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Let us know how it performs. I must admit to a staggering distrust/dislike of Acer products as that (apart from a brief Dell fling) is what has been used at work for the last 8 years plus, and the vast majority of Acer 17" & 19" CRT's have vied with each other in the "lets make this text fuzzy"...

Don't get me started on LG's "service" :x Most LG panels use 6-bit TN film displays. OK for browsing or games. Crap for colour work. For serious work, you would be better served with a proper 8-bit panel. IN the links below there is some interesting stuff on specifications and how...

The bug is back Event ID: 9 followed by Even ID: 51 So it only happens on the WD, and it is controller and cable independent. It's got to be the drive. It doesn't happen to the Maxtor or the Samsung. Now to see if I can convince WD to RMA.

Cable question(s) What is the maximum length of a SATA cable? Also, does USB 2.0 require a different cable to USB 1.0?

SATA does not have any measurable performance improvement over PATA. PATA is cheaper. Ever tried to install XP on a SATA drive without a floppy drive in the machine or a diskette with the driver? SATA marketed itself as being faster (see point 1) and I can't stand marketing bullsh!t. My...

Hmmm, looks like the cable was it. It was a very tight squeeze to get the two drives connected because of there locations. Looks like the pressure damaged the cable or the connectors. It has been 36 hours and no errors in the Event Log. First case of a dud cable ever. I have left the...

Hmmm, I spoke too soon. On the weekend, I swapped out the Corsair XMS LL for some KingMax DDR500. As the RAM is only running DDR460, I set Command Rate to T1 (default T2) and CAS to 2.5 (3.0). So when Mark mentioned this, I thought straight away that that was the problem. Bumped everything...

Mark, in the words of a great man; You are a freakin' genius! Thanks.

I am getting a weird error in WinXP SP2. I have three hard drives installed WD800JB, SP1213N and 6Y120M0. The Samsung and Maxtor have one dynamic partition each whilst the WD has three basic partitions and is the boot drive. At odd intervals, the following event shows up in the Event Log...

This ides stream seems to be cropping up everywhere http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050331.html (and others either side of that weeks Pulpit)

Hmmm, early on in the piece, Mr. Neil targets Bob--we can sell 40 000 Monaro/GTO a year--Lutz. Given his track record (or lack of), I'd say say Mr. Lutz hasn't got his finger on the pulse. And neither do the Aussie motoring press because they were saying how "visionary" Mr. Lutz was. Good...

I think I did see The Warriors (circa '79, '80) in a cinema twice. Forgive me, I was young...

AnandTech seem to like the Dell 1905FP--they imply it is a badged version of the Samsung 193T. The price is certainly right in Aus $588.00 delivered, which puts it a couple of hundred $ cheaper than LG, BenQ etc. And as my Mitsubishi DiamondTron DV19NF has just died--three years and three...

You got that right!... :eekers:

JoJo, what is bonnie++? This is the second time I have heard that term today--the first being here: http://www-oss.fnal.gov/scs/qualify2005/opteron.pdf Great Opteron v XEONprice/performance comparo if anyone is interested...

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/isn/2002-q3/0004.html Tom Clancy meets the Dark Side?

Hmmm. Found these articles informative, but I'm no wiser, and the NEC panels mentioned in the X-Bit review don't appear to be available in Aus yet... http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/19inch-3.html http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2289

Hi gurus's, I'm thinking of going the FP display route for space reasons primarily--at present I'm using a 19" CRT--and was wanting recommendations on models to look at as I have not dabbled in these waters. I'm looking at 19" CRT's, maybe a 17" if it's really good. I don't do FP...

Well I have been doing some troubleshooting. Seems this CPU will run at up to 2.34 GHz--with the proviso that CrystalCPUID will freeze and Hearts of Iron will fail every second time when saving its save game files. Unreal timedemo will freeze after 30~50 iterations as well--I've always taken...

Only one?! :eekers:

Well I bought a Samsung SP1213N (PATA) and connected it up to the VIA mobo. And the transfer is just the same going from PATA to PATA as it is from PATA to SATA (and vica versa). Could be a controller thing as blakewry suggested. I might dump in a Promise controller for giggles and see what...

Shameless post to get my post-count up! Kudo's post-fiends.

Thanks for the feedback guys. At least I'm not totally off base :) The idea isn't a money making exercise (of itself). It's more to learn about customers and expectations and then make some decisions at a later date about where I might want to take this. I used to look after a few small...

Hi all, this is what I'm thinking of doing, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea. People are always asking me advice on what to buy and or to build them a box. What I'm proposing to do is come up with a limited box config, and go to the local markets and grab some stuff, put it all together...

Damn proxy issues!

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2601

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2601

When you say java, do you mean applets, applications, web/server side or J2EE? If you don't mind vendor specific, and you are interested in web/server side and J2EE, I can highly recommend Enterprise Java programming with IBM WebSphere...

As Jake and Sechs have alluded to, if people provide "fail-safes" to override the captain or pilot, all that's going to happen is that TV shows like Black Box or Air Crash Investigation are going to show episodes where the conclusion is software error rather than pilot error. I write software...

