On Jan 25, 8:44*pm, "JimH" wrote:
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On Jan 25, 3:58 pm, Kippered wrote:





On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:01:23 -0500, BAR wrote:
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:12:51 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:27:34 -0600, Vic Smith
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:09:36 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:39:28 -0500, Kippered
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I wouldn't go with a brand name like Dell, Gateway, or whatever..
There's a
computer shop down the road that will build them to order. I'll
pay
the
extra hundred or two for them to do the work. I'll have to pick
out
the
motherboard, etc, etc, etc. I'll ask for advice here, and some of
the
experts will offer it.

Yeah. And case advice too. You need good case advice.

--Vic
Vic,
I thought the cases were fairly standard, and you just ordered them
based upon what motherboard you wanted to use and how many bays you
wanted to use.

Is there more to it?

Depends on your needs. John said something about going inside and
messing with them. If you're going to do that a lot (I've built
about
10 PC's) you want a case that makes it easy. If you're not, you
won't care, except you still want a quality power supply, the power
supply often being bundled with the case.
I prefer big honking cases that allow real easy parts replacements,
substitutions.
Here's the one for this computer, and my others are big variations..
I have plenty of work space.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16811165008R
Very easy to work with - massive and well thought.
I did a newegg review, but it looks like they discontinued the case
and the link is an "open box"
Think I paid $120 unpowered.

--Vic
Vic, here's a question for you. I've tried two different USB hubs.
When I
plug them in, Windows starts looking for drivers and can find none.
I've
tried going back to the XP reinstall disk, but Windows can't find
drivers
there either.

Any ideas?

Anyone can jump on this, BTW.
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***** Hope your day is better than decent! *****

John H
The two hubs you tried are they the same brand/model? It's hard to
believe
that the generic USB drivers included with XP will not work.

Are the hubs USB 1 or USB 2?

Try the hub manufacturer's web site for driver information.

Different brands. I'm thinking that maybe the driver files in XP may be
bad. They're USB2.

Maybe an upgrade to VISTA is needed

WOW! There's an idea!

Let's see..;.new card, $10.99.

Vista...$143.00

Vista frustration...Priceless.

I like the card idea better.
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Soooo, who is actually having problems with Vista here. We have it all
over the place here on dual boot systems, and friends are running it,
no one has jumped out a window yet (pardon the pun. Anyway, anyone
here "running" vista actually had or having any problems cause my
expereince for basic home business and home computing has been fine?
Sorry if I did not read the bash threads, but any or you having
problems that you can report?

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Scott, it was just another Reggie/John troll *to try to stir up an argument.

They never used it. *They believe everything they read from folks having
problems with it because either they upgraded to it and their computer is
not designed to run it OR they are too stupid to figure out how to run it.

The computers in our house are running WinXP and I will not upgrade to VISTA
because they were not built to run that OS.

My son's laptop, however, was built to run VISTA and it runs flawlessly for
him.

Let the trolls go..............they are just trying to start an
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Jim, if you are trying to be the socially responsible one here and NOT
trying to pick fights, why the constant name calling?