Posts by GrimJack

I just discovered Dial-a-Fix after going through the entire 'softwares worth downloading' thread and it fixed the problem I was having. It reloads system dll files. Give it a try.

I had a similar problem - it turned out to be a bad memory chip. Check your manual to make sure that you have your memory in the correct pair of dimm sockets and then check which socket to use if you only have one memory chip.

I am looking at a picture of your board and I see a yellow pair and a red pair. On my board, A1 and A2 are the closest to the cpu slot and B1 and B2 are below that. Mine are loaded single chip to B1; pair of chips to A1 & B1. If your MoBo is similar and the problem is with memory, then the memory in B1 is bad - remove it and put the other chip in its place.

I hope this helps!

I have plenty also but contact me directly - I only see this thread on a weekly log

Thanks for the hint, but no export versions and only file as dtbIV and older works formats. The problem is that the database is wonderful to have lists and individual reportsheet side by side, but I'd like to sort them differently und also calculate and WDB is not very versatile.
The general question is :"how do I transport info from horizontal cells into vertical cells,.. thats all! it MUST be possible??
friedolin

Heh,heh - I just reloaded MSWorks to see what you were on about -- yep, there are some interesting decisions made on what to let users play with. Let me see if I understand - you have MSWorks and built a database with the names you want to sort as field/column names? and now want them as row names so you can sort them. I have Works v8 and can 'save as' .wsb, .csv, .txt. .dbf. csv and tst files can be imported into excel - if you do not have excel then try installing OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/). As far as I know, this program will import most if not all of the extensions. Once there you can do pivot tables and so on. The open office stuff is open along the lines Linux and other *nix open source programs. It should not be very difficult to pick as it is juat another program like all the others., If you have any more questions, please ask - I could load OpenOffice and fudge around

The noisiest fan I ever had was the fan on an old video card; that combined with the graphics halucinations suggest looking at that. Ummm, open up the case and turn it on; if you can not tell where the sound is coming from - try using a bit of tubing as a sort of stethescope to see if you can narrow down where the sound is coming from. Hope this helps

When I am working on a really boring contract, I tune in to spiderweb and crank it up really loud (I use wireless headphones) - http://www.spiderpower.co.uk/content/ - this is really hardcore industrial/ ambient. The really kool bit is that they will play DJ sets by listeners. So if you want to hear some interesting stuff, give it a try.

Oh, wow - what a question! I have been looking around and here are some places to find some interesting geek stuff: http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/ http://www.gadgetmadness.com/ http://www.gizmag.com/ http://www.gizmodo.com/ http://www.ubergizmo.com/ I have to lock up my cc, sigh! Fortunately, many of the items are one of a kind and/or not really for sale (like the magnetic floating bed). I bet there is a way to insert/force s but it does not look too bad this way.

Hi,

I've done everything accept install
CPU
Heat Sink
Fan,

I read somwhere that you have to use some sort of paste, and need a tool, that has like three legs and a scew piece in the middle to seat the H/S and FAN correctly.

I also read that its very easy to not seal the connection and melt your cpu. Or screw down to hard and damage the MoBO How difficult is it realy.

The reason I ask is I've just built a new system (using a bare bones starter pack) and am having problems with the cpu overheating. I know for sure the fan is working but have been reading that some of the standard fans for the P4 630 chips are not effective enough to keep them cool....

Well, here are a couple of links: http://support.intel.com/support/processors/manuals/ http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/cpu_cooling_install-klamuth.html From what I remember of installing an AMD cpu, I cut a match book cover to the size of the heat sink/cpu interface and applied some thermal paste and spread it with the piece of cardboard; all you are trying to do is to fill in the microscopic pits to make a 'more perfect union'.

