Dash Rendar

Great FAQ Alex!

I concur with previous comments. Buy a new board. Then get a PCI-E card. No point in paying money for something that's already obsolete. I've always been happy with ATI cards, but it really is a matter of choice.

I'm replacing my ageing Athlon 2800+ next week with a nice new Athlon 3800 X2 system next week. I got a pretty good quote from PCSpecialist.co.uk. This will be the first PC in about 10 years that I haven't built myself from component parts. There's just no financial reason to do it yourself these days as the margin is so small. Get it pre-built from somewhere like PCspecialist, and you can be sure of getting a fully tested solution. (They also allow you to upgrade yourself without voiding the warranty.) Also (think this might have already been said), with the price of systems at the mo, there's often little point in upgrading select components. You might as well just buy a new box and sell off your old one. That's what I've done. (P.S. If you go for a dual core like an X2, and if you run Windows, make sure you've got XP Pro, not XP Home. Home doesn't support multiple processors. Also, avoid the XP 64 bit edition as the driver support is poor. Stick with good old 32 bit edition until the 64 bit platform is better supported. Or go dual boot, which is what I'm going to do. Well, actually, it'll be quad-boot...)

I'm gutted for you mate. Seriously?!! This worries me as that's where I just had my Supra MOT'd. And they spent a lot of time talking about my rims...

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Yep, probably was me. I go around that roundabout just about every day on the route from work. Granted, I am a slacker, but 1330 sounds a bit early to leave work, even for me! Unless this was on the weekend; I've been spending a lot of time visiting the tip and Homebase over the last couple of weeks.

Nice seeing you all again. Glad your car now goes backwards Gav.

Ha ha!

Sounds like my kind of Sunday! (Except for the ironing bit.)

Wow Dug, looks great! I remember you being quite adament about keeping the car stock. And that was only a few months ago!! I want mine done the same. But having just moved, I'm a little low on cash.

Suprastar's avatar gets my vote. Although James' is the only avatar that prompted me to send a PM...

Hello, 'twas me!! You seemed to be deep in conversation in the car, so I wasn't sure if you'd seen me as I passed.

Should be okay for me, fingers crossed.

Actually, naratriptan is a 5HT agonist. That means it simulates the effects of seratonin on certain seratonin receptors in the brain. This causes vasoconstriction (contraction of the blood vessels) and so the net result is the same: the blood vessels don't expand so much. (I wasted four years of my life studying biochemistry, so it's kinda nice to be able to recall something useful from time to time.) Your explanation is easier to read! Good one! Or a handbrake on a boat.

You'll have to save it as a GIF (which only has 256 colours) or better yet, a PNG if you want a transparent background. JPG doesn't support transparency.

I get migraines regularly and have done since I was about 10. Some months I'll get maybe three or four. Then some months I'll only get one. I have to take a low dose of beta blockers everyday as a preventative measure. It helps a little; reckon I'd get maybe 30-50% more if I didn't take them. And I also take naratriptan when I feel one coming on. If I take the pill early enough, the symptoms are much more mild. But if I wait till the migraine has already set in, they do nothing.

Just insured with Sky. They were £40 quid more than Elephant (coming to £600), but cover my mods and gave me a guaranteed value of £10K on the car. I'm 27 with 8 years NCD. Also insured my Rover VVC Coupe with Sky. Elephant wanted £500 with a £350 excess. Sky have done it for £460 with only a £100 excess. Very helpful too.

Would defo like to come. However, I'm in the middle of moving home at the moment so everything's a bit up in the air.

Ha ha! I know where you're coming from. Just trying to add comments for those that, erm... don't remember much algebra! (Hell, I'm in my 20s and already feeling senile.)

Didn't I say that? Apologies for being too verbose!!

No worries. Hope it helps. Glad the problem was identified quickly in the end.

Fantastic.

The good old fashioned GCSE method, for anybody that cares... Let bat = x Let ball = y x + y = 1.2 // Because bat plus ball is £1.20 y + 1 = x // Because bat costs £1 more than ball Substituting x for (y+1)... 2y + 1 = 1.2 Therefore, 2y = 0.2 So y = 0.1 // Ball is 10p Substituting back in... x = 0.1 + 1 // Bat is £1.10 I can't believe I bothered to post this! I need to get out more. Still, I'm a big believer in methodology, cause it helps when the numbers get more complicated... Which is probably why I'm now a programmer and can talk to computers better than people. I'll go and get my coat...

There's definitely some confusion here. First off, Windows XP often requires reactivation if it detects significant hardware changes. (Sometimes changing a hard disk is sufficient to cause this, if other hardware changes have already been performed previously). But this is easy to rectify and usually just involves a call to MS. But it's certainly true that changing the motherboard causes Windows to have a fit. Over dozens of mobo upgrades, I've never yet been able to get away with not doing an XP Repair. In case you're interested, I've got a tutorial on performing the XP Repair procedure here. BTW, I'm pretty sure Gav is right. The PC supplier don't have to give you an XP CD, but they do have to provide you with some sort of recovery CD which includes everything you'll find on the MS XP CD (assuming you got an XP license when you bought the box). With your new board... When you power-on, do you hear any activity? E.g. CPU fan, hard disk spinning, that sort of thing?

Sadly, I couldn't afford a garage either.