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Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| Viewsonic monitor image dissappears and doesn't come back Luch 19:55:41 |
| | I bought a ViewSonic VX710 monitor last year for use with my laptop, and it
has worked fine, until just recently I started getting this big problem...
After using it for a little while (30 minutes or so), the screen will go
off/dark/black randomly. The screen display will then stay off. At anytime,
if I cycle the laptop display to not send a signal to the monitor and then
start sending again, the monitor will appear on, perfectly fine, for a full
second, before going black again. Once in a while (the next day, etc), I
can use it for a little bit (about 30 minutes), but then it goes black again
randomly. But even when not working, if a cycle the signal, it will always
turn on for a full second before going off again.
I've tried this now with more than one laptop as well. Same behaviour.
I e-mailed and called Viewsonic tech support. They couldn't figure out the
problem, and since it is more than a year (July 17, 2005) since I bought it,
I have to get it repaired myself.
My questions are:
1) Any advise what the issue can be? I don't believe it's any setting I can
change, because I haven't changed anything and it worked fine for a year.
2) Am I better off getting it repaired or purchasing another. My inclination
is to purchase a new one.
3) Is there a better quality brand than Viewsonic where I'm less likely to
have this occur. I'm quite dissappointed because I paid almost $300 for this
monitor.
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| Is this PNY Geforce 6600 GT graphics card defective? Altcomphardware 19:27:30 |
| | I have an AMD XP 2500+, 1GB DDR333 RAM and a PNY Geforce 6600GT.
When I test out some games with it, the system either reboots, crashes
to Windows or hangs. Occasionally artifacts are visible if a lot of
light effects are present. Unfortunately, the screenshot button doesn't
work in the game so I have not been able to save them. If you guys want
to see it then let me know, I'll try to get it with a digital camera.
When I tried updating with the latest drivers, I couldn't even get into
Windows - just a black screen. I had to use the "Last Known Working
Configuration" to get in.
Is there a stress test I can download which will show if the card is
faulty or not? IIRC although 3DMark stresses the graphics card, it
doesn't do so for long, and it doesn't detect if artifacts are present.
The results with 3D Mark were dismal, I got less than 1FPS for all the
tests. Is this to be expected?
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| SLOW Startup Ritter197 19:18:30 |
| | I need 143 seconds to start up windows xp pro. It used to take under 40
seconds.
Performance is otherwise ok and pitstop,com gives this desktop the highest
rating I had ever (1724) for a 2.8 GHZ 1 GB Ram computer.
What causes this long time startup?
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| Mac Installation Disc cd Malone 13:28:36 |
| | I followed the directions to download boot camp beta, updated my mac,
however the download did not prompt me to create a back up macdriver
cd. I am at a loss on how to proceed. Does anyone have any insight, it
would be much appreciated. I attempted to bifurate the hd via the
utilites menu, but this lead me no where. what should I do?????
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| HiPrecision FPU Manuel Schmidt 12:21:19 |
| | Hi,
does anybody know if there is an affordable computer with a processor whose
FPU can handle floating point units with higher precision than a normal AMD
or INTEL? Quad precision would be nice.
Thanx,
Manuel
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| scanners and dust Falco98 10:11:29 |
| | Ok, I have a scanner I'm pretty happy with overall (canon 8400F).. it's
been a few weeks (maybe a few months) since i've used it, and just now I
notice there are a few pieces of dust INSIDE the scan bed glass. Of
course I haven't taken it apart or anything (one would figure they'd
take greater steps to prevent this). My main question is: what, if
anything, can be done about this?
Also, what have people found to be the best normal method by which to
remove dust from the top of the glass? Any cloths / tissues I've tried
usually deposit back more dust or fiber than they were employed to
remove in the first place... I'm thinking of trying swiffer cloths or
something, but i'd worry perhaps that something like that might have
undesired effects (i.e. a residue or something).
Thanks for any thoughts...
~Mike
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| Strange, picky booter Guest 10:04:13 |
| | First of all, this is a very possibly hosed system. A smart guy at my
office "accidentally" kicked over his desktop. It is a Compaq EVO, 1.6
gb w/ 512 mb The hard drive was very toasted, and now I'm seeing if the
system can be salvaged.
1. When I hook up a known good 10 gb Maxtor with WinXP(different from
original) on primary IDE set as CS, the system POST's and immediately
goes to a blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
It will never boot the OS and jsut sits there, and the HD does not
sound very active. It does the same if soley hooked to the secondary
IDE as well. Tried setting it to Master in both configs, still not
working.
2. The system will detect a bootable CD-Rom, and boot to it. Tried
this with an XP OS cd, was even able to run the recovery console.
3. Installed a PCI IDE controller, disabled onboard controller,
checked IRQ's.
