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So for you, SuSE is a dick and AttachMate is DeepThroat?

He asked for a 5.25" one. The one you linked is 3.5". The few 5.25" multi card readers I've used were all crap. I've given up on those. Sorry.

So...All this to play Invaders?

It is worth at least 300$. You could put it on sale on Craiglist or eBay or place an ad in the local newspaper.

I have the same graphic card David has (Power Color pasive 5750). It's been in my main computersince late February and so far, I've had no problem with it at all. It sits on a GigaByte P55-UD3R motherboard and doesn't touch any other component.

Vista is the OS that would make you vomit. Windows 7, while not perfect, fits in the "acceptable" category. What are the parts BTW? Would the system be relatively quiet? Is the case small? Of course, I don't want to violate your privacy by asking you to show us your parts ;-)

Another idea would be to sandblast the case instead of hosing it. At least it's dry.

At first, I thought I would wish you to go blind just not to agree with Stereodude, but since he was only following Mercutio's lead, then I guess I can wish you the best of luck too. Next thing to fix will be your vanishing memory.

The three times I visited Canada were in Summer, so I don't know about the Holiday season. Here in Québec, the bussiest shopping day varies from year to year. I think it's normally around December 13th, but last year, it was December 23rd.

Hmmm, when I change the access mode to the SATA drive (IDE/compatible to AHCI), I have to do a lot more than just install the AHCI driver on the OS for it to work. I guess that it's different for a RAID controller.

Sometimes, you should film what you do with computers and post it on Youtube. Kind of a Jackass for nerds.

What I mean is that it would be simpler to reinstall on the mirror than trying to modify the original installation to make it work.

It's difficult since you change the way the drive is accessed. It won't boot for sure unless you modify it prior to moving the installation from the single drive to the mirror. And the mod is quite heavy.

No problem, you would have had a tough time fitting it in a PCI slot anyway ; it's PCI-E.

Because I read this thread this morning, I decided to improvise a "Black Friday Sale" at my shop. For the entire eleven hours and a half we were opened, we had four customers. It really wasn't worth the trouble.

There are many used Quadro NVS285 out there with a two-DVI adapter cable. I know I can get those for less than 10$ locally.

Is it the end of Dan Shearer? If yes, then thanks for the 900K points you gave us.

Anandtech has a review of the 600T if you or anyone else wants more details.

I have this in my price list. Never tried though.

Foam, springs, latex, that's for pussies. Here's a bed for a real man :

The C2Q 8300 is affordable these days and if the motherboard supports it, it's a lot faster than a Pentium 4. Combined with the SSD upgrade, it will give quite a boost to those system for reasonable money. But the LGA775 boards sold back in the P4 era rarely support C2Q.

Same goes for Handruin.

Remove the Windows key. See if the rubber below it is stuck or misplaced. Wash it with alcohol (not Calsberg). If it doesn't work, do what Mooner said.

At 3000$ MSRP, I hope he sings, makes breakfast and tells you the meteo in the morning. My Maytag is ten years old, consumes less energy and survived being treated like a punching bag replacement several times. Nothing could have beaten its value.

Congratulations to Bozo for passing the million points milestone. Your help is precious.

Assemble it, shine it, find a gullible elder and sell it for more than it's worth.

Install IE8 with the standalone update. It will fix whatever issue appeared after WindowsUpdate screwed up. This has been happening for the past few months on Windows XP machines.

With good speakers, onboard audio sounds flat compared to what's going out of a Sound Blaster X-Fi or Auzentech. The difference is clearly audible.

Well, he's not at the shop for sure.

For speed, I would wait for drives using the SandForce2 controller, due out early next year (in two months). If it's just near to be as good as they claim it will be, it will wipe the floor clean on a performance perspective. That, or the OCZ Revo2.

Oh and the Core i5 760 with the GeForce 450GTS is now officially offline for good. I'll have to figure out what's wrong with my Core i7 to crank up my production.

I single Core2 Quad, even crunching 24x7, can't make that much of a difference on your electrical bill. I have three computers of comparable power to yours and I barely notice it. Whatever heat they produce, I save it on electrical heating.

Damn, you guys complicate your lives for dumb people. Once I've tried chkdsk /r and a system restore to a previous check point and it still doesn't boot to let me perform malware scans, I call the customer and I tell him or her that it's time to reinstall. I used to try a Windows repair, but...

Yeah...a 4-pin molex power connector is a bitch to insert on a SATA drive.

Sounds like semi-retirement opening hours. I'd like to receive customers for only these hours, but I'd be out of business soon. My store is opened 56 hours a week and I do almost all of them, plus the after-hours service calls. I've done that for more than a year now, with two weeks vacation...

I don't see that happening any time soon. And when it'll happen, it will be because mecanical hard drives' cost will increase. We're at 32nm process and the biggest drives are only 256GB. And if you think about it, it takes much more space to create a byte with ROM cells than to create one on...

Well, I'm here too but I see nothing. It might have been there, but it certainly isn't here. At least not now.

This might be related to your problem. Large text is in case you're presbyte too ;)

Paugie, you need to find ways to get out of your intellectual comfort zone. That will force your brain to reajust and push back Alzheimer. Speaking two languages is supposedly good (you have English and your native language). People with an above-average head diameter are also supposed to be...

The top of the hill is normally at 27 and the cliff is at 37.

I wasn't trying to be. I'm genuinely curious to know why pop needs more computer than mom. From what I see in my customer base, both sex usually become quite basic regarding computer tasks past a certain age. An age Doug's parent have certainly passed.

It's not really the computers that are the problem, it's their owners. Dealing with the dealines and customers constantly asking for the status of their repairs before the moment I told them it would be ready that's really working me. If only it was rewarding on the money side, but it isn't...

Even your planned dad's system won't need more than 150W during load. Since power supplies are at their best at 50% of their maximum rating, I suggest you look for a 300-350W power supply. If you can get an Enermax Pro82+ 385W, it is both efficient and silent. The Antec EarthWatt Green 380W...

Well, some call it a year, I call it a day... I'm having problems with my latest system. The i950 reboots by itself. I think it's related to the temperature of the PLL (the CPU runs cool, even when running the FAH client). Last time it rebooted, I went to the BIOS to check the temperatures...

I worked 15 hours yesterday, slept 5 hours and I'm going back to work for at least another 12 hours. I'll work at least 12 hours Friday too and supposedly only 7 Saturday, but I already have a complicated service call planned after work and I'll probably watch football Sunday reinstalling an OS...

That was a big unit (those you can only receive if you've configured your client with the -bigadv flag AND if you have an 8-core CPU). I do one of those twice every three or four days. My personal best day was 152490 points, on November 7th of this year. I plan to beat it before the end of...

Toshiba still makes notebook hard drives. And they make SSD controllers has well.

If it's an AM2 socket, there's little reason not to add another 1GB of RAM since it's quite cheap right now. If it's an older s939, then that gigabyte of RAM will cost you twice as much. Windows 7 runs ok with 1GB, but better with two. Above that, it won't make a big difference for...

And you believe her? IMO, what must have caused it is not the delay between the breaking pads and the wheels, it's the delay between the brain and the pedal. Like it almost always is. I changed my front brake pads after 123000Km on my current car (I still haven't changed my rear pads and I'm...

It is the camera software that's causing the problem. The driver and software is provided by Dell. What can I do when the problem is caused by the manufacturer? I have another Gateway tower with a similar problem (except that it is the TV tuner that's causing a shutdown problem). I cannot...