A few questions rolled into one thread :)

[kreeeee]

1- Will this HDD (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=529060) be compatible with my sata I motherboard (Asus A8V Deluxe)?

2- Does 320GB provide the best 'bang for buck' out there at the moment?

2- My PC will no longer let me watch videos in full screen mode. I have tried reinstalling WMP11 as well as trying other media players out. I am on the latest drivers and it is a 6800GT graphics card at stock clock.

Thanks for your help.

[FInalD]

1- Will this HDD (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=529060) be compatible with my sata I motherboard (Asus A8V Deluxe)? Yes, SATA I and SATA II (SATA300) are backwards compatible

2- Does 320GB provide the best 'bang for buck' out there at the moment? Depends on you personal views really, look at the price of them compared to other 200GB-750GB drives and you'll work out what is best.

2- My PC will no longer let me watch videos in full screen mode. I have tried reinstalling WMP11 as well as trying other media players out. I am on the latest drivers and it is a 6800GT graphics card at stock clock. I'd have thought that this is due to the latest drivers, sometimes updating drivers messes the computer around and you lose some functionality, I doubt that the card it'self is damaged as you haven't OC'ed it.

Hope that helps a bit.

FinalD

[Steve B]

dont you mean S-ATA II is backwards compatible with S-ATA I. That is true, except for the early S-ATA II supporting chipsets, which would require a jumper to be used to throttle speed to 150Mbits
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[FInalD]

I've had a few, not fully concentrating...well you understood what I meant, and corrected me, so it's all good

FinalD

[GSte]

1. Yeah, SATA II's backward compatible.

2. Pretty much, yes.

3. Dunno about that, it's certainly a weird one

[DecomposingStar]

3. What do you mean "it won't let you" :S

[kreeeee]

I double click on the screen, press alt + enter, or right click -> full screen and there is no response. This is in 3 different media players.

I've ordered the drive though, thanks.

[DecomposingStar]

Crazy... I can't see why that wouldn't work.
I mean, if it was a graphics card problem it would freeze up, or run really slow.
Must be a driver problem. Is it AGP? AGP drivers are probably being slacked by now, if you haven't updated them, update, if you recently updated them, try reverting to a previous driver.

[kreeeee]

AGP, I'm on the latest drivers but don't have a copy of the old ones to backup with

[kreeeee]

Also I haven't recieved a confirmation from scan after an hour and the order is not showing up on my account. Is this usual at this time of night?

[FInalD]

Yeh, it'll take a while for scan to process it, as they've all gone home for the night

Go here and get the one previous to the one you are running.

FinalD

[Biscuit]

iv had the problem with videos before and it was the codecs. Have you got k-lite codec pack or something similar installed? if you try reinstalling and try again. Maybe change the install settings or something

[DecomposingStar]

If it is codecs, get DivX, it usually contains most the codecs you could ever need.

[frazered]

i would suggest vlc / videolan

will play anything

[Biscuit]

lol and i would suggest the k-lite full codec pack from www.free-codecs.net

[kreeeee]

i would suggest vlc / videolan

will play anything

That is my primary player, no joy there with this full screen issue.

Edit: Installed the KLite codec pack and joy joy either... although when I try full screen mode in WMP it now freezes, goes upside down and then WMP crashes with an error report =/