Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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then he would be saying it against geforces, and rightfully so tbh. If its happeneing, it id happening. Im sure russs doesn't want it, and its annoying. You just want something like a monitor, or a kb or mouse etc, to just work. Russ i assume you can't get iy rma'd.?
imagine you had a whole load of broken mobos but from gb, instead of asus, would you say thesame thing?

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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oh, that wasn't a quip at asus/gb. Was just an example, of which either company are arbitrary. There was no meaning behind it russ.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A little case study I'll put out there, geforces had problems reading the Dell Ultrasharp 3007WFP for quite a while as it had no scaler, and they seemed to take issue with a device that took direct input without filtering it in any way. It seemed the general recommendation at the time that geforce users stick with other 30" monitor brands. Food for thought!
I've never bought an Asus DVD drive but I frankly don't see the point. I've been using LG drives since 2006 and not had a single one go bad. Why change? I had a Toshiba DVD ROM that worked OK for 5 years solid albeit with a worn out tray mechanism, but you can't really buy them. Both the Acer/Benq drives I had broke within 10 days so I point blank refused to use them for years. They've since merged with Philips, so that inspires a bit more confidence, though the only part of my Philips Hifis to break on both of them has been the CD drive, so who knows! lol
My Matshita OEM drive, apart from being slow as hell (32x12x8x8x2x1x1) had some interesting issues with burning software, and the Artec DVD-ROM it was partnered with had a habit of destroying discs.
I will admit, I have had to flash the firmware on my GH20NS15 as it somehow became corrupted, but due to all the games I play I'm going to blame StarForce for that. It can actually be transmitted virally, I found out to my amazement.
I think I've given the companies on my badbooks reasonable opportunity to prove themselves. I was willing to overlook the Epson printer that lasted 368 days, but for the fact that its replacement lasted only 2 years also before it became dodgy, and the Lexmark replacement that cost 1/3 as much lasted twice as long [and the HP LaserJet I use now is 11 years old!]
After three terrible Asus boards and a bad video card I figured I'd give up on Asus, but I gave them a fifth final chance with Shaff's Maximus II, which also kicked the bucket well before the end of its first year. For a £160 premium product that's disgusting. I like to think I don't needlessly hate on brands.
Besides some driver issues [which nvidia have had plenty of as well] I've had no hardware issues at all with ATI directly, only their scabby partners, or specifically Sapphire, Powercolor and Asus. Sticking with better companies it's been a smooth ride for the last 11 years.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Jeff: Same
Russ: That's not what my point was at all. I wasn't saying one nvidia card might randomly not work with your monitor. I'm saying one different monitor may have the exact same problem that you get with yours. You're the only person I've ever known to have this issue with ATI cards picking up a monitor, so who's to say one of the monitors other people use may only work with ATIs and not nvidias?
It's a rare unfortunate predicament, but it is not enough to disrecommend ATI as a whole, because this is a one-off isolated case.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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They do support the plug and play standard, as that's how the 3007WFPs often come up. Plug and Play is merely a detection mechanism, if there's a conflict with the particular controller in the Sceptre, and how AMDs read plug and play, it doesn't matter about the interface. Plug and Play works on AMDs, just not with your specific monitor.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Yeah! Another WD20EARS drive on the way. I plan to store particular backups on one of the 1Tb drives, and shelf it. Gonna have to find a nice little storage container for Hard drives ;) Finally have a 32Gb SD card too :D

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Originally posted by creaky:

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Platters ?, i don't know anyone who counts them, i don't even know how many any of my drives have, i just make sure to have a secondary drive, protected in a plastic tank and handled carefully whenever used. And to me it wouldn't matter if hard drives were 10TB each as long as i had a secondary drive stored safely. I haven't even thought about platters since the late 80's when hard drives were the size of washing machines and in some of them you could actually see the heads and platters spinning in transparent, threaded covers (for manual swapouts).

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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My mother has the same drive russ. Can't seem to find the problem with why her OS is slower than mine though. It really should be similar. Even though I have the Velociraptor, the WD1001FALS is almost as fast. I would think the 500GB AALS drive is similarly has fast. Applications really don't load very fast at all. Aww well...
For whatever reason, she still uses her old busted a$$ 2001 gateway, with a pathetic 2.0Ghz pentium 4. and slow 80gb 2mb cache hard drive. Her choice LOL!

I think she's intimidated by the new machine. It's a big transition. She uses it every now and again.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Wow. Simple mistake I guess. Not saying I'm better for thinking this(because you have WAYYY more experience than I), but I likely would have closed all unnecessary programs when testing things ;) Audio problems are very specific. I would have focused all my efforts on softwares that are designed for such schemes ;) Everest would not be something that is required for playback of audio ;) But of course, who would think that a simple monitoring program could wreak such havoc!

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Interesting, remind me, what are these issues?

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