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My old computer died and I want to replace my it with a new motherboard and CPU. I want an ASUS motherboard. The one I'm looking at is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131142. However, I wasn't sure about nVidia chipset as I don't have experience with them. My current working mobo is an Intel chipset. What are advantages of nVidia vs Intel? Should I look for Intel Chipset? Here is the processor I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115030. Your thoughts appreciated. My budget is $350 for processor/mobo.

Do you have winimage? WinImage supports VHD format. This is probably complicated but you need a BartPE with WinImage plugin to restore your image. Otherwise I can't seem to think of a way to restore it.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR DEER BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP SLOB BLOB BLUB CLUB CLUE GLUE GLUG GLUM PLUM PLUG PLUS FLUS FLUX FLEX FLEE FLEE FREE FRET FRAT BRAT BRAN BRAG DRAG FRAG FRAY PRAY PREY TREY GREY GREW BREW CREW CROW BROW GROW GLOW GLOB SLOB SLAB STAB STAY STAR STAP STAG STOG STOP STEP STEW SHEW PHEW OHEW WHEW WHET WHEN THEN THAN THIN SHIN SHIP WHIP CHIP CLIP SLIP SLIM SLIT SLIK FLIK FLIP FLOP FLOG FROG FROM PROM PROD PROP PLOP FLOP GLOP GOOP GOOF GOLF WOLF ROLF ROFF RUFF RIFF RIFT GIFT SIFT SILT SILK SULK HULK BULK BALK TALK WALK WALL WILL WELL WELT BELT BOLT BOLD HOLD HOLE DOLE DOLT COLT MOLT MELT MALT MALL BALL YALL CALL FALL FAIL FOIL BOIL COIL SOIL SOUL FOUL FOWL BOWL BOWS COWS COPS TOPS HOPS POPS MOPS MODS GODS GOES DOES FOES FEES FEET LEET BEET BEAT FEAT MEAT MEAL SEAL DEAL REAL HEAL HELL BELL CELL TELL TEAL TEAM BEAM SEAM SPAM SPAT SPAN SPIN SKIN SKIS SKIP SNIP SNAP SNAG SLAG SLAY PLAY CLAY CLAM CLAN CLAW SLAW SLAT SLIT BLIT BAIT WAIT WATT WANT PANT PENT PUNT PUNK SUNK SANK SINK SINS PINS PENS PANS PATS PALS PALM PALE PATE FATE MATE DATE LATE GATE GAME NAME SAME SOME ROME COME COLE SOLE SILE VILE RILE BILE FILE TILE PILE PILL MILL MILE MICE MISE MIKE BIKE BIDE BITE CITE CITY PITY PITH LITH WITH WISH WASH WASP GASP GASH CASH LASH BASH SASH DASH HASH DASH DOSH DOSE DOPE HOPE POPE ROPE ROSE ROSS BOSS LOSS LOST POST HOST MOST WOST COST ROST ROOT ROOM BOOM BOOT FOOT FOOL FOOD GOOD MOOD MOOT MOON SOON TOON TOWN TORN Boy, I'm WORN out with all these words.

COME on now. Over 3000+ views and 310+ words. That's about 1 word per 10 views. Hummmm.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP SLOB BLOB BLUB CLUB CLUE GLUE GLUG GLUM PLUM PLUG PLUS FLUS FLUX FLEX FLEE FLEE FREE FRET FRAT BRAT BRAN BRAG DRAG FRAG FRAY PRAY You guys are now all PREY to this addictive game. Frag? Come on TAin, I expect better from you, haha... MSFN spell checker says it's not a word...

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP SLOB BLOB BLUB CLUB CLUE GLUE GLUG GLUM PLUM PLUG PLUS FLUS FLUX FLEX FLEE FLEE FREE FRET FRAT BRAT BRAN BRAG Yes, I'm proud. I wasn't aware this post would DRAG so many people to play this game. BTW, good work on 'brag'.

Now, now FRAT doesn't mean they are a BRAT.

Are you running your scripts in Elevated Privileges mode? I think that error occurs because of that - Vista will not mount images unless you run in elevated mode. It really sucks.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP SLOB BLOB BLUB CLUB CLUE GLUE GLUG GLUM PLUM PLUG Humm... have we come to a dead end. Nah... I've got one, this is be a PLUS for me.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP SLOB BLOB BLUB CLUB CLUE GLUE GLUG GLUM This will go on till the Sugar PLUM fairy dances or until all the 4 letter words in the English language are used up, and then some.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD GLAD CLAD CLAP SLAP FLAP FLAT FLAX FLAY FLAB FLAK FLAW FLOW BLOW BLOT PLOT SLOT SLOP Why take your mind out of SLOP? Who would do that?

