The experienced folks on this thread wouldn't be fooled by this but I thought I'd post it anyway

http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/46-4199 ... 20160.html

Just because it's a Li Shin 0226A20160 doesn't mean it's got the right plug on the end!

BTW, for anyone looking for an AC adapter for the DD-24AX, my 160W Li Shin brick (for a Fujitsu laptop) seems to work quite nicely, and is easily available. It has a nice long cable and a 4 pin connector with the correct pin layout to plug straight into the DD-24AX. Thanks, Steve, for the good tip....

This adapter at shortcircuit, listed as a new product http://short-circuit.com/product/premium-125A-150W-AC-DC.html looks very similar to the one linked by reddyuday at mini-box. After looking at several of these threads, I'm a little bit lost regarding the mini-Din pinouts - is there some way to sa...

Picked up one of these at local Staples for $40. Dropped in a Samsung SpinPoint. Fired it up, jeez, what's all the noise. Popped off the top, pulled the fan connection loose, noise stopped. The SpinPoint was essentially inaudible. Disassembled the thing. In the course of screwing around, realized th...

Which Linux distros did you try out?
So, even in BIOS responses to keystrokes seemed sluggish? Bummer

Would some of you guys buy this board and test it out for Linux compatibility?
I'm a little nervous about the SIS chipset

These guys have the board and did a power consumption test
http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D201GLY-M ... 8Ta38Lc350

I agree w/ mitchy -
The 9500 isn't that quiet. I've removed the stock fan and come up with a quieter way of pulling air past the copper vanes.

Have you read the latest MaximumPC? They used a Zalman 9500 in their latest version of the Dream Machine. They even turned the Zalman fan OFF and ran their creation full crank without troubles.

I don't know how applicable my situation is to yours. My P4 530J running with a Zalman 9500 isn't even in a PC case anymore. It's mounted in a wood roll-out drawer, inside my home-built office furniture. Once I abandoned a PC case altogether I wasn't hobbled by the case manufacturer's placement of f...

I disassembled my homebrew PC and put it in a drawer. I was getting CPU idle temps in the very low 40's (7 degrees lower than in the Sonata) while the cabinet was pulled out into the room and the CPU exhaust was free to blow into open space. But the temps went right back up to the original PC case n...

Hi, Isaac - I removed the scanner roll-out shelf, gaining another half foot of space above the PC roll-out shelf. Didn't want to do this but it gives me much-needed space for hot air and cable mgmt. I'll blank off the big hole in the middle of the cabinet back (leaving enuf room for cables) and cut ...

I bought a ceilling fan controller at Home Depot. Said right on the box "Quiet" and "Suppresses RFI". It has four distinct speeds rather than variable. The slowest speed is too fast. Wiring them in series is too slow. Maybe I need to try a resistor in series w/ the fan controller, though I don't kno...

Good morning - Jeez, I never thought of a ceiling fan control. I've got one layin' around here somewhere. I'll wire the 2 AC fans back in parallel, then put the ceiling fan control in the circuit and see if I get clicking noises. Hope not. I could just wire them in series but they seem pretty ineffe...

Good morning - The computer desk that I built includes a large cabinet with roll-out shelves for the printer and scanner. I'm thinking of dismantling my Sonata and putting all the parts inside the cabinet on a 3rd roll-out. One thing I'll have to address first is permanent ventilation in the back of...

Thanks for writing back. Shortly after posting & before reading any replies I just went ahead and pulled the HS. Looks like I'd guessed pretty good with initial application - there was just a little bit of thermal compound squeezed out of the interface area. Put on the Ceramique while the parts were...

Good morning - About a month after installing the Zalman 9500 cooler I was getting idle temps of roughly 45 degrees. It's been five or six months now, and idle temps are creeping upward. It's idling at about 49 degrees (according to Speedfan) and bumping up towards 52 or so with a short CPUBurn cycl...

FYI, I have the 540 in my sig undervolted to 1,18V and it's 24 hour 2 x CPUBurn stable. I haven't tried anything lower. Whoah, and this is with an ASUS motherboard?? When I built this PC I was just looking for performance and quality parts. Didn't know what VCore meant, and certainly had no clue I'...

Hi, jaganath -
Thanks for the reply and the link to Intel data sheet. I'll d/load that and save for future reference. So, what do you think? Sounds like it's not worth the trouble to undervolt by such a tiny amount.

Hi, qviri -
Just from reading SPCR posts, I kinda suspected that .055 less voltage wouldn't make much difference. But I had to ask!
Thanks for your input.

Good day - My ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe mb is supporting an Intel P4 530J. Late at work last nite I found a SPCR thread that focused on undervolting. I can't find it at home. Anyway, I scratched around in BIOS - if I go into "Power" it indicates Vcore is 1.368. That's with it set in "Auto". If I go to "Ju...

Thanks, guys - Funny how there's always more to learn about these darn PC's. I'd never considered the extra effort involved in lifting the read/write arms uphill. If my Sonata case had a little bit more elbow room in the HDD rack I'd suspend the HDD horizontally. I've seen pictures on these forums w...

Good morning - I just visited a thread on SPCR where a young man was showing his inexpensive sound control. One of his drives is sitting sort of catty-whompus inside the cavity. Not horizontal or vertical, roughly 45 - 50 degrees off-axis. I thot the HDD's physical orientation didn't matter. But sev...

Greetings! I've got a 2.5 oz. tube of Arctic Silver Ceramique coming my way, coutesy of NewEgg and Visa. Been eyeing the three passive heatsinks on my ASUS P5GDC-V Dlx. board. The North Bridge HS looks easy to remove. A little wire loom & 4 hooks on the board. The other two have some sort of funny l...

tameyer wrote:some days I add up what I have spent in various accessories, and realize I could have had a new laptop which would be quiet AND portable.

I feel better now, knowing I'm not the only one

tameyer - Did you do anything about the HDD mounting? I've got a Sonata too. After replacing the horrid OEM Pentium HSF w/ a Zalman 9500, the next most obnoxious item was the HDD. It spins quietly, but would send enuf energy into the case during seeks that the door would buzz. Entirely unacceptable....

Hi, guys - Thanks for the replies. Sorry about that, I wasn't very clear. I did register and went looking for configs. There was only 1 for the P5GDC-V Delxe. The config appeared to have downloaded, but maybe it didn't since I saw no changes. No harm in trying again. If I knew anything about this co...

Good morning! I installed Speedfan a week ago. D/l'ed a configuration for my mb (ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe). I think it went thru successfully but don't see any difference from before. My question: how does one figure out what's what? Temp 1 & Temp 2 are clearly mb and CPU. HD temp is identified. My myste...

Hi, Seb -
Stiff single-ply cardboard seems as good a material as any. Readily available, forgiving, etc.
It'd be cooler to use some kind of plastic but maybe the first few versions oughta be cardboard.

Good morning - I've got an Antec Sonata with a Zalman 9500 cooler. I saw the article on SPCR about replacing the Zalman fan with a different one or even a bigger one. The bigger fan idea is really intriguing, but the 9500 already exceeds the maximum weight & I don't want to add more. A more elegant ...