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You can't get genuine ATI 9xxx [AIW or otherwise] outside US/Canada AFAIK. You certainly can't get them in this country. In this country you can get 9xxx series cards made by Connect3D, Saphire, Hercules, PowerColor, Crucial, & Gigabyte. However, out of those, the only 1s making AIW variants are Saphire & Hercules.

Brian, if you don't want an AIW, I reckon the Tyan Tachyon 9700 Pro-M would be your best bet.

Quote: I had some trouble with a dexxa (cheap) optical mouse because of the patterns in the cloth the mouse sometimes didn't detect the movement correctly. So I bought a logitech optical and I have no such problems since. The logitech is probably more precise. :nods: Yep, I love my Logitech one. I'm gonna have to get another 1 when I get round to building a secondary machine, as I don't think I could stand going back to my old serial ball mouse for long. Infact I'd rather have the hassle of keep switching my Logitech between machines than use an old serial ball 1.

well going on the delay between when Radeon cards have been released in USA/Canada & when they've become available over here, I reckon there ought to be 256MB AIWs over here by oh... late 2004-ish! We still haven't got the 128MB AIW 9700Pro yet! [except on pre-order] I'm really PO'd @ ATI for not releasing cards they made themselves in this country, thereby making us wait for other companies [AFAIK Hercules & Saphire are the only ones that will be releasing AIW variants] to get around to releasing their products.

Quote: You can order the 9700 Pro AIW from Komplett. It's not cheap, but it is available. Yeah, as a pre-order. & I agree about the price, for that much you'd think they could include the remote!

I read somewhere that the 256MB version will be using DDR II not original DDR, dunno what truth there is in that though. As for prices coming down, yeah - would be nice, but what would be really nice is if 9700 AIWs eventually got released in this country!!! The longer it is until they're released, the longer it it will be before there's any price drop in them. Another thing that sucks is that Tyan apparently aren't making an AIW version of their 9700 Pro with hardware monitoring & heatsink covering not just GPU but RAM on both sides as well.

Please can anybody tell me how I can use the themes function in Frontpage [2002] without it automatically putting text over any page banner I insert? It's driving me nuts. I can see how some ppl might find that useful, but I don't. BTW, please don't tell me to learn how to use CSS's manually, as that kinda defeats the whole point of having a themes function. I don't want to have to go to the hassle of learning that, I want something nice & easy, like the themes function, but without the stupid text it insists on putting over the page banner.

Thanks, you may have helped, albeit indirectly. I had another look in the help, & whilst there isn't anyway round that exact problem, I did stumble accross something different - there is another way to achieve the same result that I wanted, or @ least it seems to work. Instead of the Page Banner function I'm trying the Shared Borders function. [or could that just be M$ being their usual awkward selves & using frames but giving it a different name? it doesn't look like the way FP does frames, but who knows what goes on in the minds of MS programmers? ;-) I'll play with it more later, as I have to go out, but thanks again anyway.

IE 6. I can make them look larger, but it requires using the Accessibility option to "Ignore specified font sizes", which takes 6 clicks every time you want to turn it on or off, & it doesn't just affect the 1 window, it affects all open IE windows & any future 1s you open until you turn it off again, which is a pain.

Philipp - PLEASE can you do something about replacing the fixed-sized fonts with variable sized 1s. I have asked you about this before, & you said you would do something about it soon, & I know you're a busy guy, but that was months ago! Just to show you why it bothers me so much, I've taken a couple of screen-grabs of the prob. I use a resolution of 1024x768 [& have a 20" monitor, so it's not a monitor size issue], & have IE's View -> Text Size setting set to Largest. Another forum I read regularly uses variable sized fonts, & with the way I have IE set, it looks like this: Nice & readable. But here's what NTC looks like: The text is about 1/2 the size [maybe even less than 1/2] than that in the 1st example. Changing the Text Size setting makes absolutely no difference to it whatsoever, because it's done with fixed sized fonts. Fixed sized fonts are evil & using evil fonts is bad, m'kay? PS - same applies to the main page, & can you also fix the "read more" links on the main page so that they open in a new window like they used to please.

Quote: the AIW would be good, how much less is the clock speeds on the AIW compare to the pro, i don't think it is much. From everything I've read, it isn't. All the 9700 AIWs I've seen are Pros as well.

Yeah, was an accident. 1 I don't plan on repeating. It didn't bleed for that long, & it only took a little chunk out of the tip of the little finger on my right hand.

Just out of curiosity, what version of the board is this happening to?

I have to agree with sapiens - the screen on their widescreen jobby does look nice, tho I don't think it needs such a large border round it. [i saw 1 in in PC World the other day].

