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I had exactly that same thought myself, Fushigi. Anyway, I'll have a good look at the Epox over the next few days and report back. Getting shot of that poxy BIOS alone should make it worth the switch. Shuttle: no good supplier at present, Blake. BTW, maybe it's USB 2.0 all the way - I didn't...

But I've been buying the things because we didnt have anything else available in that arket segment. I've been ringing around trying to find something that Kristi and I like to work with but didn't find anything until today, when we got hold of an Epox KM-400 product at about the same price...

Well, it turns out that those no-name KM-400s I mentioned are in fact ASRock boards. Here is a mini-review. Price: Good. As cheap, more-or-less, as anything else on the market. 8/10. Availability: Good. The key is to have a product that is available reliably, not here today and gone tommorow...

And who is going to buy this crap? Independant PC industry people are, on the whole, fairly smart - it's a tough industry and you don't survive by buying over-priced, unreliable and under-performing junk. HP are dreaming. What a joke.

Still using 98 in the face of the expense, complexity and bloat of XP is a cost-effective, practical way to operate a computer. Still using IE in the face of the clear-cut and decisive superiority of other browsers is a confession of technical incompetence.

But it might not take 1GB sticks .... 512MB ones should be OK, but 1GB sticks were a long way away when the board was designed. Suck it and see. (Make sure you have a return policy agreed with your retailer before you buy, in case they don't work.)

For some reason or other, I find myself completely unable to remember the question. :oops:

Hmmm .... Probably a good thing, though I haven't tried it out in real life yet. I suspect that it will have difficulty with correct spelling (as opposed to that heretical American stuff), and that that problem will make it something suitable only for occassional use unless you are from the USA...

So, the question is, how do you turn off autoplay without turning off auto insert notification?

I suspect that this might be the same thing that I have. My Windows 2000 install (and, now that I come to think of it, my old install as well) completely refuses to recognise that I've changed a CD in the drive. This applies no matter what: you can press any button, click any function, refresh...

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OK. Looking good! Fool and Time, I am in fact an abberant Victorian. Put it down to my 100% Tasmanian blood or my formative years spent in the Territory. (Two years in the Territory should be enough to warp anyone.) I love Rugby Union! I took every possible opportunity to catch World Cup games...

Not exactly, Mickey. Queenslnd did have some problems a little like that in the bad old days (which perhaps Time will be kind enough to remind us of) when Joh was premier. Joh (and various of his friends and enemies) divided the state up into electorates based not on the population in each but...

They did it! They did it! Whoopee! Nero Express 6 now has a tick box in that horrendously stupid, pox-ridden "do you want to save project?" dialogue box labelled "Never ask this question again". On the whole, I'd prefer something more like "Never, ever, ever even think about asking this...

Cool! That's .. er .... $3000 from me $1000 of Tea's US$420 from Dave, which is ... er ... about AU$600 (the exchange rate is not helping us here) Grand total = $4600 Still required: $12,425.80 Come on guys, we can do this! (I'll figure out how to deal with the transport issues later.)...

He turned around. My jaw dropped. "Tea!" "Who did you expect? Quasimodo?" "What the f*ck are you doing here?" "Waiting for you to pay the man so we can go home, what does it look like?" I couldn't get over how fat she was. I mean, not just tubby, I'm talking seriously fat. The long and...

Two hours later there was a knock on the door. "Anthony Wilson Tannin?" "Yes." "We understand that you are the owner of a wild ape." "Well, not exactly. You see ... " "Look, son, it's like this. Either you nip down to Franskston and have a chat with Sgt Kennedy, possibly making a...

Damnit, Flagreen, you are the smartest guy I know. How the hell did you guess that? I got a call late last night from Senior Sgt Kennedy of the Frankston police. Was I the owner of a very fat orange-coloured orangutan? "Fat? How fat?", I asked. "Enormous", he said, "the biggest ape I've ever...

Not 100% for sure, but I can't imagine what could be differrent. Suck it and see, I suppose.

17 minutes! That is simply appalling. PS: I'm sort of toying with the idea of getting one of the new Toshiba laptops with the 17 inch screen. Nice!

I've played with a few different ones, Will, and I can't see any difference in write seeds. What it comes down to is that, at least with my cameras (Nikon CP4500s) the write speed of the camera itself is the problem. YMMV of course. Good luck!

Speaking of absences, Sol is back! Sol was last seen disappearing off into the backblocks of South Australia, clutching an offer of employment in one hand an a credt card in the other. He appeared here in Ballarat today, and was last seen leaving my shop clutching a 160GB Samsung drive in one...

You could always be V8gent again. Under whatever handle, welcome back Tim.

You don't suppose Iif I wrote to them and explained exactly how I feel aboput their exit prompts that they would send me a key to switch them off too, do you? No. I didn't think so. I'm glad they resolved your problem, big F.

Nearly all SB64s I've seen, Merc, were the ISA one, which did indeed have excellent sound but won't plug into this system, of course. I rather suspect that the Oz distribution PCI ones were different. Also there are two different ones which are completely incompatible with each other. One has...

