Yep. ATX is ATX - be it regular or micro. Size is the only difference.

hi all , i am wondering how much faster is q9550 compared to pen 4 3.2.ghz is q9550 worth $169? i am asking because I am upgrading my pc vegita92

One problem - you have to be sure the motherboard will support a q9550 (just being the same socket 775 is not enough). And I'm willing to bet it doesn't.

But it is a micro atx will it still fit?

samutilda

You don't think a motherboard smaller than the one you have now will fit inside the case? Yes, it will fit.

Those are pretty good reasons for going with SSD. "Overkill" is really only about how much you flinch at spending ~$300 for the SSD / external combo vs ~$100 for a big (320-500GB) 7200RPM drive. If I had the extra cash, I'd probably go with a SSD, too.

i do have the service packs.. teh strange thing is i only have 1TB not 1.5TB i have no idea why it was that much! StealthKnife

Well, if it was explicitly stated that you bought a 1TB drive, consider it your lucky day because Windows clearly detects 1.5TB.

and i just had this hard drive put in.. the first time i format it to install windows.. it said it was "unable to complete format" or something.. the 2nd time it worked.. any one no a solution? i do have an option to delete a partition StealthKnife

OK, so it looks like when that error occurred, only 800GB of your 1.5TB drive was successfully partitioned. There is a second 250GB unformatted partition and about 400GB of disk with no partitioning.

If you want to try to fix this by making a single 1.5TB partition without reinstalling Windows:

1) Make sure you are patched to at least XP Service Pack 3

2) Download and burn a copy of gParted, a good, free partitioning utility. Boot from the gparted CD, Delete the unformatted 250GB partition and move/stretch out your 800GB partition to cover all 1.5TB.

Disk partitioning can be a finicky thing, so I won't say this is guaranteed to work. But aside from starting from scratch once again - and hoping this was a fluke - its about as good a chance as you'll have.

I'm still leaning towards ASUS for bigger drive and more of both Video and system memory.

[QUOTE="Amith12"]

I cant see the alienware either, but it sucks anyway.

Go with the asus, and wont it be a bit heavy for college? dragging it around evrywhere.

nVidiaGaMer

Its not that heavy acutally only 7.3 pounds most laptops similar in size still weigh 5-6 lbs. the only bad thing is the battery life it says up to 2 hours so that means most likely he'll get less then that.

True, but that battery life is an expected tradeoff when you put higher-powered CPUs and GPUs in a notebook. Considering the other one is alienware, I'll bet he can take the cost savings going with ASUS and buy a 2nd battery. ;)

To skelebull, we're going to need another link to that Alienware, we can't see into your shopping cart.

[QUOTE="chefkw"]

Before

Recontrooper

If you remove the driver, Windows will revert to a generic VGA driver *after* you reboot. Your desktop will be fixed to a low resolution and won't look very pretty, but it will be workable and isn't really "bad". If anything, leaving the Nvidia drivers on presents a small chance that it might interfere with the proper functioning of your onboard video in Windows (unless that's Nvidia too).

I guess it doesn't critically matter what order you do it, I think removing the drivers beforehand is more logical.

Hi,

So I am putting a new PC together for my friend.

Everything thing works perfectly (Hard drives load up, monitor has a picture, all fans are running, CD drives work ect)

Except for the USB ports. None of them, including the ones on the front of the case (plugged into the USB connector on the MB) and the USB ports that go directly into the motherboard on the back work. They will not power a basic mouse and keyboard.
Basically, do you guys have any suggestions of things I could try?

Thanks for all the help in advance!

Tsimcluckis

If no USB ports work, not even the back ports, check the BIOS to make sure USB is enabled, including USB legacy support. If it is, and nothing works (especially in Windows), it sounds like a defective board.