Recent content by Hawke

Heres one thing I dislike about these integrated graphics CPU's is that I will be purchasing a CPU with some extras I may not like/use and opt for a graphics card solution instead. Ok - I can see the benefit (with the graphics processor right next to the CPU cores have less to travel) but if...

Since 500Gb drives only cost aprox £30, I will be getting a new one and possibly ghosting it if the old drive decides to come to life (again)

I did use Data Lifeguard, it said there is no problems, I am really thinking that there is some damage to the connectors now, and also, with the SATA power cables (the power cable has three connectors in a daisy chain) being very stiff and the drive bay holding the hard disks so close together...

Thanks for the prompt response, I have switched on my PC again at the time of writing, the HDD in question is "recognized" by the BIOS and Windows 7 - I replaced cables (power and SATA) inside my case when this first happen and I still had the same problem The HDD power cables are extremely...

I am having a strange time with my hard disk, recently I have found one of my hard disks missing (it is used to store my iTunes music on) - I initially thought it could be some obscure windows 7 problem but the HDD is not there in BIOS. The disk has reappeared and Windows 7 sees it yesterday...

I think you have explained how my previous setup died (it was an AMD Athlon XP2200) I am still toying with the idea of purchasing some "used" Xeon E5472 from eBay as they are quite cheap and the seller reckons that they have been tested and that they are pulled from Dell PCs, but I still feel...

Hmm, I always thought computer hardware in general had a 5 year running time (I could have possibly confused it with hardware with moving parts (like hard disks) Back a bit on the subject of Supermicro dual Xeon i7 motherboards, I was suprised that some of them have support for a 1.44mb...

Well, Xeons are (from what I'm told) are made from higher quality parts than desktop designed CPUs and I was also told that server CPUs last a lot longer, could resist heat and is a lot tougher than their desktop counterparts. When my Xeons finally give up the ghost which will be a LONG time, I...

Audio sorted a long time ago, very new question: I am looking at the possibility of upgrading to dual Xeon E5472 (which is 3Ghz and takes full advantage of the Skulltrails 1600Mhz FSB), I have seen Xeons for sale made by HP, IBM etc, will purchasing Xeons that are manufactured by someone else...

Has anyone seen the new "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea" ad? It seems as if Microsoft is spreading the blame (Ok it has been around for some time)

I read this in a consumenr magazine called Which. But on a lighter note, I think my audio issues are OVER since I have now put the ASUS Xonar D2X in the PCI-E slot - the audio is better than the IDT chipset, I have noticed a difference, even on sterio speekers - I will be replacing them in...

Actually, it is only the audio chip that has been given me big issues, I did have some heat-related issues in the past (solved with fans) and installing Windows XP when I first got the motherboard (it turns out that I needed to slipstream XP SP2 onto a disk because of issues with ACPI on XP...

Still having problems with the audio, I do not understan why this all of a sudden has happend - I turned up the latency to absolute MAX I think I will give up here and purchase a PCI-E audio card (I recently purchased a PCI audio card which is defective- it didn't fit the slot properly, my...

I've looked through the BIOS settings and increased the PCI bus latency to 192 (mine had option upto 240!) and I have checked all possibilities that there is nothing out of place in the BIOS. The CMOS battery is ok, the clock is at the correct date (I tested this by pulling the plug from the...

Absolutly nothings overclocked and everything is at their defaults in BIOS and has been since the creation of the system It has happend at random times in the past, but of recent, it has been happening almost all the time - the audio works after a re-install until the computer switches off and...