VMware installation pitfall

Don't install VMware products on a windows partition that doesn't use Drive C:\ as its root, and is on a mult-boot system. VMware will keep windows XP from booting because the virtual devices dont get installed correctly on non-C drive system roots.

Nvidia 780i overheating issues

overheating problems with your nVidia 780i SLI motherboard? EVGA or some other name is on it, no doubt, but that tends to make little/no difference. But unbeknownst to most is the tolerances are very high for the chips. MCP (south bridge) and NPP (north bridge) are like 86 C° to 120 C° ! The Nvida 9800 GTX/GTX+ GPU is like 120 C° and the CPU shouldnt get over 72 C° unless you're using a modded 486 HSF, or fanless metal arrangement. Those things can be huge.

I've been running strong since September of 2008 (5 months ago), and as much as unreal tournament's physx mods cook my GPU's they've never failed and I've never had an overheat failure yet.

Set the Nvidia control panel to alert you once components reach certain temps. that way i know when to unplug myself from the eye candy or pi calculations for a while.

Cheap gear from ativa... apparently

Everyone looking for cheap technology should go to their local Office Depot, stat. and cash in on the liquidation of their Ativa brand gear. I got a 4GB flash drive for $3.92, and a 52-in-1 card reader for $12.00 marked down from $40. 100pk of DVD's for 2.95!! so I picked up 12 of those.

Norton Ghost and dual booting

Who said norton ghost doesn't support dual boot systems??
just image the partitions separately, and rebuild the partition tables to match the original state. Then you can perform individual restores. However, its true that if you attempt to image the entire multi-boot drive(s), it will do so unsucessfully. This is true for every drive imaging program available, even acronis true image.