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Okay, this is really weird. Anyone know a lot about video drivers? I installed a few new drives in my Shuttle ST20G5 recently, and installed Windows 2000 Professional on the new boot drive. I then proceeded to install the new ATI Catalyst drivers, first the ones for the onboard Xpress 200...

I want to upgrade to the highest capacity drives I can (don't tell me about price/capacity ration, this is for a SFF, I can't fit in more drives). Right now I'm looking at the Seagate 500GB 7200.9. I've been checking press releases, and no one seems to have anything significantly larger...

I've got an 8ms Acer LCD to use as my designated LANparty monitor (I prefer CRTs when I have a choice). Obviously I can't toss it around as carelessly as CRTs, since it's not glass, it's whatever LCDs are made of. I've considered the Geargrip LCD shield, but I don't particularly need any...

All the USB cables I see are 6' and up in length. There are the retractable ones, but I can't tell if any of those are rated for 2.0. Also, I am not sure if it's good for those retractable cables to be at one length pretty much permanently, since they're generally marketed for laptops and such...

My setup is inside an armoire. I'd like to rig up a switch of some sort that would turn the computer on when I open the doors, and off when I close them, smoothly. I could rig up a momentary (OFF)-ON pushbutton to kill the AC to the UPS, which would then send a shutdown signal. But that...

Does such a thing exist as a slim adapter that I can plug into my DVI video card to get VGA out, and doesn't stick straight out? Right angle would be preferred, but if there's one with a short cable that would be fine too. I've found 2 meter cables that do this, but that's more slack than I'd...

All I've been able to find from Maxtor or Seagate is "summer". Anyone have any more specific dates on the release of 500GB drives?

Anyone have any experience with them? Who makes them? How're they working for you? Noise/heat/performance?

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3528 Okay, am I the only one seeing this as having the possibility of killing the majority of the XP Home market? I mean it supports networking, Internet Explorer, and Office. That pretty much covers most home PC needs, doesn't it? True...

I have an old black bakelite rotary phone (probably circa late 60s/early 70s). The handset is wired to the base (no connectors). A cable comes out of the base. The wall connector was long ago torn off. There are 3 very fine insulated wires. Red, green, yellow. Connecting the red and green...

I was thinking of sticking some of these adhesive CD sleeves to the inside of case side panels. Obviously this is a dark and dry environment, so it should inhibit corrosion. But would the heat inside a typical air-cooled mini-tower (say with a Socket478 Celeron, a 7200RPM IDE hard drive, and...

http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=570824&convertTo=USD Any laptop experts want to take a guess, looking at the cases, about what generation these laptops are?

http://citi.bridgetrack.com/usc/professional/shuffle/Default.htm? Must spend $500 within first 3 months. As always, read the fine print.

If I have a motherboard with the VIA PM800 chipset, and a Radeon 9800 AGP card, can I use both simultaneously for multiple monitors? If it's just the different manufacturers issue, would it work if I used a motherboard with onboard ATI Radeon 9100?

I'm looking at building me a SFF. With all the new formats of everything out, I figured an all-out new build is about due. These are just quick prices thrown together from NewEgg. I could probably do a little better with some searching. Shuttle SN25P $390.00 Western Digital Raptor 74GB...

I remember seeing somewhere a site selling replacement covers for Shuttle XPCs that didn't just have mesh panels, but were completely mesh (except for bottom anchors). Anyone know where that is, and if there's a P-chassis version? Yes, I know it probably wouldn't be too hard to make, but I'd...

Right now I've got a Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro. I'm quite happy with its performance, especially as I don't play too many things where frames per second is a huge issue. I'm looking at building a Shuttle SN25P. I also want to try getting TV on it, but no PCI slot, so no TV tuner card. I've...

I'm thinking of making a SFF box with no PCI slots serve TV duty. Are USB tuners tolerable for watching analog cable? My service uses a Scientific Atlanta box that goes up to channel 99; will I be able to get rid of it?

