Monday, 14 August 2006
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| OC'able Motherboard Dansker 18:56:06 |
| | Looking for a good OC'able motherboard socket AM2. Looking to spend about
$100. Any suggestions?? TIA
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| 1 PC / 2 monitors Michael C 18:37:31 |
| | Is there a way to run 2 monitors on a windows xp machine but have 1 monitor
run a powerpoint slide only and not be part of the normal desktop. I've been
asked this several times with companies wanting to run a display at their
reception using the existing reception PC but without the mouse being able
to move onto the second monitor or any windows being able to open or be
moved onto the second window.
Thanks for any replies
Michael
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| PSU voltages 12v rail (multimeter and hmonitor disagree , also, 0.2 jumps). Q_q_anonymous@Yahoo.Co.Uk 18:33:37 |
| | Measuring with a multimeter, my PSU 12V rail varies between 11.4 and
11.6
According to hmonitor, it varies, says at around 11.4 mostly, ,
someitmes goes to 11.19, and for a few seconds, even down to 10.94 !!
When hmonitor says 10.94, my multimeter doesn't say . On my multimeter
it's still between 11.4 and 11.6
5v rail is fine. multimeter reports 5.1, hmonitor reports 5.08
might all this indicate a bad or not good PSU? (potentially damaging
my HDD and CD drive - since they use the 12V rail).
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useful post
PSU/Voltages in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
shows normal ranges.
though i think tolerances are a larger range. 10% for 12v, 5% for 5V
- so says scott mueller's book and some posts on usenet.
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| PC3200 and PC4200 RAM Bobby 18:23:39 |
| | PC4200 memory is cheaper than PC3200 memory and I was wondering if my
PC motherboard (with a maximum rating of PC3200) would work with the
cheaper and faster 4200?
Cheers.
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| Question about PSU Jake 18:07:53 |
| | Hi,
I am looking to buy a power supply. I know my video card alone will
need 28a maximum on the 12v. If I get a power supply with 3 12v rails
with 18a each, will this be enough? Or will I need to buy one with say
38a on a single 12v rail?
Thanks
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| How do diagnose issue of computer resetting itself constantly, please help! Guest 18:03:00 |
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I'm having an issue with my computer resetting randomly, sometimes it
happens once a day, sometimes it doesn't happen for a few days at a
time and other times it happens many times per day.
It's a P4 with 2gig of ram & gigabyte mainboard, and I have replaced
every piece of hardware on it and it still happens!!!
I've replaced, ram, video card, cpu, power supply (I now have
500watt), main board but not my usb devices.
It basically just does a hard reset but doesn't go into the usual
blue screen, just reboots as if you hit the reset key.
I'm running barely anything on the os of the pc except for office,
antivirus (MacAfee) and virtual server 2005 r2. On the virtual servers
I run my dev environment etc...
At first I thought it was hardware related as it was just recycling the
power, however now I wonder whether is is software related as I have
noticed that when it boots up after a crash and goes into the "inform
Microsoft about this problem" screen, it mentions that a driver
caused the "stop error" but gives no more information than that.
I cant see any dump logs under the windows directory, where are they
usually kept and how do I examine them?
If anyone could help me out, on how to debug this, I would be eternally
grateful.
Thanks Ryan
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| Win98 S3 AGP drivers for Asus K8V-VM ? Richard Brooks 16:50:29 |
| | I've had to buy a new pc as the capacitors on the old one had rotten and
as I'm happy with Win98se right now, I'm looking for the right S3 AGP
driver for an Asus K8V-VM board, as the CD for it is for Win2000/XP.
Which one would work better than the 640*480 mode I'm in right now ?
Many thanks,
Richard.
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Cust. - "Fine salmon in the rivers."
Will Hay - "Grouse on the moors."
Cust. - "Deer in the hills."
Will Hay - "Ah! but cheaper in the towns!"
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| UltraDMA CRC error rate below ttheshold value in SMART Osiris 16:48:41 |
| | Hard Disk inspector reports a 40 Gb (Maxtor 6L040J2) the UltraDMS CRC
error rate (index 199) value in the SMART table is well below its
threshold value.
Should I start worrying ?
strange enough, it is the drive that shows a temp of 37 celsius,
whereas the other maxtor shows 18 celsius.... same mounting position,
same air...
