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Then use the darkest one you have. It might be Slate or Charcoal.

Right click Desktop>Personalize>Windows Color and Appearance>Select Graphite>Ok and your done.

If you do the upgrade you will have problems. That's why you need to partition you hard drive and do a clean install.

More like this?

Is this what your talking about?

Here is what mine says.

If your interested in trying the new system Microsoft has open the download period to 1/24/09. You need a live account or hotmail account to download. Also you need to use IE, FF didn't let me do it. At the time you download you will get a key. On this link is a "Try the Beta" click on that and follow the instructions. A word to the wise do a clean install. I partitioned my C drive and installed it there. Unless you have 4GB+ of ram I would recommend getting the 32bit version over the 64bit. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx g

I'll fire my desk top up tomorrow and use it then post a screen shot of the temps.

So is mine, here is what mine says. No my signals are better than yours. Downstream Freq/Power: 681.000 MHz 9 dBmV Signal to Noise Ratio: 35 dB Modulation: QAM256 Upstream Freq/Power: 24.000 MHz 29 dBmV Channel Type: DOCSIS 1.x (TDMA) Symbol Rate: 2560 kSym/sec Modulation: QAM16

I always thought the downstream should be between +10 to -10. Edit: Mine are higher than yours. Do you have a modem with telephone?

I'd say its probably cool as heck in there. No heat containment at all.

I'd almost bet on it. Is it on the floor carpeted or bare?

That's a pretty spiffy cooler too! Hell it moves twice the air mine does!

I'm on my laptop now, but the desk top runs about the same as yours. I'm using a ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

If you need a tep. converter or any thing else go here. http://joshmadison.com/article/convert-for-windows/ 1C = 33.8F -5C = 23F

If anyone calls you old just hit them with your cane!

We got our first computer in 1999. My wife did Transcription out of the home. That turned out to be learning curve for me. Honey it doesn't work can you fix it? Then I stumbled through it and now I have a decent grasp on it. The best thing for me learning was finding TMN. Now I build my own and do it all with the help I've received.

I had a Sony DVD burner that did almost the same thing except it would recognize disks some of the time. I replaced the burner and now its all good. Is it possible the IDE plug came out? Its obvious the power plug is working.

I can remember when to could buy Crystal Radios for about $1.50. I used to listen to it at night when I was a kid.

Thank you for posting the fix to your problem. It might help someone else later down the line.

You have really matured since I last saw you.

That's pretty nice! I wouldn't mind having it myself.

You got a few problems. Copy and paste you HijackThis log file here to see whats wrong. http://hijackthis.de/

When I put in Ram I always use matched ram from one maker. I don't mix.

I think you would go to Advanced>Onboard Devices Settings>HDMI/DVI>Off to turn onboard video off. Here is a link with screen shots of the BIOS page by page. http://www.motherboards.org/imageview.html?i=/images/reviews/motherboards/1801_p5_1.jpg