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Awesome, cheers guys. I'll get a real cheap PCIe card then (can't seem to find a decent mATX motherboard with onboard RAID right now).

Hi all, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-025-AD&groupid=701&catid=49&subcat=&name=Adaptec%20AAR-1220SA%20PCI-Express%20x1%202-Port%20SATA-II%20RAID%20Controller This is the PCIe RAID controller that I'm looking to use to connect 2 new 160GB SATA hdd's together in...

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Just found this: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R174855&SystemID=INSP_DSKTP_D530S&servicetag=&os=WLH&osl=en&deviceid=14181&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=4&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=237513 'Urgent BIOS update'. I'll...

Hi All, Today I installed the Belkin Wireless G+ USB Adapter (link) into my grandfather's new Dell Inspiron 530 (I think) desktop PC (WinXP). It installed fine, connected to the Sky Netgear router perfectly and there were no problems accessing the Internet. However, upon restarting the PC...

Yeah sure, I'll let you know how I get on. The new machine is arriving in a week or so :) If all else fails I'll tell MS and blame it on an HDD failure.

Heh, I had to read that 4 times to try and make sense of it <3 Anyway: Thanks for your help everyone ;)

All that is quite understandable, from Microsoft's point of view. Ah well, I suppose I'll have to have a good think about what to say. I might as well just reinstall it on a new HDD and try to get it activated. I remember that XP allowed you to activate the same key twice (even if it was OEM)...

Yup same. It's just a pain in the arse.

I got an OEM copy :( I might just phone MS and explain, because it's not like I'm doing anything illegal here. I'm just moving the hard drive into a new system. It's not like I have a cheap version of Vista either. Grrr. If I do it though, will Vista refuse to work? Or will it just ask me to...

I hope I've posted this in the right place! If I haven't, I apologise. I'm getting a new system through work (Core2Duo 2.4GHz 4MB Cache, 2GB DDR2 RAM and a motherboard with PCIe and all that jazz). I intend to take the hard drive out of my old system (which has Vista Ultimate on it) and whack...

Okay, admittedly it was a lot of money for something not so great, but most people are going to upgrade eventually. The amount of people on Win 98/2000 was (and is) continually decreasing due to the migration to XP. Now Vista is out, the same thing is going to happen. People will upgrade, just...

Edit: thanks for the advice hp7909, I'll be sure to try it out. It's more than 10%, I can guarantee you that! Right. I've decided to forget about the RAM upgrade for now, and just get the following: Asrock Motherboard: £50 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-003-AK...

Oh I see, so I'm limited to the 6xx range. Damn. Is there any way I could confirm this? Else that limits me to upgrading to the 650 3.4GHz (as anything above is out of my price range). I cannot see that to be a beneficial upgrade.

I was thinking that, and decided that it might be best to go for this Pentium D 915 instead of the 820: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-133-IN It's slightly more expensive but the upside is that it has a 4MB cache. Can someone confirm that the 915 will work with my...

Yeah, reapplication was my intention (providing the HSF comes off the motherboard, that is). Alright then, suppose I've got an order to make :D Thanks guys

Heh, awesome. I'll probably buy that today/tomorrow then. Should I get some thermal paste too, so I can re-use my AC Freezer 7 with it?

I've got the Abit AA8 DuraMax :) Oh, and I forgot to mention that I'm using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro on my P4.

Hi All, I've just installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my machine: P4 630 3GHz (LGA775), 1GB DDR2 PC5300 RAM, ATI x850xt GPU In comparison to XP x64 it's much slower, so I've decided it's time for an upgrade. I'm looking to get a Dual Core Intel that can fit in my LGA775 socket, like...

Got it installed now, and yes it feels a bit slower, but not by much. Well, let's put it this way; there's no noticable improvements. Why are some 64bit applications being installed into 'Program Files (x86)' ?