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That's cheap shot CougTek. Of course the nvidia card is a problem, but in that circumstance I'd be far more likely to check the RAM and the motherboard before I went ahead and did what comes naturally with nvidia cards. ... playing with the bits of my dremel tool that I never use while laughing...

Ten to one it's the power supply. And I say that will full knowledge of Buck's embrace of the goat-raping horror that is nvidia. The other parts of the system inspire confidence - bad motherboards, in particular, usually do things more annoying than just freezing every so often. ;)

Personally I'd say that incompatibility with nvidia cards is a feature, not a problem.

400k? That's barely THREE dirty pictures! I hope they at least mean 400MB. I don't know how you Aussies stand that nonsense. I really don't.

Something like that, although if some freak of nature got a perfect score on the MCATs - which is something I understand has never happened - there would clearly be an exception to your analogy. My personal view is that you won't be gaining anything personally or professionally by attaining...

Introvert? Moi? Just 'cause I got 0-score on Extrovert-scale of the Keirsey Temperament sorter... I'm an INTP, if anyone cares (or takes the test).

I really wish I was kidding, but I'm not. Don't ask me about reproduction or children. My opinions aren't pretty. But I'd rather direct a choir than a band.

Middle school teachers have my respect and admiration. Personally I think anyone below about 17 years old should be kept chained, in small cage. Like veal.

Six internal 3.5" bays. Yum. I don't get the slant, either. The trend is smaller, smaller, smaller. The slant makes that machine take up more space without adding much of anything (a cooling benefit?). Overall I'd say that it seems like a gimmick.

OS/2 5.0? Or the crappy motherboard? Or some other ECS I'm not thinking of. ECS and Windows NT probably share the lion's share of memory management code.

Hey, that extra memory bandwidth makes a big, big difference for video encoding. Don't knock it too much. I got an additional 1.5fps for full-frame DVD to Divx (from 8 to 9.5) in jumping from SDRAM to PC2100 with the same 1.1GHz CPU.

You know that's a $400 case, right?

I'm lacking in the Sousa-fetish department. That, and I hate kids. Seriously hate.

That's 256 bytes, not 32k, as I previously thought. Hardly worthy of the resource meter, is it? Anyhow, msconfig is your friend. Any machine that you get in that condition can damn well be put back into it when you're done fixing the actual problem. That's how I see things. Windows installs...

Not really. Ever gotten an "out of memory" error on a 9x machine with a half-gig of RAM? What that usually means is that you're out of GDI memory, which IIRC is just a little 32 or 64k stack for making widgets on your screen, but Windows should still be able to handle that RAM properly. Other...

I'm not completely sure what to extract from that, actually. I've heard claims of poor reliability in those disks, and I do believe that if IBM's notebook engineers specified IBM disks, they would be putting IBM disks in their laptops. Perhaps the better thing to say is that IBM's notebook...

http://www.aumha.org/articlesz.htm http://windows.about.com/mbody.htm Or just ask if there's something specific you want to know.

The funny thing about certification is, it doesn't really ensure that you're ready or able to work in a given IT position. Certifications are very rarely an actual indicator of knowledge or performance. They're a quick-and-dirty check that you meet a very minimal standard, at least for the...

Well, the Network+ exam represented roughly the most relaxing eight minutes of testing in my life. So I have a sort-of-a job now, thereby giving me something to do three days a week and a steady paycheck. Yay rah paycheck! Now I have a whole pile of books about the A+ and N+ exams that I have...

What kind of commie bastards could vote for ATI over nvidia? You people make me sick.

There are plenty of non-dial-up options out there... Actually, if you can get terrestrial wireless (ie Cellular) internet service down there, I highly recommend it. Seems less prone to interruption than cable/DSL. Another alternative: Get a leased line to your office downtown and set up a...

Probably half of the IBM laptops I see - including both of the IBM laptops I own - have non-IBM disks in them. Does that tell you anything?

Doesn't Oz have the equivalent of Cheapbytes.com or Linuxmall? Granted, I don't have broadband connection, but $2 (or $4 in the Aussie kind) seems like a minor price to pay not have have to deal with that sort of thing.

The HOT-591 (the MVP3 board Tannin refers to) the board I had a bad experience with. Specifically, I bought 20 at once, had most of them arrive with bits of the SIMM/DIMM (IIRC that board had both) brackets floating around in the boxes, one with the CPU SOCKET floating around the box (ie...

Beyond those you really get in to vendor-specific certs. Cisco asks for CCNP certification that you complete, IIRC, four exams, covering topics like Router and Switch configuration. You wouldn't think that stuff would be that hard. Well, neither is brain surgery, if you know what you're doing...

In the US the absolute entry-level certs are MOUS and A+. I've seen, exactly ONE TIME, a job posting asking for MOUS (I only have it because I won a bunch of free exam vouchers from Prometric and ran out of things to certify in). A+ basically requires that you have a reasonable knowledge of PC...

