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Gees, I'm almost afraid to ask ... but.... I've just set up an HTPC system with Win7 (against my better judgement) and the disk drive is thrashing continuously. At this rate I'd give it 6 months to live and the constant drive light activity, right in this guy's livingroom is plenty...

Y'know what... I was simply pointing out that 64 bit machines need basically twice as much space to store their register values as 32 bit machines did. It as quite simply a comment. How the fuck did we end up here?

Ok... I'll be quiet now. As a long timer C programmer who's dabbled in Assembly my perspective on this is probably different than most...

Actually that video has an all-male cast.

Ok, but what you seem to be missing is that you can put in twice as many 32bit "items" as you can 64bit items... Your box has a specific volume... the item count is entirely dependent on the size of each item... 32bit register == 4 Bytes. 64bit register == 8 Bytes. Is it not obvious the...

XP's limit is an artifact of it being a 32 bit OS... 2^32 == 4gigs. With a 32 bit address buss, 4 gigs is called "hitting the wall". That this would carry over in to 64bit OSs is indeed a bit odd. Generally the OS takes it's memory size from the P.O.S.T. in the Bios... so I would wonder...

It is so. "64 but" refers to the size of the CPU's registers... Specifically the general purpose ones used to do integer math. To store a 64bit value takes, no surprises, 64 bits... twice as much as it takes to store a 32bit value. Thus twice the memory is used to store any given register...

Don't forget that 8g of 32 bit ram is 4g of 64 bit ram... First question... Did it ever show 8gb available? I ask because it's possible not all of the memory is being acknowledged, as can happen sometimes when you "mix and match" different brands, speeds or sizes... Second Question...

Yes... where the edge connector on the video card plugs into the motherboard. It's probably PCI-E but it's the same story. Edge connectors are notorously sensitive to dust and it doesn't take much at all to break a connection. I once saw a computer crippled because a hair got into an AGP...

Any fan you're going to run undervoltage is going to dislike it in some way. The problem is the series resistance of the rheostat doesn't just turn down the voltage, it also limits the current, which reduces the fan motor's torque, in turn preventing it from starting reliably. Of course...

I have this little thing I do when I upgrade someone's hard disk... I take the old one (if it's still functional) and put it in either a CX or SX enclosure and then give it back to them as external storage. If they don't want it, I will sell it and make myself a couple of extra bucks. I also...

What do the two cables have in common? Age? Usage? A third cable? And that begs the question... Do both monitors always go out at the same time? And then.... There is another connector people don't tend to think about in these situations... This could be a problem with your...

Jolt Cola was at one time the staple of hackers and programmers working the long hours to get projects finished... Back in the days of the true geek, when software was an adventure not a corporate undertaking.... The stuff had so much caffiene in it, you'd swear, you could feel it going through...

Excellent suggestions.... Especially trying it with VGA connections.... If the connection doesn't break on different connectors with a different cable, you've narrowed it down rather a lot... A bad connector or a bad cable... most likely it would be a cable since the problem transplanted...

One more item I forgot on that list of mine (sorry).... You should try to find software that will monitor your video card temperatures... it might be overheating and locking up....

Interesting... See I'd put the money into something totally useful... like a year's supply of Jolt Cola and Frozen Pizza. :eek:

Found this detail on the fans themselves. It seems to support what everyone's saying... http://pavouk.org/hw/fan/en_fan4wire.html I'd want to test the setup on an old motherboard first, just in case. I'd also want to test with 9 or 7 volts to be shure the fan starts and spins reliably...

Not bad... not bad at all. Only one small suggestion... on your next build you should watch the directions of your woodgrains... It's kind of an unwritten rule that woodgrain always goes along the longest dimension, not across it... Nice project, well done.

*#$@ record companies... probably still moaning the decline in Vinyl! :D Really... there's a lot of bacwards thinking in the industry. Any sensible record exec. would have seen the enormous popularity of digital media and worked out a way to cash in on it a long time ago... Example...

Ok, thanks for that... now I know too... :D