Posts by Jahws

As for being used at school, do you mean as your main college computer? If so, I'd advise you to go with the 8887, since it will save you room from not having a TV, VCR, and DVD player. Mine does quite well with DVD movies, and I've...

Quote: Originally posted by myrkat Plus, who wants to burn a BOOTABLE CD-R just to flash their BIOS? Floppies will NEVER DIE until an alternate BOOTABLE media is found (if we could boot off a pen driver or a media card...

You're saying that it blue screened, right? When I tried to run 3DMark03 without the right drivers, when I got to the Troll's Lair section, the program crashed, leaving the messed up resolution in place. When I tried to fix it, I then...

I've seen something better before, I think. There's printers out there that have ethernet ports built in so that they can be accessed as freely as what you're wanting, without needing any other connections.

A common bit of info I see throughout the forums is that the limiting factor of the system tends to be the hard drive speed, rather than the memory capacity. Programs frequently have to load things from the hard disk and save them back,...

Who says they need pressure? If we let them know how big of a market that they'd have here on the forums, maybe they would wake up to the possibility! We could do a web petition for it!

I don't have any personal experience, but I've seen multiple forum members talk about Crucial.

Currently, I'm a senior in high school and am planning on majoring in Computer Engineering or Computer Science. I've grown up almost completely on Microsoft. (For a few early years, we had an Apple, but I was about 4 years old.) Since...

I didn't go through the TV-Tuner, I believe. The TV Tuner is only required for regular TV input (i.e. RF). I think the S-Video has no ties to the Tuner, but the line-in is affected by its presence, making it function under different...

I haven't done a PS2, but I've done something very similar-the GameCube. I happen to have a combo Component & S-Video output adapter for it, and for video, the S-Video works. In order to get sound, I plug the white wire into my...