tell me about it dude, it was easy to install. I think i might have some corrupt XP files?

When i install the drive when the comp reboots it says when it finds new hardware it says "Found cd-rom drive" when its a fucking dvd-burning drive.

Problem solved. It was a registry error, i just went into the registry and had to remove the Upperfilter and Lowerfilter out of one of the registry files. And bam my comp works faster and the drive works awesome.

congratz dewd dance:

Arriving tomorow (hopefully)

AMD Opteron UP 144 San Diego 1.8GHz 1MB Cache

[img]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/AMD_Opteron64.jpg[/img]

Seen people get these upto 3ghz using regular cooling, pretty cheap cpu so its worth taking a chance on happy:

i havent been up to speed on alot of the new hardware and shit, but i dont get it, why are people choosing the opertons over a dual core X2 and the fx-57s? just because they oc to 3ghz?

1200/900 $ vs 200-300 $... MAKE your decision. beer: .

Amd opteron 1.8ghz £99

Amd fx57 2.8ghz £750

So if mine clocks anywhere near 2.8 ive effectively got an fx57 with a £650 discount.

beer:

Im not fussy about dual core either, id rather go for pure mhz for gaming rather than settle for a cpu clocked slower. They also have trouble with some games a the moment.

Ok even though you have an Optura and are going to overclock to 3 ghz. What type of fan power do you need. I'd imagine a nice cooling system.

Assuming it'll clock to 3ghz happy: .

Ive seen some people get to 2.8 or more using just the cooler that comes with the cpu, im gonna be using the default coolre first of all then maybe try watercooling the cpu after i get a new cpu block for my hydrocol.

I have a weird problem. On my family's computer, if you highlight something in MS word and then hit the delete key, nothing happens. The highlighted part is still there and the cursor just goes back to flashing. The key works, because it deletes if you don't highlight anything, it's just when you highlight a sentence for instance and want to delete it, it won't. Any ideas?

lol, I had this same problem on a school computer. I just took caps lock off... don't ask me. oOo:

Parts arrived biggrin:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.mar ... /parts.jpg

sweeeet. I wont upgrade for a while, next item is gonne be a lappy.

Whats so good about that setup? I'm not familiar with the difference between the regular AMD 64 and x2 and the AMD Opteron.

Asrock? eek:


Grats on the opty though, I got a 170 in mine. happy:

My first mobo was ASROCK. Didnt think it was that good.

Has agp 8x and 16xpci-e so i dont need a new card just yet.

Just my luck to get a faulty motherboard, had it all hooked up tonight for testing, turn it on and one of the diodes beside a ram slot starts to glow white hot and belch out smoke. annoy:

Have to wait up to 21 days for a replacement now. oOo:

How can you automaticly join a game server(say bf2?) from an icon on your desktop?

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":38a66]How can you automaticly join a game server(say bf2?) from an icon on your desktop?[/quote:38a66]

if you want to join a game thats in the q3 architechture (COD2, MOHAA, COD1, ET), you can just rightclick, go to properties, and the end of where it says target, put + connect xx.xx.xxx.xx where the X is the IP of the server.

edit: For BF2, if you launch from CD there is an option saying "Start Playing Now", press that, and it will connect you to the first suitable server.

[quote=Acideyez]if you want to join a game thats in the q3 architechture (COD2, MOHAA, COD1, ET), you can just rightclick, go to properties, and the end of where it says target, put + connect xx.xx.xxx.xx where the X is the IP of the server.

edit: For BF2, if you launch from CD there is an option saying "Start Playing Now", press that, and it will connect you to the first suitable server.[/quote:902c6]Yeh bu tif i want a specific bf2 server?ill fool around with the properties, thx.



Also, I've had no troubles with my Dell1905fp monitor in the past month, but recently theres a line on the left side of the screen that fucks up the resolution of anything that is being viewed near that area(meaning ill move an image over there and the area where the line overpasses the image is all f'ed up, and on the desktop wallpaper the line distorts that specific area of the image)...any idea what i could do to fix this?

wow owned...that sucks. I would have paid to here the audio from that happening.

Wasn't anything to hear at all, just a diode glowin white hot and some smoke coming out of it, top of it sems to have burned through. ed:

To elaborate on my problem, heres a screenshot, that sh** near the doorway, the green lines, thats everywhere now. In every game i play that stuff is everywhere(and also on the desktop in other apps etc.) edit: ok my monitor is the problem as this picture looks fine rolleyes:

[img]http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9398/x19002ai.jpg[/img]

Anyone that bought an x1800 must be feeling sick right now, the x1900 seems to dump on it from a great height. Im waiting for r600 though so happy:

all these fucking new cards are pissing me off.

Has been a lot lately, the x1900 is the refresh of the x1800, reason its out so soon is because the x1800 had been delayed while the x1900 was on track, ideally x1800 would have been released in june 05 with 7 months between them.

Then we have the r600 coming in late summer this year ed:

are these going to be PCI express cards? I am looking to update my motherboard.

Pci-e only.

I need a new card now, but am on AGP.

R600 links plz.

Nothing really on r600 yet, its meant to use a unified pipeline system though similar to the r500 in the xbox 360, if so thats the first time a pc graphics card has done this.

refreshes suck.... next gen ftw

Scratch another fucking assrock board, oOo: Was also interesting that for some ass backwards reason amd's don't seem to like 4 dimm slots being populated and will bsod on occasion if they are all populated. rolleyes:

This pos is going back and im getting a DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D instead. cuss:

What do you have now?

Just using my shuttle at the minute, the amd board is an asrock dual sata 939.

assrock indeed happy:

you're like a computer jesus buying 500 dollar cards and water cooling components like they are candy. Why in the blue fuck would you buy one of the cheapest worst boards ever in an asrock? oOo:

I did a few gigaflops into the pool last summer. I miss my pool. loney: