Recent content by wooglin

I thought that hard drives (except for the quick surge at start-up) were generally not large power draws - like 5-15 watts each?

Yes, I'm using a Zalman AlCu7000 in place of the stock intel cooler. I've also since upgraded to a Northwood core 3.06 GHz processor.

Congratulations! Good to see the search button works! I never thought I'd see this post awakened again. I started reading it and had to read the thread all over again to remember what the solution was. funny, since that time I've upgraded the drives to a 2x200gb sata raid(mirror) with the 2...

Other way around, set a 'process/update completed' message and tell the users to plug it in and not remove it until they see the message. idea?

per: http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/aiw9800pro/specs.html You need the 'dongle' to plug into the card's output to enable the video out to your television set. The All-In-Wonder card does not support dual monitors. The regular 9800 Pro, on the other hand, does. The output diagram...

Is that the card that is suppossed to come with a 'dongle' for the extra video output? That definitely isn't a S-Video connector. BTW - by the diagram you posted, it looks like the backside of the regular ATI 9800, not the AIW model. The AIW includes support for video input, the regular 9800...

Rock on, thank you

Assuming the CPU is compatible, you'll almost definitely need to perform a new install of the operating system (and the eMachine restore disk will almost certainly not work) Be sure to back everything important up before starting.

I just bought this new video card (used) and it did not include the ATI power extension cable (molex pass-thru to ATI power connector). It looks like a similar connector that a standard floppy drive uses. Can anyone confirm if I can just use the spare floppy connector off my PSU, or is it a...

when booting the laptop, try holding the 'c' key after hitting the power button. It's worked for me in the past.

generally windows will format any USB flash drive fat32, which can be used on a mac. I haven't tried a mac formatted key on a PC yet.

no matter what or when you buy, there's always going to be something better that comes out in the next quarter, or 20% cheaper the next month.

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm (Prime95) is a decent tool for checking both processor and/or memory to varying degrees

It's not worth repairing a fried PSU. New one's are cheap.

Ooooo fun. I'm going to stick with the failing PSU guess. If it's a standard ATX size you should be able to find a fairly cheap replacement to try out for less than the cost of a happy meal. OK, might be a slight exaggeration.