My recipes for gamerz and/or other easily distracted folks:
(We buy our rice in big bags so we generally fill a canister w/rice and put it in the freezer overnight; we wash our rice prior to cooking so we control what sorts of protein is in it <grin>. )

2 cups water per washed cup of rice
bring water to boil then add rice, let it come to a boil again.
Turn burner off and leave rice, covered, on the burner and go back to your game. Twenty minutes speeds by and your rice is done w/o having to pay too much attention. Usually I add spices to the water before I start so the rice is already flavored - usually, a curry of some sort. Once cooked, rice can be treated like cooked patatos. You can add any food you have in the fridge to the rice - fry the rice then break a couple eggs into it and stir w/onions and garlick, and so on. If you don't wash your rice use about 2 1/3 cups water per cup rice. i like this methode because the worst thing you can do is boil away the water.

Go to most any Asian grocery store and peruse the ramon isle. You can get all kinds of soup and fried noodle packages for about 50cents - not as cheap as TopRamen but better flavor. Usually you pour boiling water over the bowl with noodles cover and …

I guess you know that is it actually more than that now and of course everyone has it so don't try to show off.

Sorry if you took it as showing off - I was pointing out that it was now more then 1 gig and used the fact that I had 2 gigs as an example; and, Yep! I just looked and I have 2736 megs avail.

I installed 'Gmail Space' so I can u/l and d/l large files from pc to laptop. My honey is a writer and spends a lot of time at her laptop in the living room so i bought a laptop so we could spend more time 'togethe'.

I have a hundred invites if anyone still wants one.

LOL :D

I got by in school simply by being cool to everyone. But, that's not to say I couldn't handle myself with some well-placed roundhouse kicks :)

I got by in school by being crazy (well actually, i just did not perceive the world like them); I had a velour sweater - the velour was soft and fuzzy on the outside, so I wore it inside out. There were other things but I also learned that if you grab someone's elbow and press your thumb into the joint, they fall to their knees then I could walk away. If they persisted, I would grab their elbow again and when they dropped to their knees, I would poke them in that spot behind the jaw just under the ears - they usually went rag-doll after that.

Of course, they would sometimes attack me in packs and beat the crap out of me, sigh. High school in Montana was not nice to anyone who was different (1960s rural life was probably the same across the country).

I could never get my foot up high enough to kick - I always envied those guys who could (shhh, and often fantasized about women who could .. nevermind).

Digressing again,

Thanks, Dani -- good one!

If you use FireFox, you can choose the default dowload location which I always put on my largest drive and name it My Downloads. Every once in a while, I list the contents by size and delete the big ones. If it is an important file (like Eudora and so on), I save it a level deeper.

I dl loads of stuff (from trusted sites) and mostly wait a couple days before installing and i usually decide that I don't need it and delete the file.

FF has a pop-up that tells you when your dl has completed and has a button to open it immediately, which is cool but then I end up with a lot of installed stuff I never use, sigh!

Well, you could go here and download their product - it will tell you everything you need to know:
http://www.dr-hardware.com/Default.htm

There is a program DriverHeaven but when I went to the site:
http://www.driverheaven.net/ I could not find the download for it.

You don't want to open your pc??? I go for days w/o closing it then I went out and bought a case with a clear side and it opens with a quick pull.

Of course, I built my pc from pieces bought from about 5 different sources.

Well, you can try http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/Installation.html. It can be used as a very basic proxy but as you gain confidence and interest you can add all sorts of stuff to it. It is not freeware, the auther calls it ShonenWare meaning that in order to own your copy you must listen to his favorite group Shonen Knife (the music is pretty good).

The nice thing about proxonitron is that it does not install, does not put files anywhere but in its directory. Does not mess with the registry; if you don't like it just delete the directory it is in and it is gone.

I used it for 5 years and the only problem I had with it was when I got ahead of my skill set.

The quick answer is that FireFox offers Tabs (instead of opening a separate window for every website you visit, it opens tabs in the window you are in-- I hope I am clear in this.) The advantage of Tabs is that if you are doing research on a couple of topics you can have one window open that is all the sites you are visiting that are about adding graphics to your website and the other window could have tabs for all the chat,blog.forums that you visit. You only have 2 windows open but could be on 20 different websites - way kool.

And you can add extensions that do things for you but that is getting ahead of the learning curve.

The best reason to use FireFox is that it does not have a the holes in it that ie does and most hackers are still hung up on attacking ie.

