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I'll say it again, and in all seriousness: nvidia's cards run hot. Many need active cooling and are still pretty warm. "Hot" is not a desireable quality in a business system, and I don't see any advantage to 'l33t Quake framerates for word and excel users. I'll admit I'm not the person most...

I know you don't want to hear it. Too bad. ATI 7x00. I like "actual ATI" better than the OEM stuff, but at $40-ish for a 64MB, DDR Radeon 7200, with 3dfx-good 2D quality and 3D that's up to snuff for everything that's out right now, they're a marvelous buy. I think part of my beef with nvidia...

Having recently visited spacewalker.com, I wouldn't go handing brains out to Shuttle too quickly, either. Anyway, you and I (and Buck and Coug and time and heck, most everyone else who visits here, too) have been building PCs long enough to know that pin layouts aren't standard and probably...

... and Cliptin's error: Read the first line of text on the sticker, and see if you can spot it. It's typical, poorly-translated Chinese, but an error is an error. ;)

All I can say is, when I saw the color coded pins for the LEDs on the 7VAX, I almost cried. Why can't they all do that?

Ended up buying a small assortment of fans from newegg, including a thermaltake volcano unit, a YS Tech, and a large, low-rpm unit from a company I've never heard of, Speeze.

Simple question: What's a decent HSF combo in the $10 - $20 range for an AMD chip? Mostly I buy retail chips, and when I don't, I pick up $7 Cooler Master combos. So what's better?

Ah. I guess it hasn't been something I've noticed. The poster they print has been good enough for my needs. ;)

I have to say, Tannin, that I don't see where you're coming from on Gigabyte's manuals. I think the docs I've gotten with my boards has been pretty good. The installation poster has everything an experienced tech needs to know to set up the board, plus the case sticker with the layout if you...

Yes, keep cables. They aren't worth much, don't take up much space and sooner or later you'll need them for something. ;)

I've got two of the big board running here - the AXP - and I can tell you that the fan at least initially is quiet. The KT333-based RXx had a good heat sink. Man, I wish I could buy good aftermarket northbridge heatsinks.

I heart gigabyte. Great docs. Sensible setup - I like the markings on the LED pins and the color-coded connectors. I like that I can choose CPU plug and play or set it with DIP switches. Dual BIOS is a good thing as is standard USB2 on their products. Just a good deal all around.

Yes, I tried that on the first two. The third was current when I got it back (good user!), the forth was using the stock rev1 BIOS (dated Sept. 2001) but by that time I was tired of dealing with it. My guess is Epox sent out a batch of boards with bad fuses on the keyboard port, but I really...

... of course, Compaq has occasionally been known to link to the wrong ROMPaq on their site. I've run into that problem before.

I could do that. Or I could RMA the boards for having something so simple and so critical die well inside the warranty period. Which is what I did.

I've had issue with Epox over the last few months. In four months I had four boards (8KHA+ and 8KHAL) all lose the PS/2 keyboard. Anybody else have that problem, ever? I sold 21 systems with Epox boards in the last year, and those are the only problems I've had. It's just odd that it was the...

I'm going to build a machine I can stand behind. After long thought, I don't think that's a $350 computer. Besides, when I say $600, I've got some room to work down. ;) I know *my* $600 computer is going to kick the crap out of Dell's or HP's.

I've had no problem with the gigabyte boards I've sold either, but where are you getting 7DXEs at a good price? I'd like to try a couple. My favorite Gigabyte board is their GA7RXP. The -AXP has a fan on the northbridge that's just destined to live a short life. :( I finally submitted a pilot...

That has to be an awful feeling. It's good that you made it, on one hand, but it has to be depressing that your good fortune comes at someone else's expense. :(

I work for a training company, not a community college. And yes, I've brought up the same concerns regarding notebooks. Also the fact that I don't want to maintain a bunch of them. I don't think they're worth the money in this case, and "loss prevention" isn't in my job description. The one...

My current proposal is to eliminate a lab of computers. That drops us down to 48 machines that need upgrades and gets me into the right budgetary ballpark. I'm thinking that the other 12 machines can be made up in leasing notebook PCs (an idea everyone REALLY likes for some reason), which gives...

Posts on slashdot also indicate that the alpha hardware requirements are a little bit insane. 10 - 15 fps on an ATI 7500, low detail, around 20 on an 8500 or a GF4 4200 with some of the details turned on/up. 1 fps on a GF2 MX. Some are asserting that RAM needs to be up over 512MB, too. Ouch.

They're more like $1 or $1.50 if you know where to buy them. I like HP Inkjets. Almost entirely because of the fact their printers keep paper horizontal, which I think is a much better mechanism than the top-feeders. Since HP is the only company that does things that way, they get my inkjet budget.

