Re: [H] My 2010 Gamer PC Build
Well poking around only netted me people resolving this by disabling powerplay. With my 3870X2 VisionTek actually released a BIOS update which raised the clocks to constant normal operational levels which effectively removed power play and solved the problem for their customers including me. What I've gathered these past 4+ years is cards built By ATI (BBA's, reference design)) get copied w/ their bugs by the manufacturing partners yet seem never to get fixed depite BBA's being fixed?! It's an bug on 3K 4K series not 5K's but you could trying raising the clocks to in use levels and see if that's the issue: http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118448 On 5/22/2010 6:40 AM, GPL wrote: It seems my new build has an issue I read about many weeks ago. In regards to the new XFX ATI HD 5870. The gray/brown screen with bars I noticed the last few days playing rfactor and iracing that pop up occasionally. It's been reported before by ATI users and I would have hoped by now that this would be a driver issue that fixed it. But this is the latest driver on a brand new install. I'm wondering if I'm about to RMA my first part of this build, and the first ATI I've purchased in years. Can it be something else overlooked?
Re: [H] Diagnosing a video issue?
The 9800 is actually supported under Windows 7? I though it got lumped in with the rest of the pre-directX 10 stuff as no longer supported (at all) by CCC above 6.5? Just my $.02, but I'll bet it's running in VGA compatibility mode and that's all it will ever do. On 5/22/2010 6:29 PM, GPL wrote: Got this older machine we use at the house thats a P4 3.2 with a 9800XT ati card. Been running windows 7 on it. Last two weeks it's been OK with its use. Today it seems the desktop is very slow, goes dark screen, waits to come back online with the working hour glass type circle spinning, seems to just really hang up but nothing really comes of it to go back into use. Clicking icons is delayed, that sort of thing. If I load up in safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, or load up normally by removing the 9800XT from the device manager and restarting the PC it seems to run normally. Other than the resolution being less than what the native mode of the monitor is it seems to work OK. Tried reinstalling the ATI driver but it still hangs. Seems to only operate now with no driver, or default windows settings. Couple of times I see a message pop up that says The display driver has stopped responding but has recovered type of thing. Can the card finally be going bad, not being able to handle the full driver? It sort of blinks black screen to desktop every once in a while as I type this looking over at it.
Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?
Yes, but then there is the potential for long term wear out from rewrites for pagefile temp folders. Tell me it's worth it in 3-5 years. On 5/22/2010 3:23 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I've been using one now for 5 months. It's great..wouldn't consider changing or going back now. Also, a lot of vendors are putting them in high-end laptops now. the extra cash becomes rather meaningless after you've been living with one for a while. Virus scans are nearly instantaneous. And boot times are fab...and I would go intel all the way...BTW, maximum pc in their latest issue does have a review of several non-intel SSDs.
Re: [H] Win7 on a 2007 Thinkpadgood idea or nuts?
Personally I do not find W7 any more intensive than XP short of using Aero or the overhead from some of the unneeded convenience services like search indexer. Sure runs fine on my Atom N330 and would have run fine on my P4 2.4Ghz Dell Latitude C840 if bastards at ATI Nvidia didn't stop supporting older video cards with even basic drivers. On 5/22/2010 10:55 AM, Winterlight wrote: Last year I picked up a circa 2007 Thinkpad X41 Tablet on Ebay for under 300 bucks. I wanted something easy to carry around with long battery life but with a useable screen size and I really like my X41. I have Windows 7 tablet available to me and I am thinking of installing it on my X41 tablet... apparently others have done this and it works. It meets low end Win7 requirements, I have run windows 7 advisor and all is OK. The relevent specs are Intel Pentium M Low Voltage 758 1.5GHz 2GB of RAM 60 GB proprietary hard drive... can't be upgraded this part sucks. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video chipset 128 MB right now it is running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 I don't use this much for anything then internet, word, excel, acrobat, play back a video, or audio. I understand Win 7 has a better tablet experience. Of course, I would turn off all the eye candy. Anybody have any experience with Win 7 on low end machines. Am I going to regret this if I go to the trouble of installing Win 7? w
Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?
If it craps in 3 years, you'll be hearing from me here. But by 5 years I will have moved onlife is too short On 5/23/2010 5:08 AM, maccrawj wrote: Yes, but then there is the potential for long term wear out from rewrites for pagefile temp folders. Tell me it's worth it in 3-5 years. On 5/22/2010 3:23 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: I've been using one now for 5 months. It's great..wouldn't consider changing or going back now. Also, a lot of vendors are putting them in high-end laptops now. the extra cash becomes rather meaningless after you've been living with one for a while. Virus scans are nearly instantaneous. And boot times are fab...and I would go intel all the way...BTW, maximum pc in their latest issue does have a review of several non-intel SSDs. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2890 - Release Date: 05/22/10 14:26:00
Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?
On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:42:43 -0700 Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org wrote: Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2XXX 2.5 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Have you read the reviews on newegg? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820167016 Sure is tempting... -- Al
Re: [H] Greg what do you think of this SSD?
