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Rob... can someone who's installed hundreds of motherboards and OSs offer you a tiny bit of advice here? 9 out of 10 times changing a motherboard will break a working system... You can have the same everything else, but changing the MOBO is suicidal OS wise. Windows HAL drivers are...

Olympic Knitting?

Oh man, sombody's going to write a book on the psychology behind this ad campaign... Starting with trying to convince people everyone else is happy and you should be too.... all the way to capitalizing on how relieved people are to finally have an up to date way out of Vista.... Think...

LOL... it would if they'd continue updating it. Service Pack 4 anyone?

Yes, the root cause of bloatware... "Just in case". Here's an example: Remember when MSN first started and you could download their special browser into your Win95 installation? Well, they bundled that browser (56megs) in Win98 along with IE... and they still bundle it today even though...

I'm sorry but my only comment on this link is : Unbelievable.... http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/09/10/mts-internet-providers-campaign-bell-telus.html

Well, unless "Olympic Typing" counts... I guess I'm not much of a sports fan... :rolleyes:

While I get your reasons for wanting to do that, my sense is that it's better to use the ION/ATOM box with the HDMI or even SVid inputs on a regular television. The only time running one of these on a monitor, as I and a few of my friends do, works out well is if you don't care about...

Apples and oranges, Rob. The thing is that you are working in a scenario where you need exactly the same setup every time... in fact, the more rigid the better. My scenario is quite different. I need an installer that can be used on (say) 50 similar machines --like the ASRock-- but with a...

Actually it does exactly that. You integrate the drivers right into the install. Turn the machine on, press F12 for the boot menu, insert the CD, press Enter and go have a coffee... when you come back, about 10 minutes later, you have a fully functional computer with all the drivers...

I don't think it's sentimental at all... I think it's common sense. Starting with windows 98 and it's bundled browser Microsoft has made a steady policy of form over substance, with each subsequent release being more laden with stuff nobody ever uses. XP is the last version that will...

Get yer tongue off the floor Rob.... You did notice that she put the CPU cooler on with no thermal grease, didn't you?

I still get people bringing me their machines willing to pay money to get rid of Vista. Really... people around here really hate that version! In my general body of users (about 300) I still have several who use windows 2000 Professional on their server machines, some even still on their...

Wow... Logitec told you to do that... That's a new one on me. And yes warranty is the way to go... except that you're getting another unknown in the box... But you really don't have a choice when buying online.

Well, considering the original article is more than a year old, they might both be correct... That is to say when the article was written it supported 1tb, but since then has been updated to 2tb support...

With apologies I have to take Rob's side in this one. The button layout makes enough sense as it is.... But the reasons for quoting one's correspondent is perhaps a bit less obvious... Before the internet there was FidoNet. (no, not the phone company) This was roughly the equivalent of...

The first time around was probably a bad ground on the Bass control. A tiny speck of solder would most likely have straightened it right out... no problem for most technicians. The second time sounds more like either something loose in the sub-woofer housing or a defective speaker. It's...

Ummm... why wouldn't they? If the interface can do it, why not allow it? I think the IDE mode setting is there mostly for OSs that don't support AHCI drivers... like Win98 or 2000. Looping back to the NLite discussion for a moment. The difference between your method and mine is not any...

Suweeet System! I'm especially impressed by that case... Gotta locate a supplier. If this case will fit the Zotac AM2 Mini-ITX board, this could be really good. The problem is that many of the codecs out there are poorly written, tending to be rather inefficient. They're written to...

When your Win2000, XP or Vista machine is idle... Does your HD light flash once a second but there is no disk access? Does your DVD Burner make unexplained clicking sounds? Does the hourglass cursor pop up unexpectedly from time to time? Does the cursor show the little CD symbol with no disk...