does anyone have an adapter plug for a modern harddrive.. its the thin black one that will plug into the old white connections
I'm dual booting Vista and XP but theres only 2 plugs, so i'm borrowing the one off the DVD at the moment

Is it the power lead your after Nige?

yes mate, yellow, 2 blacks and red

edit.. oh scrap that it has an orange as well.. i'm sure the knackered pc only had 4 i'll check it tomorrow
second edit lol: it 5 as well.. bollox!..
I'm having sh*t loads of problems with 3D software under Vista so i wanted to try a second harddrive with XP to see if it sorts it.. if it does i'll junk Vista totally.. i should of done it as soon as i got the pc but it was new and i didn't want to feck up the warranty

I think Windows will let you "downgrade" Vista to XP, cos so many people don't like it.


Miz.

Sounds like you need a 4 pin molex to SATA power adaptor.

One of these



Sorry dont have a spare one but at least you now know the name of what your looking for

Thats the one Finn cheers!



You can get PC's with either option now, some companies will send a downgrade package, HP/Compaq wont, all they offered me where links to the drivers.. which weren't for my PC so i found out last night! really annoying seeing as the network wouldn't work to get online via XP
They say XP with be maintained and upgraded until 2010. that really shows what a dead duck Vista is dunnit

yeah i think everyones getting too savvy for them now and their not grabbing at the latest gizmo anymore.

i have in the last 6months migrated my entire home network from xp to vista, (roughly 15machines) all in all im mighty impressed with vista, all the bad press is exactly the same as when xp came out, yes it took some time for the hardware and software support to come, but again it was the same with xp. the biggest problem microsoft have with vista is education. teach the users and developers how to use and write for it and there wont be any problems.


what 3d software are you using and what version?


as to your adaptor. im all but certain i have a spare one arround here somewhere. i will have a dig for you this eve or tomorow and get back to you. failing that, take a print of that pic to maplin

I'm using TrueSpace 6.6.. it appears to be DirectX10 issues but the Latest TS wont work either thats even more unstable.. i cant run TS in DirectX mode, its just fecks up in openGL i have to run wire frame editor and it crashes using Raytrace rendering, i can't use toon shaders.. i also have problems with Bryce with drop down menu's not working, it crashes doing panoramic renders or multiple renders to disc.. the only program that works is 3D Studio Max but thats beyond my budget of nill

I don't play many games but most randomly crash..

I've turned off all the Vista BS (that i know of), TS is running compatabilty mode etc.. its also installed in C's root not program files
it really p*ss's me off, before i was using a pc with a crappy 64 meg video card and the only problem was it was slow rendering.. this is 3 times the pc that ever was and i can do next to bugger all lol

I think i sent the plugs with that hard drive you got of me.. if i didn't.. well i must have em here.. somewhere

As I understand it, all the large OEM manufacturers will supply XP discs if you ask them (and pay for them). I've certainly got a set out of Lenovo, and a friend of mind got a set from HP/Compaq. The HP ones were about £45 I think, but turned his new laptop from a stinking pile of sh!t into a decent machine.

Oh, and Wyntr... 15 machines in your home network? What the hell? I have 5, and I think *I'm* bad!

we only have 3 PC's networked.. love to know why you have 15 lol

15 PC's! have you no furnature in your house?

having had a dig arround i couldnt find the adaptor so im sorry about that.

2 hardcore gaming rigs
2 laptops

then we move into the rack..

3 dell poweredge
3 compaq dl360's
5 assorted boxes doing errr stuff lol

thing is i am gonna be looking to move some of these machines on when i upgrade my san what i eventauly want is 5 dell poweregdes or possibly a blade... i dunno... need more moneys first

You clearly have neither ears or an electricity meter! Have you never heard of VMWare. Run lots of servers on one box. Unless you need the horsepower, but even then...

electric bill isnt to bad and certainly better than it was when i was crunching for seti in a big way. there are also meny advantages to having the rack in the loft where it cant be heard :P

vmware is all well n good but isnt suited for the kind of work i have my machines do

no worries m8.. thanks for looking.. i have a cunning plan



You're building SkyNET for the machines aren't you