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Basic questions again: - What driver are you using? - Motherboard that is used? - Is the system OCed? - The OS you are using? So, it’s only with video overlay playback? Or does it show also when playing games, like strange textures or artifacts?

The X38/P35/P31/G35/G33/G31 chipsets are collectively called the "3 series" chipsets. Again, if you must purchase right now make it either a P965 or P35 based motherboard...and only go for P35 if you're getting a 1333MHz FSB based CPU.I like to add that the P35 also adds support for 45nm based CPUs...

It’s safe, the big beep you were facing is a component that is failing at the OCed speed, it could be your RAM, CPU or VGA card if you have one. If you start OCing you need to do it step by step and learn how far each component can go, it’s not only the CPU that you OC; When bringing up the FSB all components will be OCed.

Howly cow, check out The Digg PC... B)

Hold on! The man wants to OC so he would be better of with 1066MHz FSB CPU although it’s 60US$ cheaper but I’m sure there are other stores that have the E6600 for les then 300 US$. nitroshift, Better choice, but you can’t get version 2.0 of that motherboard?

Lower voltage and thus less power eating, smaller cooler and less noise . However, any one would pick the G0 over a B3, except for the ones who don’t know it or don’t care about a better “model”.

For installation CDs you can contact Microsoft, MSFN.org isn’t a medium to ask for ISOs. Thread Closed

That’s what I would say, especially with a nice fileserver like Zxian has. @ Zxian, I use "overlapping" backups so if a backup is damaged I can go back to an older one. Of course, this is only for not update/modified files... DVDs with the session kept open are not accepted by all DVD-optical drives so indeed no go.

No, not the price, those are almost the same now, and while they so low, you could afford a mistake by buying not the most recommended one . I’m doing 10 DVD´s a day here, just for customers. Some days I do 100 in a row or so...

Nitroshift, I checked out the motherboard you linked too, but found a bit more expensive one that could suite you better. If you put more attention to the newer motherboards then you will see that most come out with solid capacitors. Not only around the CPU socket but also on other places like the chipset and PCI/PCI-E slots. For the sound card, it’s less important. I would take a look at the GA-P35-DS3R (rev. 2.0), it has better components and more USB ports at the back. But, I still have some questions: - Are you planning to use this computer for something other then just home-computing? - How many hard drives are you going to connect? - Any Over clocking/tweaking involved?

Yeah, Startcraft is a bit older and comes standard on 640*480 . I’m happy that they "updated" Diablo 2 to 800*600 with there LOD expansion pack.

Same here, DVDs at 18x CAV (6 minutes). I burn a backup of 4.3GB every 2 weeks or so, and save a new project on an extra copy.

In a country like Mexico where 20% of the market places are filled up with copied stuff, films, music, programs and more, they know what to pick for burning all those discs. An average LiteOn can do up to 2000 DVDs on 8x with no exception. They use these drivers in an enclosure for 9 devices and they are fully occupied and get pretty warm too, these machines work like 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Any way, the most popular ones are LG, but they are less precise then LiteOn but cheaper to buy. So, I think LiteOn isn’t that bad and would advice it to any one. But for real, who cares about a DVD-RW writer these days, all of them are cheap. Before we looked at speeds for ripping CDs into MP3 and Toshiba came out as one of the fastest, but that was years ago. Now, almost all drives rip at the same speed, burn almost the same amount of discs and come in black, grey or beige/white so there isn’t such a difference any more. Pioneer had something special before, the sloth-in DVD readers; those were unbreakable for sure...

LiteOn is my number 1. Untill now no problems with any of them that I sold.

So you did try another keyboard and you get other "things" now?

Cloning the hard drive will do fine. Popular picks are Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image. If you get your self Acronis True Image, you can even make a recovery partition on your drive so when Windows stops working you can recover it in a few minutes (depending on size of the data and speed of the computer).

Then I would give them a call and ask for a solution; Just buggy Kodak software on a not ready OS...

Looks like your first time... Ask some one close to you to help you with it, which would be the easy way. Make sure you download your drivers first to install everything in one time, and don’t forget to make a backup!

Told ya, soon bro, SOON! .

The software you have now only works for XP, you could try to download a newer version of your software that should work with VISTA.

Well, there are no administrator installs, just these ones that you can download and slipstream .

I never tried it on 98(SE)/ME, thank you for informing me on that .

- Swap out the keyboard, they are cheap. - If that doesn’t help reinstall windows and see if that fixes the problem. - If both don’t help your motherboard has gone bad. It could be a virus too or something in windows that is messing it up. Did you try your keyboard in safe-mode?

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Then I would swap out the powersupply and the RAM to see if it changes any thing...