ok, on my xp dell machine i could click the battery icon in the system tray, and 2 batteries would show up (i have an optical bay battery)
now when i click on the little icon, it shows me lots of info including manufacture.
i tried a live ubuntu cd and ubuntu gives me TONS of info, even...
im in canada and these parts i already have
Tuniq Tower :)
Antec 900 Case
Corsair HX1000 PSU
2x WD 320GB HDD's (will be in raid 0)
TSSTCorp lightscribe burner (ill be using my NAS to mount imgs anyways)
the parts im looking at (semi-budget) are
MotherBoard: eVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW...
i have both an EVGA 630i/7150 and an XFX 630i/7100 board, both have the same WOL problem
WOL/PME is ENABLED in the bios
in windows i have
wake from shutdown = ON
wakeup capability = magic packet and pattern match
under the power management tab i have
allow this computer to turn off...
1.6GHz C2D? WTF thats slower than the regular macbook for $600 LESS and $1200 less than most x86/x64 laptops
2GB of generic ram? WTF, for the price you can get laptops that accept 800MHz ram (PC2-6400)
80GB PATA DRIVE?? WTF!!!!!! most cheap garbage notebooks come with 160GB
4200RPM...
not sure but recently a Mac user said Pc hardware is all unrealible and home built systems are utterly crap. (see sig)
you think this is true? i personally think my SLI setup runs pretty good, i havent had it crash yet even with the 7800GT's OC'd to GTX.
CONTACT INFO:
email "pr5owner (AT) gmail (DOT) com" (change the obvious, no spaces)
The Mother Board is in Calgary AB Canada but i can ship to the US
I have a BRAND NEW DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D
w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Dual GB Lan, SATAII, PCI-E x16 SLI
mother board for sale, this...
im looking at the Acer travel mate 8204 and MSI 1039, are there any better ones?
i specifically need
good battery life, +3Hrs
good screen resolution (screens lower than SXGA/WSXGA will be laughed at)
good GPU speed (X1600 or above, basically + 3000 3DMark05
good CPU Speed (T2300 or...
im looking for a 2nd HTPC for my hometheatre room (already have a huge one for the TV room)
thinking ill get the aopen
http://minipc.aopen.com/us/
Lowest voltage/speed Pentium M (maybe 1.5GHz) so i can minimize heat. the 1.5GHz is MORE than enough to play xvid/dvd/etc, hell i can play...
about to build a new system, anyone have expirience with black series?
going to OC an Athlon 64 3000+ to ~2.4 - 2.6GHz with an eVGA SLI motherboard,
config below...
Antec SLK3000B
Enermax 535W EG565P-VE All In One ATX 12V v2.0
eVGA nForce 4 SLI Edition
Mushkin XP4000 Black Series...
how good is the evga board and overclocking a 3000/3200 to somewhere around 2.4?
im planning on getting the following
Antec SLK3000 $65CAD (i want a sleeper look not bling bling lights)
535W Enermax PSU $105CAD
evga NF4 SLI board $110CAD
A64 [email protected] (if possible) $150CAD
$100CAD...
http://fulltech.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008800240908/ProductDetail/Cooling-fan/product_id-1000517745/action-GetProduct.htm
2 of these in your case and you should be able to cool anything off
UF25HC11-H
Rated voltage (V): 115
Frequency (Hz): 50/60
Input power (W): 95/125...
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=220&item=CF-152&type=store
if theres nothing that can push more cfm than this in the 120mm category then ill get 3 of these
as some of you know aspire was too cheap to implement the F <-> C Switch on the back of the front bezel, if any of you have a gen 1 or 2 xdreamer you can mod the board to say C,
1) take off front bezel
2) remove the 2 screws holding the LCD display in
3) carefully pry the plastic cover off...
http://www.hexus.net/content/static/enermax_galaxy.html
i doubt my system really needs this but hey who knows maybe i need to power 10 HDD's in raid 6 one day
on mylaptop i have a folder with a 1:1 copy of one of my dvds (used dvd decrypter) now how can i use Windows Media player 10 to open a dvd backup on the HDD?
