A few years ago I noticed a humming noise when I use the mousewheel. I found an article talking about the problem. The noise was actually coming from the drive as Windows was saving/loading the "screenshot" of the current image (3 pixels up/down) from the temp file. I can make the hum happen at will...

So, that's how you suspend a drive in the Lanboy case. I didn't think it could be done with such a narrow space.

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I was quite surprised at how small and quiet the HSF that comes with the AMD 64 is. It uses a low profile fan and its speed is controlled by the whole Cool and Quiet system. Mine is very, very quiet. But, its always running in the lowest setting. Having a cramped and hot case like yours might have i...

I tried SmartDrive and it was great. My only problem was that my drive heated up to 60C+. I think its probably on par, or equal, to suspension. Plus, it's a lot more compact.

Last weekend I replaced my Seagate ST380011A (IDE) with the SP2504C (SATA). When the SP2504C is sitting there (not seeking), its alot more quiet than the Seagate. But, when the Samsung is seeking, its very noisy . I set the Samsung accoustic mode to quiet and it made the seek noise a little more tol...

I got a similar setup last year. Its nice that the mobo has no chipset fans, etc. But, the only thing that troubles me is the 120 mm (?) fan on your powersupply. That could be noisy. Guess you can always replace it with a quiet Nexus fan if the stock one is loud. I was very surprised at how quiet th...

Wow. Smooth scrolling was the cause of the noise! I guess IE has to render the webpage a pixel at a time as you scroll around. Why it doesn't do that in RAM, I dunno. As for Rei's original question: does it sound like your noises are coming from the drive reading/writing really quickly as you minimi...

When I'm in IE and I use the scrollwheel to move a page up or down, I hear a buzzing noise too. It sounds like IE is reading from the disk for every notch that I scroll on the wheel! Yet, when I open another application (like Vis Studio with a lot of pages) and scroll with the wheel, I don't hear it...

I used to be a Panaflo purist. Nowadays, I just use Nexus as it's quiet, easy to get and around the same price.

I always found Panaflos hard to get. But, I was always impressed with their noise levels. If you can easily get a Panaflo or a Nexus, pick the cheaper one.

I did the same thing to my Enermax PSU 3 years ago. Runs hotter but is now insanely quiet.

As long as you don't start a house fire, I wouldn't worry about it..

I setup a budget AMD 3000 machine and had a choice between the the Ninja heatsink and more RAM. I finally decided to get 2 sticks of 512 MB RAM over the heatsink. I decided to try the stock AMD heatsink and upgrade when I had more cash. Thank god I didn't buy the Ninja over more RAM. Surprisingly, t...

I already had a great powersupply and just needed a great case to go with it. I just gave up and went to the clone store. I bought the case I liked and simply ripped out the powersupply.

In the end, most cases are identical except for their PSU...

The simple solution: take one of the PSU power cables, put some paperclips in the 12v and ground and then start touching them on the mobo. Makes it all ready for warranty repair..

Then the reseller can do a warranty on it and you can upgrade at the same time.

Problem all solved

I had the same problem years ago, check out this page:

http://www.pack-44.org/downloaded%20web ... 0knots.pdf

I usually just make a million knots until it stops slipping, but there are correct knots you can use.

About that exposed pot in the case: Watch out. I had the same sort of setup until the exposed wires touched metal and blew my PSU fuse. I now understand why we insulate wires!

I took a $29 clone case and just replaced the powersupply fan with a Panaflo. (It didn't have the 2 fan setup like good PSUs have) Then, I put another 80mm Panaflo on a cheap 80mm CPU heatsink and everything was much quieter. I did splurge by buying Zalman fan power adjusters but that's it. The chea...

I wanted to play it cheap and not have to replace the entire heatsink on a P3 system. The only problem was that it was using a 60mm (or was it 70?) fan. I did a special order and found a Panaflo that small. Nowadays, I'd just buy a 60-80mm adaptor and put a Panaflo 80mm on it. That 60/70mm Panaflo f...

Is the difference between the fast and slow partitions noticable?

Idealy, when the PC goes into sleep mode, it should slow down and stop its fans. Considering how hot modern CPUs run, this is no longer a good idea. Even if the fans did slow down in sleep mode, your problem is that you just want the monitor and vid card to turn off while you the PC does P2P stuff. ...

It sounds real good in the textbook but it usually winds up screwing you in the end. I often found myself filling up 1 of the partitions and then having to resize them. If you're running a server or something, sure it makes sense to put your OS on one partition and user data on the other. For a home...

I've never cleaned dust off of my mobo. Is there any possibility of damage? I can see it clogging up a fan or drive, but isn't the circuit board relatively idiot proof?

Call up your local HVAC guy and ask him where you can get some of that instant smoke that they use to check for vent leaks. You squeeze the container and it produces immediate smoke.

Sounds like what you're looking for.

What you need to do is to clone your old drive to the new one. The catch is that the older versions of imaging software don't know how to handle the partition changes made by XP. I think it was Ghost v7.5 that was the first to recognize the XP changes. After getting an XP partition compatible versio...

That CPU duct looks really clever. How much cooler does it run now?

I got a small Linux distro and put it onto my thumbdrive. I was able to boot into Linux and use a completely solidstate PC. It was pretty cool but the thumbdrive was very slow compared to a hard disk. I'm still waiting for BartPE to come out with a WinXP image that can be put onto a thumbdrive. Keep...

I was looking forward to suspending my Seagate in hopes of getting rid of the clicking noise that it makes when not in use.

Didn't the suspension make it quieter?

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What could happen is that you have a boot sector/partition table/etc on the disk that has somehow had invalid data put onto it. For example, remember that QuickTax ( ? ) program that put some bytes onto unused parts of the boot sector a few years ago. Now, if you just installed Windows onto that dri...

When you're in the XP setup, simply delete all the partitions and create a new one. Don't waste time zeroing the drive as its really not necessary.

If you wanna be a purist, you can write over every sector of the drive but it's more of a time waster..

With my slow fans and hot case, I seem to kill a hard disk once per year. I consider it a small price to pay for silence.

I went to an electronics store and bought a bag of the 3 pin molex connectors. After practicing on a few, I got the soldering under control and they turned out alright. I put some shrink tubing over top and it looks pretty slick. As for purchasing ready made tails, you can get them in Canada from ww...