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you could [with free programs] copy the folders from the "Program Folder" to the drive...with shareware and other software you need to pay for, it will work, but you'll need to enter licensing details on each computer you use it with.

well, it actually never BSOD's me, and i'd rather not see a BSOD...i saw one at school when i opened system mechanic pro while running virtual PC 2004 and trying to install windows server...it just stops after a while, i thought, why not free up some ram, well...didn't quite go to plan. the BSOD just flashed real quick, didn't get to see it, almost didn't want to. i'm gonna try to take out my slave drive, seeing as i have everything backed up onto my external, like my music and playlist...and i took out one of my optical drives...i think i overloaded a rail or something on the PSU...i don't quite have a way to tell...i saw a PSU calculator, said i was running 263W...my PSU is only 300...possible that i was overloading a rail...well, now i'm trying to minimalize...to the point of insanity...i may change the case this is in if i can get more ram for my P4 system...see if that helps any. but it'll take a long time to get there. i almost want to put the fans back in because my HDDs got a lot hotter than normal...now around 37C, used to be 29C... the CPU's i'm not too worried about, i'm looking for a matched pair of P3 Xeon Slot2's to replace them, for the clock speed and better heatsinks... haven't found any yet, but who knows.

welll...i'll try to shed light on some of this...yes, your ears are actually not equally sensitive, BUT, part of the reason you'll get a different sense when you reverse a headset is because Bass is only carried on one channel, bass boost will make it seem louder on both channels, but in essence, bass is a left channel sound...thats what it ultimately gets down to. in all headsets, the left side is prone to die before the right side, but thats only because of how they're made. i don't know of any better way to explain it...since your left ear is slightly [but not by much] more sensitive than your right ear, unless you are able to ignore certain sounds to really listen to something, you'll hear the increased treble and whatnot...i can't verify that this works, but if you listen to Cemetary Drive By by My Chemical Romance with your headset switched around, you might here whispering in the background, in most surround sound systems it should come out the surround speakers, but it depends on the system.

windows XP is designed to run more efficiently with the NTFS format, while older versions of windows were not, therefore, windows XP will already be better at defragging a native partition than any other type.

yea, i know my CPUs are blazing hot....i switched the temp gauge on my front panel to celcius, makes it easier for me to see whats going on...right now, the little temp probe is getting 24.6C and its sitting under the board behind where the processors are. i changed a lot of the leads for my internals, and right now, i have the CPUs slightly overclocked, just by about 13Mhz, the CPU's are bouncing around between 65 and 69C...each CPU has two fans cooling it, and there are two fans, the rear and the side fan that are blowing out. each of them are blowing out pretty warm air...i took the duct out earlier, and my PSU isn't as stressed, as speedfan is showing me that each rail has more than it did after removing 3 fans from the system. i will be getting my P4 system some ram off ebay soon [hopefully tomorrow] and then i'll look into a new case for it, as the case its in now is pretty flimsy. then i'll move this setup into the new case, and the P4 into this, as it will be so much more stable...all i need to do is get a new fan for its heatsink, which wont be hard at all. i'd get a new heatsink altogether, but its a socket 423, and its so hard finding heasinks for those, as i've had little luck lately. theres a case at a local store that i like, similar to the coolermaster stacker, only its almost completely mesh, jet black, no side window....i just want all my systems running well...i don't need new, i just need it running well. the new ram will definately help the P4, as it only has 256 at the moment, i plan on getting 4 128MB sticks for it, which wont cost me much, my allowance will get that... for now, having the lower number of fans has brought the case temp down a little, as the CPUs even overclocked having hit 69C...they never really have run cool, and they're very close to each other...they're Slot2 architechture, so heat can't exactly radiate away from them easily. i want to put the graphics card on hold, but it'll be for the P4 system, as its my most up to date, and i could use the DVI..i'd put the PCI card in it, but i still need an HDD for it...i'll see what i can scare up...i have the means, just not the ability at the moment. i have only one fan blowing into my system, i'm afraid that changing any fans still in it will just hurt it.....

