Recent content by Smelly-Finger

Hi i wonder if you can help me out here I have a limited budget to perform an upgrade with (£500) My current system is CPU: AMD +3200 MoBo: Abit UL8 1gb PC3200 DDR SDRAM Nvidia 7600GT 256mb (AGP) SB Audigy 2 platnium x2 Maxtor 6Y120L0 120gb HDD (IDE) 500w PSU Would it be worth just...

Thanks I never even though about the licence aspect of things. i was thinking of redhat and you have just forced my hand on that topic. THANKS :) What we could do is if we get components I could show them how to put them all together :) get everybody in on the act. Right so anybody got...

This will sound a bit like scrounging I need some help if possible the Belfast Youth Group I do some work with is looking to get a suite of PC's however they don't have a lot of money to play with and i was wondering if anybody here could either point me in the direction of somewhere in the...

Thanks everybody it was indeed the PSU. well i think it was. I thought it was the problem anyway since i hadn't upgraded it from my old pIII system. Reseated the HSF and a few other tweaks problem only occured with the new HDD cooler installed so that must have been pushing the PSU to it's...

Right so seems to be fingers pointing at the PSU. :) The reason i have a dvdrw is so I can put films onto dvd. Since i have the audigy 2 i can just connect my CamCorder via firewire. Haven't updated my BIOS, only ever tried that once and made a mess so i'm very wary of trying again. i do...

Right i'm lost here, haven't a clue what is up so suggestions please My symptons are complete system lockup at various times doesnt seem to be anything specific ie when i'm playing games which would point me towards conflicts or drivers. I sorta upgraded i installed 2 case fans, a HDD...

Thankyou very much thats exactly what i was looking for. Cheers Smelly

Thanks for viewing :) I got my hands on a Realtek RTL8029 5 port "PCI" hub and now i want to see if i can get a similar product. The realtek is only 10 not a 10/100 and seems to only work in half duplex so i was wondering if anybody knows of a 10/100 version. You may ask why do i want a...

Hmmm how i got my name Lets just say it was messy and drunken with several pieces of ripped toilet paper

Biggest mistake I ever made (Besides getting very drunk and waking up with a dress on) was buying a FX5200 the performace is crap ok I'm on a real tight budget but for an extra £20 I could have got a FX5600 card with a lot better performance (think it was a Soltek card)

No prob, just happy I was able to help instead of being helped

You can buy convertors coz the controller is just a plain old USB one. You can get the drivers here at SourceForge I've seen a few places online that stock them but coz the drivers aren't official I've never tried them out but what i've read about them is good. Midwestgames sell them...

What i use and I find it really good is powerstrip so I can use ALT + CTRL and the + & - keys to raise or lower the gamma settings. You can find it here Powerstrip

Just be careful when you do and make sure you format it and partation it !!! I'm the proud owner of a 120gb simple dynamic drive coz I forgot to partation it

I've now installed a USB PCI card but any suggestions as to what may be causing the prob would be helpful