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Rocker switches on power supplies are equivalent to pulling the plug out of the wall. It will cut all power going to the MB.

I'm not sure you understand, even if the battery is missing or dead the reset switch should not affect CMOS for in a normally working MB it will still be powered by the MB. The only time the battery matters is if there is not enough power being supplied by the MB as when you physically pull the...

I don't know. My best guess and it is just a guess is that there is a short somewhere.

I have really never had any doubt that the CPU is working properly. It's the MB and to a lesser extent the PS that I suspect has a problem. I just had issues with the reliability of process that you were using to test the CPU and the major components. As to the temps, they are quite good...

Quebec is a world all unto itself.

Primarily what safe mode does is use default Microsoft drivers and not load any autostart items. As to how this affects hardware is that it won't exercise all the capabilities of custom drivers because the default drivers use the minimum common denominator. The best example I can think of are...

I'm with Merc, replace the MB. I can't guarantee that it is the source but its quite likely. It is not just that I've never seen a CMOS reset caused by a soft boot, rather it isn't supposed to happen. The CMOS is supposed to be continuously powered, in all circumstances. If the CMOS reset...

Another very useful tip for determining what called svchost.exe: Start a command prompt and enter: tasklist /svc /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe" You'll get a list like this showing what was the source of all the svchost.exe's that currently are running in your command box: Microsoft Windows...

Not if you have a limited BW and have oversold it. You have to do something to drop the latency that results from people trying to use far more BW than you offer. They can try costly overage charges and expensive tiered data plans but you know people don't like those either.

The old forums had a feature I liked that this one doesn't. Specifically when searching for new posts and failing to find any it gave the option of showing all the threads that have changed in the last 24 hours. The current forums simply give a link to the search capability which give me...

Now do your burn-in and see where those temps end up. It shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to get to your maximum temperature. Make sure that the burn-in is running both cores at 100% using the task manager->performance tab. Now, I don't think your problem is thermal for you said...

First, I'll start out with that the network card isn't that good of an idea. Unlike you, I really don't think of this as a network problem. I suggested it really to satisfy your obsession with the network association. If it is a network problem (non-motherboard related) then the odds-on...

Install a temperature program like real temp and dynamically monitor via the systray. Checking the CPU temp in CMOS setup is totally useless unless you need an idle temp.

I'm really very uninterested in Windows 8 the way it is now. I have yet to read a positive review other than how fast it booted up. Significantly more interested in Windows server "8" for its virtualization capabilities.

If you need to, you can get yourself an inexpensive network card and then use that instead of the onboard one. If the freezing stops then you've ID'd the problem and also found at least a temporary solution. Really, I discount your network activity hypothesis because of losing CMOS setup...

Your mouse jumping could be as simple as a mouse setting: mouse properties->pointer options->Snap To (don't allow it to automatically move the pointer to the default button in a dialog box) One of the things you have not done as a diagnostic test is to check for RAM errors. Memory errors will...

Correct, whatever change you make won't affect me at all, since I pay no attention to them. I made my statement on the theory that maybe others could use my method too and thereby eliminate any issues they have with the icons. To me, since I'm going to read all the new posts anyway, it makes...

Absolutely Correct!

I included a link but I'll give it to you again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17221490

Twisting electromagnetic waves allows for more information to be transmitted in the same spectrum space. Carefully Look at the dish antenna picture to see how they are making the waves travel in a twist as in a cork-screw. Then at the receiver they separate out the signal contained in the...

Sorry, but I just recursively use the new posts button at the top left of every page, then click the blue arrow to get to the new content. Therefore I can totally ignore the icons.

I have to admit that I reuse passwords regularly. For places that I really need a quality password I have a god-awful long string of letters (upper and lower case), numbers, punctuation memorized that started out as a model number to an abstract piece of HW which so far I've only used...

Yep, Microsoft will just plain quit supporting Win 7 and earlier. The programmer/developer will eventually be forced into the Win 8 app business model. It really isn't much different than when Microsoft changes driver models like between XP and Vista so that the HW manufacturers were forced to...

Getting started with Windows 8 GUI

I contend that it is only a matter of time. As people get used to the cell phone business model with their PC's acting like glorified cell phones Microsoft will be at the ready when cell phone mentality takes over.

