Recent content by ailean

Thanks for the info, looks like the Xigmatek is one of the few small LP coolers to fit this board. The review I've read rated the cooling as better then the stock intel but worse for noise (however they were OC the cpu to max it out), how did you find the noise under normal conditions? I'd be...

Yes I pondered over this too and couldn't find any SATA power adapters or even raw sockets to make my own. But thanks to this thread I found that people have just connected the two plugs from the one channel to the graphic card and it works fine. My understanding this that most common/cheap...

Just to add to this if anyone else is having issues, in a desperate move I thought I'd try a pair of Medusa 5.1 USB headphones. Being USB they have there own soundcard so completely bypass the Envy (I've not had much luck with USB sound in the past but for under £40 from Play.com I thought I'd...

I've not noticed any problems with mine, running a Raid0 pair of new Samsung SP2504C's. Might it be handy to post a couple of pics of dodgy cables? Are they all the red, right angled ones with seperate insulated cables? The only other SATA cables I've got I think are blue, straight angled...

I did a file compare and there's no differance in the XP driver dir but there was a date differance in one of the control panel files (newer in the shuttle zip) and a couple of extra INI files in the root (might be relating to the NT dir which is extra in the shuttle zip). So yep probably the...

I read that you should avoid the nForce ide drivers, are these seperate to the Raid drivers? I've extracted the Raid drivers from the reconmended pre 6.66 driver set and put them on a floppy, I'm planing to install XP to a Raid 0 pair of sata drives. Final bits for my box should arrive...