Got some more goodies: Q-tec 550w PSU Digi Doc 5 [black] Delta 60mm Focused Flow 36cfm [6800rpm] FDD with black bezel Braided sleeving fan grills [various sizes] about 2 litres of spraypaint [black undercoat, black gloss, & clear - was on sale, & I hate beige] BTW, for those who haven't had/got a Delta fan, there are actually 2 reasons why they've earned the nickname "screamer": 1 refers to the noise they make, the other refers to the noise you make if you are unfortunate enough to get your finger caught in them. Maybe they ought to call them Delta Vampires.....

Let's see how many observant ppl there are out there. What's wrong with this picture...

just don't tell the Post Office that! LOL

Adam, I was the 1 who put it together, & I very much doubt the company I got the mobo/CPU/HSF bundle from would replace it free. Mark, RoyalMail will be coughing up the cash for it. I've already phoned customer services, & they said all we need to do is for my friend to take it to her local post office to show them the problem, & for us [not sure, either her or me] to fill out a form, & they'll cough up the money. @ least Special Delivery is insured upto £250, which more than covers the replacement cost of the parts that need replacing [£130].

I Built a barebones system [case (no PSU), mobo, CPU, heatsink, & 2 case fans] for a friend, & posted it to her by Special Delivery. For those not in the UK, Special Delivery is supposed to be a sort of premium service offered by the Royal Mail, our national mail service. I paid £18.30, which includes insurance to cover upto a value of £250, & guaranteed next [working] day delivery by 12pm. They are also supposed to take better care of stuff sent by Special Delivery than by normal mail. It arrived with her this morning. She emailed me [from her old PC] to tell me that it had, but that the HS had come off. My 1st thought was that the middle lugs had broken off of the socket, & that the HS being able to move freely around the interior of the case may have caused further damage. After sending pics that I had taken of the way it was supposed to look & asking her to describe what she could see [she doesn't have a digital camera or webcam] it seemed apparent that the socket had literally come off the mobo, still attached to the heatsink!!! I got her to sit it on her scanner, so I could see it for myself, & that pic is what she sent. Apparently all the little metal pins/contacts/whatever of the socket are still sticking out of the mobo. I've seen this happen to other connectors if they were pulled much too hard, but never heard of it happening to a CPU socket. I had even taken the fan off of the heatsink to reduce weight attached to the socket, & secured it elsewhere inside the case. I got her to weigh the heatsink, fan adapter, CPU & heatsink, which were all still joined together, & they only came to 330g, which is only 30g over AMD's max reccomended limit, & then there's the chip & socket as part of that weight too, so the difference is even less.

True.

Quote: Yes i sit and do this till it turns on You don't list what PSU you're using in your sig - from what I've read, & given your symptoms, it wouldn't hurt to see if you can borrow another PSU from somebody & try that with it, or failing that try stripping your system down to the bare minimum [no drives, 1 stick of RAM, etc] & see if it still has the same prob. If you do that & it doesn't, try adding 1 device @ a time. If the problem reappears after a specific piece of hardware is added, then try leaving that out & adding everything else. If you can do that with no probs then it's that 1 piece of hardware - either the device itself is faulty, or it's just too hungry for your PSU. If the prob reappears with multiple combinations of hardware, but not the bare minimum then I would be inclined to suspect the PSU.

Went to town? LOL, not exactly - that's yet to come. I have a few other things to get 1st [like a new VCR, TV, DVD player, & possibly a 5.1 amp/decoder & maybe some new speakers], but after that I have a list of stuff I wanna get: DigiDoc 5 Abit AT7 Max2 [& maybe the Max XP drive bay thingy] Athlon XP 2700 [maybe higher by the time I get round to it] 512MB of Corsair PC3200 & [hopefully they'll be out by then in this country] a Radeon 9700 Pro AIW New PSU [haven't made my mind up about make/model yet] I'm also toying with the idea of an Audigy 2 Platinum.

Marktait - just a hunch - have U tried turning it on, waiting for it to do it's usual nothing with occasional flashing of drive LEDs then hit reset?

If there's 1 thing I really hate, it's when a movie company is doing publicity for their film & they only release the trailers in quicktime format. I don't want quicktime on my system, & I don't like the idea of a video format that will only play in its own player. Doesn't matter anyway, I did a search on WinMX & am downloading the trailer in DivX .avi format.

I know this won't be a popular opinion, but my favourite Bond is Timothy Dalton. I'm not really sure why, maybe it's because he was in my favourite bond film [The Living Daylights], or maybe it's just cos maybe he's more like the way I think Bond should be. :shrug: Brosnan would be my 2nd choice, but I'm not sure who I prefer out of Connery & Moore - it's been a while since I've seen any of the older films. BTW, as to the dreadful Bond film that everyone tries not to think about - it was Casino Royale.