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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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It is, but if it only works in one slot on the board, either there's something wrong with the CPU/Board, or the memory voltage isn't sufficient, try raising that in the BIOS slightly.
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22. April 2009 @ 07:19 |
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Originally posted by sytyguy:
Originally posted by dru3692:
ram configuration in a Only way I can get the system to boot properly is to use only 1 stick in the A2 slot (which goes against the instructions in the motherboard user guide which say to put both sticks in the yellow slots).
To insure it is not the memory chips, but rather the MOBO. Download http://www.memtest86.com/download.html And it will check your memory chips.
And Sam is probably correct, your MOBO is in defect mode.
Best of luck.
Thanks. I will try the memory test later and post the results.
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22. April 2009 @ 08:15 |
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man this is bringing a tear to my eye's. all this lovely chat about the beloved ODD's. lol wish i could stick around to contribute. but i am on a mission. getting ready to tare down the injured big red machine. going to put my GA-EP45-DS3R back in and try the install of XP PRO with SP3 on it and see if that is the true problem.... i hope like hell it is cause i dont wanna take everything back out to put it back on the GA-EP35C-DS3R board and then wait for another board to be sent to me.
wouldnt be so bad if i knew for a fact it would work. i am crossing my fingers.
so im off for a tare down and install.
I'll be back to futher this lovely topic of ODD's... wheres that GM at thought for sure he would be in on this.....lol
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22. April 2009 @ 08:21 |
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Talking about returned motherboards, the CityLink driver due to collect my board called here at 10:35, put a 'you were out' card through the door, and drove off. Didn't ring the doorbell.
Currently trying to negotiate Ebuyer refunding me postage for sending the board through the regular post (Recorded Delivery), as I have no confidence a recollection will go any differently.
Good news is that I will get a refund if it isn't back in stock when they process it, and it's been removed from the website, so odds are good I'll get a good proportion of my £190 back.
On the less happy side, the X48-DS4 is in stock, for only £110.
I paid £140 for my second hand Maximus II Formula with no bag, box, manual or Audio card...
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22. April 2009 @ 08:55 |
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well boards have been swapped out CPU, cooler, mem 1hdd and 1 ODD installed and ready to try the new windows disc....
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22. April 2009 @ 09:04 |
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Sam, re the Citylink Ninja carding, there's a thread over at Ebuyer that's now at it's 3rd year and 39th page, it's slowed recently but shows no sign of stopping ~ http://forums.ebuyer.com/showthread.php?t=212
I've never had problems with City Link at any address personally, but they do seem to have a lot of Ninja drivers and even after 3 years Ebuyer don't ever seem to comment on it.
As to ODD's i only have 9 on the main PC, the oldest being my trusty 6 year old LG 4480B, i think it'll be buried along with me as it just doesn't stop working.
Have finally been able to bed-in my Gigabyte board (that replaced the MSI P35 Platinum a while back), it's been been rock solid for weeks now as have been ripping/converting quite a few hundred DVD's to AVI. Hope i haven't jinxed it by posting, it stays on for days at a time chomping thru films, nearly turned the Antec 900's fans down to lowest (from highest) a few days ago but as the weather's just started changing (for the better) i'll leave well alone.
Even the Dell 745 (E6400 C2D) has spent the last few weeks in DVD's to AVI mode, it's coping with the heat though i somehow don't think Dell built these with weeks of 100% CPU usage in mind :)
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well i guess I'm eating more crow. windows XP PRO SP2 disc was the fix. it is installing right now with no problems. SO FAR......
so if you look in the dictionary under the word ignorance it will show a pic of me...lol
its not 100% installed yet but it wouldnt even let me get to the point im at right now so id say it is the fix.
so if it helps anyone else down the line dont try to install a OEM version of windows without SP2 on a new P45 board it wont work...
creaky we need to talk about hte converting dvd's to AVI's. i need some instructions on how too. ive tried once but it didnt work out to well.
man its nice when something goes right. about 16 mins left for the install...
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hi guys, i have dual monitors, and was wondering if there is a way toplay games and watch video at the same time on different montirs?