with power dvd you just go open dvd file on HDD, is there a way WMP10 can do that? cuz i know WMP10 can play dvds off the DVD drive. im...
im trying to find the best media player out there than can play anything which means it must be able to do
MP3 (obviously)
Video (xvid, divx, rmvb) - i have the mega codec pack installed
DVD
Shoutcast Radio Streams
Other internet radio
skins (most do anyways)
small foot print in memory...
i was bored ok.... :P
had a bunch of spare parts laying around so i decided to put them to good use! (at 2:50 in the morning)
1 80mm Sunon Fan (32 CFM)
2 80mm OEM Case fans (30 CFM x 2)
1 80mm Thermaltake smart fan (76 CFM @ 8.43H2O)
1 80mm Coolermaster Blower (27CFM @ 20.2 H2O)
1 AT...
im looking for a Tv that can handle a bunch of connections (PSX, Xbox using RCA A/V, HTPC using DVI/SVideo/VGA and either Svideo/RCA AV for a DVD player or some other hot swapping peripheral (laptop maybe) im kind of on a budget, looking for a TV around $1000CDN. i wanted to get a DLP projection...
i was cleaning out a friend of my parents computer and it was not a good sight
LOL i didnt think 1 computer could have this many viruses and still boot up normally
im looking for accuracy and Range, my current microsoft bluetooth kb and mouse has a range of half a city block (line of site) while that is overkill it will be used for my HTPC so i change the vol or radio station from anywhere inside the house. for my desktop i still need one that will work...
would it be better to utilize the router's built in switch ports or have all the computers connect to a massive switch and then to the routers?
in order to use the telus connection to the fullest we can have 3 sepeate mac addy's added on. (which is why there is 3 routers)
see picture
Specs are in my sig with an antec 480w PSU, my computer doesn't boot right untill it warms up for about 15mins, keeps saying my raid drives are not responding
once again Scamdisk sucks... but heres the story, i had a 256MB lexar 32x for my axim which is a nice card but i wanted to go with something a little faster so i can copy movies back and forth. so i went out an bought a sandisk ultra II 512MB SD card. this is hella expensive compared to the 32x...
i have the antec trueblue power supply rated at 480w when i upgraded my 80GB to120GB the computer does boot right anymore, i can hear the drives trying to spin up but then they stop and try again. if i take the drives out the computer can boot, if i plug them in and turn off the fans it boots...
WTF can POSSIBLY make it be 209MB to download?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?dlc=en&lc=en&product=298540&lang=en&cc=us&os=228
i have the 3670 scanner and the drivers are rediculously big, my last acer scanner drivers were only 25 or so MB and thats including a simple...
big diffrence, so if you are going to raid anything make sure they are the same
Dual MATCHED 120GB Seagate Drives SATA 8MB Cache 7200RPM NCQ
Dual unmached 80GB Seagate Drives SATA 8MB Cache 7200RPM 1 with NCQ, 1 w/o NCQ
i personally use DVD-Rs and CD-Rs, ive never used tapes before for my own data but i have used it for work. also i use my laptop to backup my desktop and vise versa (as well as a thumb drive for my documents which is under 150MB)
i have 1 laptop with bluetooth via dlink BT adapter
1 desktop with a MS bluetooth KB/mouse combo transciver
1 friends laptop with same dlink adapter
1 pda w/ bluetooth
1 phone sony z600 w/ BT
1 moto 551 phone
between computers and laptops file transfer works flawlessly (cant do anything...
im about to buy these parts, anyone have any better suggestions? i am getting this from www.memoryexpress.com
A64 S939 3000+ (will OC it to 200FSB)
Zalman 7000CU fan
Asus A8n SLI Deluxe (dual SLI)
1GB Micron PC3200 Ram
Thermal Take Black tsunami tower case with window
Enermax 480W PSU...
building a 600m laptop i noticed
to go from 1.6GHz to 2.0GHz (both Dothan) its an additional $400CDN, how can this be? the 2.0GHz CPU is less than $600CDN in a retail box, the 1.6GHz is $300. they are charging $100 more than the cpu is worth, that is rediculous
oh wait! in the inspiron...