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Just read an article that a new rootkit has been wiping MBRs on Windows XP machines - you may like to try getting hold of a boot disk with 'fdisk' on it to run fdisk /mbr (or whatever today's equivalent is!) to repair it...

May have formatted the disk - you'll definately be needing a windows disk.

The £500 ones that find their way into the Macbook Air and the Dell ATGs (amongst others). I think they use a NAND-based technology but don't quote me - until they come down to semi-reasonable price I won't be playing!

Recently moved to a new technology which blows the spindle-based drives away.

I personally think £60 for an OEM copy of Windows isn't overkill on a new machine, particularly when you take into account that some of the people that whinge about this cost are the people who have paid MORE for an arguably slower memory technology (DDR3).

Actually, if you go through many performance-dependant databases they all run on Opterons. Not taking wind out of your sails but if you're spending the amount of money that I'm talking about on a server, you don't give a flying on the running costs, otherwise you'd cluster DL380s... I'm...

Right click his account and disable it. That'll teach him.

No, I'm just advising on the cold hard facts. If you bought your system with the OS installed or bought an OEM licence for the computer then that is legally tied to that computer, not your new one. I have sufficient licencing to cover my machines through select agreement, but it's up to you.

I'll let you in on a secret - I'm no gamer! I'm a systems builder and server technician/designer, and I also review hardware for a couple of sites where necessary... I only rarely play on Crysis on PC, rest of the time I'm an XBox boy! I work with computers so tend to try avoid them!

32 bit will work and be better unless you have 3Gb+ of RAM. Also beware, if it's an OEM licence it cannot be legally transferred.

That's why my first several comments in this thread were aimed at someone of his level of knowledge. After you decided to tell me how computers work and when things happen (I was building computers back when they shipped with 386 and Overdrives and the like, and when a company called Cyrix was...

And it still couldn't buy you a dictionary. And as I've said time and time again, it is applicable to the intended use. Photography is very memory intensive, so they will benefit from a cheap AMD system over a cheap Intel system. However I challenge you to show me an AMD system with anything...

Nobody asked you about the motherboards YOU use, just browse the internet for a 'cheap AMD motherboard' and you have to buy one that runs Phenom and AM2+, rather than just buying an AM2 board. End of.

The Athlon 64 has been out for ages, granted, but the EM64T extension set has been in place just as long! There STILL isn't sufficient backing to warrant it though, and at the peak of it all Compaq/HP and Dell machines that shipped with Athlon 64s had a load of hardware that didn't have 64-bit...

How does that hold true? Phenom is only just out, where Intel quads have been walking the market for ages. AMD isn't particularly cheaper, and how is it easier to upgrade? If I wanted to go to Phenom I'd have to make sure my AM2 board was actually AM2+ compliant, whereas every Core2 board...

Balls, fool. AMD's Memory Transport is a long way faster than the Intel equivalent - why do you think Nehalem (and it's 32nm successor) is pegged to move to an onboard memory controller. Take your pub knowledge home, AMD aren't great but they have advantages in certain areas and if I were to...

It's a brilliant card and I already have a loaner in my rig here, it's just got to go back next week. Sound quality is 1000x what was coming out of my old X-Fi Platinum (ditched a long time back for an Auzen X-Meridian Gold!) and is the best I've ever heard Crysis sound. It's truly scary.

Both do - they use TOSLink adapters, the digital ports are dual personality. See; http://www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_prelude.php Same for the Xonar mate. The Prelude would be better for games as it retains EAX and ALChemy, but both are extremely competent boards and from experience...

POS. As is all the Creative stuff. I'd go for possibly the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-AZ&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat= or the Asus Xonar : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat= as...

Muppet.

Doesn't surprise me. We're BT Totalcare - 4hr fix - and they called me to advise today that the fault we reported around 20th December was due to a power supply failure and they're going to start working on it.

2nd one twice over - although if you can push it a little further and get it to maybe a 2Ghz processor for less than £50 (not sure on the pricing) then it'll be worth it in the long run. Just been on the site, if you can go to £645.50 this setup will give you that little bit more...

I use Photoshop CS2 for mine - more than competent and more buttons than I know what to do with - which has to mean that it's a good place to start experimenting with it! PM me if you need CS2 'demo'!

That still seems like a fair buy for a decent 17" screened notebook. I'd say go for it - Dell have been good recently in my experience for customer support too (shocker!)

Disagree, they've yet to produce something that can do anything towards counter the Core2 invasion...

Yes. AMD vs Intel speedwise (actual speed, not clock or number of cores) the Intels run a huge amount cooler... Making quieter machines... Which believe it or not makes a difference. I can hear my old laptop on from 10m away - and it's not too loud (only 2 years old in August). The latest...

Meh, 16 cores and 32Gb memory FTW! No pics as yet though lol, it's being delivered next month!

Ratio of p**n to music is around 500Gb music (around 2 years worth continuous play) and 1.5tb p**n which just seems to have accumulated. The music is all I'm bothered about!

Back it up then - it's not like you face the problem I have which is where do I backup my 2 terabytes of music and p**n.

Possible disk failure. As for a good defrag tool, try Raxco Perfectdisk.