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| Is My Monitor Dead? Jethro 16:32:24 |
| | I have a two-year-old SCEPTRE 19" LCD monitor.
Came home after leaving system off for several days, and it worked for
a 10 or so minutes, then stayed black. I cannot get it to work now.
When I try turning it on and off, it flashes what it should display
just for a second, then goes black.
It has been hot, here in Delaware. Like 100 degrees! My house A/C
was off while I was away - maybe the heat had something to do with
this?
Jethro
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| Bad Sectors in HardDisc venu via HWKB.com 12:11:30 |
| | Hi,
How to remove bad sectors in Hard Disc?
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venu.
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| Coincidence? Samsung HD failure Guest 10:55:11 |
| | I just put an Enermax Liberty PSU into my PC (AMD Duron, ECS K7S5A MB,
1GB RAM) and next day started getting SMART error warnings from the
BIOS on boot up. Luckily everything is backed up but I'm wondering is
this just a coincidence? The drive is a Samsung SP1203N and is 3 years
old.
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| IBM expands Opteron lineup Bbbl67 10:42:36 |
| | IBM falls in love with Opteron all over again | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/01/opteron_redux_ibm/
IBM announced 5 server models based on the Socket F/Rev F Opterons.
Despite all of the hoopla surrounding Woodcrest, it does look like the
Opteron momentum keeps growing. A recent article also said that AMD has
now captured 25% of the overall x86 server market already.
Yousuf Khan
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| Asus 7900GT card freezing. What to do? Coolsti 10:16:16 |
| | Just put together a PC with an Asus motherboard A8N32SLI-Premium and an
Asus 7900GT video card. One card only, so no SLI. The PC works very well,
no problems at all, and the graphics are fantastic. But we have now
experienced two sudden freeze-ups when playing Guild Wars. The sound is
ok, we are still in the game (we are playing on two separate computers
together) but the screen is just frozen. If we go back to Windows, we
cannot get the game screen up again, and we cannot get any other
application, such as task manager, to function. The mouse does move
around, but retains the game's cursor.
I installed this card with default settings, and the Nvidia console says
it is clocking at 450/660.
After experiencing these problems, I installed the Asus Doctor software
that came with the card, which is supposed to allow overclocking among
other things. As soon as I had this software installed, without changing
any settings, the PC started to sound like a vacuum cleaner or jet engine.
Apparently with this Smart Doctor simply installed, the card cooler was
running at max speed or something. It also seemed that some sort of high
overclocking was implemented. It also did not look like I had the option
to return the clock speeds as low as 450/660 again using Smart Doctor,
unless I did not understand the settings. So I uninstalled Smart Doctor
again.
Can someone explain what is going on with the Asus 7900GT?
1) What is this utility Smart Doctor actually doing? And how should I use
it correctly? I don't want to overclock, in fact I would rather underclock
if that is what it takes to remove freezing in Guild Wars.
2) Why the freezes and what to do about it? I can see from internet
searches that freezing in games is an issue with the 7900GT, but in
overclocking situations, and that is not what I am doing here.
Any suggestions and tips are welcome!
Steve, Denmark
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| Infrant X6 and Seagate 750G drives Guest 10:12:31 |
| | Does anyone know of a site that can tell me if anyone has tested the
Infrant X6 NAS raid boxes with the seagate barracuda 750g drives?
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| Sony DV-camera FireWire not connecting x64 Niklas Engfelt 09:49:40 |
| | I have Windows 2003 x64 edition, which is basically the same as XP x64.
I have a Sony DCR-HC90E DV-camera, and when I connect it with FireWire,
it only comes up as "61883 Class Bus Device" with a yellow exclamation
mark.
Any ideas why it is not shown properly? I have tried Pinnacle 10.1 and
Nero Vision 7 and they cannot find any sources. (of course when it is a
yellow exclamation mark)
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| AMD gives reasons for not opposing ATI subpoena Yousuf Khan 07:01:40 |
| | bbbl67 wrote:> Intel subpoenas ATI> "It looks like Intel hopes to show that the ATI purchase will make AMD> more competitive; what this has to do with Intel's own alleged> antitrust violations in the past is not clear."> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060811-7476.html>
AMD gives reasons for not opposing ATI subpoena
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33647
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| Phoenix Bios Boot Problem Guest 06:49:38 |
| | I have a computer that is not booting. It gets stuck during bios. It
uses Phoenix v4 bios release 6.
