jcarle

Which website are you referring to? http://wud.jcarle.com/ contains updates lists for Windows XP x86 ENU that were updated on July 11th, 2007.

Sometimes even if you research ASUS can still be blamed. ASUS has a cock up around the time they manufactured the P5LD2 motherboards and there is a known issue floating around the internet that some boards won't complete their POST due to something with the USB controller. The thing that makes it even more frustrating is that no one has found a way to pinpoint the exact cause, eventually resorting to simply swapping the motherboard for a new one. At a two hundred something price tag, the P5LD2 was no cheap. ASUS is bound to be held accountable for things like that.

I call it Sarah.

OCZ sells some of the greatest memory in the world.

I guess that means the end for the WRT54G/GS/GL product line as well. I honestly believe this may be a bad move on Cisco's part... I think they did this too early. Considering that Linksys switches and routers are amongst the top selling in their respective categories. Cisco is synonimous with quality and speed sure... but it's also synonimous with expensive... and I believe that will drive people away from their products.

There is no polarity for switches. A switch is a switch and simply acts to interupt or continue a loop.The polarity is only important for LEDs, which in their case, the colored wire is positive and the white wire negative.

a] Improperly wired fans would not prevent the power supply from powering down. b] The operating system CAN be responsible. If the operating system is still active after it's supposed to be shutdown and has not properly issued the ACPI/APM commands to turn off the power supply, the power supply will remain active.

Unless the BIOS adds new support for previously unsupported FSBs or a specialized instructions, most of the time you can boot with your unrecognized CPU and update your BIOS. To prevent damage to your CPU, it's important to find out what the correct vCore voltage is for your new CPU and manually set the vCore to the correct value until you upgrade your BIOS. The same also applies to the FSB and any other settings which can be configured manually.

Make sure your BIOS is up to date with the latest revision (F4 according to the Gigabyte website). Make sure Windows has the latest updates installed, including SP2 and all the current updates up to now. Make sure you have all the drivers installed for all your hardware (Check the hardware manager in system properties and make sure that there are no yellow exclamation points). Make sure none of your components are overheating (especially the CPU). Try seeing if you still have this issue using the on-board video instead of the XFX card you have. And like asked above, what power supply are you using? Brand? Model? New or old?

What you get from ASUS really depends on what you buy. I've had mixed bag experiences with ASUS. I used to be a die-hard ASUS fan but recent bad experiences with certain products have made me more selective. I had trouble with two P5LD2 motherboards in a row, both seemingly because of a USB controller issue that caused it to halt mid-POSTing. Ironically I've purchased some of their most inexpensive motherboards ($65 CAD) and have had nothing but success. I suppose since ASUS offers so many different models and is branched out into so many different categories, the law of averages must apply at some point and defects are bound to happen. In recent years, I've moved to Foxconn for it's rock solid stability and long term reliability. You can't ask for more from the world's largest manufacturer.

Your computer may be crashing when you are shutting it down. Right-click on My Computer, then choose Properties. From there, go to the Advanced tab. Click on the Settings button in the Startup and Recovery section. In the section marked System failure, remove the check next to Automatically restart. This will allow you to see if whether or not this is the case.

Make sure that you install the latest intel chipset drivers. APM and ACPI functions are controlled through system drivers which are installed as part of the chipset drivers. Make sure that APM or ACPI is enabled in the BIOS as well as making sure that it's enabled in the Power Management section of the Windows control panel.

By the way, the Corsair 620W is also on special ($46 off their regular price).

I think 802.11n is a great example of how ridiculously dragged out specification writing is with these standards committees.

Does the PSU only have SATA connectors? If it doesn't: http://store.pchcables.com/duseatapoad.html I'm not a big fan of those 4-pin molex to SATA power connectors since they always leave out the 3.3v feed. Why don't you just get the HX620, it comes with 8 SATA power connectors right off the bat?

