for the head up. I'll give it a shot.

that's what I do in life Well, I don't want anybody to easily analyze my CV (it's NOT a resume - for one, it's 6 pages long) and I sure don't want them manipulating or collecting my CV. I didn't submit it to Monster.com, I gave it to a pseudo-advisor for her information and to pass on to any...

Yeah, if you know of where I can get more details, that would be great. Thanks!

I needed to get my CV out to a prof for distribution to other people, but didn't really want to email the Word document for fear that it might get altered inadvertantly. Open Office's PDF creator feature came in very handy. I just scanned the document for formatting oddities (there were a few...

Funny you mention that, being from KC and all. Lemme explain. The first time I went to a Wall Mart was while visiting my hick relatives in Moberly MO. I saw the people in WM and figured that was just Moberly. Then last year a Wal Mart opened up in my home town, a posh little suburban hang...

I'm assuming the system will of course use a SB Live Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro.

you guys want me to put together an article about making bionic server women?

oops, wrong thread.

remind me again why they went with such a powerful CPU....would not a P2-400 been sufficient?

Funny you mention that. The written portion was officially described as "like getting your penis caught in a zipper."

I live in Minneapolis now, FYI. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to histo I go. Wish me luck on my midterm! Hopefully I won't have to unleash my "girls."

Good point.

hmmm...perhaps my bionic woman....er, computer, should use a Gigabyte 7k400Pro2. Hmm....

I'm the only "little man" for her, I'll have you know! (and by little I mean 5'6.5" in height)

I am not in fact building an android, nor am I building a wife for my computer.

feel free to disregard everything I've said tonight. I'm in the process of cramming for my histology midterm, and I am clearly not thinking straight. Unfortunately, my exam is Saturday morning (!) and thus you may have to put up with my lack of coherency for the next 32 hours or so. Allow me...

Hmm...if people have reservations about MSI boards, and Mark is using a Gigabyte 7n400 Pro II, maybe I should consider that..... The wife I'm building for my wife looks remarkably similar (2500 Barton, Crucial RAM, Radion 9600, WD Caviar Special Ed.)....maybe I should also look into an Antec...

got my wife's HD in the mail today. I ordered it from Hypermicro on Sunday night and it was here on Wednesday (but nobody was home so it was actually received today). We shipped UPS ground, and got free shipping. I'm very impressed with Hypermicro. WD2000JB $179 shipped.

the 9600 is also the cheapest decent video card my local place sells: http://www.tranmicro.com/video.htm

here's the thread where Fushigi was mentioning that I could get better than 8500 performance for $55 or so http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2768&highlight=adcadet

a while back when I asked for recommendations people suggested the 9600.