BrianE, from your post, it seems that I need to figure out how my noise is being generated and go from there. Its either vibrations, or fan/hd seek noise. I need to control the fan noise. So I should be in search of Acoustpack, Damptek, carpet foam correct? Thanks for the replies and if you have any...

carpet pad foam, should i be going to lowes or menards or is there something online that you can give me a link to?

questions 1) What are good/best materials for dampening? 1a) Will packaging foam that you usually get when you have something shipped work pretty well? 1b) If not, what is the bang for buck material I can buy? 2) How to correctly place the materials. Looking for a guide/how to place the materials in...

thx for the really really fast reply, yea my fsp 450 is pretty good on the rails im just curious as i had some errors with my hd and after running extensive tests on the hd, it passed! asking around my psu came into question, and you can see in my sig my setup, and personally I think it can handle i...

i have an opty 148 at 3ghz with 1.55v on a epox 9npa+ultra motherboard how much power, and on what rails, is this going to pull alot of research later has really only gotten me closer, but still no clue please help a dumb kid out my rating using the TDP or tcasemax or whatever is 85w, but that doesn...

I take it by the no responses that no one has ever come across this or you are not sure how to remedy this.

I going to wait a few more days to see if anyone can help and then im just going to do a full install.

Thx for the help so far guys!!! please please keep them coming though

well i tried diff sata cords to no help, diff power connector no help need to reseat ram, try single sticks etc psu rails are good i found on maxtors website a harddrive diagnostics tool and ran all of the tests and it found no probs at all, its called powermax when im running windows repair, when i...

ok, i understand you about knoppix


ive been trying to do a repair install of windows and it crashes when it has about 17 mins left, reboots and then says it is going to restart the repair installation

does this lead me to believe its some kind of hardware like my hard drive or another component?

i do not really want to go the route of linux, its mostly windows and the programs i want to save more than just random files if you can think of that hard drive tool or if anyone else knows of a hard drive tool that might get my things back together that would be great also any other suggestions ar...

no this isnt the first install

i have had this computer running for say 6 months or so

psu is fortron 450

ok, i disabled the giveio and it froze on a different thing

it froze on TDI.sys

what do you suggest I do now?

thx

im sorry, no i could never boot into safe mode

it would hang on the part :: giveio.sys

i have made system restore points but i do not know how to use them without being able to get into windows

thx fellas

ok, a few times the windows loading screen would come up and then it would go black after a few passes (few being not sure didnt watch closely) no bsod errors now, it pretty much freezes as soon as the choice is made in f8(not safe mode though) in safe mode, the error is giveio.sys can you give me a...

things are fine up to booting into windows, ive tried f8 and safe mode and last known config that worked as well as booting normally i was trying to install elder scrolls oblivion at the time when it froze i do not knwo what to do, i went into bios and changed everything to defualt (no overclocking)...

interesting replies im very interested now

will be looking into those programs

keep the replies coming

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thx for the replies im going to look into that program

keep the replies coming!

is it bigger files compress better, or more total files compress better

yea im only using 200gb and prob half that is movies etc

so prob only need to backup about 100

so what kind of compression ratio are you getting

would my full 300gb fit onto my 120...?

if the VF700-CU is perhaps a few temps cooler on the gpu, and cools the memory better... this would give you the better overclocking possibility. it also though leaves heat in the case personally, i thnk it comes down to this if temps are great in your case with stock cooler, VF700-CU is the option ...

I basically know nothing about backing up my hd. I have a 300gb hard drive and want to make a backup if anything happens. I do have a random 120gb lying around, would this be big enough? What programs do you consider the best at making backups? Are they simple to use? Is there another thread/forum t...

My hd is in the very last spot in my case and there is barely room for a pinky between hd and bottom of case. I have wedged some foam between the hd and the floor and this has reduced pretty much all hd noise that I had to nothing. I am wondering though if this might cause some kind of problem becau...

obviously there is the nv5 silencer rev 3..... but then after that im not too sure what does a good job performance is number one for me, sound next, price last pretty much what would be say the top 3 that you guys would recommend does not need to be fanless though i will def take a look if performa...

i didnt see mine in speedfan, i can however view it with other software like in my nvidia control panel nvtemplogger etc

everest works great for me for what i needed

thx alot for sending me in that direction Shadowknight

thx, i will look into it

just let me know if there are any others

i have a: epox 9npa ultra + motherboard evga 7800gt graphic card i was wondering if there was a program out there that could read and display the temps of these at the same time ive been through alot of temp monitoring programs and have yet to find one that does and im beginning to think there is no...

yea, thx alot

ok well i plan on cuttin out the back grill and either puttin in modder mesh or leaving open for the front, i still cant tell if the front is vented or if its completely sealed off, if thats the case it will be getting modders mesh for it and the noise comign from the side openings either will be fo...

if you look at the picture where they are showing you the front ports, you can see the texture of the front area for the 120mm fan it looks to me to be open, but im not too sure the front drives have that same texture covering them, i do know from reading the reviews that a front 120mm fan does moun...

have you thought about the si-120 xp-120 but better check out reviews on it i got mine from, bestbyte computers i believe at 40 plus i htink 5 shipping pretty good deal, you should include that in your thoughts also no fan included, so you can add ur own japanaflo or yate loon to continue your quiet...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811147022 i will not be using the psu.. so thats not a worry definetly want usb ports upfront which it has and the ability for 2 120mm fans which it also has but how quiet do you think it will be, quiet is a concern but never a deciding factor.. j...