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  1. sypher9878

    Help with what to buy

    I think thats what im going to do...thanx for the help
  2. sypher9878

    build quiet but cool system

    If you are going for true silence and cooler temps. water cooling is the way to go....or if you want to go overboard you could get a vapochill case. They are ugly but the temps and sound tests on those things are pretty impressive...along with the price
  3. sypher9878

    Cannot access hard drive in windows

    I work with HDD a lot and have had this happen a lot with western digitals. My drives werent compressed(meaning "zipped" up to save space) and i had to reformat and reinstall windows to get it to work. In some cases that didnt work and i did have to reformat....like windows screwed...
  4. sypher9878

    DDR PC2100 and DDR PC3200 compatible?

    From my experience if you put the faster one in the first DIMM you will run at that speed until the second channel(DIMM) is needed then when the system is forced to right data to the second dimm it underclocks the faster DIMM to match the slower one. You cant have two DIMMS holding data at...
  5. sypher9878

    Mouse pointer 'moves' on its own at random intervals

    I bought a wireless optical mouse and had the same problem. It would randomly disappear and when i "caught" it again it was in some corner of the screen. Really sucked when playing games. I replaced it with and old ball mouse and have had no problems since...Drawing parallels both...
  6. sypher9878

    Help with what to buy

    I have recently built a new computer and want to buy some speakers for it...Money is no object on this project so i am looking for the best their is...I would like recommendations on speakers sets that i could easily play a THX sound test on and have crap fall off the walls..so if you know of...
  7. sypher9878

    help with ip

    again not my exact problem...the problem im having is monitoring traffic outside my router...when i use packet sniffers/protocal analyzers/etc i can only see what i send to my router and what it sends to me....as of right now i cant even see the connection to the aol servers.
  8. sypher9878

    help with ip

    I know that will work, but i know that when i open an aim windows that the two computers are exchanging information...it is just connectionless. But ip's are in the packets that are sent..i am just trying to find a way to make it where i see traffic outside my router?
  9. sypher9878

    help with ip

    A buddy of mine demonstrated his ability to obtain my ip address through aim. I thought this was cute skill and he challenged me to find a way to do it myself. I have used ip sniffers and whatnot to monitor my traffic and i understad all if it i see. The problem im having is all the traffic is...
  10. sypher9878

    Problem getting burned ISO images to boot

    Try and image extractor to simply extract the files from the image and compile the disks manually, it takes time but might solve your problem.
  11. sypher9878

    Motherboard Issue?

    I had this problem and it ended up being a faulty drive. The best i could get out of it was that i had a bad drive that the M/B couldn't communicate with and it froze in post every time. I simply replaced the drive and had no problems.
  12. sypher9878

    RDRAM suggestions

    I wouldn't buy anything other than corsair. I dont really know if they are the most expensive, but they run cool, reliable, and pretty fast.
  13. sypher9878

    i need help

    That solved the problem. Thank you very much.
  14. sypher9878

    Troubles with EasyCD Creator after re-install

    I tried easy cd creater once(mistake) and all it did was mess with my desktop settings and made my computer boot weird at times so i deleted it and got the newest version of nero which has worked great since. TRY THAT
  15. sypher9878

    old HDD new motherboard, Blue screen,win2000????

    This happened to me and i also posted it on a thread. I was told to do the repair on windows and it didnt work. I had to reformat(which was no big deal). Maybe you should try that.
  16. sypher9878

    i need help

    The jumpers are set to cable select because i have 2 drives on one cable(80GB MAXTOR). My bios reads the drive at 180 during POST and when i enter the bios itself so i haven't really considered the bios as being the problem. Someone told me that i need to hook it into a ultra133 pci card. I...
  17. sypher9878

    i need help

    I recently bought a WD 180gb hard drive. model:wd1800jb I instaled it and booted up. My bios read the drive fine. Then when xp pro booted i went into the disk management utility to partition and format it but the drive was only being shown as 128gb. Which i now know is due to the 128bit...

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