Legit Reviews

I'm glad I have a wood furnace.

I'm all signed up. Between the Science Center and the Legit Reviews workshop, I may run into a little information overload! I guess to much learning never hurt anyone.

I still can't believe that they are going to tear down Busch Stadium. Is there any reason to demolish it besides not having enough high dollar booths?

Do the drives show up in the POST screen when the computer starts up? You may have to check your jumper settings on the cd roms if they don't show up.

You may check and see if there is a P4 power connector on the motherboard, if it's not connected, everything may spin up but you won't see anything. Does it make any beeps when it powers on? If it beeps repeatedly, you may have problems or incompatibility with your memory. Otherwise you may have a b...

Enermax is a good brand. I have a EG651P-VE FM (550 Watts). It's powering an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Leadtek 6800GT videocard, and 12 hard drives. It runs like a champ for me.

If you have another drive that you can temporarily copy your OS to, Seagate's Disk Wizard (Windows edition) works very well. I copied my OS from one drive to a RAID array and it worked and booted perfectly.

When I was in FFA in high school, we always talked about having a tractor day, but for some reason, we never did. For some reason the teacher didn't think too much of the idea of teenagers driving tractors through town.

Here's MY ride. It's a John Deere 6715 with a 16 speed Powerquad Transmission. I'm rollin on 30" wheels up front and 40"s out back. It may not be the fastest ride out there, but it definitely gets attention.

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When I worked at a PC repair shop, we would get in flakey machines with Norton or Mcaffe installed and they would run like crap. So I would uninstall their antivirus and install AVG Free. AVG would always find a bunch of trojans that the other scanners would miss. Personally, I run AVG free at home ...

I'm still mad about preordering that piece of junk collectors edition for $90 (or something like that). And all I got with the game was that damn t-shirt!

I'm starting to think now is the time to sell my PC copy on Ebay. I think I could probably get what I paid back out of it.

Recently an update for Microsoft Antispyware came out pushing back the beta expiration date to December 31, 2005. So it appears that you can still use it for free for a good while.

Unless space or connections are an issue, you may look into RAID. If you raided 2 160's or something like that, you still get your large chunk of space plus you gain some performance. However you still run into the issue if 1 drive dies, you loose the entire array. So if you have something important...

There are a couple things to try, different/updated drivers or move the card to a different slot. A quick way to tell if it's the card or not would be to put the sound card in a different system and run it for a while. Doesn't quite sound as bad a problem I had. I once had a Sound Blaster EX on whic...

I chickened out and had someone mod my Xbox for me, I think that was the best money I ever spent. It's so much nicer being able to play your favorite games without having to fumble around and find your game discs.

In answer to Audiophile and Bio-Hazard: 8 of the drives are in RAID 0 arrays of 2 drives each over a Highpoint controller card. Plus 2 onboard standard IDE and one onboard serial. All together it's about 2 terabytes of space. Most of the drive space goes to uncompressed dvd rips and video captures. ...

I'm a big fan of Enermax. I have a 550 Watt PS in my rig now. It's powering a Athlon 64 3200+, Leadtek 6800GT video card, 2 120mm fans, 2 90mm fans, and 11 hard drives (6 in removable drive bays with individual fans). I've had nothing but good luck with Enermax. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b29...

Here's the background I've been using ever since I installed Windows XP. Simple but effective. By the way, all the image editing was done in MS Paint only. Who needs Photoshop anyway?