Hi Nellip, Sorry things haven't gone to plan for you. Some things to try... - Have you plugged the 8-pin power connector into it's socket which is above and to the left of the CPU? - With regard to the "System Panel Connector", in most cases the ground/- is the black wire and the + is the ...

Hang in there Noter.

Beaut of a profile. Who's the artist?

:FI:Nightcat wrote:So will there be a baby boob in 9 months?

"Mr. Freud, clean-up on aisle 5."

Forget March, beware the Ikes of September, Stu.

Yep, I have the lot on my HDD. Gives me a big ol' smile every time.

:FI:Heloego wrote:Just how big are the hearing aids in Eire?!?!?!?

The battery for my MB is roughly 1/2" in diameter!

Well they could be suppositories I suppose, for those with a nickel deficiency.

:FI:Nellip wrote:

The Manc is back - just replaced the battery on the motherboard at a cost of £2.95 and machine is back - there is a God!

Excellent.

The chemist always looks at me funny when I go to buy those batteries as they are also used for hearing aids.

Try switching to a spare graphics card first then check the RAM by removing the ram completely and powering on the PC. You should be greeted by some angry beeping. If so, and you have more than one stick of RAM, try each on it's own to see if you can find the culprit there.

:FI:Sacktime wrote:... I tried sending you a PM, but for some reason it is sitting in my outbox...

He's the most popular girl at the dance.

Well ... I WAS gonna buy it today, but Eileen needed $40 flippin' for a HDMI cable for her flippin' PS3!!! It wasn't included. You should have heard her cursin'! You should have heard ME cursin' when I heard $40!!!! ~~~ I have come to appreciate the positive qualities of cat crap ... when compared ...

Thanks for that Gadje.

I might have to bring my old Sidewinder out of retirement to replace the X52 stick.

Do you have an Nvidia chipset on your motherboard? Nope. Does that help or hinder? I did get a hal.dll (going daisy- daisy and keeps calling me Dave :badgrin: ) error and will be trying Fixboot util from recovery console + some dabbling in the SATA control panel. Next step then will be backup of th...

:FI:Sneaky_Russian wrote:...

4- Install new SATA and clone from Old SATA using MaxBlast5 (Maxtor/Seagate utility). I need to go over this as I can boot from new drive with cable switched, but not with old drive disconnected.

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Do you have an Nvidia chipset on your motherboard?

Erm...congratulations?

Happy Birthday Willie!

I hope you got a new router as a present so we can see you in Hyperlobby.

Sorry to hear about your problems Ghost. I've had my X52 since launch and have had no serious problems.

Hey Gadje, have you done any physical mods on the stick? Care to share your sensitivity settings? I've never been happy with the pitch and roll rate.