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Lol I don't think they were that bad! :)
I swear to God, I'm not kidding! My mouse sleeps after a couple of minutes without movement, and it vibrated so bad, the mouse pointer kept popping up in the middle of a DVD! It normally stays off for an entire DVD! Remember me complaining about a Philips ODD one time? I said it sounded like a Bee on Steroids! This drive was the Killer Bees, on Steroids! You couldn't stand to be in the same room with it for very long! It wasn't just annoying, it was painful. This house has weird acoustics anyway. You would get a kick out of them! LOL!! No, they would drive you crazy!
I can lay in bed with the door closed, roll over and hear the TV in the front room just as clear and loud as if I was in the living room! Move a foot, one way or the other, and it vanishes! I think it's because of the layout of the house and the fact that there's a complete mirror image house and garages, right next to ours! It's all identical and in a perfect line, except the entrance way between the Kitchen, bathroom hall, and my room. That's a wide doorway at a 45 degree angle to the living room. Victor, the guy who lives in the other house experiences the same thing. I can't understand for the life of me why they built two otherwise identical houses that way. It's like the blueprints were turned over to build one of them. A complete mirror image, inside and out. If Russell's having a conversation he wants me to hear, he'll bring me his cell phone to charge. I just lie down on the bed and put my head in the right place and it's like I'm in the living room with them! I can hear every word! Victor and us, don't hear each other, or the same things. I hear my neighbor's to the left of me and he hears the ones to his right, which is even stranger because what I hear bounces off of his house, and what he hears bounces off of mine!
When I first moved here, I kept hearing voices late at night. It went on for months until I finally asked Russell about it. That's when I found out that we had a talking Dog! It was some kind of Huskie, one of the real smart ones. Russell tells me that it saved a number of lives when it came and got him in the middle of the night saying "Fire, call 911" and dragging him to the door. Russell said that there was a two story apartment house with about 20 units blazing away! My favorite thing of all the dog said was "just give me the damn doughnut"! The two girls of the original owner used to tease the dog by waving a doughnut under the dog's nose and then shove it in their own fat mouths, with their Mother screaming at them to to give him the damn doughnut. Stupid People! Russell figures that it's vocabulary was about 60-65 words! It was his until a few months before it died, when the original owner took it back, so Russell had it for about 6 years. I've never heard of anything like that before or since!
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You're going to love the story I tell you next then.
With regard to City Link, I never have any problems in York (other than when the shop writes the wrong address down, i.e. OcUK, which is when it falls apart), but here ninja-carding is a regular occurance, very regular.
Those of you who moan about couriers in the USA, spare a thought for us over here, where the items travel a quarter of the distance, cost twice as much to send, and have an even lower chance of arriving on time.
Anyway, my little story
8:45 get out of bed in time for city-link delivery, get dressed etc. Open the door, and keep the noise down so I'd hear the doorbell.
Work/play etc. in almost complete silence to try hear a van arrive, having been ninja-carded at least a dozen times before.
11:30 wander down to the porch to collect the post having not heard anything and encounter a Citylink 'you were out' card amongst the details. First Rage ensues.
11:40 Phone Ebuyer asking them if they accept items sent regular post instead of Citylink, knowing that if I get the consignment re-arranged, it'll only happen again
11:45 Phone Citylink asking them to cancel the consignment. They refuse to acknowledge it exists, am put through to "our other depot".Receive the same 'Press 1 to leave a message, Press 2 to wait" message over and over until I give up and put the phone down at Noon. Second Rage.
12:00 Send ebuyer an enote asking them to cancel the consignment, slip in a hint of 'I have nothing against Ebuyer's service, only the courier they use' to get them on my good side, and politely ask if they'll refund part, if not all of my Royal Mail postage charge.
12:45 off down to the post office.
1:20 arrive at post office. Charge upstairs (Yes, UK post offices are on the first floor of WHSmith), head to jiffy bag section (brown paper did not go at all well, so I've sent the last dozen or so items in Jiffy bags without incident). Try size 7 out, the motherboard I'm returning doesn't quite fit. Third rage. Size 8 it is then. This is the size with no sticky strip that you're meant to seal yourself, but they usually have no issue with it (or haven't so far).
