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I was talking to LiamC today and he too has dealt with them, and had difficulties. They couldn't manage to part-ship his order for one item, so they did the next best thing and had it arrived damaged. He got satisfaction out of them ..... eventually.

That is bloody fantastic! I'm sure my Legend rep will get a good chuckle out of the story! Have yourself a long, cold one.

You just have to start swapping stuff out, Buck. One bit at a time. Tedious, but it's the only way to sort the hard ones. Start with the RAM. (You already did that.) Next, take a spare hard drive and do a complete clean install of your OS. (Leave your actual drive disconnected till you have...

I should have thought of this before. I'll call Legend tech support on Tuesday. They have always been really good when I've needed them in the past. It's Legend RAM after all, and though I think pouring epoxy over it will void even a Legend lifetime warranty, the tech support guys might be able...

Damn it Tea, can you at least try to get your handle right? Don't know why I trust you at the keyboard at all, really.

Guess they will arrive here before too long then. We are usually a bit behind over here. We only just got the SL=75DRV4. Can't see what that one offers that the DRV2 didn't, except totally useless ATA-133 and a higher price.

On the 333, Sol, it might not be such a good idea in the light of Corvair's remarks: http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=294

Excuse me. 400MB. I don't stand for it. Alas, I'm fast running out of options.

Got an email from Dingo Blue tonight. They are closing up. Sigh. Decent speed as dial-up goes, $25 a month, unlimited hours, massive 1.4GB download limit. The next best deal with anyone decent is Netconnect: $30 a month, 400k download. 400k? I can piss more than 400k in a month. If the cable...

A few other choice details I can add to that tale of woe. Sol didn't mention that CoolPC shipped his original order from Brisbane to Perth, instead of Ballarat. Now "Perth" not only doesn't sound anything like "Ballarat", and certainly doesn't look like it, it's 2000 bloody miles away! They...

Ouch!

Re: Win 98 and 768 Mb RAM Terry, as I understand it (thanks to your explanation), you have to set a minimum cache size as well as a max when you have lots of RAM. I guess it's easy enough to accept this as just another bit of classic Microsoft weirdness, but can anyone explain why it is so...

Essentially, each task runs in its own memory space. If you need it, there is a phenomenal amount of customizaton you can do. Here, for example, is a screenshot of the memory customisation setings notebook for my beloved old spreadsheet of choice, Quattro Pro. Notice that I've given it 128MB of...

In this context, I think we are talking about the effective but abominably named Ecomstation 1.0 which is, more or less, OS/2 5.0. It actually comprises an oddball mix of IBM's OS/2 4.5 code under IBM licence, a couple of service patches to that, a large miscellany of third-party add-ons...

Gary, I think you need a nice, calming cup of ... er ... tea. :)

SL-75ERV? Nope. Is it the KT-333 chipset one?

Since MSCONFIG arrived with Windows 98, this stuff has become way easier. But not everything shows up in it, of course. (Hey, this is Microsoft - what do we expect?) Severe cases we deal with using the following batch file, which lives on all our workshop floppy discs: c: cd\ cd progra~1...

Oh yes, often. Usually on machines that have ICQ, MSM, Bonzo Internet Buddy, Office startup, Office slugfind, three different anti-virus programs (all out of date), Norton Crashguard, scanner drivers, Lexmark printer crap, 17 instances of the scheduler, and a host of other assorted garbage in...

Sorry Will. I really will run them. Soon. Honest!

Makes me realise just how much of the computing world has passed me by. I used to be something of an expert at memory management in DOS days. Now, I know almost nothing. Don't seem to need to know it day to day anymore - which, now that I come to think of it, is evidence that MS have improved...

I bought a three-disc Mandrake 8.1 from everythinglinux.com.au a while back. $10 plus a small amount for postage, fast service. Any time I need something I'll be back to them.

OK, I take your hint. But then half the IBM desktops we see have non-IBM drives, and they did back in the days before the 75GXP when IBM was a byword for quality too. Tells me that IBM PC Co is a seperate business unit and they will buy from WD, Maxtor, Seagate, whoever. But I take it you...

What are the best notebook drives these days? I see so few that I don't have an opinion anymore. Are there brands to avoid? Brands that last better than others? Last time I saw enough notebook drives to matter, it was 1.08 and 2.1GB days. Guy asked me to recommend a drive in the 20 to 40GB class...

Started out late at #30, up to #23 now. Look out Prof, you're the next one to eat my dust!

I only used two Shuttle boards. One was their TX. Best damn TX board I ever used. Only good TX board I ever used, come to think of it. I never did like the TX chipset. The other was an MVP3 board, which was a decent, stable product, not much to distinguish it from a dozen other MVP3s. Nice minor...