Thankyou all, gentlemen. Knowledge base article, Maxtor download and all duly absorbed. In practice, having already installed the 120 and copied my data to it (again!) I decided it was easier just to leave the 120GB drive in for now. Once it fills up, I can wonder what to do next. At present...

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Ahh, thankyou Lunar Mist. Murphy's Law being what it is, your advice arrived the very minute I finished copying my data over to the new 120GB drive. :( No matter. I'm too lazy to copy it a third time and I can't trust the data already on the 160, so I think I'll just leave it the way it is for...

OK, I swappe dthe drive out for a 120. Swapped the cables too. So far, so good. Does anyone know if there are issues with a >128GB drive and W2K? Oh, and I unplugged the Sound Blaster just for good measure. I daresay that the on-board sound will be near enough for practical purposes, and now...

Not to mention ECC RAM providing better memory bandwidth! Or .... Nope. Too many "or"s to pick out just one or two. I see that Honold is right on the money. Let his reply stand for mine as well. Now for the $64 question. Is this guy for real? Or is he one of Flagreen's aliases stretching...

I was taking advantage of your confusion, Mickey. :cry: It seems to vary a bit, but on average it's half-way between: neither the over-formal "queensLAND" not the over-terse "QUEENSlnd". So your ears didn't deceive you, it's a bit of both. Glad to hear you liked the place, and hurry on...

"Band" already has a short "a". :wink:

The other day I bought a Samsung 160GB 8MB cache drive to replace my 80GB data drive with. Seeing as >128GB drives have been around for quite a while now, I didn't expect any issues. Plonked it in, booted W2K SP4 off the X15-36LP same as usual, went to partition it from the Disk Management...

Let us all hope that it was not the Sony drive!

Oh, that simple, elegant CD burning utility I mentioned that ships with Toshiba laptops: it's called Drag 'n Drop CD & DVD. Oh, and before anyone jumps in and says that MS doesn't have any cripples built in expressly to please their bum-chums over at the record companies, I don't believe you...

Yeah. Complete with it trying to buggerise about enforcing DRM and copyrights that it doesn't understand and can't possibly get right. I will never run Windows XP. Nor, indeed, any version of Media Player later than the one that ships with Windows 2000.

Of course, Dave. But it nevertheless takes up a great deal more of my time. With Easy CD Cremator on the 8 speed, I say "burn" and walk away, do any of the 101 other jobs competing for my attention, come back, grab the burnt CD, shut down Cremator, and use the CD to do whatever it was I wanted...

It ain't prejudice, Buck: it's a hard-earned and honest dislike of German engineering, with many small causes and two main causes: 1: Once having owned a German car: superb engineering, appalling ergonomics. No way I'd buy another one like that. 2: Nero. No further explanaton necessary! I...

Nero, Nero. The user interface so bad I had to post it twice. Or something ....

Grrrrrr...... This sort of stuff makes my blood boil. Besides, after all these years of trying, you'd think the morons at Ahead would have been able to figure out a decent interface for Nero by now. Not even close! The click, wait, click again, wait again, click, swear and wait a bit longer...

Grrrrrr...... This sort of stuff makes my blood boil. Besides, after all these years of trying, you'd think the morons at Ahead would have been able to figure out a decent interface for Nero by now. Not even close! The click, wait, click again, wait again, click, swear and wait a bit longer...

Some things never change, and one of them is the ridiculous pronouncements of PR departments which don't have anything new or valuable to offer the world, and are reduced to touting magic software. It is always going to make a massive difference to your performance, and the claimed improvement...

Thanks Doug. It sped right up again shortly after I posted that and has been zipping along beautifully since then. The site remained usable even at the worst, just tediously slow. I wasn't worried about it but I thought, well, if by any chance it becomes a habit, it's good to document this...

BTW, I do happen to know for certain that the TEAC and the Pioneer are the same drive, if that meand anything. I can probably only get the Pioneer out of them though, and I have a prejudice against Pioneers. Anything else aside, they don't come from the wholesalers we trust the most.

Are you saying to pick something from the second of the four lists?

Jack who? And make that an ex- purveyor of fine software. They stopped selling Windows 2000 some time ago. :wink: The way I see it, the general rule is that every third MS OS is a goodie. Consider the sequence: MS-DOS 3.0 MS-DOS 3.1 MS-DOS 3.3 MS-DOS 4.0 MS-DOS 4.1 MS-DOS 5.0 MS-DOS 6.0...

Craig and Steve. Fair enough, but who is Craig? Now if you's said Hector I'd have known who you meant. But for public consumption purposes, it will have to remain Andy and Bill, I'm afraid. Indeed, it was you I was discussing it with, e_dawg! You and ... er ... Maybe it was Skallas or...

Been very slothful for the last half-hour or so. Seems to be functioning more-or-less normally again now - well, almost, still a bit slow, but it was extra slow for quite a while there.

Hmmmm ... A good question, Fushigi. If I had one in stock, I'd try it out, but I don't. In fact, we have hardly sold any DVD burners at all, and I remain reluctant to start pushing them for one overwhelming reason: warranty. Take any quality brand of optical drive: Mitsubishi, Lite-On...