Well, what do you need from it?

Outgoing or incoming (ie, both), windows firewall works good for blocking incoming things but dont hinder outgoing apps.

bah, temperature madness

hope you are useing 64bitt OS, or you will hit that nasty 3.3-3.5GB ram limit (wich is limitation in 32bitt arcitecture).

you can try this mate. In bios there should be a setting "legacy USB" och something in that mather, try change it to "disable".

you can also try and toggle the "PnP OS" to No (or yes, just change it) and reboot. se if it works better.

Or try another port (or connect it to a USB hub if you have one)

For starters, make (or get hands on) a SP2 windows XP cd and try with that. And reset all settings to default and set SATA to IDE (not AHCI) if possible, that might solve installation issues. But for now, try and get SP2 XP install, there is alot of problems with pre-sp2, esp with HD's and controlle...

I have a SB Live! 1024 (4 channel card) for my MCE. But im looking for a new one, still cheap, card around 30$ that has digial out (optical and coaxial), and it has none of the problem the integrated 7.1 card has. Pci/pcie is the way to go for better sound. note. most cheap soundcards on PCI are acc...

It should be the sound card, integrated cards have this problem more often then not.

The coil noise from the board i dont know how you can solve but useing a PCI sound card (a 10-15$ one should be all you need).

Try and dissable the integrated card and se if the MB coil noise is removed.

It's all your integrated audios fault. Most (if not all) have the same problem when they are integrated into the Northbridge. The chip is to "close" to the main buss so the noise comes from the USB interface (emi noise). A PCI/PCIe soundcard is the way to go, cheap ones work as good as expensive one...

yeah, sorry.. forgott all about that

But in a dream world where everything is resistive, Amp times Voltage is wattage.

Darn, how could i forgett.

the by far easiest way to measure the Wattage of your entire rigg is just lend a Amp meeter (clamp kind that you just put around the cable without removing any insulation) from a friend, and take amp you get times the voltage (say, 10 A x 230 volt (europe) or 20 amp x 110 Volt and there u go, wattag...

you guys, i hope you realise that by turning a HDD upside down, you prolly will break it in 6 months. They are disigned to be standing (kabels down), on the side (kabels on the lft or right) or normal (circuits down), but upside down and other strange angels put the Drive suspension (motor etc) in s...