Could you have blocked IE from the web? I do not use Norton as my firewall, I use ZoneAlarm and ZA has options to block access to the net on a per-program basis - verify that you have not blocked it's access. Everytime you upgrade a program that passes through the firewall, you have to re-authorize (well, if the firewall is any good this is true).

If this is not the problem, you will have to offer more information - what happens when you try to access the web?

You could also try www.fool.com - you can go through their articles w/o having to subscribe. If you are new to investing, invest in a Mutual Fund that tracks an index (they are called index funds). Watch the fees, index funds should be no-load, with fees below .5%

Pay close attention to fees - if you are buying a stock, the fee for the purchase should be less than 2% of the cost of the purchase (ie. if the commission is $10, you should buy at least $500 of the stock)

If you want to combine mutual funds with buying individual shares, try sharebuilder.com - http://www.sharebuilder.com/AB/0206/V2/Index.asp this is a really good place to start.

Another thought is a process called DRiPing - dividend re-investment. You buy one share of a company that offers dividends and allows drips (morningstar.com can help here). A statement arrives that tells you the purchase price of the share you just bought and has a coupon that you send in with your next purchase. Generally there is not fee for this but sometimes there is a minimum purchase but you can get away with $10-50 each time. If you send in the minimum each time a coupon arrives, you will suddenly have a shit load of shares. I usually stop dripping when I get to 100 shares or enough shares the the dividend total buys a whole share.

Sorry, I did not mean to …

When i finally decided to buy a new car, the only way I could convince myself it was economic was to promise myself that i would keep it for at least 10 years.

I have a 1988 1/2 (says that on the manual) Toyota Corolla al-Trak; I am finally letting it go because someone smacked in the front end shortly after i canceled comprehensive insurance. It is worth US$2k but it will take almost $3k to fix - time to let go and get a car with airbags, air conditioning, and cupholders, sigh.

I had this car for 18 years - longer than I have known my g.friend and about the same age as our cat.

Well, here is my vote - I have been trying to read this from the beginning, it cracks me up!

http://www.ubersoft.net/d/19960422.html

What an interesting topic and it does not seem to have degraded into a flamewar yet - yay!

I have been against the death penalty for a long time but I have had to question that stance. Ted Bundy made me believe in the death penalty. He killed women; he was caught, he escaped, he killed women, he was caught, almost escaped, tried to bargain for his life by saying "if you don't kill me, I will tell where all the bodies are", wiser heads prevailed and they burned him on the elec. chair.

But otherwise, I still think that the death penalty is wrong on 99.99999% of the cases it is applied to. I guess I am still waffling on this.

My favorites:
Half Life (also HL2)
Warcraft
Quake (mostly 2)
Age of Empires (Conquerors)
Doom
Wolfenstein
Pacman
...

I would never have guessed 1/2Life looking at your avatar <vbg>

HalfLife(also 2) are really kool I just played the new episode and the SIN episode and many of the mods.
Heretic Kingdoms
Destiny (a PBeM SciFi game of exploration at madcentral.com - I have 3 different positions)
Quake2 (I think I wore it out - looking forward to 3 and 4)
Looking for a good RPG that won't take a lifetime (leaves out Elder Scrolls)

I am a member of:
DaniWeb
Geek.com
grc.com discussions (good site to find out how secure your pc is)
EVGA community
OverClockersClub

I also follow these blogs:
David Horn
Housing bubble
Technorati
TPM Cafe
Crooks and Liars - almost as good a smoking gun
SavingsAdvice
StraightDope.com

I'd better stop or you might guess that I have too much time on my hands (or is it not enough -- I never seem to get anything done).

Take a look at the interest PP pays! 4.73% is incredible when compared to the local brick and mortar!

Sorry, this isn't the Thrifty thread is it??!!

My 2 favorite quotes are:

Better to snuff one candle than curse the light <I made this one up when MUDding a decade or so ago>

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. <I used to know who came up with this on A.F.U. but over the years, i lost his name - if you have never tried UseNet check out rec.humor.funny.d and Alt.foklore.urban>

If all you have is an AK-47, everything looks like an enemy combatant.

