Recent content by gaara

Hahaha I remember Nubius as well, can't believe he's married now. I guess I was about 17 or 18 the last time I kicked the tires around here and I'm now 23 so I suppose it isn't that surprising, can't believe time flies like that... And it is AWESOME to see that you're still around Trotter, I...

I remember you Mguire, I will probably start browsing here more often. It amazes me how much technology has changed the past few years!

Hello everyone, Used to hang out here all the time years and years ago, got busy with various things and slowly dropped off the face. Don't know if anyone is still around from back then, but I had some good times here and figured I would stop by. I'm not really a huge techie anymore but I...

Well they should be enabled by default, however it should be somewhere under advanced BIOS settings or integrated periphirals. As long as it is working though I wouldn't be concerned. The next thing you need to do is dig up the floppy disk that should have come with your board that is labeled...

A single click is normal for some drives. It should be obvious to tell if it's spinning or not, just put your hand on it and you can feel the vibrations. Just make sure that all SATA channels are enabled in the BIOS

I am employed at a small service and repair center, but I don't own it. That's correct, there is little money in sales because it is difficult to compete with larger retailers who buy in bulk and get bigger discounts. The store where I work actually has very little stock, everything is ordered...

Does the drive still spin up? Does it make any clicking or scratching noises?

Windows XP install does not have driver support for SATA or SCSI controllers, you need to manually load your SATA or RAID device drivers from a floppy prior to the installation. You will be looking for the following prompt: "Press F6 to install third party SCSI/RAID device drivers"

Yet another advocate of the 10,000RPM drives here, you really need to use one personally before you can comment on them. One thing that everyone seems to confuse is that you buy a faster rotating hard drive for speed purposes, that's what you are paying for. You do not buy a Raptor for mass...

I ran FEAR at 1024x768 with both a 6800GS and 6800GT with all settings on high, save for soft shadows, and it was playable. That said, both those cards were overclocked fairly high and even at stock speeds both are still slightly faster than a 6800 GO

That's what you get for naming your daughter Windy

What happened to that drive I had bought off you dude? I know you sent me back my money but you never replied to my emails or anything...

That was always their policy, I know because I had to move tons of crap to a forum called "threads requiring attention" or something to that extent. Spam was always deleted right away but everything else was never deleted

I don't understand why some people care so much about the process size when they don't even understand it. NM is short for nanometer. Any reference to process size in nanometers refers to the size of a single transistor located on the processor. The easiest way to increase performance of a...

In reality there are 1,073,741,824 bytes in 1 gigabyte Most hard drive manufacturers will label a drive with 1,000,000,000 bytes as 1 gigabyte and so on Your drive is probably 250,000,000,000 bytes Divide that by 1,073,741,824 to get the actual storage in gigabytes This is normal for all drives...