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20. September 2008 @ 16:29 |
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Any more info on the drive ?, if i recall correctly, the last i heard was that Benq drives were Lite-on rebadges these days
edit- a bit of googling shows my mind is going (ie like HAL), and what i should have said was that Philips were making Benq drives nowadays
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20. September 2008 @ 16:34 |
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creaky,
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Any more info on the drive ?, if i recall correctly, the last i heard was that Benq drives were Lite-on rebadges these days
Aside from the Model # and the Ser. #, it says Phillips & BenQ Digital Storage corporation on it!
I guess I'll put it an mine and test it out to see how good the scans are.
Thanks for the info,
Russ
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20. September 2008 @ 16:38 |
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Cool, keep us posted. I'm very rusty on optical drives as my 5 Benq DW-1650's (the holy grail of burners around here!) are still going strong, and the only others i've bought since then are LG drives, ie i don't keep up with the latest info on opticals nowadays. I'll wager that GM or Loco probably know a bit about your drive..
i'm just reading thru this one - http://club.cdfreaks.com/f92/benq-dvd-writer-vanishing-192997/
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20. September 2008 @ 17:00 |
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20. September 2008 @ 17:04 |
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20. September 2008 @ 17:07 |
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20. September 2008 @ 17:07 |
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Russ yes there are great drives one of the best brands ever made other than the older model Plextors.Phillips made them and they are NO long around
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20. September 2008 @ 17:52 |
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The Spamual solution to everyting is the latest BIOS. The worst possible solution to give to any old joe is to tell them to get the latest BIOS - getting that wrong has unimaginable consequences.
Theone: BenQ were hands down the lowest quality manufacturer of optical drives when they started, but they seem to have improved over time. I'm still never using them due to the appalling crap they sold me many years back, but nowadays there are so many alternatives there's no need to try again.
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20. September 2008 @ 17:55 |
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Updating the BIOS on my MSI board toasted it, luckily i was able to RMA it, there was no way i was/or indeed am going to try updating it again. That taught me a lesson anyway, i didn't need to update nor did i need anything the update offered.
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20. September 2008 @ 17:58 |
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And there you have it. Most of the P5N-E SLI BIOSes bricked the board - regardless of how much that board sucked, it can't possibly be alone in that department. I flashed my BIOS assuming I genuinely needed to - turns out it doesn't look like I did. Check the patchlogs for most BIOS releases, they do bupkis. it's all correcting spelling errors in the BIOS and adding support for more memory and CPU types. In short, if there's no problem, there's no need to flash the BIOS. Flashing the CMOS isn't just like updating a graphics driver, it can have serious consequences in today's surface-mounted CMOS age.
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20. September 2008 @ 18:06 |
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latest BIOS's for me have even given me now clocking increments, and new overclocking categories.
for me personally, i always update tot eh newest bios, and from within vista aswell. never had a problem. might not be the result of every person, but im just giving my personal account on all of this.
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20. September 2008 @ 18:14 |
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For most of my years in computers (lots), for the most part i've been an update-to-the-latest software/driver/firmware/BIOS (including graphics card BIOSes). However sometimes caution/common sense has to be used. Even at work we would analyse the changelogs for firmware and software updates for our Enterprise servers/storage, and even though support contracts sometimes dictate that you have to be latest & greatest, we would sometimes decree that the supposed updates don't actually buy us anything. For example some of our storage had been up and online for upwards of a year, ie 100% stability, we would have to weigh that against updates that a manufacturer would try to force us to use, which loses us downtime for the actual updating, plus we would have to risk any negatives that updating can bring. I've seen it happen enough times, and sometimes where i'm the only one accountable for the outcome (with a manufacturer via phone or onsite if you're lucky!). Great for your rep when it goes well, not nice dealing with hours of downtime when it doesn't :)
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20. September 2008 @ 20:49 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
hey mrk44 i got the rosewill rcr-102 52-1 card reader a few months back and havent had a problem out of it here is a link at it from newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820223073
the only thing i had to install it twice to get it right. it wouldnt let me use my other usb ports until i did it a second time.... other than that it works great now.
cincyrob:
I saw that Rosewill on newegg. The only thing I'm skeptical about is the SDHC support. Some reviews said it works, other said it doesn't. Rosewill itself, as a response to a review, said that it doesn't support SDHC :(
This bytec supports SDHC, and it apparently only shows up as one drive letter, and not one letter for each slot like every other card reader i've seen.
Can you tell me if the Rosewill shows up as more than 1 drive letter? If it doesn't, I can take a chance and try SDHC on it.
Thanks,
MurKy
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20. September 2008 @ 20:55 |
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mrk44,
The best card reader I've seen to date was on a fairly new HP Slimline. No icons at all until you plug in a card, then it pops up on the screen. You can put in more than one type of card at the same time too, it just adds another drive letter! When you remove the cards, no more extra drive letters all the time! I like that!
