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That's a really nice setup you've got going there.
Very clean look to the desk.
Very clean look to the desk.
New Build is working like a dream
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I have the exact same motherboard and it installed fine off an ide drive so could have just been your first drive having problems with dvds with large amounts of data files on it 
Nice pc though and nice setup.
Nice pc though and nice setup.
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Too bloody right, and I'm going to pee on the ashes as well, lol
no accounting for taste eh. all i know is most peoples are better.
Hope you get your ideal setup soon, fingers crossed for your lottery win
I know what you mean, I had to get sata drivers off of the net for my old pc as the ones with the mobo didnt work, luckily I had my even older comp still running so downloaded them straight away, would have p'd me off if i had to go to a mates to get them, XP is a bloody good OS in 32 bit, not sure about 64 , heard some horror stories, but it did have massive teething problems, dont they always.
Running Vista 64 now and its working fine so far, hope all the bugs are fixed by now, fingers crossed as always with microsoft, lol
The ide drive is working, gave it to a mate and its fine on his comp, but you might be right about the bios ill check, most important is its working,
lucky you! i decided to go for a new build over xmas and so far not going to well,psu just decided after i managed to get it all workin for a couple of days that it was going to die
Hope you get it fixed soon mate, I would be gutted if mine went down, let me know when its fixed.
Almost like some suit makes a decision and thats the end of it, just hassle and a few quid sorts it out though
Good job. Enjoy the PC...for a while...then clock the nuts off it!
Thanks for you're comments, much appreciated. I promise to take pics of the curtains burning, lol
P.S. I'm going to read up about overclocking in the new year, not trying now I plan on going out and getting very wobbly. Happy new year to everyone especially those who has supported me on this build
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Any pics of the actual build? Would like to see it all inside, looking lovely and (hopefully) tidy
Thanks Switch,
I didnt take pics building it, I got so into doing it I totally forgot, Ill take a few of the inside and post them
I got all but one cable managed pretty good, but the power lead that feeds cpu (i think thats what it does) is too short and has to run up the middle of the case. only one out of place, ill get an extension soon so I can route it into the cable cavityand out by the top of the mobo.
P.S. batteries dead, charging now, will post pics tomorrow
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Sorry, I didn't mean the ide drive was borked, I mean't it prob wasn't functioning cos the PATA controller was disabled. Have a butchers and see.
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Don't be sorry, it was one of my thoughts and one of the first things I checked. it's good to see people are covering every angle with ideas, however obvious, it's easy to ignore something like that when stumped by a big problem,
Ill have to check the bios, cant be arsed at the moment,
Yeah they're so tough to track down took me all of 5 seconds
LOL yeah, when I went to my local crappy pc parts dealer he offered me an ide first,"erm, no, but if you have a sata with a brand name I might take that" maybe ide drives are as hard to offload as a stolen Lada with a body in the boot,
"track down took me all of 5 seconds", yeah, I have heard that there are thousands in landfill sites in China
Maybe thats where my man gets his from, few squirts of WD40 and some elbow grease , "don't worry it will work fine, only three pound fifty, How many do you need?", "erm excuse me but should it be leaking?"
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