You see, I'm a very impatient person and find all those steps too slow :P . Luckily I now have a Logitech G15 keyboard and I know if the lights on that are on then my computer's on. I've actually been looking for a way to turn on my computer with my keyboard but have never found any bios setting th...

Perhaps this link with pictures of a PS3 taken appart may help?

My mum has an Acer L5100 92.G7T9Z.UYT that has an Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 3gb ram and a TV tuner. I'd say it gives around 22-30dB but this depends on how resonant the surface is mounted on is and the orientation it is mounted. You can pick one up for around EUR 600-800 (400-450GBP). Loudness/sound power...

Sppedfan will show SMART Data for all hdds so long as they are connected to the controllers it is monitoring. You have to click the "Run as administrator" box in the application properties for sppedfan.

I haven't yet figured how to run autostart speedfan and have it run as administrator on startup.

try looking here for how to get hold of the error logs that dr watson produces.

looks like the problem is a firefox one - if you can get firefox to start look up info about running Mozilla Talkback - you might then find out what the problem is and be able to report the possible bug to Mozilla.

Somebody should buy the MSI AM-690E motherboard and take pictures of the motherboard and accessories.

i think that beige connector between the Serial/VGA, the CMOS battery and the Northbridge is a weird cut down power connector designed for small factor servers.

Via are notoriously slow with bringing stuff they announce to market. I think that Via Isiah/Nano boards will start shipping in earnest in around June of nest year unless something happens forcing Via to release them early.

It seems to me that a full set of Nortua fans would do you just fine. You may need to consider replacing the heatsinks with the largest temperature differences, namely the Memory heatsink (14.5 deg diff) and the Motherboard heatsink (12deg diff). I also think that Dell may have over applied the ther...

Have you tried contacting Morex?
they may be able to help.

Makes me wonder if it could cool a small car engine, which can take higher temps than a CPU. It should be lighter than the conventional water cooling, thus saving a bit of weight and fuel. And you wouldn't have to worry about the water level, the heatpipes should work for (how many?) years. That wo...

You will need to install new drivers drivers (particularly chipset drivers) as due to the differences in chipset architecture between them. All in all its not a bad thing as you just boot to safe mode, uninstall the chipset drivers and transfer the hdd across to the new board. then install the new c...

I would go for the Phenom. but then again I have a Phenom 9500, so i'm biased. The most important thing is having suffiecient time and money to spend on silencing the whole cpu/mobo/hdd package. I don't know how XP handles quad core processors, but be prepared to give Vista Home premium a try if thi...

cleaning dust from the insides of computers, where do I start... I think i have used pretty much every kind of method to clean dust out of mine and other's computers. Methods of note include (in no order): Large artists paint brush to lean dust from a skived fan heatsink, Surface cleaner wipes to cl...

A scratch on the motherboard is nothing. I once took a soldering iron to the pc in my sig and attacked an area on the board marked "psu fan" but had no header on it. My intention was to solder a header on. The end result was a big black hole in the board and no new fan header. In trying to find out ...

Reminds me of a YSTech 80x15mm fan
Can't be sure.

any chance you could post some pictures of the set-up you have?

sometimes "a picture speaks for a thousand words", or something similar.

I really should post some current pictures from the inside of my quietened Thermaltake Xaser V WinGo... In the meantime, some old pics can be found here The new pics would give you some ideas as how to avoid problems such as the plastic doors resonating. Call me nuts, but I would recommend a Thermal...

if anything, you will need to get hold of a decent ups with line conditioning as
from my experience the electricity supplies in India are far from clean (free from spikes and brown-outs).

you tried checking the voltage? You could be overvolting it or have overvolte it and burnt out the speed controller.

If Sythe do a 2000rpm version of the fan, you might have just got the wrong one.

I did a bit of digging about the origin of the 80mm A8025L12s fan. The only manufacturer I came up with is iCute. This probably doesn't help as I know iCute source their parts from all over Taiwan and China. An extract from the webpage says it all: This is sleeve black fan 1. High effect scatter hot...

If you compare Picture 3 with Picture 2 - you will see that mini-DTX is narrower than Full DTX (170mm as opposed to 244mm). IIRC the only motherboard maker that makes Micro-ATX boards that narrow is Soltek (others may have, but that one stands out due to personal experience). I wonder if Via will us...

Hey phconnell, some pictures of the process you were following to get your reasoning would help. That way, we can evaluate it against fluid dynamic theory.

Are these 44 pin laptop internal Ribbon Cables what you are looking for? The dvd-rom drive will be more complicated due to the different size of the connector. You might find a solution at mini-itx.com as they have linkes to alot of projects. You might find that someone has found a solution to that ...

hey Stany, I have quietened an Athlon XP2600 (T-Bred B) without resorting to using foam,
I have some pics at http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u57/ ... er%20Pics/
I have not updated it to match my current configuration as I havent opned my comp up to clean it in a while.

Thermaltake fans have the unfortunate tendency to resonate with anything that matches their frequency range, this could range from another fan in the case to the hard drive to the actual case itself. I should know as I currently have 2 90mm smart fan II's in my case. Your Tt-1225 may or may not get ...

I saw the following article in Lenovo Blogs and I thought it deserves a mention here.
http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=81

I hope you go all the way and get Artoc Silver' Articlean.
I'd hate to spoil a new motherboard chipset by using crummy isopropyl alcohol.

Things I already have from my old PC: 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 11, 160GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 16MB) - Bootdisk 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 9, 200GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 8MB) - Storage 1x Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 250GB (7200rpm, ATA133, 16MB) - Storage You can get some semblance of quietness (when using windows xp) by ...

if you are going to format to ext2, if you have the Ext 2 Installable File System You don't have to worry about your windows XP machine getting access.

There is explore2fs and ext2fsd that may or may not do the same thing in win98.

I would also consider the Tt Big Typhoon as it has received favourable reviews in SPCR, plus it cools the motherboard components as well. COM Port = Serial port http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_port If the motherboard does not include a serial port in the backplate, there will be a cable that allows...