Tell jcap to post his desk, and post yours too! [JCAP POST YOUR DESK]

[Higuy]

Oh, btw, how the fuck do i install a hard drive properly? My hard drive that was in there before uses two things on the sides of it that allows it to simply slide in easily - my new 1tb drive came with nothing at all except the drive itself and some screws, nothing else. Is there some other way to properly install it? ATM its just kinda sitting in my case and it makes a little bit of noise as well because of that.

[Amit]

Better cable management than my piece-of-shit HP Compaq.

I would hardly call that a case. I popped open my friend's Compaq case the other day and it was just a shambles of wires everywhere. Those PC vendors think that the people who buy their computers are too stupid to open up the case and take a look at the shitty job they did building the PC. For the most part, they are right.

Oh, btw, how the fuck do i install a hard drive properly? My hard drive that was in there before uses two things on the sides of it that allows it to simply slide in easily - my new 1tb drive came with nothing at all except the drive itself and some screws, nothing else. Is there some other way to properly install it? ATM its just kinda sitting in my case and it makes a little bit of noise as well because of that.

Well from looking at your picture, your original HDD uses the same style of mounting brackets that my case does:

(black sticks)


You need to look in the motherboard box or wherever you keep the stuff that came with your computer for another set of clips that look like it so you can install the 2nd drive safely and easily. If you don't find any, just screw the drive into the hard drive cage with the provided screws. I can't really tell from the gay lighting in your picture, but your HDD cage looks removable. If you can remove it, just screw the HDD in and put the cage back into the case. Problem solved.

[Tnnaas]

I would hardly call that a case. I popped open my friend's Compaq case the other day and it was just a shambles of wires everywhere. Those PC vendors think that the people who buy their computers are too stupid to open up the case and take a look at the shitty job they did building the PC. For the most part, they are right.

I always crack open my case, first thing. Usually I like to know what's what before I boot up or add on.

Unfortunately, the usual A or B brand cases don't have any sort of cable management system. The one I'm stuck with can't do much anyways. They riveted the other side closed. The most I could do with it is swap out the mobo with another Micro-ATX, replace the PSU, or add another drive.

[Amit]

Good thing mid-range motherboards are cheap for both Intel and AMD.

[Tnnaas]

I know, right? I actually ordered a new ASUS mobo and 4GB of memory all for around $85. They aren't high-end, but they're better than the default stuff.

[Higuy]

One other question - in task manager, under 'performance' and under the section physical memory, it says I only have 3554MB of Physical memory, however, I have 8gb of memory in terms of RAM, and windows notices this (like in the windows welcome screen it says the 8gb of ram). Whats up with that?

[EagerYoungSpaceCadet]

32 bit OS.

[Higuy]

So a 32 bit OS will only support 4gb of memory? da fuq?

[=sw=warlord]

So a 32 bit OS will only support 4gb of memory? da fuq?

You didn't know this?
32 bit has long been known to be limited to 4GB's physical memory ever since XP.
you need 64 bit to take advantage of more.

[Higuy]

You didn't know this?
32 bit has long been known to be limited to 4GB's physical memory ever since XP.
you need 64 bit to take advantage of more.

I'm not a computer expert, so no.

e: found my moms x64 bit windows 7 installer disk... going to be reinstalling everything for a second time, yay!