Checkpoint

And here I thought T.O.M.B.S. was outlawed (for whatever plausible reason)?

I hear you. If it wasn't for BG2 I'd be totally single right now.

I'm glad Eddo isn't my dad.

DiKtator of the Free World - Kula Shaker

Nick Drake - Fly

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

First off, don't ask how I dug up this post (I really stumbled upon it while searching for other stuff), but I actually bought their record Foc after watching them perform on Grafton Street in Dublin about six years ago. I was absolutely mesmerised!

Very nice. IIRC, that's from "Blues and Roots," which is a good place to start with Mingus. "Mingus Ah Um" is the logical next step (and, according to many, his best non-long-form work). It's mostly comprised of compositions inspired by Mingus' heroes-- "An Open Letter to Duke," "Bird Calls" (Parker), "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (Lester Young), and another tribute to Jelly Roll Morton which I believe is just called "Jelly Roll." A less well-known Mingus album that I really like is "Charles Minus Presents Charles Mingus," which features a smaller group with some amazing work by Eric Dolphy (and the vocal-included version of "Fables of Faubus"). I own "Blues and Roots" and I agree that it appears to be a good place to start (I only have three records; one fusion record and then the awesome one where he plays piano and drinks whiskey). Mingus FTW!

Kula Shaker - Govinda (Live at the Plymouth Pavilion)

Why wasn't I there? WHYYYY?

I have now ordered these little things: CPU Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHZ 2X1MB Dual Core S-775 Mobo ASRock 775Dual-VSTA PT880PRO S-775 DDR/DDR2 AGP/PCI-E ATX PSU Zalman 460W APS Silent I went with an apparently very good and silent 460W power supply to be on the safe side and in case I wanna upgrade my video card in the future. It was hard finding a mobo that met my very specific requirements, but this one did it reasonably and at a cheap price. Now let's hope these things arrive, I actually manage to put them in, and everything actually WORKS. Pray for your Schmarthilissimo!

Hahaha!

Dunno. I don't think it says anything, really. All I know is that this piece of information in the manual seems to have gotten me one step closer to a solution. I need to get some new stuff.

Actually, this is what I found in the motherboard manual (I thought I'd already posted this, must be the forum being sickly earlier today): PC2100 (DDR266) for 3 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 3GB PC2700 (DDR333) for 2 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 2GB PC3200 (DDR400) for 1 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 1GB (bolds by me) I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that, but I understand it as the mobo only being capable of handling one DDR400 stick at a time, and that one can only be at a max of 1GB. I've been using THREE DDR400 sticks at a total of 1.5GB. No wonder it's been unable to sustain that... I didn't build this thing myself; it was just one of those fairly cheap pre-made packages, and I suppose the first things they make cheaper are stuff like mobo and PS, since they don't expect people who buy them to do any upgrading anyway. Well, I did some upgrading recently and it obviously got too much for the heart of the system to keeo up with.

Yes, sorry, it's 350W.

I actually think it might be down to insufficient power supply. I took out a couple of RAM sticks and suddenly everything worked fine. I put in one more and things kept working fine. I installed video drivers. Things stopped working fine. At first I naturally thought my video card had taken damage, but now that I think of it it's been having these issues without the drivers installed, but with three memory sticks in place. Now it starts getting problems with two memory sticks and graphics drivers installed. Any power supply experts out there to help me with my problems? Specs: P4 Celeron 3GHz ASRock P4VT8+ socket 478 mobo 3x 512MB DDR RAM Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA HDD (with another one due to be connected once I get this under control) GeForce 7600 GS Some plug-and-play sound card that I kinda like

It did work with a similar problem in the past, albeit on another computer. The difference then was that the system froze only when I was playing games (then again, this system worked fine for nearly two weeks and initially only froze in Eastside Hockey Manager, so given more time that system might have started freezing in Windows as well). I don't know what setting it could be, but I wouldn't be surprised if the solution could be that simple.

The thing is that the mobo *shouldn't* have any issues with these things. That's why I'm thinking a simple change in the BIOS might do the trick and save me the hassle of switching mobos.

I've been thinking of getting a new mobo, but I suppose that means a new processor as well (it's a socket 478 mobo and from what I can gather they're a bit dated). I do need an AGP slot (because I recently bought a GeForce 7600 GS card that I won't be throwing away anytime soon) and I have 1.5GB worth of DDR-RAM that I need to be able to use. I simply don't know what to get or what to do with it once I get it.

I've been thinking about this too, but the thing that worries me is that I'll end up with a bunch of parts that aren't compatible.