Ooh, good quote - I may steal it for use on usenet, heh,heh - more current than the hammer one.

Insulting people is not a good thing. Insulting people is just brutalizing them verbally rather than physically.

the "I am just telling them the truth, how they take it is their problem" is just a rationalization that makes the brutalizer feel good about what s/he does. If you have a truth to tell someone, there are better ways to do it.

If you have truth to tell, tell it to power not weakness.

I am 5'7" my g.friend is 5'9".

I used to be 5'8.5" -- I was going with a woman who was also 5'8.5; back to back there was more than an inch diff. in heights. She was the taller one, sigh but she had legs that seemd to go all the way to her neck but I digress

There is a FireFox extension that will allow you to use your G-mail space (btw - I have 2 gigs) as file storage -- it is treated as if it were an ftp site. http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php for more info or get it from the firefox extension box.

I have loads of GMail invites to give away

Dan, I can't believe that it was that simple!!!
I have been unable to see my SATA drive since forever (it had disappeared after my 1st system drive crashed) even though all the management tools could see that a drive was present. I tried everything (or so I thought!) - but....
I followed your instructions up to clicking on disk management; there it was listed as 'foreign' -- I clicked on 'import foreign' and voila! I have my disk back after months of frustration.

Just to make sure - I have been listening to some music I picked up using Morpheus from the old days before I ran spybot removers

Thanks loads for the suggestion,0 <<anyone know where this '0' is coming from?>>
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Thanks for the reply. I don't see the BIOS recognizing the SATA drive on boot up. And when I go into the BIOS, I don't see any place to enable SATA. Any further advice?

I had/have a similar problem - have you followed the instructions on page 5-33 of your A8V-Deluxe UserGuide (Creating a RAID driver disk)? Especially the last half where you run the installation and press F6. This should get you started.
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Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies.

Ron

All the answers were pretty good - just one quick caveat - Asus MBoards require that you use an IDE drive for OS (well, at least A8V-deluxe makes installing OS onto SATA drives quite the geek challenge) and much to my chagrin, you have to have a floppy drive too.

You did not mention what you were going to buy so I thought I would plop this into the pool.

I just dl-ed mbm 5 and I am puzzled/worried by some of the readings I get. The reason I got it was cuz my Asus probe made a dramatic shift in cpu temp. It was running at 28 C -cpu and 22 C -Mobo then suddenly it jumped to 44 c and 23 C. with no change on my part.

So mbm 5 did not have the a8v deluxe Rev2, it had the a8v deluxe wireless Edition - i don't know if it makes a difference but that is what I chose.
It shows Case 18 C and cpu 23 C. this is different enough to bother me but the Voltages are way different:

Asus probe reports:
+12v -- 11.855
+ 5v -- 5.16
+3.3c -- 3.36
Vcore -- 1.472

Where as mbm reports:
Core 0 - 1.47
Core 1 - 3.12
+3.3-- 3.36
+5-- 5.16
+12 --16.32
-12 - 0
-5 - 0

Not only are my temps off enough to bother me but the +12 scares me!!

could the a8v deluxe be different enough from the wireless to give readings lke this?

any suggestions?

40 nm difference in distance for electrons to travel (an odd sort of historical example is the first supercomputer CRAY was built like the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant so that the wires were all of equal length and some of the timing was done by lengthening some of the wires - uh...) where was I, oh - yeah, that is almost 33% decrease in distance for signals to travel. If you are a gamer or into graphics/video, that would make a difference.

The 90 nm is the newer Winchester (Winnie)
GrimJack
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

AMD a64 3200+ 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe rev. 2.00 bios v1009
Kingston pc3200 ak2/1g
G-force 6800/256meg AGP
Zalman quiet cpu cooler
Ultra superquiet xconnect psu
Antec lanboy tower
BTC dvd +-RW
190 gig SATA hd

We probably need a more complete idea of your setup. I would definitely think about your psu - a lot of people put together a really good system and just take the cheapo psu that comes with the case. How many fans? What kind of cooling tower on the cpu? What is the MoBo?