As dumb as it is, they just don't want to support multiple GUI's and the lowest common denominator in this case are Windows Cell Phones. The second thing is that they want the guaranteed income stream and total control that comes from forcing everyone to buy all apps from their store. That...

Don't forget Windows Server "8" for that beta was also released today.

I thought the only real useful purpose of the 40GB SSD's was for caching.

I don't associate disconnection as a performance issue or a longevity problem rather isn't it more likely to be a design flaw that can be solved by picking a totally different design. Of course the 830 is totally different so good luck. If the usage is a database VM that has a significant...

Performance == Samsung 830 (256 GB) Longevity == Intel 710 But note that you pay a lot in performance and $$$ for that longevity.

I was examining the new software and looked at the calendar. For some reason that I don't know it won't go newer than Dec 2006. If there is going to be a calendar function, it would seem to me more valuable if it can actually at least get to the current date. Please don't consider this to...

P.S. If there is anyone in authority that has an issue with the link, feel free to remove the post. I won't mind. I just posted it as a service to those that couldn't find it,

mobscene v3.5 While the product may or may not be "shady" placing a link to shady stuff is not illegal -- yet. Google advanced search is your friend (I excluded anything with manson or mp3 from the results)

Don't know, I haven't needed to replace the second remote yet. I am just assuming, at this point. If it fails, them obviously my plan is not nearly as good.

I have a Sony TV and when the factory remote died I replaced it and a bunch of others with a multi-function Sony remote. The basic problem has been that Sony remotes seem to last only 3-6 months before the commonly used buttons become problematic and eventually don't work at all. The factory...

The 2.0 beta of Spybot has real-time protection but it is very very painfully slow. When I mean slow, it is 10-15 seconds to scan each file executed. It'll drive you crazy.

E-Ink and backlit are incompatible: E-ink is opaque. If you need this capability then the Kindle fire or some other reader with a LCD screen is needed and that will drastically affect how long it runs on battery between recharges from close to a month to 1-2 days. I've the non-touch version...

I was thinking more of the negatives to the birds, rather than to us humans. Things like becoming dependent upon humans to feed them and thereby losing their natural skills at foraging; the increasing ease of spreading of bird diseases from them coming together to feed at a bird feeder...

I was given as a gift a bird-feeder. It has always been my understanding that one should never feed wild animals. So my question is what makes birds any different than any other wildlife? Do not the same negative effects apply to them and if not, why?

Nothing, that I can tell. I just followed the pattern of disliking Glee and then telling what I am currently liking.

I got myself A DVD set that I'm going through: The Avengers - The Complete Emma Peel Megaset. To me, much more enjoyable than Glee which I look at as total and utter YUK. P.S. It didn't even come close to what Amazon wants for it off Ebay: try $49.99 I'm also insulted by Amazon offering a...

I'm having a hard time visualizing how you threw the phone hard enough to damage the door frame. Air Cannon?

Blueberries that are frozen will break the cell walls releasing lots of juice that spreads when thawed making the pancakes less appealing. Fresh blueberries don't have that problem. The problem with fresh is that they are very seasonal.

The smell is one problem, but more to the point will be excessive CO from the combustion process makes them unsafe for indoor usage. At the very minimum, if you are planning on burning something inside for heat you may wish to invest in some CO detector/fire alarms.

To me, these statements are in direct opposition.

I keep thinking of the Pushmi-Pullyu from Doctor Dolittle. One pilot in front with his prop and the second one pointed back with her engine and the plane going nowhere quick. Pushmi-Pullyu

Perhaps I'm missing something but I do not see why you are even replacing the machine. If you need sandbox duty, simply install a copy of VMWare on your current Intel i7 machine and run a virtual machine for that purpose. It is totally capable of everything you say you need out of a...

There were several significant issues. The first was UAC. It was an annoyance, that XP didn't have. Secondly, Vista is outright slower than XP which was particularly noticable with gamers and notebooks. Third, Vista introduced a new driver model that caused a lot of old HW to fail since many...

I contend that LED's need to become price competitive to CFL's and that's not likely to happen for several years yet.

The 6128 has 1 FP/Core, the 4280 is a bulldozer with .5 FP/core. With 2x the number of FP units, the 6128 should win hands down.