Marrea wrote:Is your machine by any chance an Asus Barebones? Your mention of an FM radio makes me suspect it may be.
My WinXP/Linux multiboot "test" computer is an Asus Terminator 2 Barebones System Model TR-2 with an Asus P4R8T mobo. Fortunately mine is fairly quiet but I haven't modified it in any way. In actual fact, so far I have had no reason to take the cover off so haven't examined the insides.
Yes,
Marrea. It is a Terminator, but the T2-PH1 model. Or rather, it
was. It's now an Asus Terminated - in lots of pieces all over my spare room floor.

For some reason different versions vary in fan noise. Actually mine could be fairly quiet, but when the CPU got too hot the fan went up to about 4000 rpm and made a hell of a din - which was quite often. The fan is only 70mm - that's minute when you consider the 3Gz Intel P4 it was trying to cool could almost replace my central heating boiler.
Marrea wrote:Have you ever managed to get the FM radio to work? I haven't.
No I never bothered, and I'm unlikely to find to now.

Marrea wrote:Surely you won't have any problems re-activating if you ring up and explain the situation?

Um. Don't know what to say.
Thanks for explaining the licence situation,
wyliecoyoteuk. I didn't know that. That means that if I buy a computer from a small outfit who make up computers and they install an OEM copy, and then a couple of years down the line the m'board gives up the ghost and has to be replaced, then I have to buy another copy of Windoze. It's a rip-off. Nothing new there then.

And thanks for explaining the 90-day thing as well. I thought I'd heard something like that.
Thanks for your interest, everyone. The Asus mainboard is now out, it's tiny and - yes- the screw holes
don't line up with the mountings in a standard ATX case. Time to sleep on it I think.