Recent content by Geekoid

Guess its just me that is stupid then, and can't do things right first time >.< Hope the OP isn't like me... I see things like "// Do not modify the following lines!" in the example at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236093 and just think "Oh - I would most certainly have edited those...

But first, in order to be a pro, you need know what things should look like. We don't all start as pros, much as we'd love to! It is quite evident this is a first-timer who has never seen any DNS files before. When I was a first-timer, I wanted to see something that worked that had my data in...

Rather than editing by files hand and making mistakes, try using a front-end like OpenPanel or Webmin.

Beatcraft is a Microsoft-only piece of software, and with a Windows licence by itself costing around 90 euros by itself you'll not be able to make anything. As you can't buy anything new for the price, you'll have to scour the second-hand market. Sometimes you can get good deals from local...

You should always keep up the maintenance / warranty on your UPS so you can get the batteries replaced every few years. Make sure you test them every few months as well!

£1000 will get you one hell of a computer. Also, the case won't be the cheapest thing. Likely your HDD will be less than the case. A good case provides not only great cooling, but also ease of installation and upgrades. A decent case should cost you around £100. $400 sounds very expensive for a...

For me, it is Windows that has a steep learning curve and is limited. Another quick and recent example - customising my logon screen. I didn't even have to think with Linux as everything was just intuitive; a couple of clicks and I had my cool new logon screen. I've been trying to do the same...

You can access the internet perfectly well on a tablet, so that is pretty much a non issue as anything can do it. The photo editing on the other hand could be, but it depends if she is doing it professionally and using things like Adobe Photoshop, or just doing the odd holiday snap in GIMP. As...

8 beeps is down as Display memory Read/Write test failure http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm So you may have a faulty graphics card / be clocking it too hard.

Well, this guy is a little over £2k - http://www.ukgamingcomputers.co.uk/triton-watercooled-gaming-computer-p-134.html So people are willing to pay such sums for pre-built systems. It may be worth forking out the extra £80 to get Windows and pre-install it though. This is based on a guess that...

Be interesting to know what it was you couldn't get around, especially as I find Windows to be the confusing (and annoying) one! It still confuses me why I can't resize some windows in windows :) I guess it depends on which OS you tried first.

It depends what sort of backup you want to do. If you're happy just backing up regular files, then there are a bazillion (really, that many!) different bits of freeware to do that. There is a good list here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/back_up.html and pretty much all of them can do...

I have a caddy for that sort of thing :) I don't have any direct experience with the exact model you have, but I do have a different Thecus device and in that you have to manually add a drive to a RAID set - it won't automatically just add it regardless. Without a caddy, you should be able to...

Sounds like Windows is having a SATA problem; I thought a lot of those were sorted out in Windows 7 but evidentally not :) This guy seems to have it sorted on the ASRock board you have: http://www.yentran.org/blog/2011/08/installing-windows-7-x86-for-the-asrock-939dual-sata2-motherboard/

Interesting. So right now, its seen in the BIOS but not Windows and is known to work elsewhere. I'd try booting up into something else (such as Linux) to see if it can be seen there. Even something basic like the GPartEd (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php) Live CD/USB would let me know...