just got a new antec case and holy fark there are alot of places for fans on it...like 10 of them...seriously.

Two on top of the case...two in front..two in back..one on the bottom ? ..and two on each side.

I have no idea wtf to do with this thing..

assuming i do get the damn thing to boot, i will mess with the bios jumpers tom, do i need to use a floppy boot disk to format the blank drive? or can i PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do that with the xp bootable cd?

oh and the 1.26 is the 512kb p3, so if its solid it should work out a bit better than the 1.13 i bought|

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Originally posted by Capitalizt What's a floppy disk?

Something that I still keep in my machine as it have saved my arse twice in recent years

I've just accumulated new bits for a secondary media machine for when I move into a new place in July.

As much as I love my machine, it's big and will be moved to the lounge in the new place, but I still want to be able to watch movies/shows in bed.

So I'm using a bunch of second hand stuff to make a little media machine for the bedroom.

Matx Packard Bell case
AMD XP2000
512MB RAM
MS-6511 Mobo
80GB Seagate
20" widescreen TFT that I got for a bargain £60, LOL!

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yeah i removed mine for a bit since it was deleting data more often than saving it, but last time i formatted i think i went that way.

with xp i should be able to avoid it, but if i need a disk im gonna have to do some searching...im not going to buy one thats for sure!

havent seen or used one in 5+ years tho|

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windows vista is the killing portion of your new computer build.

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so it wont post, no matter how hard i try. i can unplug all my old stuff and the old board POSTs no prob, i think its either hosed or its the power supply. i have already purchased and returned so many power supplys by now its making me crazy.

i tried both sets of mem, both processors, no beeps, no mobo fan, just the PS fan...

now i have to post this comment using IE cuz my firefox keeps locking up. i think i might just load that new HD with xp and ignore the mobo for a bit. ive been staring at it for 10 mins hoping i would find some clue about why it wont work. i moved the bios jumpers to config and removed them completely (recovery mode) but still nothing|

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Originally posted by Ek0nomik windows vista is the killing portion of your new computer build.

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VISTA.

Holy fucking Christ.

You realize everyone did the exact same thing when XP came out, right?

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Originally posted by Audious THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VISTA. Holy fucking Christ. You realize everyone did the exact same thing when XP came out, right?

That's the argument?

It's ok that this product sucks, because our previous one sucked when it first came out too.

I'll stick w/ Linux.

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Originally posted by Ek0nomik That's the argument? It's ok that this product sucks, because our previous one sucked when it first came out too. I'll stick w/ Linux.

That's funny, because other than problems I inflicted myself when I was like 12, I've never had any problems with Windows. I'm sick of smug fucking Linux users. I've used Linux, too. It's nothing amazing. I'm not running secret government operations through my computer. I don't need super security. No one's going to hack my computer unless I download something stupid. All of the pro's of Linux are negligible to your average computer user, unless you're so infatuated with the idea of free software or anti-establishment that you have to use it out of principle. I could just as easily customize my shell in Windows as I could Linux, which is really what most people, despite what they may say, use Linux for: the look. Linux = Masturbation.

Hey, you know what else is awesome? I may have to run adaware every once and awhile, but I don't have to download extra programs to be compatible with most of the software out there. It's always Linux and Mac users going, "Waa, why didn't they develop this game for my OS?"

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Originally posted by Audious THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VISTA. Holy fucking Christ. You realize everyone did the exact same thing when XP came out, right?

Yes, and it took 2 service packs to sort everything.

I won't touch Vista until I am absolutely forced to

XP fo life!

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