Really? I shall have to change that. I'd assumed it was just an incompatibility, as the OS I'm using (Server 2008 64 bit) is perhaps not the most widely supported version of Windows out there...

Thanks for the replies. If I'd read the review properly, I would have known that the starting voltage of the 800RPM fans is quite high (8.9V). Experiments with some AA batteries and packing tape ;) indicate that the starting voltage for my stock case fans is just over 4.5V, or almost exactly that of...

I'm having a problem with the fans in my computer. On the recommendation of this site, I replaced the stock fans in my new case with Scythe S-Flex 800 fans. However, they seem to be stalling constantly. They still refuse to start up even if I try to make things a bit more toasty by running ATITool f...

I'm certainly no electronics expert either, but just thought I'd add that I recently got one of those PSUs and it seems to work fine - no flickering lights or broken disks (so far, at least ) As Ash says, it does sound like yours is faulty. Hope you get it sorted out.

Or if you want something really different, try a DataHand keyboard . :) The one I've been using for the past 5 or so years is a Fujitsu Siemens KBPC E . I tried quite a few others before getting it, and - to me at least - it has the best feel of all the conventional (and a few unconventional) keyboa...