Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
My daughters netbook kept deactivating as well, I traced the problem to a bad sector on the hard drive. Running chkdsk on the drive has solved the problem.
I just purchased the R3600 for a bedroom HTPC and it does have the Atom330 duel core (with hyperthreading). I am using MediaPortal as the front end, and it works great (720p at 20%-40% CPU load).
Mine came with a nice wireless Keyboard and mouse (tested to 20' range) and a little webcam. I...
I just purchased a board that meets all of those requirements and it's the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. This board was very cheap ($79.99CND) and it supports all of the current AMD Socket 939 CPU's (including the opterons and the duel cores). It has a slot for adding support for the upcoming M2...
There is a nifty DVD ripping all in one program called Fair Use, it will rip into XVID or DIVX with or without AC3 sound (you can also have mp3 or others). Give it a try and see if you like it. get it here: http://fairuse.free.fr/lang_en/
Hope that helps.
***** I just found out that...
There are a few ways to make it load into myHTPC with out the look of the desktop comming up first.
The simplest would be to turn off all of the icons on the desktop and have the background for myHTPC set as your wall paper.
Another solution is to have myHTPC replace explorer.exe as the...