According to poll, looks like most people don't bother trying to find the right image viewer. I don't either; just use the built-in.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD GOAD CLAD I'm GLAD you gave him a golf CLAP, and not a SLAP, for his use of CLAD.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK LEAP LEAN BEAN BEAD LEAD LOAD LORD CORD FORD WORD WOOD GOOD Don't GOAD me to change this cons-vow-vow-cons combination again.

To hide folders, use XP's built-in NTFS security. 1) Create a folder, for example, FOLDER. 2) Create folders that you want to hide within FOLDER, for example, FOLDER1, FOLDER2, etc. 3) Right click on FOLDER. Then take exclusive ownership of that folder by deleting other owner from the 'Owner' tab of 'Advanced Security Settings' for FOLDER. (see image) 4) Then, in the 'Security' tab, delete everyone except yourself from 'Group or user names'. (see image) Now, others who log in can see FOLDER, but can't see FOLDER1, FOLDER2, or any folder within FOLDER. Of course, if you only have one user profile, then you can't use this method. You'll have to use third party software as mentioned above. I recommend BestCrypt, however. Works great! It creates a virtual drive that you can mount and unmount.

I just tried that, Gunsmoking. It didn't work. So I backed up my data. Then tried to delete, recreate, and format the partition. Formatting froze the computer. I restarted in BartPE and tried to format there. It's still formatting but I see no HDD activity. I'll give it another hour and if nothing, then I'll assum something else is wrong. I've been getting a lot of errors on that drive. I recently noticed after a chkdsk some bad sectors (640 k) on that drive. I've gotten a lot of iastor.sys errors in system log in computer management. And also some error called ESET error. Wonder if it's my MOBO's SATA port or is it the hard drive itself? I'm not sure what's happening here. SATA port or bad hard drive? It's 1 year old - Maxtor MaxLine II 300 Gb. Running it as AHCI. Twice, the drive disappeared from my computer. Once, when I started XP, it wasn't there. I restarted and there it was. Second time (yesterday), it vanished while XP was running! Frustrated.

Sorry for 3 posts in a row, but the consonant-vowel-vowel-consonant combinations were becoming a heavy LOAD. Now I've set it up so we can get away from that; I know someone will be clever enough to do just that.

LEAD

BEAD

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR FEAR NEAR DEAR BEER BEEP PEEP PEER LEER LEEK LEAK We should get away from the consonant-vowel-vowel-consonant combination.

I'm having a problem with my I: partition. I set this partition to be dirty. Now, everytime at startup, it checks the disk for errors and hangs up at the end when it says "USN journal verification etc etc completed." I don't understand why it hangs when it says it's completed. Anyway, I have to press the reset button to restart and Windows comes up normally. However, next time I shutdown, the same thing happens. How do I manually get it to reset the dirty bit? The MS page only explains how to set it, but not undo the set. (I types fsutil dirty query I: and it stated the drive is dirty. So I want to restore to not being dirty.) There is a file called bootex.log that resides in this I: partition and can't be deleted. When virus scan runs, Windows errors when it gets to this file stating you need to check the drive for errors. If I run it from within Windows, then it freezes at stage 4 of 5.

It's perfectly safe. I got a page selling ipods; and a popup blocked by IE7.

Sorry, I'm no fan of BEER, I veer away from it.

Can't help it. I'm such a DEAR, not DEER, of course.

FORM FORK DORK DARK BARK PARK PART FART FAST VAST VASE BASE CASE CAST CART DART DARE CARE FARE MARE MALE TALE SALE SOLE SOLD MOLD TOLD GOLD FOLD FOLK FILK MILK MILE MALE MATE MAZE DAZE DOZE DONE NONE NOSE POSE POLE PORE MORE SORE SURE PURE PARE RARE RACE FACE FACT TACT PACT PAST FAST CAST CASE BASE VASE VISE VISA VESA VEST BEST JEST TEST TEAT MEAT NEAT SEAT SEAR Have no FEAR for your tush will not disappear any time in the near. (Some repeaters in red. It's all right. Let's see how long we can continue without repeats.)