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Done got myself a working computer! And it was simple--all I hadda do was find a bleeding-edge OS that understood all these way out toys. The winner is: "xubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso"

I had...

I'm gonna let all this sit and fester until tonight--right now I'm gonna go over to my woodshop and spend Saturday working on a toy box for my new granddaughter.

What I will do tonight is drag out...

Check, check...and check.

I've only installed one CD/DVD drive (onto the one master/slave 40-wire cable) so yes, the BIOS indicates a master but no slave (lines one & 2).

The SATA HD does...

I went to the suggested site, downloaded something that was called "cpm.exe", copied it to a disc, put the disk into the CD drive of my new box, and got...nadda.

The computer wants me to:
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I do not, ever, see the HD activity light come at the front of my case--while I'm attempting to do any of the things that I sorta thought I would be able to do (like install OS's, and stuff).

I just pulled a Ubuntu 7.0 disk out of a magazine I recently bought, and tried installing it. The splash screens worked their special magic for awhile, then the whole thing just hung up in the midst...

I've attempted to boot from three different commercially produced CD sets that I've got laying around. One of the three is the same Mandrake 10.1 set that runs the computer I'm using right now. ...

Here's all the shiny new stuff I cobbled a dream-computer together with:

ASUS M3A78 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket...

Yup, they exist. Got the box sitting on the couch behind me, and the screen protection paper has "1290x1080" in bold print on it.



That's very reasonable thinking, and it's where I'm gonna...

Right now...I'm resolving to get out the door on time to work (sun's not yet up here on my side of the pond). I'll get back to this when I get home tonight. Thanks.

I have tried numbers on both sides of my original 1024x768 (75%), where the scale was 62.5% to 80%. Nothing's different.

What's wrong with widescreen?--everything that displays is now distorted...

Just bought a 22" Dell (it's beautiful and works, well--well...) but I think I bought into technologies I don't understand (nothing new there!).

What I bought was an S2209W, the "W" being what I...

EVGA 512-P3-N860-TR GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card (as always--NewEgg)

Consider it done. Thanks for the comments. (Actually, it's not...

...what would your [alternate] recommendation for a video card be, and why?

Actually, according to a book I once read:

* Hackers publ. 1984
* Auth: Steven Levy

The geekdom magnet at M.I.T. in the 1950's was a humongous model train layout planted somewhere in the...

That would be 'hacking'...as in blissfully plumbing the depths of a computer's nuances, vs. 'blackhatting', which is blissfully plumbing the depths of other people's computers.

I'd like to garner opinions on the correctness of the following listed combo:

MOBO, CPU (and cooler) & MEMORY
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* ASUS M3A78 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
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Appears I may have answered my own questions, with a little more googling. :rolleyes:

Apparently, I am confusing PATA (the old--first flat, then [cool friendly] round--40-pin cables) with the...

I am in the throes of cobbling together a new computer. It appears that my beloved Abit motherboards are on life support (at best), so I've been looking at ASUS.

It appears to me that most of the...