I've looked into this. The snag is that powering from a 12V SLA is not a particularly good idea as you can't guarantee the voltage. The solution is to use two giving you an input voltage of 24V and one of the PicoPSU family that allows you to use 12-24V input. SLA is a pretty good battery choice fo...

I've looked into this. The snag is that powering from a 12V SLA is not a particularly good idea as you can't guarantee the voltage. The solution is to use two giving you an input voltage of 24V and one of the PicoPSU family that allows you to use 12-24V input. SLA is a pretty good battery choice for...

Since I power an A7n8x from a 300W Zen without problems, the two are not entirely incompatible, so to ask the obvious question, have you tried the Zen in another system?

Have you tried a scan from a bootable CD? e.g. The F-Secure rescue CD

IIRC UDF doesn't deal with sparing itself -that is performed by the drive (there was a discussion on the UDF refelector about using UDF on flash a while back). I think it does some clever things with the bitmap. I wouldn't like to swear to any of the above, because a) it was a while ago b) I wasn't ...

The business edition of the Bad Axe 1 & 2 (which is almost impossible to get hold of in the UK, which is a pity) does not have heatsinks on mosfets. Suggests to me that they do not get too hot.

Am I the only person who gets really annoyed when someone asks for an "average" usually wanting an arithmetic mean? (this brought to mind today by one of the questions in the IQ test) I mean I usually want someone to calculate the range of different aircraft, but when I want that I don't ask them to...

I've just realised that I haven't yet taken this oportunity to grumble about the lack of tabs in the ribbon interface. The rest of it is stilll good, but it should have tabs.

Orifice 2007 has been requested alongside Vista by a customer, on a new PC they want us to build for them. I dont have any problem with Vista, but the customer is only after Word and Excel, but they are not a Student or Teacher, so they are going to have to spend the extra £30 for the "Basic" vers...

I was reading that Word-07 is in a different file format? If you send that to someone with Office-2003, will they be able to open it? And vice versa? There is a new format, but it is incredibly easy to tame it to using the old one (a distinct lack of nag screens telling you that the new one is so m...

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Outlook Express = Outhouse Distress

The context in which I came across it was in aerospace -attempting to put aerials inside a composite fuselage skin and discovering that they didn't work.

I understand that carbon composites are actually pretty good at blocking RF frequencies. However, Ultra aren't selling this as a system, so won't have had to pass all (any?) of the RF tests (the same reason why it took a long time before you could buy windowed prebuilt systems from a manufacturer -a...

I think we need to be very careful in attempting to extrapolate the results of the 300W model to the 400W one -in all the pictures I have seen the 400W Zen has an exposed heatsink, which makes it likely that this is a quite different electrical design, as the heatsinks in the 300W model beneath the ...

Hmmm, Carbon Fiber panels on an Aluminium frame attached using what appear to be Aluminium fasteners. This could turn out to be be rather amusing :lol: Whilst it's true that in aerospace carbon composites are becoming increasingly common, it is very uncommon to find them attached using Aluminium fa...

Hmmm, Carbon Fiber panels on an Aluminium frame attached using what appear to be Aluminium fasteners. This could turn out to be be rather amusing :lol: Whilst it's true that in aerospace carbon composites are becoming increasingly common, it is very uncommon to find them attached using Aluminium fas...

Whilst I really like where Sandisk is going with this, the fact that they chose to compare it to a drive designed for ipods seems somewhat cheeky to me.
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[Romeo]: "It is also worth noting that the 2.5" Seagates seem quite capable of letting you know if you are giving it an innapropriate power supply -although the behaviour does not seem to be documented anywhere." How does a Seagate laptor drive react? My 12GN only sits there silently, with enclosur...

My experience is that Seagate USB drives (both the 2.5 and 3.5" variants) spin down -although whether this is due to windows spin down times, or something in the drives I don't know -I've never tested it. The Seagate 2.5" USB drives power from almost all standard compliant USB ports, the maximum cur...

How are you setting the drives to be Master/Slave? with the jumpers or with cable select?

Unless I'm much mistaken, most current DVD drives are only capable of ATA-33 (or whatever it's actually called) whereas the HD will be capable of ATA-100. Quite possibly what the error message actually means is that a HD is running on ATA-33 (which would typically be caused by use of a 40 conductor ...

What I really don't get is Seagates choice of components -either they expect to sell less than say 10,000 of these or ??? I can't actually think of any other reason right now. An x86 is a crap choice for a product like that, the only reason for using it would seem to be that you can buy that board o...

Or a carbon nanotube heatsink! Very good conductor. The problem with carbon nanotubes is it is a one dimensional conductor. All the chemical bonds are in one direction. This shouldn't be a problem as long as the nanotubes can all be aligned in the same direction Noooo, you don't want them only in o...

Or a carbon nanotube heatsink! Very good conductor. The problem with carbon nanotubes is it is a one dimensional conductor. All the chemical bonds are in one direction. This depends upon how you arrange the carbon nanotubes (actually, carbon nanotubes are a bad choice for a computer heatsink as the...

since I had an eardrum rupture Ouch! :shock: How did that happen? I don't honestly know, I woke up one morning with a terrible pain in the ear, and by the evening blood pouring out of it (and in between consulted a doctor who claimed there was no problem and it would feel better by the end of the d...

you really should replace the stock cooler with something quieter/better. Unnecessary, considering: Unfortunately, I couldn't source a Ninja within the time frame, hence the Intel stock cooler ( which actually gets it below the noise floor anyway , From this I presume the PC is located in a work or...

No, the 1x4 (Molex like you find on HD and CD drives) is not necessary if you have a 2x12 main ATX connector

You have to set an option in the BIOS as well

Myself, I would not read too much into what Altium say -I remember the P-CAD 2004 SP2 rapidly followed by hotfix debacale rather too clearly. But too the main point, I have found no problems using only a USB CD/DVD drive -personally I pulled out internal drives around January this year because they ...

I like the Zen myself. Not had one die from overheating (or anything else for that matter) yet and I run one of mine with a (continuous) DC load of about 280W.