pyogenes wrote:did you rule out problems with the TV or VCR?

Try hooking up some other A/V device (camcorder, gaming console, DVD player, etc.) to the VCR and see if it works properly.

Yeah, the VCR is fine. I've had 2 gaming consoles and a dvd player hooked up to it with no problems.

Hello Will, Have you rebooted with the TV connected and turned on? Yeah. When I reboot, it comes back on with the TV disabled. I can turn it back on in the catalyst control panel but it doesn't make any difference. Another thing to try is the Omega ATi driver , instead of the stock one. I hadn't tr...

I thought this problem may have been with 1 card, but now that I've tried 2 I wanted to run this by someone else and see. I've tried with ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (fanless w/zalman heat pipe cooler), and ATI Radeon 9600SE that I had laying around. I have a ghetto TV setup. My TV only has a coax cable inp...

Specs: AMD Athlon XP Mobile Barton 2600 (w/thermaright sl900a) DFI NFII Ultra Infinity Motherboard 512mb crucial pc2100 ram 2x 160gb sata samsung hd's ati radeon 9500 pro (w/zalman heatpipe cooler) zalman 400w rev-b psu evercase 4252b 2x 120mm nexus case fans @ 5v (zalman fan mate) 1x 80mm nexus fan...

i'm in minnesota (USA).. other fans that i actually have: globe 80mm panaflo H1A 80mm vantec stealth 80mm few other generic things, nothing very good. i want to get one to mod my power supply with that won't be the biggest source of noise in my computer that doesnt have clicking. i have (or, will ha...

i am working on my first silent machine, and after reading these forums for weeks i think i am fairly well informed. after doing a lot of research i decided to go with the nexus fans.. 80mm for my cpu, 2 120mm's for my case. using zalman fan mates at 5v all around. i couldnt be happier with the 120m...

this is an evercase 4252b. at the moment it just has the stock power supply, i am going to be ordering a different one soon. supplies used: large sheet of black foam-board - target - $3 utility knife clear duct tape - target - $3 hot glue gun - target - $5 http://www.nerdvision.net/jason/psuduct1.jp...

This isn't the most original idea in the world, but I want to hear what you guys have to say about it. how about using this: http://www.svc.com/ovcokitsi.html for the psu fresh air duct? you could mod 2 5 1/4" bay covers with a dremel. just drill out an 80mm circle (i've done it before, isn't too to...

looks interesting. i'd like to see an SPCR review!

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/30/1 ... ml?tid=137

thought you guys may find it of interest.
the page that is linked in the article won't load for me.
the comments from people there who talk about their great "silent" pc ideas (with maxtor hard drives, etc) are making me sick :p

i currently am using a radeon 9500 pro 128mb card. nothing too terribly fancy, but it lets me play all the new games. would the radeon 9600xt going to be a decent upgrade for me? i already have a huge zalman passive heatpipe cooler on my card and it works fine. i am in the market for a new card thou...

looks really nice.. i don't like that it doesn't have an exhaust behind the cpu though.

would be nice to read a more thorough review somewhere

after doing a fair amount of research i think i'm going to go with the DFI NFII ULTRA INFINITY.

it is undervoltable right? and will i have issues fitting a thermaltake 900a on it?

i have a zalman fanless northbridge cooler here as for serial ata, i don't even know what serial ata is :p i just wanted to hook up a couple of drives in raid-0. it's not a huge deal if the board doesnt have raid since stability is my #1 priority -- i could just get a pci raid controller. thanks for...

i'm currently using an msi kt3 ultra2-raid board and i love it. best board i've ever purchased. i'm working on building a new silent machine, and i was going to get another msi board (kt6v-lsr in particular), but after reading some stuff at amdmb.com's forums, i see that the xp bartons don't work to...

hmm, maybe i'll just stick with software monitoring. i just was thinking it would be easier during gaming and stuff to monitor my temperatures.. but if i'm gaming my eyes will be on the screen, not on my temps

thanks for the responses

i've been looking at all the fancy fan speed controllers, and i think the one that best suits my needs is the zalman zm-mfc1. i'd like to get another unit for a drive bay (doesnt matter which size) that can display temperatures for 3 different things (cpu, hdd, case temp). i'm having a heck of a tim...

I've personally met Jim as well, he's a good guy. I had a friend in college that worked for him doing case mods, and I had brought an aluminum case (back when they were just coming out) in for him to take a look at it and get some mods done. He had given me all of my mods for free just for bringing ...

it looks really, really nice. i'd love to get one. $169 isn't terrible for what it is... i just read an article saying they were supposed to ship in march? who knows.

perfect timing though.. cause in the next month or so i'm going to be building my first silent pc

Here's an idea:

there are plenty of cases available that have a top blowhole. Take the fan out, leave the grill. used some thin cardboard or plastic to make a duct from the back of the psu to the "vent" (top blowhole) on the top of your machine.

excellent... i'm trying to decide between this or an antec for my first "silent pc" case.

This is just a thought that popped into my head. You could cut out 2 bottom vents on your case. Put a grill underneath the case. Mount 2 hard drives over them. Then on the inside of the case, enclose the hard drives in their own little box or something. That way the drives are always getting fresh a...

hopefully someone here can help me. i ordered a mobile barton 2600 last night. i am willing to purchase a new motherboard if necessary. however, i currently have a board that i am happy with and would like to use if possible -- the msi kt3 ultra2 raid. will that board work by default with the mobile...

Hi but have u looked at the mobile barton chips? they are only like 10-20 dollars more and u can get the same performace with not as much heat. How much of a difference in heat is it? I'm rebuilding a machine that I already have, so I already have the cpu. What does a similar barton go for? btw, wh...

heck, i've been doing some reading on the mods now.. they seem pretty easy. i've got an old antec 400w in my system now. it runs perfectly stable. maybe i could just throw an L1A in there or something.. but i suppose the newer "silent" ones are designed to run more efficiently with bigger heat sinks...

This is my first post here, and I wanted to do a lot of research before I posted such a vague question. I literally spent the last 2 hours reading through old posts here trying to determine the answer to this question: what is the best silent 400w psu? I had originally came here because I had ordere...