Hi all

DVD rom drives limit you to only 5 regional changes. I have used all 5 of these without konwing, and have unfortuantely bought a Region 2 DVD (USA), i am region 2 (Europe) and cannot watch the DVD on my computer anymore.

Does anybody know a way around the limitation settings?Maybe there is some sofware that can crack this or sit in the background of the computer, removing all regional settings??

I would be very happy if anyone can help me.

get yourself on ebay, im sure they will have some

Never used them myself

Try www.dabs.comthey have some pretty good deals on all thetime.

It can deffinately be done pal. Just as the guy said above vista has its own built in partition manager. I read this months pczone magazine and there is a step by step guide on how to have vista and xp on the same hard drive. There is a website but i cant find any info on there for you. You could maybe get the magazine.

Cheers

The tuniq tower seems to be a little cheaper, think i will buy one of them to be safe

Cheers pal.

Will i need to invest in some more cooling devices? if so do you have any recommendations?

Download Orthos to stress your CPU and Intel's TAT (Thermal Analysis Tool) to monitor temps then head to your bios ...

I'm not sure about the 650i boards but if there like 680i then set your RAM and FSB ratio's to unlinked and start bumping the CPU speed up in 5-10Mhz increments. Boot to windows and run a short stress test while monitoring temps, if all is OK then restart and again bump the speed and repeat the stress tests. Keep this up until your start noticing things like Windows taking longer to load, freezing or crashing or any errors being reported while stressing .. if and when this happens then restart and bump the CPU voltage a little (say 1.3V). If this doesn't solve the errors then try bumping the voltage once more and again stress testing ..

If this doesn't work for a second time then it'll be easier to drop the CPU speed back .. Once you've found what seems to be a stable speed then run your stress test for a good 8-12hours at-least (the more the better) while keeping an eye on the temps (above 60°C odd should be avoided).

If it fails this test then either drop the speed or bump the volts (you shouldn't really go above 1.35 unless you know what your doing)

Anubis_386

Im a bit of a newbie to all this, so:

I am setting the ration to unlinked in the bios and the same with bumping the cpu mhz and voltagei presume. I may sound dumb by writing this but, what is a stress test and were do i monitor the temp at ???

I am running on vista home premium 32-bit