Known problem, usually solved by a firmware update or using an OS that actually supports TRIM. The core problem is that SSDs are completely different technogy from spinning disks and you can't treat them the same. You shouldnt defrag SSDs or do anything that does more writes than necessary. And never use a tool like Spinrite on them. --- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2010-05-23, at 7:49 AM, Steve Tomporowski didym...@gmail.com wrote: Some of these reviews are hilarious. One guy had all sorts of problems: Boot Failure, very slow booting, but still gave it 3 eggs. One guy called it the best upgrade he ever did, but only rated it four eggs. The ones that disturb me are those where, all of a sudden, they are back to slow booting. Is this a known problem with a known solution? Steve On 5/23/2010 6:32 AM, Al Anger wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:42:43 -0700 Winterlightwinterli...@winterlight.org wrote: Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2XXX 2.5 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Have you read the reviews on newegg? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820167016 Sure is tempting...
Re: [H] Diagnosing a video issue?
The thing ran just fine to be honest with you. I downloaded the driver from the ATI website under legacy software support structure. It's just that I would assume that if the video card was going bad, that it would go bad be it under it's own driver or in any video mode. Now I can't seem to keep it in windows driver that lets it stay stable. Windows always puts another driver on it during normal boot up to make it slow down again. Right now I found an old GeForce Ti4200 64MB AGP card, and let windows just put its own standard VGA driver into it. Its running smooth despite the graphical look not being too smooth and monitor resolution not supported. It stays at 1024x768. At least it's usable for the moment. I still would like to find a video card, if that is indeed the problem, that was equivalent to the previous or better. Hopefully it was just the card. I don't have the parts laying around I used to years ago to swap in and out to test machines. Ahh the good ole days! On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:06 AM, maccrawj maccr...@gmail.com wrote: The 9800 is actually supported under Windows 7? I though it got lumped in with the rest of the pre-directX 10 stuff as no longer supported (at all) by CCC above 6.5? Just my $.02, but I'll bet it's running in VGA compatibility mode and that's all it will ever do. On 5/22/2010 6:29 PM, GPL wrote: Got this older machine we use at the house thats a P4 3.2 with a 9800XT ati card. Been running windows 7 on it. Last two weeks it's been OK with its use. Today it seems the desktop is very slow, goes dark screen, waits to come back online with the working hour glass type circle spinning, seems to just really hang up but nothing really comes of it to go back into use. Clicking icons is delayed, that sort of thing. If I load up in safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, or load up normally by removing the 9800XT from the device manager and restarting the PC it seems to run normally. Other than the resolution being less than what the native mode of the monitor is it seems to work OK. Tried reinstalling the ATI driver but it still hangs. Seems to only operate now with no driver, or default windows settings. Couple of times I see a message pop up that says The display driver has stopped responding but has recovered type of thing. Can the card finally be going bad, not being able to handle the full driver? It sort of blinks black screen to desktop every once in a while as I type this looking over at it.
Re: [H] NetGear WNDR3700
Well, unfortunately, this intel mini card doesn't work in the Dell Latitude XT. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QAY00K/ref=oss_product Win7 recognizes it, installs drivers for it...doesn't report any errors...but if I boot with the wireless on...Win7 freezes downthen, if I boot with the wireless off...I get in Win7 just fine...but as soon as I turn the wireless on...lockdown. I have swapped it in and out with the old dell 1505 several times...the dell works, the intel card doesn't. On 5/13/2010 12:13 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: I purchased this same card on April 28, 2009 On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.netwrote: I just ordered this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QAY00K/ref=oss_product It has a connection for the third antenna...my laptop as that connection. It might help increase range, too. On 5/13/2010 9:52 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: No. Nothing to do with processor. I have the 5300 in an atom netbook. On May 13, 2010 4:06 PM, Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.net wrote: this intel card says Centrino/Centrino 2 where as my dell is atom. I wonder if it really has to be matched to the exact processor??/ On 5/13/2010 8:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: It's the dell 1505... http://accessories.de... No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2871 - Release Date: 05/13/10 02:26:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2871 - Release Date: 05/13/10 02:26:00
Re: [H] NetGear WNDR3700
Anthony, When you and Zul were discussing this card update, I got the impression both of you were focused on an Intel 49xx card. Confused I got. I thought the card of choice was an Intel 5300 card. I did see the ~$25 difference at newegg. I live or die with only Intel NIC cards at the most current series for my boxes. Perhaps time to bite the bullet..again? Duncan On 05/23/2010 20:58, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: Well, unfortunately, this intel mini card doesn't work in the Dell Latitude XT. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QAY00K/ref=oss_product Win7 recognizes it, installs drivers for it...doesn't report any errors...but if I boot with the wireless on...Win7 freezes downthen, if I boot with the wireless off...I get in Win7 just fine...but as soon as I turn the wireless on...lockdown. I have swapped it in and out with the old dell 1505 several times...the dell works, the intel card doesn't. On 5/13/2010 12:13 PM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: I purchased this same card on April 28, 2009 On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.netwrote: I just ordered this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QAY00K/ref=oss_product It has a connection for the third antenna...my laptop as that connection. It might help increase range, too. On 5/13/2010 9:52 AM, Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: No. Nothing to do with processor. I have the 5300 in an atom netbook. On May 13, 2010 4:06 PM, Anthony Q. Martinamar...@charter.net wrote: this intel card says Centrino/Centrino 2 where as my dell is atom. I wonder if it really has to be matched to the exact processor??/ On 5/13/2010 8:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: It's the dell 1505... http://accessories.de... No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2871 - Release Date: 05/13/10 02:26:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2871 - Release Date: 05/13/10 02:26:00
