Check to make sure that you are using Homegroup to manage permissions. Go to Network and Sharing Center > Change advanced sharing settings > Home or Work > Allow Windows to manage homegroup connections.

If that fails, try the Homegroup troubleshooter.

Is it hard to flash the BIOS on the Gigabyte card? I have the Gigabyte GTX560 Ti non-OC, and the minimum fan speed isn't low enough for me (I think it's set to 40%). To answer the OP - I have the dual-fan version: it's quiet at idle (barely audible), but I can definitely single out the fan noise out...

Have you tried updating your BIOS? I got the exact same board from probably the same Microcenter deal as you, and I have no problems with the voltage on the F7 BIOS. Turbo mode off, Stock / Normal voltages, 42x multiplier. I do have S3 sleep / standby issues, but it seems a lot of Z68 motherboards a...

Thanks for the heads up, I missed out on the BF deal. I bought a 3.5mm audio splitter cable for my filler, total ended up being $56.38 after tax.

I can't say for the first part (though I'm sure you can control the fan speed via MSI Afterburner software), but you can fit a dual-slot video card in that case:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?s=8eb ... tcount=312

What's your budget for the case? The design of Silverstone's SG07 really fits your description (mini-ITX, supports long video cards, comes with large power supply), currently $169.99 AR from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Mini-ITX-Mini-DTX-Certified-SG07B/dp/B003V8ATLS If you want to go m...

Not true, I use my USB keyboard or mouse to wake up my computer every day, and they're not lit up all the time. If you say it's fine while not overclocked, then either you have things clocked too high, or you're not supplying enough voltage. You can also try turning off USB selective suspending unde...

Which operating system are you using? In Windows, you can allow devices to wake the computer in the Device Manager. See attached.

And what you described sounds like S3 sleep, not hibernation.

I would love to read a SPCR review on this case. It's everything I want from a mATX case except for the HDD cooling. Anyone own this case already?

The Shuttle definitely does not have a fan. I just assembled one for my cousin, and if you add a SSD, it shouldn't generate any noise at all. It's awesome for what it'll be doing (Skype, web browsing), but I don't know if I'd do any software development on it (test of patience, I guess). Atoms are n...

Not a fan of side vents either, but I "fixed" it on my cousin's 300 by swapping the side panels so that the vent is behind the motherboard. No more problems with sound leakage and incorrect airflow.

My three hard drives idle at most 37C. They did get very hot when I tried to use a Swiffer cloth for a filter - reduced the airflow way too much. Removed the cloth, been getting great temperatures since.

As long as it still squeezes out, go for it. I kept my Arctic Silver I for 5+ years until I used it all up.

Check out this thread: viewtopic.php?p=514609

Works in reverse as well: power supplies with 24-pin cables can be plugged into motherboards with 20-pin as long as you leave the four side pins outside the plug. It'll only fit in perfectly one way, so make sure you don't jam it in!

Thanks for sharing! I was looking to replace my broken window fan which I bought at Costco years ago, but it somehow fixed itself, and I stopped searching. I'll definitely look into this product if I'm in the market again.

Any program can take advantage of any video card (as long as they code it in, which not many companies do), but programs written in CUDA can only be rendered on Nvidia cards, and since CUDA has been out much longer than ATI's Stream, there are a few more applications written for it. An example would...

He recommended the ATI because it's faster than the Nvidia for gaming, so it was a honest suggestion. CUDA is basically a programming language that takes advantage of Nvidia's parallel processing power. All cards above the 8000 series have it for Nvidia, but ATI has yet to release an equivalent to t...

I know for sure on my friend's P55-UD3R, there is a "Stock" option. Just leave it at that, or around 1.15V, I think. Just need to specify a voltage, doesn't really matter what it is at this point.

I hate Gigabyte motherboards for doing this, but "Auto" voltages is not the same as "Stock" voltages. They will dynamically change the voltages to "stabilize" the processor. Apparently they thought making my Q6600 reach 100C is the way to do it. Check all your voltages and change it to "Stock" if yo...

Run CPU-Z and make sure your RAM is running dual-channel. I had a problem with Slingplayer running at an unbelievably slow speed, and I finally realized that for that particular motherboard, the RAM had to be in different colored slots for them to run in dual-channel. Talk about a major design flaw...

This problem exists in all NAND-based drives, so this problem cannot be fixed unless manufacturers find ways to reduce the number of writes on the drive (something like what the Sandforce controllers do). The real problem was that random writes was slowing down / completely freezing the hard drive, ...

"The Intel 40GB drive is pretty competitively priced" Don't forget that Intel requires that you set your board to ACHI. Older boards can't do that. I have the Kingston 40GB SSD (practically the same version), and I actually have problems with AHCI mode. It's running IDE mode right now in my Dell Vo...

I think the kontera ads that you are using are really annoying, they where the reason I installed Adblock in the first place (when Anandtech started using them). But I guess I have gotten better at mentally ignoring the false links with time. Something I will never unblock is flash however. It is r...

You could also just boot into a live Linux environment and then just delete the folder like that.

I have a command prompt script that changes the ownership of the files to the current administrator. Just run one line after the other: takeown /f %1 /r /d y icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t Replace %1 with the drive of your choice, so for C: it would be: takeown /f C: /r /d y icacls C: /grant a...

Well, short of driving 15 minutes to his place with a thermometer in hand, I wasn't really going to know what his ambient temperature will ever be, nor do I know what conditions any of the fans are running at (he told me later he had all the fans running full blast including the video card when he g...

^ So the HAF would not be ideal for a silent setup. How good is it at sheer cooling power? I always have cooling problems in the summer. It's really good. His stock i5 750 idles at 25C (77F), stock 8800GTS 320MB idles at 47F (full load at around 60F), and the fans are constantly blowing out cold ai...

I can give you my opinion of my friend's HAF-922 (midtower case). 1) When all three fans are on, it produces a nice, quiet, whooshing sound (to me anyways) without any annoying pitches or whines. My friend even bought an extra 120mm fan to point straight at the video card. Ventilation is definitely ...

What program would you use to adjust AAM? Hitachi's own tool?