GrimJack
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

AMD a64 3200+ 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe rev. 2.00 bios v1009
Kingston pc3200 ak2/1g
G-force 6800/256meg AGP
Zalman quiet cpu cooler
Ultra superquiet xconnect psu
Antec lanboy tower
BTC dvd +-RW
190 gig SATA hd

Check out the Zalman quiet cpu cooler - fan sits inside the radiator fins - it is about a pound of copper/aluminm. Also, I don't think it is a good idea to have more air blowing into the machine than out - if you do put 2 fan sucking up front you really should have 2 fans blowing out the back to keep the air flow good. You might also wrap your ribbon cables into tubes w/tape (or spring for the pre-made round cables) to improve air flow.

GrimJack
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

AMD a64 3200+ 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe rev. 2.00 bios v1009
Kingston pc3200 ak2/1g
G-force 6800/256meg AGP
Zalman quiet cpu cooler
Ultra superquiet xconnect psu
Antec lanboy tower
BTC dvd +-RW
190 gig SATA hd

So if I go 939 I am looking at these boards.
Chaintech VNF4 Ultra zenith
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
Asus A8V Deluxe

I have the Asus A8V Deluxe w the a64 3200+ 939 - I really like it but it was a pain to get up and running - it came with a bios chip v1008 and needed a bios version v1009. Once I put the upgraded bios chip in I everything pretty much runs smoothly. Important note on the Asus - talks to you so you need to have your speakers plugged in on boot (if there are problems). I also got the huge fans - the machine is so quiet I have to look down to make sure it is running (well not really, my screen would probably go blank if it weren't). The reason I got the Asus was the price/performance ratio and I am going to overclock my a64.

GrimJack

Do not scrimp on your power supply!

actually I just used glasses cleaner and a t-shirt and it cleaned up pretty nicely - went over the cpu a couple times with a dry t-shirt just to polish it up a bit

True but if the error is "system failed cpu test" you can't get there from here. It is 2 weeks later and the "2nd day air" delivery still hasn't shown up and the tech that answered the phone this time was no help so I am giving up on ASUS and will go back to ABIT (this pc is an ABIT ah6 with a celeron2 300 mh oc-ed to 450 - been running strong since '98). I can't believe I wasted 3 weeks of my life on this piece of crap. Gotta change my .sig

GrimJack
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Not up and running yet!
AMD a64 3200+ 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe rev. 2.00 (bios v.1008)
Kingston pc3200 ak2/1g
G-force 6800/256meg AGP
Zalman quiet cpu cooler
Ultra superquiet xconnect psu
Antec lanboy tower
BTC dvd +-RW
160 gig SATA hd

You probably could use drinkable alcohol but wipe some on glass first to see if it leaves any deposit behind after it dries -- if it does, don't use it.

GrimJack

No one seems to be reading this thread but here is what I found:

I just got off the line with the tech: I have the mobo with bios 1008 and there are 2 versions of the cpu one requires bios 1008 and one requires bios 1009. Guess which one he thinks I have. Their bios guy is going to send me the bios chip (it is supposed to be easily swapped) and I will send them my old one back. My attention span/short term memory is bad but I think he said the a64 3200+ 939 (mod cg) requires the 1009 bios. When I can get ahold of some pure solvent to clean off the thermal compound, I will look at the cpu and report back (there may be others who hit this same wall)

Grim

I ended up getting the agp 8x just because it was easier; I got an ASUS A8V deluxe mobo with the a64 3200+ 939 cpu which, oddly enough has 2 versions. One version requires an ASUS bios v.1008 and one requires the v.1009 - guess which cpu I got matched with which bios? By the way I believe the tech said that the cpu version that requires v1009 is the a64 3200+ 939 (mod cg). When I get some pure solvent to clean the thermal compound off the chip I will take a looksee at the version I have.

GrimJack

ps On another board, my icon blinks??

You know, while I was troubleshooting my mobo problems, I decided to add the washers to see if that was the problem - I placed them between the case and the standoff - that should be as good and a whole lot easier to accomplish, but then I'm kind of lazy.

