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Ok, I have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina and I'm currently at my sister's house in North Carolina near Charlotte (Huntersville to be exact). I'm asking if any Hard forum members know of a good location to purchase computer hardware from. I'm hoping for decent prices, but more importantly...

You might need to plug in the speaker plugs into the front audio plug ports. On my SN85G4 for whatever reason I needed to plug my rear speakers into the front plug for the rear speakers because when I had it plugged into the back it wouldn't output to both rear speakers.

Are you sure about this? From what I have heard the SN26P is only able to work in SLI mode with 2 6800GT's because the 6800 Ultras hsf are too big. But since the 7800 uses less power and makes less heat the hsf is about the same size of a 6800GT. To go SLI, or NOT to go SLI? That is the...

Check for a bios update before you purchase the CPU, but since it is a 939 board I do not see any reason why it wouldn't work. Also make sure to apply the bios update just in case before you go and pop the X2 chip in because it may not even boot if the update is not applied first. I really do...

Man I thought I had installed the drivers wrong or something afraid that I had corrupted them during install, or that maybe it was a windows 64 driver only issue. Thanks for the quick support and fix from these awesome forums and the knowledgeable people who use them I can watch my videos in...

nice, the bigger the HD TV the better IMHO. Trying to do the same with my folks, but I'm not sure when it's going to work.

a modded Xbox as a HTPC is awesome. From a gaming and media center standpoint it's really hard to beat considering the price. Only thing it lacks is recording and HD. Other than that it really is great due to the XBMC which is open source, updated all the time, and just plain kick ass!

Not sure if anyone has seen this happen, but the indoor antennas for over the air HDTV get messed up picture and singal wise when a cellphone is called from within the same room as the antenna. The signal break up is similar to what happens when a cloud storm breaks up reception for a satellite...

I'm almost in the same boat as you (meaning college is expensive, and I need a TV). However why buy a non HD TV? I mean if your going to get a TV you might as well spend a bit more money and time into one and get an HD one (It helps with resale value). Of course it's your money and your life...

I know that the shuttle SN85G4 did not allow me to get full surround sound when playing Doom 3 with the optical out going into the receiver. I believe that it is an issue that almost every audio card has. No digital out surround sound, but analog works just fine. I have yet to try my SN95G5...

Windows XP would work on the ramdisk if it is seen as a sata device right? All you got to do is install drivers for it when windows setup ask for them. I have considered doing something like this, but just for the operating system. I think that it would be awhole lot faster than any hard...

649.99? I hope that is not the normal price, and that it is a jacked up price. I mean considering it's suppposed to have twice the performance of a 6800 Ultra then I guess I could see it being that high of a price. Even with as high of a price I still want it! lol but considering that I don't...

I'll be at Quakecon this year. Let me know what time the Hooter take over is planned for and I'm game!

This seems like such a nice deal if only I lived in one of those cities. Well I do have family over there so it's just a matter of convincing them to do it for me. Shouldn't be hard because after all that is what family is for.

If I'm not mistaken you can flash the bios with the new bios file using the winflash program that should come on the shuttle CD. I'm pretty sure that will work as that is what I used for my SN85G4.

I have to agree that if I could run the Mac OS on my PC without any problems or performance lose I would probally do it in a heart beat. It would be like getting a whole new OS that could compete with the stuff that Microsoft has besides linux.

Preach it Steve, but not matter how hard you try the probally won't listen, and six years from now we will hear it again. PC gaming will never die. You simply can't play games as well with a console as you can with a PC. Now the console people are finally getting some of the things the PC...

I would like an invite as well. Name: Lexington Steell Necro/Monk

Official finding as the reason why Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory does not play can be found here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=900679 . Also I revently picked up a copy of Act of War, and it installed just fine, but as I went to play it I got an error that said I needed to have...

Installing drivers just so you can play a game?!?! What's next, having to been connected to the internet just to unlock a game you already installed and purchased,,, uhh hum that was done too. Ok whats next, blood and semen samples just to install and play a game? WTF is this coming too.

