Posts by bsmith

Spewwed by delvien "we aren't in the military for a good reason" That's right, you don't have the balls to do a thankless job and put your ass on the line so other people can enjoy the freedoms you are so quick to exercise. I'm...

Umm Not to be an ass but you did plug in the card power didn't you? I forgot once and it would draw the desktop but not much else. I have pretty much the same system as you. 3000+ Barton at 2.5G 1G ram and a BFG 6800OC. I haven't ran...

Heh Irun my Gentoo on a 40G drive and have had to clean it out a couple of times.

Well the purchase one does give you a book and I think support for a time. Email, phone, or whatnot. You can download the manuals as well. So unless you just absolutly want the dead-tree version, I'd go for the download. As for other...

If time isn't an issue, Grab some live cds and try them out. I don't reccomend Gentoo to total noobs if they have any issues with patience or being meticulous. Gentoo requires both until you have the hang of it. That said I do run FC2 on...

Yes it needs the jumper. without it, the system will usually assume it's a master or single drive. In the secondary position that won't work as it in reality shares the chain with the CDRom.

Yeah go to Nvidia for the RPM for your 9300. For finding random RPMs for different things rpmfind.net is your friend. also you will most likely want a front end for RPM. As for other distros our resident distro whore abf will be along...

Most times if the screen's glass is broken it's done for. LCDs are not cheap when it comes time to replace them. Often if it's even possible to repair it, it's cheaper to buy new than repair.

I agree, I did the LFS thing as my last distro. I had it setup just as I wanted it, and the HDD decided to crash. When I say crash I mean the ondrive controler let the smoke out. Needless to say it was dead. I then took a break from...

Have you tried to delete all the partitions again when booting to the XP disk? Since you are posting I assume you have a working backup system. Try this link, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348. Maybe it will help. I've never ran...