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Ebay ISSSUES (6)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

I won a case on eBay where a seller never shipped an item to me the way described, in the time they said they would.

A few minutes ago, I got the package in the mail-AFTER I received a full refund and spent it.

I honestly wasn't ever notified that the package was at the post-office, since it was shipped a different way than I paid for....

Should I keep the item? I already bought a replacement, haha.

TRON project as original and newest OSs, Specifications and Concepts (56)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

TRON is the Japanese and worldwide computer project from 1984.
TRON has been started by Dr. Ken Sakamura of University of Tokyo.

DO YOU KNOW TRON ?

Do they make 1.5TB drives that don't die yet? (4)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

Or is it just that Seagate drives die?

Shuttle Mini-ITX "XPC" questions (3)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

Hi. I've been thinking about picking up one of the AMD-based ones and building it up as a portable mini gaming system.

However, I see a potential problem here. The teeny tiny case has a teeny tiny 300W power supply. Yes, the motherboard has a PCIe 16x slot.

However, there's only room in the case for half-height, so called "low profile ready" video cards to fit that slot. That's not impossible to overcome. But the 300W power supply doesn't put out enough juice to run a video card that will be better than integrated video. Apparently at least a 480W PSU is needed that can support a video card drawing 200+ watts/26 amps or more. You're not going to get, say, a GeForce 9600GT/512MB card to run on that, and it may even fry the motherboard if you try.

Has anyone built up one of these and been able to put a decent PSU and video card in it?

Thanks.

Fedora 11 Installation Troubles (2)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

Alright, so I've been trying to install Fedora 11 on a brand new VD Caviar Green 500GB drive I got yesterday from Best Buy. I tried to do it from the LiveCD and it kept failing to write to the HD. "Bad media" something. I thought my HD might be eff'd. I was kinda pissed.

So I tried the full DVD install, and it goes normal, media check passed, and it goes about the normal installation until it gets to the actual instal. You know, with the progress bar and all. At which point it says:

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python: rpmte.c:704: prmteColorDS: Assertion 'ix < Count' failed.
install exited abnormally [1/1]
disabling swap... ((etc etc))
...

sending kill signals...done

PC modding (1)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

I want to mod my pc so that my fans can be turned on and off with switches on the outside of my case (maybe in the expansion bay). Now the idea I had in mind was to cut either the positive or negative wire from the fans molex connections, and solder a green LED and switch to it (I'll worry about encasement later). The problem is that I don't know if the LED will hinder the fan's performance or if it wont would I need a resistor to keep the LED from burning out, and if the resistor would limit the fans functionality, I'd like to have the green LEDs to show which fans are turned on. Can I make this happen or is this just a pipe dream?

[HELP] Single questions & Help Thread [n00b] (338)

CyB3r h4xX0r g33k

If you have a single (or some more) question regarding any of the tech topics of this board and feel that it wouldn't justify creating an own thread just for that, feel free to post it in here.

If you know the answer to any of the questions in this thread, please help us out here! I am sure it's going to be appreciated.

I am creating this thread since there's ben popping up too many threads lately with single questions asking for help that aren't really set out to create too much interest.

Need help clearing out files! (6)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

Hey guys I need help cleaning out files of this laptop I just got. It has a 150GB hdd but 120GB are being used... I can find some files but theres around 100GB that are being used.

I would normally just install a fresh windows but the problem with this laptop is that it overheats if the processors aren't in power save mode (Shuts off in 20 or so minutes if its not in powersaving) any suggestions?

XP installation and accounts (4)

4n0n4ym0u5 h4xx0r

Odd situation. Sometimes when I install Xp on a machine, after most of the setup there's a screen called "Who will use this computer?" where I have to type in names. Since the machines are mine I just want my default Administrator account (regardless of security issues and whatnot), but the setup "forces" me to type in a name for another admin account which I cannot remove later on. Other times, however, the setup skips this screen altogether "allowing" me to keep only one admin account.

Any idea why this happens and is there a way to make it do the latter?

Error Cannot Copy Invalid MS-DOS function (38)

Joe!QkO1sgFXdY

Ok, I get this whenever I try to copy something from my CD-Rom drive, It sounds like it's working ok, but after it reaches somewhere around 40% it just gives up on the file and shows this error message saying "Error Cannot Copy Invalid MS-DOS function". The computer is brand new and I was wondering if anyone else has had the same trouble with this? thanks!