If your credit card is not charged then I don't know how you expect to get it. Did you fill in credit card information, shipping address, etc, and finish the ordering process? If you answered yes to all of those than I can only suggest that you wait for it to arrive. Supposed to take up to 3...

Unless if it is installing drivers then it really should install and work just fine. Doesn't matter if it is 64 bit or 32 bit, unless if drivers are involved in some way or another.

maybe try using Firefox, and see if that works any better for you.

Lol, well someone has to do it! Take one for the team! If you know of any open Beta tester spots shoot me a PM. I would be more than happy to contribute to the cause.

Not sure on the exact date when it came out, but check this URL here: http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?productid=64 You should be able to purchase it from there. Also in response to the Java question, I'm not sure which one it was that I installed, but I needed...

Windows XP x64 does it. I didn't even think about installing a networked printer once I had formated because I didn't know for sure if it would pull the correct drivers or not(considering that machine it was on was a 32bit OS). But without even thinking the other day I needed to print...

There are a couple things that need to be said about windows 64. Some good and some bad. For the most part they are all pretty good things that I have to say as I am running x64. I really like it but there are also some things that no longer work with it. One of the best things about Windows 64...

I'm running it, and I like it a lot. I find that my system has increased in speed a whole lot, and yes it has broken somethings(Even my favorite app) but it is not enough to make me want to format back to windows xp pro 32 bit.

Some of the things you describe sound like it could be overheating issues. How is the cooling on your mobo chipset? How hot is your ram, and is it overclocked any? Maybe you could also have some kind of program running in the background messing all kinds of sh1t up. I would check these...

Not really sure, but I don know that the SN26P is supposed to be announced by shuttle sometime this month. The SN26P is going to be a 939 nforce4 chipset with sli. They will probally be the first to market with a sli capable sff unless there is some other company that I am unaware of with one...

Not really sure what the specs on the cpu are, but I do know it was an Intel chip. Ask Mo0ch what the specs are as he was the one who opened the case to find velcro holding the heatsink fan to the cpu.

Well a buddy of mine works at a local computer wholesaler, and for the most part they build PCs and sell them to businesses, and also do a fair amount of computer repairs. On occasion they also do a good amount of business with the enthusiast since you can just walk in and purchase computer...

I would suggest a Nvidia 6600gt 256, or 128 meg, whatever suites you better. Nice card, capable of playing some of the latest games, but not bleeding edge either. Should be a happy medium, and will only take up the AGP slot, and not the adjacent PCI slot.

This is a pre-order (hold my copy) purchase, and while you do get a nice nifty trinket inside, and usually the pre-order price going toward the purchase of the full thing I would purchase this except for the fact that the last time I bought a pre-order from Best Buy I was not able to get the...

Like Raku said the SFF power supplies are built with higher quality in mind. They put out more power than you think, and can easily power 3 IDE devices, and PCI, and AGP card even the higher end models like the 6800GT. The problem with the 6800 Ultra does not come from the amount of power it...

Some of you guys need to chill, and just give some advice on if what the man wants to build bill be powerful enough to do what he needs to do. Having said that here comes my 2 cents: Price is always something that I look at when I'm contemplating a purchase. From what I found on...

I got this one, and I feel kind of disappointed. I was expecting more from it, and it does seem to be very un polished almost like a pre-Gold state. I was just expecting a whole lot more in the line of ease of use, graphics, and gameplay. I'll stick with Rome:Total War, LOTR:BFME, and...

Duct tape really can be used to fix anything!

Actually I know this doesn't apply to everyone but if you have an SLI setup with DVI+Widescreen LCD you also have a bug that causes the cards in the SLI setup to perform worse than if in a standalone setup. This is due to a driver bug that only exist when SLI+DVI+widescreen LCD are combined...

I would suggest what each of those parts seperatly would cost brand new today. Then discount it some considering that it is used, and sell it based on that figure. I would suggest using your own discretion in the discounting of the parts. Only you know how long the system has been in use, and...