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I've had kon-boot not working on several branded computers. Either just hangs before the splash-screen or while detecting dummy bios. And then working on several others so, but when it works it works. Too bad you can't change the password while using it! Some times only Kon-boot seems to work, and not like winkey pro, pc login now etc.

Do you mean UBCD or UBCD4WIN? UBCD works just fine for me with the guide earlier in this thread.

Hm, anyone tried getting UBCD4WIN working? Mine just says NTLDR not found, tried a few different settings for the menu. title UBCD4WIN viri find --set-root /UBCD4-viri.iso map /UBCD4-viri.iso (0xff) || map --mem /UBCD4-viri.iso (0xff) map --hook chainloader (0xff) title UBCD4WIN viri fallback 3 find --set-root /UBCD4-viri.iso map /UBCD4-viri.iso (0xff) || map --mem /UBCD4-viri.iso (0xff) map --hook chainloader (0xff) savedefault --wait=2 title UBCD4win viri map /UBCD4-viri.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) Also has some issues with other ones like Spotmau 2009 and Winkey. Been fooling around, no idea what to do there. Spotmau seem to be some linux-thing, and winkey is based on XP but does not work at all with this -> title Winkey Pro map (hd0,0)/winkey.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) Just says chainloader (hd32) Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format Probably user error lol ^^

Sure, once upon a time AMD was a bit faster, though Intel has always been stable for me. I never had any real problems with either of the brands and I was a fanboy of AMD when the opteron 145 and 165 was the shit to have. Today I'm a fan of Intel, since they are faster. Sure it's more expensive but "you get what you pay for". AMD knows they are slower and that's why they are cheaper. I've sold a couple of AMD-based laptops (I work in a computer store, and I'm the head of RMA as well) and lot's of them come back. AMD's mobile cpus is a joke, they are too hot. They are a lot of noisier and hotter than intels C2D, heck even the CD was colder... My first computer was a P2 266, then I moved up to P3 450@500, after that I got myself an AMD AthlonXP 1333@1522, "upgraded" to a shuttle and an 1700 t-bred for OC but never came around to it. Then something happened, I uninstalled the nvidia nforce driver, and my windows install stopped working due to lack of files, it removed some files in sys32, anyways... I sold it, and got an Intel P4 Northwood 2,4 GHz... After a while I upgraded to AMD opteron 165. And now, I have a C2D E8400 and a laptop with atom-cpu, and a itx-board with atom 330 on it's way. I just like to have the best performing manufacturer in my computer, wether it's AMD, Intel, Nvidia or ATi. Does not matter for me. And when people ask me for what stuff I recommend, I always recommend stuff I'd get myself. Today I would not get myself a AMD-based machine, since I know they are slower and I just want good performance in my workstations. Sure if I want a cheap computer for a small simple server I'd probably go for something from AMD over a Celeron.

what brand and how old?

The thing with psu:s are that they differ in quality when it comes to effectiveness. So a generic low price 300w psu has maybe 65% efficency which means it does not produce 300w. If you get a high quality brand they are more likely to be close to 90% or over it. I'd go for a pretty good 500-600w psu just in case. Also, the longer you have the psu, the more the efficeny gets lowered due to age of the capacitors. I use this to get an idea of what to get... http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I can recommend zalman, corsair and ocz's powersupplies.

nevermind, I installed ubuntu instead. That crappy linux that came with it sucked anyways :D

When the opterons was so popular, oh say a few years ago ;)

Also as you say the performance is the biggest difference. I would not look at AMD anymore if you are going to build a computer with pure performance. AMD is so much behind nowadays so I think it's plain stupid buying it. Sure, it's cheaper but then again, it's slower as well. Depending on the situation of course, and AMD would do well if you are just going to have a simple box for browsing or what not, but for pure performance and gaming I'd go Intel anyday!

How about "Arrr! I'm Guybrush Threepwood. A mighty pirate!" :D

I removed my U3 stuff since it fubared nero and other applications after the drive had been plugged in... :/

I've been browsing for a few hours, and I've found nothing on how to change the default acer crappy interface for the aspire one. So I'm asking you guys if you have any idea how to? I've been thinking about KDE and installed it through the package manager, and also made a .xinitrc-file containing "exec startkde" which I found someplace on the internetz. If there's now way to do it I guess I'll have to change distro... cheers!

Building computers is fun!

My name is Andreas known handles: nvrmnd, knaSen| Favourite game: BF2, CS, wow. Favourite OS: BeOS Favourite console: xbox, psp Nationality: Swedish Accent: Swenglish Sex: Male Age:26 Height: 185 cm Status: Single Build: a "few" extra pounds. Favourite band: Disturbed Favourite book: I dont read books. Favourite author: Dunno. Favourite movie: I've got a few of them... Favourite director: None Favourite TV Show: CSI, Hell's kitchen Other hobbies: Photography Car: The Bus Occupation: Seller and head of RMA at a computerstore.

I had problems with this aswell, the the driver that was hosted by microsoft was an older version that didn't support sp3, but you can find the newer one there... just got to dig some!