The place that offered me a job is over in Chesterton, a little three-classroom training company that gets its business fulfilling the training requirements in steelworker's union contracts. I have to take the Network+ exam tomorrow for them... Anyway, I told those people I'd take their offer...

Fine. Then I'm taking #996, #997, #999 and #1001. :P

I don't think you'll have a problem, although Slokets are somewhat less than ideal solution. Certainly you won't have a problem as far as your PSU.

Does the MSI sloket support voltage regulation?

WD600AB = $90. 60GB and pretty damn fast for a 5400rpm-class drive. If nothing else a Maxtor DM40+ 20GB will run you a little over $70. I'd pay the $20 for 200% more space.

Look at the "Systems people buy" thread. Try a Gigabyte GA-72X (GA-7DX if you're not a VIA fan) or an FIC AZ11EA + a Duron 900 or 1GHz, 256MB SDRAM, 40GB WD or Maxtor hard disk... maybe a $500 machine with a decent monitor. Not terribly upgradable but it's a really nice machine for the money...

You can get some benefit from using processor-specific optimizations in compilation. The benefits of this are dependant on the nature of software. You'll get a lot of mileage out of a well-optimized kernel. I don't even know if you'd notice an optimized version of kword over the precompiled one...

I don't want to talk trash about your PC, honesty, if it's what you can afford (see threads elsewhere on this site), but for the $15 - $20 difference between a PC Chips and a Soyo, FIC, TekRam, Gigabyte or Epox is really a HUGE difference in terms of reliability. There's a couple of resellers...

the continuing saga of m747 Have a different ISA slot to try? Can you get sound in DOS (yes, that's probably a hassle to set up, but at least it'll tell you if it's something with the board/card or some Windows problem). I'm not about to go look, but I'm sure I've worked on that board...

My first-ever post to a China thread You call 40F cold? That's horrid. Come visit me or Clocker or timwhit (or, if you're truly a glutton for punishment, Cougtek), next time there's a real cold snap. 40F cold... 40F is just about cold enough to put on a jacket, that's how cold 40F is. Of...

For the 300/450 thing: You've almost certainly got the jumper for 66/100MHz bus operation set incorrectly. If your jumpers are all perfect, fiddle with them anyway. My experience with PC Chips poorly-illiustrated page of documentation is that it's usually wrong. Er, if they're right, maybe you...

Did you disable the on-board sound device? Nearly every PC Chips board has one, whether the header is on the board or not, and the resources will still be reserved even if you haven't loaded the driver. Make sure your preferred playback device in Windows is the ISA card. I *have* seen it set to...

You're talking about the rack itself, right? Can't say I've ever seen those.

In the US, it's possible to get AOL-branded keyboards, mice, surge protectors, AOL-approved telephone cables, and AOL "travel cables" which come in a retractable-case, like a measuring tape. Does that qualify?

Lately Compaq's server equipment hasn't even been very good, either, and most of their re-branded non-PC equipment (RAID controllers, displays, KVMs, network hardware) is pathetic, too. A bit of research on the SuperMicro bit reveals that PC Chips did not buy it but instead took over the...

the NET commands have been part of 32-bit Windows for as long as it has existed. And yes, given that any version of OS/2 can connect to a domain controller and XP Home can't, I don't think Tea's statement is wholly unreasonable.

I am doing the dance of capitalist superiority even as we speak.

Personally, I'd hate to lose Compaq or HP, just because there has been such a history of great stuff from both, even if neither is the innovator of years' past. Given the choice, though, I'm glad that its HP that's buying Compaq. Better stuff (HP makes fantastic enterprise switches and...

Just noticed that newegg.com has started carrying Soltek boards, for those of us in the US who haven't been able to get their stuff until now.

What I'd rather see is the results of Tannin's search for '*' on a 'JB and on one of the new 10k Atlases... 'cause if it takes twice the spindle speed on an x15 to make it ~ 20% faster, and nothing else compares (as SR's benchmarks suggest), well, that kind of changes my opinion about SCSI...

Well, I would've voted "Other", since AOL somehow didn't make the cut, but then I saw my other least-favorite company on the list, and I knew what I had to do... And like it or not, there are some things to appreciate about microsoft, however crappy their OSes are. A great deal of...

Well, I just got an offer from the training place... pending completion of Network+ certification, to be completed immediately. I told them I need to wait on the other firms and, uh, to actually find out what the heck the Network+ cert is, so hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday I'll know whether...

Easiest fix is probably to turn off plug-and-play on the motherboard, manually assign IRQs and use whatever DOS utility came with the modem to make it stick to the IRQ you assigned to it in the motherboard BIOS. I've seen boards that use the same IRQ for the second-to-last PCI slot, USB, and...

Oh, yeah. Thanks everybody!