My problem is your lack of proper spelling, using abbreviations instead of full words, your pubescent attitude, the fact that since it works for you or it works for your friends it's all good, the fact that you don't research, the fact that you assume, the fact that you won't contribute real content, the fact that you don't support your statements which may be objectionable with any proof or reference, the fact that you devaluate the value of the threads in which you participate. Pick the one you want. Generally, it's all of them. I'm not the only one who thinks this, the only difference is that I'm the only one who's willing to say it. The Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme should be your only choice. A quick search around the net will quickly show you that there are no other air coolers which can perform at lower temperatures then what the Thermalright can do.

it uses less watts, somewhere from 90-95W as opposed to 105W i believe. it really means more overclocking and that is really the only reason that you would want one, unless you are a company that's deciding to purchase 100 Q6600's...Are you blind? You must be blind. You're either blind or stupid.

I really have to give a strong recommendation for a 3ware controller...especially if you're already going to spend that much. I've been using their PATA/SATA RAID controllers for the last few years and couldn't be happier with them. Not to mention that all of their newer controllers have 64-bit LBA support...so the largest drives to come for the foreseeable future will work on the controllers. HA! Told you! Now you heard it from someone else.

X38... now that's what I'm just itching to buy. I can't wait for it to come out. It's eating away at me like mesothelioma.

It's because, not b/c. Vista drivers are not all great. Just because the drivers for the hardware you have are stable during the usage that you make of them does not make in no way for a fully quantified proof that Vista drivers are great. If all of the Vista drivers were so great then companies wouldn't be spending the small fortunes that they are spending to improve them, there wouldn't be any driver updates and there wouldn't be anyone complaining either. Most people like myself and mmX who work professionally with our hardware would rather not use things such as vLite which will affect the overall stability of the operating system and can cause unforeseen problems that cannot be properly diagnosed due to the nature of the changes that vLite can do. If I had a company that produced sound cards and there was a large change in platform that required me to dedicate my full team of programmers full time to learn, understand, develop, debug and support new drivers for a new operating system which no one had ever used before, I wouldn't even write drivers for a sound card like the Audigy. The Audigy is over 6 years old. Microsoft's operating systems don't even get that long for support I believe (I think it's 5 years). If I was going to develop drivers for a sound card that people just didn't want to upgrade because "it still works" but wanted to move to the bleeding edge operating system, you'd be damned sure that I'd charge them and for a lot more then $10. When Microsoft released Windows XP, then didn't even support their own game port products. Microsoft did not and officially stated that it would NEVER support for Windows XP it's game port based joysticks and game pads. And that's the way it should be. The technology was old and needed to be left behind. A need is a need and it doesn't have to be perfect. The reason generates the need and it can't be fixed otherwise. I think you assume a lot of things. Microsoft isn't going 64 bit because Vista is a superior operating system. In my opinion, Vista is the most bloated and rushed piece of garbage ever shoved out the doors of Microsoft with a swift kick in the a**. Microsoft is going to go 64 bit only for the same reason that it stopped supporting game ports and the same reason that it stopped supporting non-NT based operating systems. To force the computing world to change. I think you need to spend less time assuming and generalising. Spend more time researching, evaluating and understanding... perhaps it may add more content to your posts and increase instead of decrease the value of the threads in which you participate.

You can't run .UL files. Move the UL file into the WUD program directory (typically C:\Program Files\Windows Updates Downloader) and then run WUD to open the UL.

Do you ever post anything worth reading?

and i do have critical data. i dont see how people can buy 2x250gig hdds and raid0 them. there is no way that you have 500gigs of unimportant data.. You don't seem to get the point. You don't raid 0 for data storage. If you're using raid 0 for data storage, then you should be shot. Raid 0 is for speed, and it does make a difference. I have 2x74GB Raptors in Raid 0 for my OS and 2x250GB in Raid 1 for my data storage. I couldn't give a rat what happened to the data on my Raid 0 volume if it crashed and that's the way it should be.

You'll get much better compression times with DVD encoding/transcoding using the E6850 vs the Q6600 in most applications simply because software is not yet optimized to take advantage of true multithreading. The higher clock speed will outway the benefits of more cores.

You will gain a lot of speed in Raid 0. And you don't lose data if you're smart enough not to use a Raid 0 array to store data.