1:45 reach front of queue. Am sent over to end Bureau de Change desk where I'm told, unlike any other time I've visited the post office, I need to have bought the jiffy bag before I arrive. I would have, but there was nobody at the counter. After explaining this, he tells me to pay for it downstairs and label it. Fourth rage would ensue, but he says I can come straight back. Fourth rage can wait.
1:50 Pay for jiffy bag and start writing it. Biro has severe issues writing on bag. Fourth rage ensues.
2:00 (Yes, writing the address took 10 minutes, it isn't even long) head back upstairs. The guy is busy, so rather than waiting, he stops serving his current customer to spend 5 minutes explaining to the woman next to him why I'm skipping the queue. I return with the jiffy bag and am promptly asked how I am to seal it. "The Person behind the counter usually does it for me with these" I explain. Not good enough. "I can put sellotape on it, but I can't be held responsible if it falls out" - this jiffy bag is literally vast, I don't want to risk it. "Then you'll have to buy some parcel tape" - I can't help but notice there's also some behind her. "I'd buy some, but there's nobody at the desk". "Yes there is" - "No there isn't" - we could have had a little Pantomime here! Eventually realising she's stacking shelves, I wait by the desk beside someone who is far less patient, who almost literally drags her back. £2.29 for a small roll of decidedly low quality looking parcel tape. Fifth rage.
2:15 Spend 10 minutes on the floor of the post office (no desks other than the counter) wrestling with parcel tape, which frankly, has less stick than prittstick, sellotape, hell, less stick than post-it notes, and I'm serious. Sixth, Seventh and Eighth rage, since I have no scissors and have to cut it with my teeth. It tastes vile.
2:25 Give up with Parcel tape. Find the two people behind the Bureau de Change desks have disappeared. Return to queue, which is now thankfully shorter.
2:35 Speak to someone else, once again explain I want to send it and have no means of sealing it. 'Staple it' - hearing this, the guy I spoke to earlier appears out of nowhere and repromands the girl for suggesting this (It's not allowed as they cut postmen's fingers, fair enough). She makes good by suggesting the sharp staple ends be covered with parcel tape. I begin stapling, but surprise surprise, break the stapler, and have to spend another minute picking out the buckled staples from the bag and try again.
This is when the queue that's formed behind me suddenly calls out "Can't you serve someone else?" (The one other member of staff is sifting through the million wedding invites the last customer dumped on her). so I retreat from the desk, and back on the floor, since the only space on the desk is occupied by the scales, which are needed, to finish the job. I wait at least another 2 minutes for them to finish before I carry on.
2:42 ish. Finally done, I discover the item is too big to insure for it's full £190. Settling for the maximum £150 I hand it over and pay the £15 to send the item (remember, £14.99+£2.29 for the tape +£2.49 for the bag = £19.77 to send something that should have been collected for free). Finally done, I walk away exhausted.
3:14 Arrive back home.
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OMG this thing is fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on the big red machine now. all drivers installed, all the basic stuff as well. just got it hooked up to internet to check things out. man this XP PRO on a fresh install is awesome. this is smoken fast. i think it has to do with the HDD i have it installed on but this is awesome.
gotta go get avg installed now.
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22. April 2009 @ 13:59 |
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Yah...I have a build with virtually NO bloatware. VERY awesome! 1st bootup is running less than 100mb of ram. I think it was 85mb!!! And only 17-18 processes.
Originally posted by sammorris:
Blu-Ray 8cm disc. Interesting proposal. I hate the damn things though, I always wonder whether they'e secure in the tray, usually they aren't, and make all sorts of hideous noises because of it.
You do realise they go up to 22x now right? :P
LOL, yes. Ive burned at 22X before. It sounded unnatural! The discs burn quality was fairly reasonable too. Toward the end though, its quality did begin to flounder.
Ive burned multiple mini's. Dvds, and cd's. I like um. Heck, if drives were suited for ONLY them, it wouldn't be so bad. People would probably handle them more appropriately too. I hate seeing people grab discs like frisbees. Its like HELLO! LOL. The technology utilizes an eye to read that, and you just obstructed it with a finger print!
