Windows crashed badly. Removed all my settings. I am fed up. Formatted C and reinstalled windows XP. It was a hardware error in the 80 GB Maxtor drive. I disconnected it. Also lost my Slackware installation, because I used it's space to install windows XP, without having to repartition the 200 GB harddrive. by Martin @ 11:13 6 August 2004
So, it's done. Upgraded my cpu to the Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred (I could buy a 2600+ for EUR 50 more, but that seemed a waste on a cost of EUR 75). I installed 512 MB Twinmos PC-2700 DDR (EUR 89) and a new low-noise 400 Watt (gold colored) Q-tech PSU (EUR 30). My current configuration. by Martin @ 11:11 28 March 2004
The pc discount is coming up, and I thought lets upgrade. First of all I've noted my current settings and benchmarks so I can compare later. I want to buy a Athlon XP 3000+ CPU, but it seems that the revision of my mobo (Asus A7V333 Rev 1.x) doesn't support 333Mhz FSB, according to Asus. So that would limit my choice to the Athlon XP 2600+ 266FSB Thoroughbred, still a good deal better than my current Athlon XP 1600+ Palomino. And I really need more RAM. by Martin @ 12:10 24 March 2004
Acquired a Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 (256MB DDR), but... when I got it, it was a so called "Lite Retail" package, and no DVI to VGA dongle was included. I had to order it separately at a price of EUR 15. The card itself was EUR 128. I bought this card in the first place, because I could use both of my monitors with only one VGA (using Hydravision). Unfortunately, after installing the VGA PowerDVD didn't work properly. It got choppy when I activated both of my monitors. Later on I found out that PowerDVD 5 supports Hydravision, but my version (3) didn't. by Martin @ 12:10 9 February 2004
Got a NEC ND-1100 DVD+RW burner. And a 80 GB Maxtor DiamondMax. And some silver IDE roundcable by the way, which can't even fit into my devices! Past my old 6 GB IBM harddisk to Fett. by Martin @ 11:09 15 June 2003
I installed a Sweex webcam: See me! by Martin @ 11:59 27 February 2003
I bought a Hercules SmartTV Stereo TV card. My old tv card is no longer supported (VideoHighway Extreme), and stopped working half a year ago. Surprisingly, the software supplied by SmartTV (cyberlink PowerVCR II 3.0) doesn't work. It crashes when the program is started. On any pc I try it. Using VirtualDub I can get images from the tuner, but this is surely not the way to work! by Martin @ 11:58 6 February 2003
Installed M$ Windows ME by Martin @ 22:46 1 August 2002
Assembled it from old drives etc. and new power-parts (motherboard, CPU, RAM, DVD) by Martin @ 17:33 1 August 2002