you know, i think my PSU was just cooking my box. about an hour ago i guess i got annoyed because my computer just rebooted randomly, and i decided, maybe the PSU is just overloaded...so i took out my front two fans, and so far, the temp of my case has gone down from 83F to 77F and has been a lot more stable. i haven't changed the clock rates of my processors, and technically, its just two fans out, because i have a fan with a duct blowing into the PSU to cool it. would taking the duct out change anything? i can take pictures of it tonight showing what fans are where for my cooling. basically there are no fans blowing directly into the case anymore. the CPUs have also cooled down significantly [for how hot they are], and are running at 69C each...fluctuating a little because i have nLite running. i want to cool this efficiently without spending any money because i need to save up for a graphics card. i didn't want to make a new topic because this is already about cooling, but if thats better so be it.

it couldn't even be the real thing...i know you have a small amount of leeway on a CD, but its what, 6MB, if that? i don't think you quite realize what was going on...

how could windows XP sp1 not work on it? it would be the same as running a dual processor environment... i can't say 2000 would be the best of ideas, partly because the fastest processors it ever saw was 1.6Ghz P4s when it was still socket 423....to my knowledge at least...you might want to try the XP, i don't see how it wouldn't work.

wow, that totally slipped my mind. set your boot device order in BIOS to" 1) Removeable Devices 2) Adapti CDROm 3) HDD 4) Network Boot when you press any key to format the drive, continue through this step...when your computer boots again, DO NOT PRESS ANY KEY. by doing this, it will continue through installation. it happened to me several times before i caught on, this should solve the problem.

blue ray disk 100% of the way..from the capacity to already having HD support already. also, although its made by sony [i see that some people have something against sony here] its going to be a much better altoghter...despite the fact that it wont be public for at least another few months, if i asked a person who works at my school to make a post for it, he'd just go on and on about the advatages...why go fo HD only, when you could get bluray, which is also HD...not to mention the PS3 is bluray...i doubt you'll see a game system that uses HD...

so you formatted the hard drive, but now it doesn't get to installing?

by loosing contact i mean that windows fails to recognize the driver after so long. it then has a panic attack, tries to get to another one, and it never works.

hmm faulty video cards...if its a forceware driver, i've read around that it could be caused by windows loosing contact with the driver, then reverting back to a windows driver...in the process, if that fails, then the computer would crash, your moniter would then say "VGA Mode Not Support" it'll happen to me on occaision...although i don't understand why...with the graphics card and mobo being close in age...but the graphics card came in a P4 system [old P4 socket 423] and its in a PII...oh well. usually windows will revert from a standard driver, although its uncommon for it to happen with forceware drivers to my knowledge.

have a picture? also, those thunderblade fans, what are the RPMs on those?

do you know when the last time you set a restore point was? i think windows automatically sets one when the installation is done, but thats probably way too early...your best bet would just be having a scan schedule for your anti-virus so that you get rid of it as early as possible...like once a week, and then once every two weeks for spyware/adware...yea it takes a while sometimes, but a 3 hours scan is never even half as bad as a 3 hours fix..

system restore will only work when you have it backed up to a time before...if you don't set a system restore point, the whole idea of using it is wasted.

you know, i have similar issues with this computer, but it could be on for 16 hours, it could be on for less than 5 minutes and do the same thing...when i find a solution, i'd be glad to share it with the world...and yes, my computer lasted 16 hours straight, and didn't overheat at all...brought it home, random restarts left and right.... heres a good question...could it be unsteady voltage from the wall causing this? it never happens to my sisters computer, she's got a 150w PSU, it never happened to my old computer, still doesn't, but now, with a 300w PSU, it'll restart randomly...oddly enough this thing doesn't shut off with dips in power, the lights dim, the tv might turn off but this will stay on, but sometimes this just goes.

