Maybe the battery is charging?

Something should be getting hot if you are pouring 60 Watts into the notebook.

. Who gives Israel nuclear weapons and the latest war machines? Who supplies "friendly" governments that are actually dictatorships with weapons and military training? It just seems odd to me that a country that used to be the shining beacon of what was good and just in this world now is the larges...

I finally got around to trying this out. After cutting the wires off an old wall wart, connecting them up to a a female molex piece, and plugging it in, the monitor worked perfectly. No ground loop issues at all. That's the good news. The bad news is that the total power consumption went up. Separat...

Thanks for the reply. I found the older thread you referred to. I may end up trying this in the future, but for now I'll hold off. It seems I am still having cold boot problems after throwing in some extra hard drives, so I don't expect powering the monitor through the PSU is likely to fix this issu...

Does anyone see anything wrong with this idea? I have a monitor that uses a 12V brick and takes about 30 watts. I have a rig that uses 30 / 60 Watts from the wall ( idle/load). This is the biostar 7025 mobo that has been noted for its low energy consumption in another spcr thread. The rig is powered...

Same problem here. If you have Firefox with the Greasemonkey add on you can add this script to at least browse trouble free. It doesn't work for posting though. // ==UserScript== // @name spcr // @namespace none // @include http://www.silentpcreview.com/* // ==/UserScript== (function() { var scriptB...

I just sent my TF7050 board back to newegg for a replacement. I had a SATA timeout issue that was getting progressively worse and Biostar determined the issue was with 2 bad SATA ports. I've seen some reports of reliability issues on newegg reviews too. What were the symptoms of the SATA timeout pr...

I have down clocked the 6200 before with rivertuner as low as it would go. Both memory and core. Power consumption went down a 1/2 watt, maybe. I think this is the normal story. What we really need is some voltage control. Do you have any numbers on the ATI card's power consumption? Compared to thes...

I was able to pick up a 3D Fuzion Nvidia 7300 LE 128MB video card for $10 after rebate. I figured it might save me a few watts if I used it to replace a Leadtek Nvidia 6200 128MB card that I was currently running. Lowering the power consumption of my rig is now a bit of a hobby. Anyway, since i had ...

Yes, the 7025 supports dual monitors. However I have read a couple reviews that the VGA does not work when trying to hook up two 1600x1200 resolution monitors ( one to DVI, one to VGA ) .One of the reviews is at Newegg, but I can't confirm this in general.

I'm considering swapping out a 3.5" drive for a 2.5" on a recent biostar 7025 build. I'm not terribly concerned about the noise level. I am more interested in lowering power consumption ( every watt matters :D ) and not losing too much performance. I only need 60 or 80 GB, and as usual I'd like to s...

Thanks to the OP for the original post which motivated me to build the following Biostar 7025 AMD X2 4000+ with stock HSF ( set at 60% with speedfan ) 2 x 1GB Ballistix 6400 WD 3.5" 160GB IDE HDD Salvaged Dell CDRW IDE Sonata II with 1 Tri-cool fan ( lowest setting ) Antec Earthwatts 380W PSU Idle (...