Recent content by Michael Shaw

I first noticed this problem about a week ago and I will admit there are some similar symptoms to another topic floating about here, but anyway... About a week ago I clicked winamp and it said winamp.exe could not be found, etc... I thought it was odd so reinstalled it and tried opening some...

Thnx all. Penis will be handed in tomorrow.

This week's Darwin award goes to me. I just got a new laptop and am using WinXP for the first time. I deleted a bunch of installation packages from the desktop and took the My Computer icon down with them and it's gone completely. How do I get it back? Thanks a lot... - Big Idiot

I played AOE2 religiously, AOE3 sucks. The servers are shit, and down all the time, there's no online ranking system worth anything. It's just selling on reputation I think.

nice looking computer parts != sexually enticing

My friend's DVD drive has got a DVD stuck in it. I'm thinking the motor may be dead, but I live 40km away from him, so I'm hoping someone has some suggestions which I can tell him over the phone. There used to be some kind of windows prompt to get the CD drive to eject, does anyone know what...

Yup, I had the same problem.

Nice set up.

Go to the PSU forum. There is a detailed guide to buying PSUs!!!

Funnily enough I've had nothing both problems with Maxtor Drives, but my Samsung and WD are working great.

Yup, I think Serbia might have cracked it. I just did a complete format of my system (it was getting all crappy anyway) and so far it seems to be working okay. Probably this post will go and jinx it, but fingers crossed.

I don't know, that wouldn't explain really why my games seem to be working fine? I'm running Prime95 at the moment and I'm going to run memtest86 tomorrow. Thanks.

If it would help, when I go into task manager it shows the CPU usage at 100% for the whole thing before the entire computer dies. Now when I've rebooted it says that the driver I'm using for this graphics card is designed for an older version of Windows (I'm running Windows 2000 Professional)...

I just got a 6600GT for my system, see below: - AMD Athlon XP 2000+ @ 1.67GHz - MSI KT4V-L KT333 Motherboard - GlacialTech Igloo 2411 Fan - 40 GB Samsung Spinpoint PL40 7200rpm - 100GB WD Caviar 7200rpm - 1GB (2 * 512MB) DDR 333MHz PC2700 RAM - nVidia GeForce 6600GT and now I...

Agreed, I think heatware works just fine.