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The case is that new Cooler Master one, the CM 690. The HSF is an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Is there any way to, I dunno, attach the heatsink without using those plastic things? Is there something else I can buy to securely attach the heatsink to the motherboard and CPU?

OK, this is weird. I took off the side panel and now have it lying horizontally on my floor, and it booted up fine. I'm installing Windows right now. The only change I made, other than the orientation, was unplugging the fan on the side panel I removed. Looking inside the computer, the heatsink...

Looks like it's OK. I triple-checked it, but it uses these stupid plastic push-pins to secure itself to the motherboard, and they seem flimsy as hell, so I'm not particularly confident in it. I'll check it again.

The motherboard is an EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard. The RAM is Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864AA804. Both the 24-pin and the 8-pin connectors are plugged in...

I previously posted about my new computer (first-time build) not turning on. After replacing the power supply, it now turns on, but turns off while booting up after about 20 seconds. It looks like it's detecting everything OK, from the quick glimpse I get at the BIOS boot screen, but it still...

Yeah, none of that worked. Guess it's just a bad PSU. I'll send it back to Newegg and just get a replacement at Fry's or something. Thanks!

Fans are not spinning; they don't even start spinning. Also, only have 2GB of RAM. Someone on another forum suggested it might be a bad power supply... any chance that this is the case?

First off, I hope this is in the right place. If it's not, I sincerely apologize. OK, I just finished building my first computer, plugged it in, LEDs came on, but when I press the power button, it doesn't turn on. Needless to say, I am completely terrified that I've just somehow fried every...

Awesome. Yeah, I figured it probably wouldn't hurt anything if I did it backward, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the quick reply!

I've got a CM 690 that I'm using for a new build, and I'm trying to figure out which way to connect the power switch, power LED, reset switch, and HDD led. I've got an EVGA motherboard, and while it looks like it doesn't matter which way I connect the reset switch and power switch, there are...

I'm getting ready to build my first computer, and am having trouble deciding on a case. Since this is my first build, I want to stick with air cooling for simplicity's sake, but am not sure what a good case for air cooling is. The three cases that I've been looking at are the Cooler Master...

Bought my first Mac a month ago, and man, if I weren't a gamer, I'd switch to Mac full-time. I already use it for just about everything anyway. It's so much more intuitive and well-designed than Windows. And Exposé owns all, especially with it configured to work with Hot-Corners (or whatever...

I was browsing through Wikipedia, and came across something pretty interesting. It seems like an explanation for the naming of nVidia. Not sure if this has been posted or not, but bear with me. :) One of the Seven Deadly Sins is envy, which is defined by Wikipedia as follows: Envy...

Concerning the name: There are at least two different ways to write "akatsuki" in Japanese. One way, the way I presume you're interpreting it, is as 「暁」, which would mean "dawn." However, another way to write it is as 「赤月」, which I believe...

:eek: Very nice!

IKEA lamp, huh? Aren't they building an IKEA out in Round Rock or someplace? I was just back home in Austin a few weeks ago and saw in the Statesman that they'd purchased, like, 27 acres of land for the behemoth. It'll make it easier to get lamp enclosures, I guess. ;) Keep up the good work!

Got it. Thanks for the help!

OK, I just got a new hard drive formatted at the computer place at my school. Not because I don't know how to do it, but because every time I did it on this particular drive, it seemed to screw up. Anyway, I RMA'd the drive/enclosure and gave the new ones straight to the computer place at school...

Looking good!

Really looking forward to seeing this one done. So far, it's looking good, but I can't help but feel that the window is kinda out of place. I think the project would look a whole lot cleaner without it, but that's just my two cents. Keep up the good work!

I don't even know if a program like this exists, but I figured if it does, then the friendly people here at [H] would know about it! Here's what I want: My school has a 2GB daily transfer limit, combined upload and download. What I want is a program that will monitor my traffic from 12:00 AM...

Hey, that guy goes to my school! Or, at least, the web site says that he does. Cool game.