GrimJack

I am keying this on an old Celeron2 300mh - I overclocked it to 450 mh in 98 and it is still running fine (I do keep the case cover off now and take it outside to give it a b.j. with one of the cans of air). If you pay attention to power and temp., you should be able to run oc-ed continuously. If you need some reassurance go to http://forums.overclockersclub.com/ and ask there.

Well, I just plugged in my speakers (there was no speaker on the box) and this lady keeps saying "system failed cpu test" This does not bode well! That zalman cpu cooler weighs in at almost 1kilo - Ihope it is not necessary to take it off. Any suggestions on what I should try before packing the cpu off?

Grim

Well, I finally got all the pieces so that I can build my own pc kit. Here are the pieces I have:
G-Force 6800GT (gpu)
AMD 64 3200+ Athlon 939
Zalman Ultra cou cooler fan
ASUS A8v Deluxe MOBO
Maxtor diamondmax 200gig S.ATA
Kingston AK2/1gb ddr400 (installed in the blue slots - A1&B1)
Ultra xconndect 500w psu
BTC dvd+- r/rw/cd-r rw writer
Antec Lanboy case

Okay, the problem:
The monitor (cmv 19" flat screen) says that it gets no signal. I know the monitor and it's cable work because I just unplugged them from my old pc (we have more pc.s than mammals in our house). I can see that the fan on the gpu is spinning. The connections all seem tight. I just tried the MoBo from my other pc - still no signal. Any suggestions on what to check or do??

Grimjack

I am building my 2nd kit (built 1st one in 99 - still going strong but it won't run either Deus X2 or 1/2Life2 so...).
My first question:
is it worth $100 to buy the cpu/MoBo/memory pre-built and tested (with free 2nd day shipping)?
Would it be better to go PCI express vs AGP 8X on the MoBo?
How about Athlon 64 vs 64(fx)?
I am trying to compare prices of pre-builts vs combos vs buying the pieces and assembling it myself.
I am trying to keep the kit price to $1200 or below and I still have to shop for memory, graphics etc. I can stick with my current 19" monster monitor and shop for a good deal on a 19" flat screen later.
The 2 places I am currently looking are at ZipZoomFly (every item is shipped 2nd day free) and J&N computers (all pre-assembled kits are 2nd day free).
FireFox with its tabs is really helping in this search!!
Any suggestions, comments, catcalls are welcome.

Grim
ps See, I am still smiling with holiday cheer.

pps I asked this on another board just to see what people think - I keep trying to complete my research and get this thing up and running but there is so much detail to pay attention to I find myself building the kits on different sites shopping carts then realize I am comparing apples and zebras because I missed …

I always keep the palm of my left hand resting on the frame of the box so that everything I touch is at the same potential (and I don't walk bare-footed on wool carpet holding my cat just before I decide to play with the innards of my pc). Get a small magnetic philips screwdriver (so the little bastard screws don't get away from you). Blow everything off with one of those cans of air (read the label, it ain't actually air but a hydrocarbon - no smoking, no open flames -- but they do help starting the logs in your fireplace, though a dixie cup of sawdust and candle wax works better and cheaper).

I am rambling again, time to log off and get some food

Grim

I googled and got:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=internet+backbone&btnG=Google+Search

then I chose:

http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/internetbackbone.html

and this is where I ended:

Internet backbone This superfast network spanning the world from one major metropolitan area to another is provided by a handful of national Internet service providers (ISPs). These organizations (including Net 99 and Alternet) use connections running at approximately 45 mbps (T3 lines) linked up at specified interconnection points called national access points (which are located in major metropolitan areas). Local ISPs connect to this backbone through routers so that data can be carried though the backbone to its destination.

Grim

I think both Morpheus (not the paid version) and Kazaa have adware with them. Kazaa is supposed to have a secret (but everyone seems to know about it) program that works like Seti@home and Folding@home to combine spare cycles - they were going to sell the cpu time; I don't know if they kept that in or not.

GrimJack