The ***OFFICIAL*** F@H Harassment and discussion thread!!!

[Kondik]

I'm out for now :/ I did the stupidest thing ever , lend my VGA to my friend , Connect GTX280 to the cheapest Czech Made PSU Eurocase and you will se magic ... the PC got a rocket engine ignite , big flame from the back and voila ... VGA fried .. Yesterday I took it to RMA , 30 Days of Geforce 6200 ! Wohoo

[DrJay]

I'm out for now :/ I did the stupidest thing ever , lend my VGA to my friend , Connect GTX280 to the cheapest Czech Made PSU Eurocase and you will se magic ... the PC got a rocket engine ignite , big flame from the back and voila ... VGA fried .. Yesterday I took it to RMA , 30 Days of Geforce 6200 ! Wohoo

Time for some SMP action then?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

WTH Kondik why would you lend it anyway? Ahh well indeed as DrJay said, time for some mind busting smp action on that penryn of your's

You should be able to get allot out if it, high clocks on that cpu of yours ( mhm compared to mine.. idk RR ect have the more comparable hw anyway, maybe you should ask him for some pointers )

[Sparky]

I'm out for now :/ I did the stupidest thing ever , lend my VGA to my friend , Connect GTX280 to the cheapest Czech Made PSU Eurocase and you will se magic ... the PC got a rocket engine ignite , big flame from the back and voila ... VGA fried .. Yesterday I took it to RMA , 30 Days of Geforce 6200 ! Wohoo

Ohhh crap

[MaK2000]

Ohhh man

Very sorry for you.

[Kondik]

The SMP is nothing special , even through it's a 3.8 GHz one, we will see ... The RMA was accepted so since yesterday 30 days , 29 now ... *chews his nails*
We will see ... thank god WOW is still somehow playable on it .. It's a drug that I inject into my bloodstream to reduce the impact of the work drug

[texnofobix]

Yay, I finally have the net. U-verse.

[MikeB12]

that's pretty good..
I only have 2 choices in my little town. Comcast or a local dsl (both are $30/mo). I had comcast for several yrs (5-6mb line, but the attenuation was so bad I only had about 60-75% up time).

so I had to switch to dsl, and it's very reliable. almost 100% uptime, but not very fast... they have a 3mb line, but want $60/mo, so I said uh-uh-nope-gouger.


I wish I had more choices. I tried all the others and they all said "not in my area". so I had to go with my local phone co (PRTC) who has a monopoly on the phone lines in area code 29488 anyway. Comcast was fast when it worked, problem was they wont upgrade the infrastrcucture in my area, so the connection stability/attenuation is horrible... I still have their analog cable tv line, but cant even ge digital because it pixelates so bad.. the lines in my city suck bad from comcast. they keep promising to upgrade.. but that empty promise has been going 4 yrs and counting. and all the dsl providers like verizon and sbc wont touch the phone lines, because of PRTC's local phone monopoly...

[WFO]

Yay, I finally have the net. U-verse.

You'll love U-verse! I've had it for a couple years. Unless things have changed the routers still ship with WEP encryption. You'll want to change that. The DVR is great too.

[MaK2000]

I think I pay about $45 for internet with the bundle we have. Verizon FIOS 15/15. I love it. Great TV too.

[catawalks]

I wish I had that kinda upload. And I wish I could also utilize my download speeds all the time. about $45 for Optimum Boost.

[Sparky]

Since we are comparing speeds... this is school wireless, when it isn't being hammered during the day, the stars are aligned just right, and I'm holding my tongue just so It tends to get very slow during the day and sometimes randomly one of their links between switches goes bonkers (bad fiber line or bad port on the switch most likely) and the ping goes up to infinity and beyond. If I was on wired it would be minimum 4x faster and more stable, but they require Cisco Clean Access for it and I get disconnected every morning around 3AM and I have to log in again

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I used to get allot more before they changed their frikken policy.. advertise 'up to 20mbit' and I sometimes got the 20 most of the time 18 and now I'm always capped at 16.. mofo's

Ahh well.. 20e a month

[WFO]

I got spammed today by about 100 XS topic replies dating back to the middle of October. Wonder what the problem that got fixed was.

[OldChap]

+1 although I don't subscribe to many

[Sparky]

fold3's HD quit today apparently. Powered it off turned it on a bit later and it won't boot, it goes click...........click.............. click................ then tells me it can't find a system file to boot. Sigh Old maxtor 20 gig. Guess I'll be tearing down my stack soon to swap it out with another drive.

Hmm, maybe it was the drive that has been randomly doing a click-clack for the past 8 months? I hadn't figured out which drive it was yet

[MaK2000]

HEY SPARKY!! KNOCK KNOCK!!

[Sparky]

Ow yeah i see you in my mirror, gaining pretty darn quick And fold3 being down until the new HD goes in, plus horribly buggy internet at school right now makes for a certain steamrolling.. here give me a moment to try and move over out of the way! Don't hit me too hard on your way by

[texnofobix]

I need to start getting more systems up before the New Year.

[Sparky]

New HD in fold3... won't install windows, it gives an error at the exact same point where it can't read a file, and no file after that. It doesn't even spin up the CD and try. So I tried a different CD, same thing. Different optical drive, same thing. What the heck.

[MaK2000]

Is it blue screen or Windows notification? Which OS? If it is blue screen than give us the stop, file, and parameters. If need be load recovery console and get the dump and email it to me. Have you checked memory? If it is the same spot every time than it may be a bad memory sector.

[Sparky]

This is during windows install, before it gets to the GUI. It just stops at saying "file cannot be copied" and asks if I want to retry.

I'm running memtest right now.

[Sparky]

memtest passed fine. Cleared cmos, still borked

I'm beginning to wonder if it is a board issue.

I'm going to bed and working on it this weekend. Maybe it is the replacement HD, I don't know... geez.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

What drive? Sata? Which controller? I had the same thing often with jmicron controller on my sata drives, had to run in compatibility mode or something to install the os then switch it back ( or use another port ).

Check cables, remember SnW was trying for days to install XP before he changed cables and voila, same happend to me btw

[WFO]

memtest passed fine. Cleared cmos, still borked

I'm beginning to wonder if it is a board issue.

I'm going to bed and working on it this weekend. Maybe it is the replacement HD, I don't know... geez.

Try initializing the drive in another rig. The OS may not be recognizing the HD.