at first i thought it was a socket 370 board...since you've now said its a slot1 architechture, it might be the SSE1, SSE2, and SSE3 stuff being incompatible...its possible that i'm wrong, but if the network card is quite newer than the board and processors, it'll cause issues...also, slot 1 and even slot 2 processors will get very hot [more-so the higherclocked ones]...if i had my sisters camera handy i'd take a picture of the case fix we did to her old computer a while back...theres an 80mm case fan screwed on the side of the case [drill four holes, and then use 4 long screws, take four nuts to hold the screws in place, another four nuts to make the fan position a lot higher, and then 4 more to keep it in place...] easier to get a pic than to explain. if i can tonight i will... it just blew air onto the CPU, as it doesn't have a heatsink...my slot 2 Xeon CPUs used to run blazing hot, i went out and got some arctic silver for the heatsinks, and now its more efficient and runs cooler, so you could try that if it has the right type of heatsink...however, if there is no heatsink, its just overheating...slot type processors are blazing hot because they're usually pretty big and obstruct airflow, so as much as you'd want to take out fans, chances are, that would just cripple the system.

if you've got a good camera, could you take close up pictures of the pin, the whole, and then the chip on the bottom of the drive, so i can see how it really looks? is the whole pin completely gone off the chip? or is it just broken at the plastic? http://arem.us/stuff/hdd/ thats as solution i know of, i've used it..not something i'd ever want as a permanent fix, but it'll get the job done...i've seen drives with pins broken off and stuck in the IDE cable, but as for the entire pin missing, that could get tricky, but if i see how it looks, i can try to take one of my dummy drives and make a step my step guide. i have dead drives that i don't mind giving a butt-whooping to in order to help someone else, but if the pin is gone from the chip all the way through, it might get a little tricky.

where you plug the cable in, look for the seam between the two pieces of plastic [i'll assume its plastic, as most are] if you're feelin' lucky, you could drop it on concrete...assuming that the case its in would shatter and the hard drive would just fall to the ground unharmed. but i think that would be too daring and google would be more effective.

ok, it confused me a little when i read it because i have a PCI fx5200 that i use as mainly an extreme backup, becuase an AGP computer can use a PCI as the main card, but the only reason i don't want to is because the system is a little stuffed as is. it doesn't look like it, but i don't have as much airflow as i'd like because the processors generate so much heat being so close to each other...even with two fans on each it just heats up...i put my 92mm fan in the place of 2 ODD's, and its blowing air from between the processors aided by my 120mm fan [but i need to replace it because it sounds like its got missing bearing, so i'll have to talk to the store i bought it from about that....or i'll just find the sewing machine oil [i planned on that anyway] i'm also slowly in the process of cooling the PSU better...the single fan is only good for so long, after a few hours it just starts heating up...so i'm going to make a duct from my top fan into the PSU, and keep the fan on low...that might help right? its a delicate balance of functionality and heat with this computer, but somehow i don't mind the challenge.

i recommend Ubuntu to anyone...its a very reliable OS. i'm currently actually updating ubuntu from 5.10 to 6.06, and then if it lets me, i'll be going up to 6.10 so i can install Satanic Edition [as a joke, i'm no satanist].... it takes a considerable amount of time to learn, but its well worth it.

well, is there an external drive connected to it, or a slave drive inside? if so, then thats whats causing the scan...if not, theres just as issue with windows...it happened to my sisters windows 98 computer, turns out the HDD was on its way out, but there was no S.M.A.R.T. scan to tell us...my dad's actually working on it now...i don't quite understand what he's doing...not that i don't know about computers, but because what he's doing isn't quite smart.

my friends computer has 64bit graphics, i'll have to ask him what the card is, but i found this...i dont find it incredibly correct being as its a card i actually have. it was on the website of a store in the area...the 128bit color...i have a PCI fx5200, definately only gives me 32bit color...i was wondering if anyone knew the low-down on this 128bit stuff...i know that very expensive high quality graphics cards have it [not even gaming cards, but way up in the thousands range for the price]....is it a typo, or is it the wrong messege about the wrong thing.

you could skip it by pressing esc... have you gotten a S.M.A.R.T. drive error lately? i don't exactly want to say kill the computer and reboot because if its necessary files, that could cause a problem.