Hmmm. Mine shows up as SCSI as well. Maybe it's a WD thing :mrgrn: My system is XP SP2 as well. As I have a spare partition, I'll try a clean install. The files I copy are a folder aroun 1.6 GB. Lots of small files and a few large ones. On another note, I found this thread on VIA/SATA...

Thanks Mubs. I got hold of the Dskcache.exe tool, but I get Error 1117: Error getting the write cache value. I tried copying files from the SATA disk to the PATA, and the CPU usage is much less--though still higher than what I thought it should be. I might grab another PATA disk and see what...

Updated the VIA SATA/RAID drivers to v 3.10. Still no joy. BTW. The disk isn't in a RAID array. It is the only SATA device. If it is of relevance, the WD is a Basic disc (3 partitions), while the SATA Maxtor is a Dynamic simple volume. OS is XP Pro.

Tony is just gunna love this... My system is an Athlon 2800+ (o/ced to 2250MHz). Boot disk WD 800JB (Primary Master, no slave). Just added a Maxtor 6Y120M0 (DiamondMax 9+) on the SATA 1 port. Motherboard is Abit KV8 Pro. When I copy files from the WD to the SATA disc, CPU utilisation goes...

Merc, I was under the impression that LiteOn OEM's for others, not the other way around. JVC drives may very well be LiteOn's. Won't change your opinion one wit though... :wink:

Yeah, I've been meaning to update this post. The AMD driver + Power Management Options still tanked (system freeze) just like using CrystalCPUID. I start Crystal with the command line args. I now do things manually. run at high bus normally, and when I want to run cool, I drop the FSB speed...

I went looking for a 3500A because of that other thread. Nobody had one in stock, so I settled for a LiteOn 1653 & TDK 8X DVD-R media (my LG DVD player only likes -R apparently). Haven't burnt many discs, but so far no coasters. I got the burner because I was sick of the kids (2 & 4) wrecking...

I'd be interested in the why (the location, height, type of bridge etc.) if anyone has a link. The terrain would have to be very unsuitable for 50 miles either side of the location for such a bridge to be constructed (I'd have thought).

Heh. Will reminded me of something I was going to mention for a while. I must have been born to be in IT. Check the spelling though. 1. I work on Athllon Drive 2. The street next door is Annand Place 3. Unfortunately, my street is Duffus Place :(

Howell, it's 8:20AM and I'm at work. Those sorts of posts just throw my rational thought processes out the window. :eekers: I don't know whether to laugh or cry. And the sig! What did it mean?

Merc, have you read Shadows of Saganami? Over at the Baen bar, it seems this book is a way of introducing more characters that will pop up in the Honorverse. People seem to give it the thumbs up.

Update: Clocking the bus at 240 MHz didn't solve the problem. This does seem a little odd eeing that everything else is happy @ 265 MHz. For the last day, I reverted to just the AMD driver and setting the Power Options (Control Panel) to Max. Battery. I get the same result (well almost) as...

VIA and working AGP/PCI lock. From my researching, it appears[b] that the the K8T800 based boards have the broken AGP/PCI lock. There have been a few reviews claiming that it is fixed/can be fixed by a BIOS update, but I've seen nothing confirmed. The K8T800 Pro has a working AGP/PCI lock. I...

Forgot, cheers Merc. Another classic installment. Bartender, whatever the hairy one is having.

Ah, Honor Harrington. the current love of my sci-fi life. On Basilisk Station. Baen has also released most of their back catalogue (about 40 books) in various e-formats on one CD--search for Honorverse. It includes the first 9 or 10 Honor Harrington novels. If you can't find it (or can't be...

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Well I have found that I can clock the bus to 240 MHz (2160 MHz--stock is 1800MHz) and CrystalCPUID will run all day no problems. 245 MHz bus and the lock-ups start. At 2160, I can set CNQ to run: 9 x 240 @ 1.5V 7 x 240 @ 1.3V 4 x 240 @ 1.1 V. At the lowest setting, with a Zalman 7000B AlCu...

Dehydration! Bartender, better have another http://www.boags.com.au/Files/00224_BoagsHomepage.asp?flash=false&

Bozo, http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en It uses Cool 'N" Quiet, SpeedStep or other technologies to change a CPU's multiplier & voltage on the fly. That way, your PC runs at full speed when you need it, but throttles right back when you don't. Jan, Yes it's stable @ 265 (at least with every...

I have been playing around with this (thanks Jan), and it is indeed a cool thing, but it locks up my system after a few minutes. Does anybody know of any fixes? The only thing out of the ordinary is my system clock, 265 MHz vs stock 200 :) keeping voltage the same and dropping the multi...

Pentium AFAIR. But that instruction set is no different to the 486/386, so it should run on those. Pentium MMX was the first x86 additional instruction set. I have used the default build on a 1.6 GHz P4 and then tried SSE2 optimised builds from djeter & Moox and noticed a difference in page...