There's no shame in being a console kind of guy, James. I am, too. I also spend far more time in console apps than I do using X. If you've got local access to all the source code, one really cool benchmark for your *BSD machine is doing a 'make world'. It's kind of pathetic on my HP715 but...

Most hardware gateways like that will let you reserve DCHP addresses based on MAC addresses. You use DHCP but certain machines will always get the same address. Alternatively, you can make your scope smaller than the whole 250-odd address range. I typically reserve the first 20 addresses in a...

Actually, I'm serious. Dishwasher with a little detergent, in the top rack by itself, and let it dry for a day or two. I did it to the Logitech USB model I'm using right now, after I spilled milk in it.

Most HX boards didn't have the voltage circuits to handle an MMX chip, although HX did support up to 8 SIMM slots. The FIC 2012 is a very good Socket7 board. It's not the 503+, but it does have an AGP slot, DIMM slots and the characteristic stability of an FIC board from that era. IIRC, it is...

VNC by default doesn't start up a Window manager, just a couple of terminal sessions. If you want a full-featured session, add kde & to the end of your ~/.vnc/xstartup file. And follow The JoJo's advice for setting up samba. You just don't have a username mapping, something that takes...

... There is absolutely nothing that is going to cheer me up tonight. Amy's current girlfriend - someone I know very little about, let alone her phone number - says she's getting harrassing phone calls, and guess what, *I'm* the chief suspect. Despite twelve years of friendship, seven of...

Try burying a dead animal in a shallow grave near his air conditioning intake. He'll never find the source of the smell and it'll ruin the inside of his home. Sugar in a gas tank works better than cutting a brake line. Thick, sharp, broken glass at the end of a driveway is kind of funny. Break...

Ahem. Sin Win Gin Thin Chin Skin Pin. Bin Grin Din I see a lot to work with there. I miss the "storage prose" thread on SR. :(

My dog (who lives with my parents) is also a black lab. His name is Booker, and despite being aged - 13 is ancient for a lab - now, is also a supremely beautiful specimen. If someone did that to my dog, there would be no quarter given.

I think, in point of fact, I made just such a comment about Heinlein here a few months ago. :P

Yup. That's the guy we want. And he can run again in 2004.

Personally, I really like the idea of 6 28-hour days rather than 7 24-hour ones. And yes, my beef with Celcius has everything to do with the scale not being fine enough to cope with what I feel are noticeable differences in temperature.

I put mine in the dishwasher with just a little detergent. Works great.

Near where I used to live, not far from Urbana, Illinois, there is a sign that says "Peoria: 100 kilometers". It has been there since the 70s, and is the only example I can think of that there was ever a push to go metric here. I have had enough science classes in my life that it doesn't matter...

Azza is a PC Chips psuedonym. Bleh.

Just noticed that Ghost v2003 supports writing (saved) images directly to NTFS-formatted drives. Symantec may be a crappy company in all other ways but that's really frickin' cool for a DOS program. Especially since it also does firewire, USB1.1 and 2, and CD/DVD-R/W out of the box, too.

IIRC FreeBSD uses UFS. The best answer I can think of is that you mount your UFS disk on a linux box and transfer all its data to something FAT32-ish.

Second board: After some idiocy in getting the board up and running - it didn't like the RAM the other one did, and I moved from Crucial to Viking to a stick of Samsung PC2700 before it actually fired up, it worked fine. Not fine as in "fine for ECS", but "fine" in general. A trouble-free...

It is the only non-integrated ECS board that my local distributor sells. I don't normally buy motherboards locally but I was in the mood for instant gratification.

OK, first post was when I just thought James wanted to reformat his disk. Then I thought... this is James. He knows how to do that. So I "stopped" my posted, re-read his post and wrote the second thing. Carry on. Nothing to see here.

I think you're SOL on that one. Check freshmeat to be sure.

Use a Linux install CD, and its fdisk, and all you have to do is change the partition number. You can exit the install at any time after that. You could also use one of the disk manufacturer's easy setup utilities to fix it, I think.

Got a new k7s5a this morning. Hopefully this one will go better.

Geese are pretty obnoxious in the poop department, too. I don't think you'd like pinkie-finger-sized goose poops all over whereever you kept 'em.

Mine are rev 3.1 and do not have network hardware. Of course I tried other things like switching PCI slots etc, and a Conexant PCI modem installed and worked in the machine with the NIC problems, so it's not as if PCI is just dead.

Honestly, Coug, I haven't installed debian in ages, so I don't know how bad it is. I imagine there's decent instructions out there somewhere. I'd might debian, but for the fact that I have some philisophical disagreements with the people who run the project (GNU/Richard Stallman). I guess...

At least use the SCSI drive. You're sure you don't have any quality Micropolis products around anywhere?