Hmm. Maybe I can get a multimeter then. So how do you measure it? Just pick the HDD's power cables and stick the (whatever the measuring things are called) in the holes and turn the puter on? Should I disconnect the other cables, or do any other preparation for this?

Funnily enough, BIOS shows all the other rails but the 5V... Well I checked it on Speedfan and it looked OK, but I don't know accurate that is. Speedfan shows +4.92 and +5.19V. But this is obviously after a successful boot, maybe the values are different when it can't find the drives? But ironically...

I have a pickle for you all... I have three hard drives. When I turn on the computer none of them are recognized by BIOS. I restart, and then sometimes they all are, or some of them are. So I keep restarting until I get them all to work. I changed the SATA cables, power cables, order of the HDD's......

yes i've done the wipe-and-start-again a million times... but i refuse to believe that's the only way. i have 2 drives, both 500gb, and about 30gb total free space. no way i can back that up anywhere. the OS drive that broke was a WD raptor that's just 150gb. some program.. some.. thing.. anything.....

i broke my HDD that had my OS, so now i've been messing around with OS's on my storage drives. i put vista on there... didn't like it... and now i'm running windows XP again. the MBR is probably not very pretty as it has traces of older installations i had on the now broken HDD, because i left the s...

is there a way to stop my DVD drive from ramping up whenever i click the "my computer" icon? the sound is annoying PLUS it takes a few seconds, and before it's ramped up i can't click the hard drives. i'm using windows vista ultimate x86. my DVD drive is a samsung SN-T082L (a slim slot-in model). i ...

well some on the list are larger than others... the huge LUXURY sedans are in a class of their own and cost about double the ones on this list... the ones here should still be considered big i think, because all the brands carry smaller sedans also... like the BMW 5-series isn't that big, but it's s...

i tried switching inputs before... all it does is make the computer monitor black during startup (cos the TV is the primary display), but the problem persists. i think this is about the 8800GT drivers. i have the newest ones now, but i tried with the previous ones too... is there some program that c...

i'm thinking about big sedans... so which would u like for yourself? and i dont mean "which is cuulest", i mean which would u really consider buying if u wanted a sedan. obviously i'd like to know your reasons as well.

i want to get full pixel 1080p on my TV thru a DVI-HDMI cable from my computer. my problem is that it works only if i turn on the TV before turning on my computer. if i turn on the computer first the resolution on the TV will be the same as on my PC monitor (1280x1024) and i cant change it higher - ...

i found the problem. and i'll congratulate myself because it wasn't a software issue, but my boot drive HD! the SATA power cable had gotten loose. the plastic thingie on the HD that secures the wire is kinda broken, so i had to use duct tape to attach it..... well now it works, plus it adds to the g...

well like i said it cant be anything related to heat. i've been monitoring temps a lot, and i have seen the temps when the thing's frozen. same thing with the processes. CPU can be around 2-5% when it freezes. if svchost would go to 100% it wouldn't STOP the computer in this manner, at least not the...

i'm having an annoying problem with my computer... basically, it just stops from time to time. all i really do with my computer nowadays is watch video, which shouldn't be that laborious for the computer, but... at some random time the whole thing stops. the cursor turns into an hourglass and i migh...

i really dont know what to do right now... sure it's kind of a shame to watch a blu-ray movie or something and listen to it thru the crap speakers of the TV just cos i dont have an amp... but any decent amp costs pretty close to that 100 euros. i've browsed around and that's just how it seems to be....

oh thanks for the link. turns out my version is the 2001 "magnetically shielded ZMF" version. here's what it says in the specs: frequency response: 85hz - 20khz +- 2db sensitivity: 88db spl(1 watt into 8 ohms) nominal impedance: 4ohms power handling: 20W - 100W into 4ohms undistorted speech and musi...

i'd love to give some specs of the speakers, but there's not much on em i can read. the brand's B&W, and all it says is "2001" on the back.. they're 28,5cm's in height (11.3 in)... and black, if that helps ;) i tried to google em, but couldn't find em anywhere. they were bought for TV use some years...

i'm not going to pay a hundred euros for an amplifier just to get these speakers to work, so are there any REALLY simple and cheap amplifiers out there? also, could i to peel an RCA cable, tie the speaker wires to that, and stick that thing to my TV? it should have a better amplifier in it... but th...

so what are the two wires for? the brown and the blue? i can just tie em both to the same RCA wire? is this even technically sound?

i want to connect my stereo speakers to my PC. the speakers have stripped wires and my PC has the normal 3.5 stereo plug. i have a stereo-RCA cable. i thought i could cut the RCA heads off, peel the cables, and tie the speaker wires to it. the speaker cable has a brown and a blue wire, though. so......

heyyy, what about this thing? http://www.sunbeamtech.com/PRODUCTS/Theta/theta_tp101.htm that's the "Sunbeam Theta USB Fan controller". it controls 8 fans from windows and comes with 8 temperature probes! plus it costs under 20 euros! tho in finland, emuri sells it for 41 euros and coolputer for 50 e...

hmm. yea i had done all that already, yet it doesn't work. so it seems it's just the PWR fan that works. the CPU fan might need something different. maybe u've ENABLED something in the BIOS for that..?

i dont think anything can control 4-pin fans from windows. all my fans are 3-pin.

oh, smilingcrow, do u know where the 2 fans u can control are connected to? or what they are called in speedfan? i'm using the 2.1 version of the same board, but i'd IMAGINE they work the same way when it comes to this stuff? i can only control 1 fan. did u do anything special to make em both work? ...

urmmm... but does that mCubed's T-Balancer bigNG enable u to control the fans from windows? and how does it monitor voltages..? also... u live in finland, as do i, so where did u get yours?

controlling only 1 fan doesn't really do me any good... i need to control all 3. are there any fan controllers that come with software u can use to control the fans? i cant be bothered to turn any knobs.

can i control my fans under windows XP? i used to be able to do this with speedfan, but i haven't been able to make it work with my new motherboard - the GA-P35-DS3R. also i wouldn't mind if i could make em (all three of em that is!) ramp up when the CPU gets hotter. is that possible?

i have a Q6600, so the CPU has 4 sensors that are shown separately... i guess the 2nd sensor could be in some other place on the CPU... but that sounds pretty unnecessary.

obviously i have cooling problems, but it'd be nice to know HOW BIG cooling problems i have.

the temps seem to steadily rise, so it might get to 65C if i just let it be... and that might be ok IF my PSU didn't heat up like crazy as well, so i have to do something... also the other temp sensor bothers me a bit. it idles at 28-32 and rises to around 50C right away when stressed. so that shoul...

turns out there is no BIOS F4 for my revision of the motherboard... it's only for the rev 1.0 and 2.0, and i have the 2.1... so... i dont know if i should try to downgrade it. but i dont know if this makes any difference now... it seems i should rethink the airflow in my case anyway. if some random ...

umm... am i getting this right? u're saying i should downgrade to F4 BIOS?? i'm using F11. is the CPU fan speed control system in my board the intel QST? it doesn't say that anywhere. i have it (whatever it is) enabled, but it's not asking for any drivers under windows XP as QST should as far as i k...

where are the temperature sensors on the GA-P35-DS3x? are there any on the NB? i'm stressing my puter with prime95 and the highest temperature the motherboard is showing isn't really raising - it's pretty much the same as it was when idle - about 55-60C. if this isn't the NB it doesn't sound too good!