All these motherboards with PCI-E slots on them, and nothing to use in them. When are we getting network cards, TV cards, ATA or SCSI controllers, etc. that go in them? Makes the motherboards just seem like such a waste.

Like this: http://rackmountpro.com/productsearch.php?catid=83 I'm thinking of building a Shuttle XPC and this seems the best way to keep my 3.5" bay for a hard drive, but still install a floppy. Any experience with these things, or using a slim optical in a desktop in general? Any...

When Windows x64 finally does come out, and you have a 64 bit processor, what real advantage will you experience? Seeing as how there's no applications written for 64 bits right now, what advantage will there be in running 32 bit applications? Will they run in a "virtual dual processor" mode so...

If I take your typical cheap USB hub, which is marked with 5V at the power supply port, and give it 4.5V or 6V, what will happen? Is there any kind of power regulation at all in most hubs, or is it expecting 100% clean 5V from the transformer?

So these are rated at 1A. http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=0361+RG Can they (like 25 of them) be paralleled to give a 12V power supply with 25A capacity? Basically would it just involve joining all the Pin 1s together, all the Pin 2s together, and the Pin3s together (with...

Quite simply, are most ATX motherboard power button and reset button + pins the same, just grounding out to different places? Likewise, do the power and HD LEDs share the same hot circuit?

I haven't been keeping up on chipsets too much, so can someone tell me, are we at the point yet where I can attach 2 drives to something like an ICH6R and make a RAID1 completely by BIOS/firmware, so I can then install an OS directly to the array without pressing F6 or something and inserting a...

I never have time to watch movies during the week, and there's never anything good on cable during the weekend. The video store is getting kind of pricey. Is Netflix with an HTPC and DVDShrink the answer? I've got my 22" CRT, so I'm good there. I've got 2X 200GB RAID1 arrays. Should I buy a...

Is there a wireless 802.11b adapter that connects via Bluetooth? Or perhaps a Bluetooth-to-USB(female) adapter? I know wireless USB is still a long way off. Alternately, since Xbox is pretty much USB, has anyone ever rigged a wireless Xbox controller to be a USB relay? Or is the signal...

I remember seeing a little while ago seeing where someone had built a form-fitted, carpeted "dock" for a SFF in the back of a customized hatchback. This was either British or Japanese, since I remember the right side drive. Anyone know anything about this, or using a SFF as a removable...

So I think it would be novelty-worthy to be able to say I'm using a Packard-Bell. For anyone not from the U.S., P-B was one of the most notoriously low-quality, proprietary OEMs back in the Windows 95 days. I would just get a perverse pleasure out of confusing people. It's still a modern...

Those are some obscene amperage ratings for an mATX. Anyone tried one of these? What're these Athena Power guys smoking? http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=17-104-124&DEPA=0 A+GPB/Athena Power 450W MicroATX Power Supply , Model "AP-MP4ATX45" - Retail Model#...

For a mod I'm considering going from the +12v rail of a computer PSU to something like this laptop car power supply to run something like this LCD monitor. The LCD runs on 19V @ 3.16A. The car adapter is rated at 19V at 3.5A. Am I not seeing something wrong here?

Haven't had the time to install it yet. Just wondering if anyone has. Shame, no boats yet from what I can see. http://mtavc.com/ http://mtavc.com/mta05/default.htm MultiTheftAuto 0.5 brings with it a large number of important improvements. Although not as revolutionary as many...

Anyone have experience with the YY Caspers? It seems like a good design, uses a standard mATX PSU unlike the Aria, and comes in a variety of external styles. Some of them even give you the option of an oldfashioned floppy drive or other external 3.5" device, something the Aria doesn't do. Also...

I know A.C. Ryan is more a mod company than an electronics company, so it's unlikely they're making their own PSUs. Anyone had a chance to look at one yet? What are they using?