In a message dated 4/18/2009 12:04:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: It hasn't actually changed it's problem, I'm just getting increasingly fed up with it happening. You might be remembering the original issue I had with this machine, which was caused by the Matrox card I installed originally not supporting a few things such as DirectX 10 and the like. I fixed that issue by replacing it with the Asus card. The link that Graydon pointed me to made me decide to not bother chasing it down any longer and just replace the graphics card with a new one and go from there.
You are probably right about the team I use, they are nice guys, but they are a "used technology" shop, so most of what they deal with is a generation or two behind my computer, though the owner came from one of the better computer places in town and seems to know what he is doing. OTOH, with the money I've now spent on trying to figure out where the problem is coming from, I could have just as easily replaced the video card with enough money left over to put a down payment on a new motherboard, so I guess sometimes it's a false economy to try to solve these things. Thanks for responding William Robb ============= A hardware problem is always tougher to solve than a software problem. Mainly because the results can be very unpredictable. Software problems, bugs, are usually predictable. A program will crash in the same place doing the same thing. Or a program will crash another program when the same programs are loaded into memory at the same time. A hardware problem can crash different programs doing different things, or appear to be fixed but then keep cropping up at odd times (since heat or length of use can be a contributing factors). Good luck with the new card. And if you still have problems -- yes, finding new geek(s) would probably be good (because it may mean some of your other hardware, even software, needs to be reconfigured/changed/fixed). Hope it will soon be behind you. Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein **************Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. Try the new Email Toolbar now! (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown00000027) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