4. When hooking up the 10gb HD, system POST's, controller detects HD,
automatically reboots. The same happens when hooked to either the
primary or secondary controller on the installed IDE controller.
5. Double checked that 10 gb hard drive still boots in another system.
6. All hope was lost, UNTIL I decided to hook up some other HD's,
System successfully boots to a 7.5 gb Quantum Fireball with Windows ME
(sorry), as well as a 6 gb Maxtor with Windows 95. EVERY TIME, on both
the installed and onboard IDE controllers.
I have never had a system be picky about the OS, does it sound like the
system is just hosed, or does anyone know an explanation of why the
system refuses to boot an HD with XP?
Thank you for your assistance!
-Geoff
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| Intel subpoenas ATI Bbbl67 09:07:47 |
| | 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
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| Want to take apart Ext. Maxtor HDD Abd08 07:03:40 |
| | Hi All,
Got me 2 x 250gig OneTouch Maxtor external drives. The time has come to
take apart the external enclosure, and use the drives in a RAID 1
config on a PC.
Anyhow, I really wanted to know if there was anything to be especially
careful/aware of when doing this. My main paranoia is that once the
case is off, the drives are going to have some kind of dodgy
proprietary interface/power connectors!
Thanks!!!
Rajiv
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| Installed New Power Supply Gravitywell 06:36:23 |
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I just got a new power supply for my newer computer (Amd) and installed
it; turned it on: the keyboard numlock, caps lock, scroll lock leds on
the keyboard lit for a couple seconds, nothing else happened- no fans
(even the ps fan) started, or no bios start message or anything. Could
this be a motherboard issue or is my new PS possibly bad?
Deaf Community sees tragedy as entertainment
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Gravitywell
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| Changing CD/DVD. Windows shows empty drive? Noozer 05:56:27 |
| | I've seen this issue on a number of computers, and with different drives and
different media...
Many times I'll change the disc in my DVD drive and Windows won't show me
any files on the drive for the new disc. Sometimes if I eject and remove the
disc, then close and open the drive, and reload the disc, it works.
Are drives just picky about the media they read, or is Windows just crappy
at dealing with media changes?
Any fixes?
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| boot manager for NTFS Craig 04:51:06 |
| | I've been using Boot Manager from from powerquest and its been working
good with fat32 partitions, but now that all my partitions are ntfs
even if I create a small fat32 partition it doesn't boot the other o/s.
Does anyone know if the new boot manager/partition magic from symantec
works with ntfs? I'd like something that didn't rely on fat32
partitions. Also I tried the emergency disk with boot manager and it
was able to switch, I ended up having to restore my hd from an image.
Thanks,
Craig
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| agp 2x vid card recommemdation Frisky 04:20:01 |
| | Hi,
I have a old motherboard w/AGP 2X. I want to "max out" the slot - have the
hottest card - even if the card is discontinued I can probably get it
used...
Any recommendations appreciated.
Thanks,
Lee G.
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| IBM's new memory latency reduction technology for Opterons Yousuf Khan 04:07:07 |
| | Will allow IBM Opteron servers to keep running at full 667Mhz speeds
even with a full complement of 8 DIMMs.
Turbo-charged memory and Opterons rev up IBM servers - Computing
"IBM hopes to distinguish itself in Opteron servers through a
patent-pending capability it calls Xcelerated Memory Technology that
will boost memory access speeds by up to 15 percent over rivals, the
firm claimed. “It’s like a turbo-charger for memory,” said Stuart McRae,
IBM system marketing manager. “It gives us the full 128GB [RAM capacity]
at the full 667MHz speed. Others will be restricted to four Dimms per
CPU whereas we will have eight.”"
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2161520/turbo-charged-memory-opterons
Yousuf Khan
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| insulation Guest 02:53:14 |
| | Just out of curiosity, is there a good reason why motherboard
manufacturers don't put a layer of insulation (i.e. plastic) over the
bottom of the motherboard?
Thank you.
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| No POST Guest 02:17:50 |
| | Hi
Just wanted to check I hadnt missed something before I bin this.
Machine powers up but doesnt POST. Monitor stays on standby, never
wakes.
K6-233 cpu, 64M RAM. Pci video, onboard sound, serial mouse.
CMOS battery was 1.8v so renewed it.
replaced ram, still no post
checked psu lines, ok
checked cables in connectors, all ok
removed the only card, video card, still no post
disconnected hdd, cdrw,
looked for cmos reset on mobo, but oddly I'm pretty sure there isnt
one.
checked cpu seated ok
The DIMM RAM socket is a horror, takes major force to get RAM to seat
in there, and looking at the design I'm surprised it ever worked. Tried
each of the 2 sockets just in case.
Its due for the bin, just wanted to check I hadnt missed something.
Thank you.