Russ
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21. September 2008 @ 05:48 |
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All you Vista naysayers. You all say Vista uses wayy to much Ram? It's there to be used. This is what it does with that Ram. Vista is at a point where general use computing and even gaming is faster on Vista then on XP.
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21. September 2008 @ 06:08 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Vista is at a point where general use computing and even gaming is faster on Vista then on XP.
- not for all those grandparents and other unfortunate non-techie users it won't be. For example my G/F bought here dad a brand new laptop with Vista, it needed an extra Gig of RAM before he could even use it. In this instance it wasn't down to me to either put XP on instead, or tweak Vista, so a Gig of RAM it had to be.. and that's before the machine had anything other than Vista itself installed.
Perfect example re the RAM bloat - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/96940/532718
As to Superfetch, i see it's just caching/virtual memory really, except you can have it assigned to a.n.other drive ie a USB drive.
Great.
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21. September 2008 @ 06:13 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
Cool, keep us posted. I'm very rusty on optical drives as my 5 Benq DW-1650's (the holy grail of burners around here!) are still going strong, and the only others i've bought since then are LG drives, ie i don't keep up with the latest info on opticals nowadays. I'll wager that GM or Loco probably know a bit about your drive..
i'm just reading thru this one - http://club.cdfreaks.com/f92/benq-dvd-wr...192997/
I'm pleased to say the BenQ DH-16A1P has now become a Lite-On LH-16A1P. My first scan at 8x on an 8x burn yielded 23,679 pi errors and 86 pi failures and gave me a 95 quality score!
Very good drive, quiet with no vibrations. Seems to be all that was promised if the Cross-Flash and Flash worked. It did, It is as good as promised!
My thanks to GM for walking me through all of that! Thanks to him, I got this!
Thanks again all,
Russ
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21. September 2008 @ 06:48 |
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My Last computer had 4GB of RAM in it. I didn't even plan on using Vista, but then I decided to. Ram is so cheap these days.
Yeah, it IS like a cache. But as you can see it's VERY useful. Here check out full results. The fact is that a NEWER OS is running FASTER. How often do you see that?
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72298
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21. September 2008 @ 07:13 |
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For faster OS'es that make more out of both newer and older machines i prefer to use Linux, and it doesn't matter how little or how much RAM you have :)
But i guess Vista is ok provided people know how to tweak it, or if they don't, that they buy loads of extra RAM.
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21. September 2008 @ 07:19 |
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I don't really like Linux. I've had some bad experiences even with Ubuntu and Windows works just as well for me.
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21. September 2008 @ 08:42 |
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Is their such a thing as FDD to IDE
I Looked on Google so I assume the answer is no
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21. September 2008 @ 10:37 |
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on the subject once i retire a PC now i just through a copy of debian on it, im still learning the ropes but the computer in general for spreadsheets and browsing is faster and the 0s is up-to-date:D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122
i got 4 gigs of g/skill the other day (1stick=2gig)
now the ram is giving great performance for the drop dead price of 71$ however i noticed that one side of the ram's heat fins is hotter then the other, i can't imagine this causing that dastardly side effects but i would still like to replace the fins....
any suggested fin replacement??
240pin-ddr2-sdram
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21. September 2008 @ 12:15 |
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trippy a new set of "fins" or "heatsinks" won't do you a bit of good as they are all about the same. You'd be better served to get RAM specific fans. ;)
something like this
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21. September 2008 @ 13:17 |
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Originally posted by mrk44:
Originally posted by cincyrob:
hey mrk44 i got the rosewill rcr-102 52-1 card reader a few months back and havent had a problem out of it here is a link at it from newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820223073
the only thing i had to install it twice to get it right. it wouldnt let me use my other usb ports until i did it a second time.... other than that it works great now.
cincyrob:
I saw that Rosewill on newegg. The only thing I'm skeptical about is the SDHC support. Some reviews said it works, other said it doesn't. Rosewill itself, as a response to a review, said that it doesn't support SDHC :(
This bytec supports SDHC, and it apparently only shows up as one drive letter, and not one letter for each slot like every other card reader i've seen.
Can you tell me if the Rosewill shows up as more than 1 drive letter? If it doesn't, I can take a chance and try SDHC on it.
Thanks,
MurKy
yes it shows up as multiple drive letters..
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21. September 2008 @ 14:36 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
My Last computer had 4GB of RAM in it. I didn't even plan on using Vista, but then I decided to. Ram is so cheap these days.
Yeah, it IS like a cache. But as you can see it's VERY useful. Here check out full results. The fact is that a NEWER OS is running FASTER. How often do you see that?
We'll see when the next Vista vs XP-Pro shootout comes along, because so far everyone they've had has been won handily by XP-Pro! Right now vista is still doing it with smoke, mirrors and always twice the memory that XP needs! To my mind it's criminal that some Vista machines are sold with as little as a single stick of 128GB Ram "to make your programs run faster"! ROFLMSOAO! That was an HP, BTW! I did laugh at that one! LOL!!
Respectfully,
Russ
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