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Looks more your motherboard that has a problem. I would reinstall the motherboard drivers first. Also check for bad capacitors on the motherboard as it also could be a hardware problem.

Well, personally I like the ATI HD 4xx0 series, depending on your screen resolution I would pick a 4670, 4830 (lowerclocked 4850), or a 4850 with no more than 512MB. The 4670 has a 128bit memory bus and 320 "processors", while the 48x0 have 640. Always combine it with a brand PSU, 430W or 18A on the 12V line will be enough. It's time to post your findings on prices, so, would you be so nice to give us the price on a XP (home) and Vista (home Basic 64x) and the 512MB, 1GB and 2GB PC2 6400 sticks (DDR2 800MHz / MT/s)? EDIT: Never mind, I see you are going to do it the hard way .

Okay, okay, they are released, next time I'll do my homework first . My bad...

Vista also gives you the possibility to lock a system down to only the programs and functions you would like to give to the customers, on all grounds Vista is "better" than XP, with some minor exceptions. Note that in Mexico, and that's also a 3rd world, XP has a higher price than Vista. Prices in India must be the same as in Mexico or in Australia, most products that are not sold in Europe, Japan or Canada/USA, are specially sold in our countries including India. Brands like Epson and Samsung are a good example who only distribute models specially made for Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia. When I need an English description, or better say a complete description, of product sold in Mexico I always have to look on the Indian Samsung website or the Australian Epson website. I agree that in general the prices in our countries are about 20-30% higher than in Europe, Japan or Canada/USA.

Few would care any way, besides that, 2TB drives are still to come, it's a storage device limit not 2TB on the whole controller.

Ow crap, it's one with the big DIN connector and not even ATX. PC-Chips perhaps? I would not even invest in something like that but that's me.That ASUS board is okay, it has some flaws with AGP timings and sometimes switches back from UDMA to PIO mode in windows. there must be tons of cheap CPUs out there .

Check the prices of 512MB, 1GB and 2GB sticks and post back . x64, better in every way besides old stuff that you don't want to run on a public PC .

Not to jump on you or so, but:Why buy an OS that is from 2002 (SP1, before that I don't count, same with Vista SP1) while you can get better prices on Vista Home Basic X64 with DirectX10, eg. use the "full" potentional of your new hardware? They are talking about XP I hope, if not they should kick out the writer of that... O man...

Sorry that I didn't reply earlier. The thing is that it should work in most cases but I wonder if Intel changed their drivers again. Well, just get the package from the link in the first post, unpack them and there should be the file you are looking for. That's the 32 or 64 bit version, depending on your OS (The INF file has all hardware IDs in them).Long time I looked over it by the way...

You can't but I can .

Try it out first I would say, download the programs from www.lightscribe.org . EDIT: and that was in 2005.So you might have to get a new OS.

Well, yes, but in this case you protect your business thus you better be not allowing every webpage that exists. The customers that complain can go find their crap somewhere else as it's for sure not straight. I´m using it now for over 2 years and I'm really happy with it, I can even resolve DNS requests fasten then by using the DNS server of my ISP. I beg to differ. Due to the way most cafes manage their game licenses you will also need to store images of discs (ISO's etc) on the drives which will take up considerably more space. In addition to that the steam cafe system offfers you ridiculout amounts of games and remember you will be getting new games as time goes by with customers still wanting to play some of the older ones. I would go with AT LEAST 500gb ... Correct, 500GB is needed for a "Steam Cafe", I use 50GB for the OS (Vista 64bit) and Office and the other 415GB (as a 500GB is really 465GB useful) for the games PLUS they are faster too then a 160 or 250GB drive. Naa, 1Gb will kill the performance on Vista, 2GB will run smooth but if you really want to run a system without problems 4GB would be better, and for sure 64bit. Most people will not just play a game, at the same time they have YouTube open, some other webpages open, MSN messenger open, Microsoft Word and Excel and after that list they play a game with their friends. believe me, that's the average gamer here .I use 8GB as I'm using photoshop a few times a week to print huge 300DPI printouts, mostly 60 by 160cm or 80 by 180cm. If it was just for gaming then 4GB would be enough. Ow, and I forget Virtual Machines, i run those too to test...

Yes they have the fuse and I tried to replace them before (or bridged them), also for the USB ports (mostly broken and short-circuited) but I never could get one to work again.I wonder aurel, did you break a USB port?

Correct, it's just what we see in the field, it's not that we have a test lab to measure temperatures for example.

The HP is a Lite-On, so if Yoko Ono is right you are comparing 2 drives made by the same company . The HP drive is just an older model, most new models have the 22x label on it. Look at Samsung or Pioneer, best you can get at the moment...

Use OpenDNS for that.

Explain that to the others please, I tried it but they simple didn't get what I tried to explain.

Even on new motherboards it's not working well, so the chance that it will work on an older PC, besides some DELL, is very small.

Okay, what you need is: - Dual core CPU above 2GHz, Intel E5200 would be a perfect pick but a AMD X2 5200 is also nice - ATI HD4670 or nVidia 9600GT and up, 512MB, no need for more - 2GB up to 4GB of RAM What you don't need, or better say to stay away from it, is: - nVidia chipset on your motherboard - Intel Celeron E1200/1400 for gaming unless you OC them to 2.66/3GHz - Video cards with lots of RAM and no GPU power. That's the start...

Google for it or just type it in your browser with ".org" behind it.

All depends on what games you are going to use on those computers and your budget. I personally would go with Valve Cybercafé Program (STEAM based) as it's easy to manage and not too expensive. So, what is your budget?

In this case you can't learn that, it's just bull...But yes, wikipedia has a lot of good info...

http://promos.asus.com/US/eblast/G50Vt_NVIDIA/index.html Just the link...

Don't forget the time to access the drives. I have found that accessing the drive is mostly the bottleneck with cheap SSDs. Windows 7 should support SSD way better then Vista.

or take a look at pointertovoid topic, point (6). Looks promising, did you try it before pointertovoid?