NT
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| Can't write to my CD drives except with Nero Matti Lamprhey 00:47:52 |
| | I've got a couple of optical drives on my Win XP Home system - the
primary is a Ricoh DVD+RW MP5308D and the secondary a Pioneer DVD-RW
DVR104. Since upgrading XP to SP 2 recently, I've been unable to write
to these using anything other than Nero apps. It seems as if Windows
thinks these drives are read-only now.
The app I'd like to use is SonicStage, which used to work fine. I've
just installed the latest version from the Sony site, v4.0, but it
hasn't fixed the problem. It can read CDs from the drives but doesn't
recognize recordable discs in them when I try to write or erase. Nero,
however, seems to have a completely accurate picture of the drives and
their capabilities.
I'd appreciate any suggestions for tackling this problem!
Matti
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| Recommendation for 16+ Port KVM Switch Will 00:32:51 |
| | Once upon a time, we had all of our rackmounted server room computers hooked
into multiple Belkin eight-port KVM switches, and life was good (or at least
tolerable). The customizable menu with names on it would periodically
reset itself and lose all values, but at least we could switch from machine
to machine. We have "upgraded" to the latest Belkin 16 port model, and
it has been pure hell. The device is constantly having problem with
keyboard or mouse (sometimes both) on at least 20% of the connected
machines. We have tried new cables, and it doesn't seem to make any
difference. Belkin replaced the switch, and the problem gets worse. I'm
looking for recommendations for a new vendor, possibly a new architecture,
for a large scale KVM solution for a server room.
My basic requirements are as follows:
1) Up to 32 computers, each of these controllable from two to four stations.
2) Any station can control any computer.
3) We should be able to run long distance, at least 100 feet, from the
keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the actual server.
4) Should allow us to identify easily each machine using a name we can
assign to it and then read off the KVM switch on screen menu.
5) Should be incredibly *reliable*.
Perhaps a better solution would be one that puts the port selector right at
the keyboard and mouse and monitor, then runs a multiplexed KVM signal over
RJ-45 to a back end device that then attaches to each server. I'm open to
any and all ideas on how to best accomplish the mission here.
--
Will
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| Dell Laptop destroys a Truck YKhan 23:10:59 |
| | It killed Jenny!
"Exploding" Dell Laptop Destroys Truck, Imperils Outsdoorsmen
"Riddle recovered, but Forqueran is still grieving the loss of Jenny,
the family heirloom -- a stock 1966 Ford that Forqueran took to auto
shows."
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/dell_fire.html
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| system speaker necessary? Peter 22:47:10 |
| | I am putting together a new system but cannot find where the system
speaker wire (4 pin) should be plugged into my motherboard. Is it
necessary to have it plugged in? I tried booting and I get one long
beep and two very short beeps and no video output.
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| Arresting muslims carrying liquids. Bazzer Smith 22:22:43 |
| | Is a bullet to the head standard procedure, and should laymen
administer a kararti chop?
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| Switching off wireless signal? Guest 20:42:29 |
| | I'm interested in buying a DLink wireless router and want to know if its
possible in general with wireless products, to switch off the wireless
signal when I'm not using it (but not unplug the power) and still connect to
the unit using wired ports?
I understand you can switch off external access through security, but I'm
interested in switching off the "physical" radio signal being emitted from
the unit. Is this possible with the following
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=274 or indeed any brand of wireless
router?
TIA for any genuine help.
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| CPU for a really old laptop Nobody@Nowhere.Net 19:14:57 |
| | I got hold of a real antic - toshiba satellite 2515cds with PMMX-266.
If anyone remembers how to deal with this dinosaur, please answer a
few questions:
1. Is it regular Socket 7 or something different?
2. Are there any multiplier and (hardly possible but still hope) FSB
clock jumpers? What are possible FSB settings?
3. Did anyone try AMD k6-2+ or 3+ in this? Did it work?
My plan is to use one of these (whatever I can have on ebay or
anywhere else - they must be around $20) to make this thing at least
marginally capable to run win2k. Even if the bus is locked at 66, it
still would make the CPU run at 400. If, against the odds, the bus
can be set to 75, that would mean 450. On-chip L2 will also speed
things up. And if the chipset happens to be Super7 (snowball in hell
chance) this baby might go up to 600. Right now it has only a corrupt
win98 that boots only to safe mode, and no NIC, so I can't even load
something like Sandra to get more info about the system. I want to
install win2k and office and give it to old folks - for browsing,
email, and light MS Word typing this thing should be marginally
adequate. I just don't want them to deal with crappy 9x, and 2k needs
a bit more horsepower than 266.
TIA
NNN
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| MicroATX Motherboard Guest 16:50:47 |
| | I was just wondering - does a MicroATX Motherboard work in a standard
ATX case?
Is MicroATX just smaller?
Thanks.
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