Here's the link. http://www.neighborhoodcable.com.au/pages/services/internet.html Anyone tried these guys out? Any comments on their standard of service, pricing, whatever? I'm getting really tired of dial-up.

Sorry Doug! I've been tied up with some rather obsessional attention to my own site this past week or two. I've not disappeared! Just gradually, bit by bit, catching up with the past three years of neglect. Latest re-writes start at www.redhill.net.au/hw-cpu-1.html and fo on for several pages...

You could loose 50 to 100W and still be OK. Celerons are really low power devices. Best thing about Celerons, really: they hardly suck any juice at all by Athlon/P4/Duron standards. And an Enlight 250 will really give you 250W, unlike some of the no-names, that can't put out their rated wattage...

Big fan of the Samsung Spinpoint 5400 RPM drives here. Good seek performance, great price (quite often the cheapest of them all), and superb reliability. These days, the only time I buy anything else is if Samsung are out of stock. (Or if I'm looking for a different type of drive, of course - A...

Seems to me that there is only one part of my system that slows me down. It causes constant frustration. Sure, it's only a few seconds delay, but every time I have to endure those few seconds I curse and swear, and in an average two hour computing session I have to endure them maybe six or eight...

So what crappy hardware do AOL make?

Woops! Sorry for the cross-post.

Coug, you have way too much time on your hands. Get yourself a real job.

Ahh, thanks Coug. I can live with that. We are phasing the T-Birds out soon anyway.

Are you saying that I can only use the Elite's for Durons, CougTek? Or do I misunderstand? Bear in mind that the CPUs we currently carry are: Duron 900 Duron 1200 Thunderbird 1400 Athlon XP 1700 Those we buy in bulk and keep in stock. Anything else is to special order. Which of those above are...

Ahh, but that's exactly the point Buck: maybe it is theoretically possible to upgrade the video on a Pavillion i810, but I was trying to put in what is probably the most all-round compatible 3D card ever made, a Voodoo III PCI, I'm not completely stupid, and I spent ~4 hours on it ... and failed...

I put Nvidia on especially for you, Mercutio. I left AOL out for the same reason I left Microsoft out: they aren't really a hardware manufacturer. (Which also leaves me a nifty follow-up thread for later.) Buck hates Compaq. But he says: "At least HP has the decency to build higher quality...

Neat link Tim.

That was quite the toughest decision I've had to make in a long, long time. I voted for Compaq in the end, but why did I not have the sense to include an "all of the above" option? Iomega, yes. A big-time crappola company. How can I possibly not vote for Iomega's timely demise? But then, how...

OK guys, we all hate Microsoft the most, that goes without saying. But just imagine you wake up tommorow and read a headline in your morning paper: Computer Industry Giant to Close Doors! Dreadful product quality and lack of customer service blamed for dramatic collapse. So, lay it on the...

Just comparing the different ways different BBS packages produce their HTML. Test Test Testicles or something like that

Mercutio has the sense of it, I think. We use Realtek NICs all the time (mostly A-Open branded but they are all much the same). We practically never have problems with them, and there are drivers for absolutely everything. But there are situations where we insist on spending roughly four times...

4th post from the top I calculated how many hours Telstra's "unlimited" deal gets. Anyone want to go over that and check my sums? Is my 12 and a half hours figure correct? Or did I misplace a decimal point or something.

Like Mercutio said. I retail it with systems for AU $40, and I make more from a $40 SmartSuite than I do from a $420 MS Office. Not more percentage, more actual count-em dollars. Now figure my buy price. :-?

K7S5A Coug. I'm glad you've had good experience with them because as soon as I opened the box I had that familiar sinking feeling. Just something indefinable about the look and feel, plus that super-thin circuit board. Just for comparison: ECS K7S5A: $129 ex Epox KT266A: $179 ex Soltek...

Well, I just got hold of a coupe of Elite motherboards. I sure hope they work, because my first impression is that they look really cheap and nasty. Well, they are cheap - $129 ex tax is a crazy low price - I just hope they work a lot better than they look.

Thanks Steve, I'm making a start on it now. It's a shame that none of the models reviewed happen to be ones that I am familiar with. I can see I have a lot of reading ahead of me. :cry:

So much for the 5400s. What about the 7200s? I don't think I can really pick much difference between them, reliability-wise. Kristi and I just discussed this now and agreed that we are not having much in the way of problems with any of them at present. Maxtor: never sold a Maxtor 7200. IBM...

It was not one of the world's great threads anyway. (Unlike this one, of course.) Seems to be my week for being rude to Picard. (Though I grant you it's a sort of public duty.) Did it in that thread and then again and much more explicitly in another thread, when he started on his "75GXPs...

Site was down for ~ a half hour till just now - file not found on any SF url.