A while back, I also heard of even smaller BD discs in phones, that could hold over 1Gb! I dont know if they continued that technology though. I think they should move onto something else. Optical technology is limited. Yes, im aware of Holographic Versatile Disc. I mean... one little tiny flake of dust on such a disc, would cause errors, skipping, etc. Even babying such a technology would prove useless. accidents happen LOL!
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sammorris,
Sounds about as good as USPS! At our Post Office there are no counters either, although all the mailers they sell do come with a means to seal them. They lost a package I sent to Will, and if it wasn't that I was on good terms with my Postman, and described the package to him, that I got it back. Pretty hard to lose a white box, about the size of a book! LOL!! Somehow something had scraped the label off! Of course I had to pay for the privilege of doing it all over again, even though I brought the original receipt with me! Oh, in an Economy move, they've removed all the stamp vending machines, so now everybody has to wait in line, as there's only one line, with only one person to wait on everybody. Everyone else there, just walks around looking official!
Russ
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23. April 2009 @ 01:08 |
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Is Pla Doh conducive?
This seems like a completely unrelated question right now, but with in the next month, I assure you, it is not unrelated at all!
-im1992
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23. April 2009 @ 05:30 |
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Originally posted by im1992:
Is Pla Doh conducive?
This seems like a completely unrelated question right now, but with in the next month, I assure you, it is not unrelated at all!
-im1992
im1992,
It's pretty conductive, out of the can because it's mostly made with Flour, Water and Salt. As it dries out, it becomes less conductive!
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23. April 2009 @ 07:00 |
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Some interesting rough power figures taken from a Hexus benchmark:
Core 2 Quad Q9x00 series: 50W idle, 75W load
Phenom II X4 800 series: 50W idle, 90W load
Core 2 Quad Q9x50 series: 55W idle, 95W load
Phenom II X4 920, 940, 955: 50/50/55W idle, 105/110/115W load
Core i7 9x0 series: 80W idle, 150W load
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23. April 2009 @ 07:37 |
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LOL Core i7 makes even Phenom II look like nothing XD
WTF I'm getting popups and adware attacks hardcore from AD. Anywhere else I don't have a problem. Eh, time to scan.
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No problem here.
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Originally posted by Estuansis:
LOL Core i7 makes even Phenom II look like nothing XD
WTF I'm getting popups and adware attacks hardcore from AD. Anywhere else I don't have a problem. Eh, time to scan.
ive been getting a few also. most have been blocked.
ok all got the big red machine back in the game. here is a shot of IBT
IBT Load
IBT idle
im still missing alot of programs ive lost when the hdd got wiped accidently..lol
well ithink im gonna take the HP offline and put The BRM back in the living room for everyday use again. i still gotta install my printers so i need to make the switch...
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23. April 2009 @ 08:41 |
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Some funky colours there!
Temps look excellent for IBT.
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yea the colors on real temp look cool here but not worth a crap once saved for posting...lol
yea im kinda happy with the temps more so now than before. there 3-5 degrees cooler than before.
like i said after this post im switching out puters and makeing this the everyday rig again. get some torrents running again and see how she does.
i know no one has posts anyting about Orthos lately we all seem to have our rigs running pretty well(except me). has anyone tried to find Orthos to DL? all i keep finding is forums talking about it with no link to a DL
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23. April 2009 @ 08:58 |
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For basic colours, GIFs seem to work best, when I draw graphics performance graphics, I use GIF as JPEG makes them look crap. Your background might go a bit awry in a GIF though, not sure.
Not tried Orthos myself, been using OCCT instead.
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23. April 2009 @ 09:39 |
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well did the switch. running convertXtodvd now.
yea i got OCCT on here now. havent run it yet. guess i should just to make sure...
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by im1992:
Is Pla Doh conducive?
This seems like a completely unrelated question right now, but with in the next month, I assure you, it is not unrelated at all!
-im1992
im1992,
It's pretty conductive, out of the can because it's mostly made with Flour, Water and Salt. As it dries out, it becomes less conductive!
Russ
oO haha
What about clay, is that conductive?
Thanks, -im1992
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I don't know when it's dry and crumbly, but when it's moist and sticky, it definitely is.
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