II have disconnected all devices except keyboard and mouse (USB
wireless) and got a POST card code reader.
It starts to boot OK testing the memory, video, cd and dvd drives with
the last message being mouse initialized. Have reset the BIOS to
default.
The last several POST values are
60 Test extended memory
90 Initialize hard disk controllers
95 Build MPTABLE for multi processor boards
98 Search for option ROM's
C0 Try to boot with interrupt 19
finally getting stuck at:
d2 Unknown interrupt
Can anyone offer any help?
Thanks
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| Soltek Mainboard Gakor 06:33:45 |
| | Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum, so sorry if I'm posting this question
in the wrong thread. I posted it somwhere else, but I dont think it belongs
there. Nobody seems to care anyways... no replies. I'm hoping for better luck
here.
Anyways, I'm interested in buying a SL-75FRN2-L Mainboard, but I cannot find
any place to buy one. Can anyone help me out? Help would be GREATLY
appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S: What is "OverClocking" ?
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| Article: "What Athlon do I buy?" Jon D 06:25:51 |
| | I am looking for an up-to-date article like this one to help me choose a
suitable AMB processor.
"What Athlon do I buy?"
http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=272
Date:November 04, 2004
Does anyone know of such an article?
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| master or slave Guest 06:15:38 |
| | I was just wondering if a slave drive will give slightly worse or
slightly better performance than a master. Or, is the performance the
same regardless of master or slave designation?
Thanks.
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| spare jumpers Guest 06:14:34 |
| | Is there a walk-in place that sells spare jumpers for HDs?
Thanks.
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| Unmountable boot volume error message????? J.P 05:30:09 |
| | hi folks,
have an e-machines 130, 900mhz Celeron running windows XP that has
suddenly developed an error that i can't seem to fix.
When you boot it up it come up with the standard screen saying that
windows did not start successfully and offers the options of "safe
mode", "safe mode with networking" and "Safe mode with command prompt"
and "last know good configuration". it also counts down to autostart in
normal mode.
However, whichever option you choose it then goes onto a blue screen
with the following message:
a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent
damage to your computer.
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME
if this is the first time you have seen this error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. if
you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your
computer, press F8 to select startup options, and then select safe mode.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x000000ED (0x80E91E30,0XC0000032,0X000000000,0X000000000)
I have never come across this sort of error before and i am a bit
baffled. Is it a hardware problem or something with windows? unmountable
boot volume suggests hard drive problems to me but seemed unlikely.
Any advice you can offer that would point me in the right direction
would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
John
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| iomega backup pro software iab files Guest 05:15:29 |
| | Does anyone know of a utility that will uncompress Iomega Backup Pro's
.iab files? I've got a backup disk that has files on it but the Backup
Pro can't find the catalog and I see the files but I can't uncompress
them.
Thanks.
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| 64 bit help. Robin Gordon 04:34:01 |
| | i succummed to my friends opinions and decided to build a new pc. I was
moving from XP2500+ (205FSB) and Nvidia 6800 (128) Graphics to Opteron 144
with ATI x850XT PE graphics.
i used 2x 256 Corsair PC3200 ram to get me started. i'm using ah Hitachi
250GB harddrive.
after getting the whole thing threw together i got a bitter disappointment,
finding that all the benchmark progs say my old system was as fast as my new
one.
overclocking i can get the opty to 2.5GHz but games pause and creep and take
an very long time to load. Even if i get killed and have to wait on the
game reloading, it takes an absolute age.
where am i going wrong. i even installed XP64 to get a little improvement
but alas it is little.
Do i need more ram or is the bottle neck somewhere else.
My specs are:
Opteron 144 running at 2.5GHz
Gigabyte K8n Sli mobo (f9 bios)
Freezer Pro 64 artic cooling CPU cooler
512 MB Corsair pc3200 ddr400
ATi X850 XT PE (256MB)
Hitachi TK250 HDD
Windows XP64 SP1.
i have all the latest drivers, all 64 bit.
Robin
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