Re: [H] Duncan
At 12:25 PM 3/14/2015, DSinc wrote: To the List, I am now happily at home and completed the 2d phase of life; Iam now 67yrs old. It is indeed good to see that you're back. From another 67 year old guy who's been on the list for 20 years, Bill C.
Re: [H] SAMSUNG 850 EVO-Series
At 01:24 PM 12/8/2014, FORC5 wrote: any one have any info on the new Samsung ? http://techreport.com/review/27464/samsung-850-evo-solid-state-drive-reviewed
Re: [H] Duncan
On 11/22/2014 8:51 AM, James Edwards wrote: Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com To all, My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other than the owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after suffering multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3 and is now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, vision, and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's optimistic, accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in conversation, just trapped in a not too responsive body. Bonny Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will forward it to the list. Jim Edwards Duncan I recall that we are exactly the same age and I always read your list messages with great interest. I look forward to reading more of them. I send you my best wishes for a complete recovery. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Bill Cohane New York City
Re: [H] Memorial Day
At 04:09 PM 5/26/2014, Jeff wrote: And for your service Thanks to all you guys. Bill Cohane LTjg USNR Newport, RI; Norfolk, VA; Brooklyn Navy Yard; San Juan, PR; Gitmo, Cuba; Naples Augusta Bay Sicily, Italy; Nice, France; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Athens, Souda Bay Crete assorted Aegean Islands, Greece; Kristiansand, Norway; Rota, Palma de Mallorca Barcelona, Spain; Turkey; South Africa; ...etc. 1970-1974
Re: [H] WTF?
At 02:12 PM 8/22/2013, DSinc wrote: ...is chronic port blinking normal on Netgear switches??? A returning user wishes to know! Hi Duncan! All the Netgear switches that I used eventually did the chronic blinking (after a few years of use). In each case it was that the power supplies had gone bad. (These were old 8 port switches with external black power blocks.) Regards. Bill
Re: [H] ?small problem
At 13:00 02/03/09, DHSinclair wrote: Bill, I have read thru your share several times. Many years ago FORC5 schooled me in the use of removing old ghost devices in the Safe Mode and the use of the View Hidden Devices switch in the CP/Device Manager. I now plan to view and decode all the items of my current hidden devices from the fully booted perspective. Thank you for the idea about the system file. I was able to find it after allowing hidden system file view temporarily. Normally I leave this stuff hidden because I can be a klutz! :) o-Yes, my system file is now 10,240 KB and dated yesterday. o-I do not overclock any of my systems any more. o-I do not see a Reset ESCD switch in my current 0502 bios (Asus P5Q3). I'm off to study the UM again. o-I have re-flashed my bios w/o any change. There is a newer bios available (0603) but the release notes do not suggest any improvement to my kit stack. Still thinking here anyway :) There is a 39 page discussion (pages are short, with only a few posts per forum page) entitled Windows XP freezes at mup.sys, how do I fix it? at http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/31874/. My suggestion is mentioned, as well as the idea that mup.sys is not the culprit but only the last good on screen (or log) entry before the problem happens. Several people mentioned that they have the problem when trying to boot in safe mode but not in regular mode. Some solved their problem by making hardware changes (swapping a memory stick, updating their motherboard BIOS, changing device driver version, new keyboard, disabling processor cache, for example) and some downloaded and installed a fix (a file download) from Microsoft or Intel. In my last email, I talked about %WINDIR%\System32\Config\System. System holds the System Hive which is the part of the Registry (HKLM\System) that's referenced when windows is starting up. I'm not sure about Windows XP, but Windows 2000 can only use 16MB of memory when first loading, and this limited memory must be shared by the kernel, the HAL, the boot drivers, and the system loader. If the System Hive gets too big, or badly fragmented, then it cannot load and windows stalls. That's why I asked you how large your system file was. My problem happened when my system file was about 9.8 MB in size. That was too much. (The limit is supposed to be 10.3 MB for Windows 2000 Server.) You can shrink the System file manually (ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE or equivalent) or use the Veritas VxScrub utility which you can download using the link http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277301.htm. (You have to type in your name, phone number, and email address. I tested the link last night using fake personal information and the download works fine.) I used the Veritas utility (Vxscrub –forcepurge) to shrink my system hive from 9.8MB to about 4MB on one system. (Every time I changed one or both of the SCSI controllers in that system, I acquired 26 more SCSI devices in ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE, two entries per device, and I had changed SCSI cards several times over that year's period. Every time I added a USB device, multiple entries were added in ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE.) Using Vscrub looks complicated (you run it in command mode using switches) but the directions as listed on the webpage I gave are straightforward. It helps if you print them out. If something happens and you cannot boot up your system (to shrink the system hive) you could try the FixBoot command in the recovery console (boot from the WINDOWS CD and run \I386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons). This should fix the error temporarily. When I did this, the problem reoccurred every few days. Apparently the system file changes size during during daily use and system kept going over that 10 MB size. Another helpful utility is NTREGOPT (Registry Optimizer) which is a separate utility that is included with ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT which makes a copy of your registry...or lets you replace it with a previously saved copy). Both work for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista. NTREGOPT can shrink a registry if it's fragmented or contains too much white space. Get them from http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/. All these utilities (VXSCRUB, ERUNT, NTREGOPT) require a reboot after running. Regards, Bill primary email: wcoh...@nyc.rr.com list email: wcoh...@gmail.com (because I can't get list email at my Road Runner address)
Re: [H] ?small problem
At 17:37 02/02/09, DHSinclair wrote: Have what seems to be a small problem. WXPproXP3.. Was an Upgrade from W2KproSP4. Otherwise works superb! But, Can Not boot to Safe Mode...Hangs at mup.sys. Do have reading for this, but, am wondering if there may be something else going on? My network connection pointer in the CP is at #2. In the past, I have found that #1 was never totally ripped out :) I do not recall how to fully erase net connections, if this is what is going on... I have sat for 40+ minutes waiting, at the blue (Windows is Starting) screen trying to do a Restore Install. Not yet. I really do NOT wish to erase/reformat my C: partition; UNLESS the Collective convinces me this is the ONLY way. Hmmm. Perhaps Windows CAN NOT really be Upgraded? Sure looks like it at the moment. This is NOT a call to Resurrect. I am not Down. WXP is fully running (and I remain totally confused!) If this is a boot.ini file trouble, I can read/correct. (?) If this is a mbr partition error, I can read/correct. (?) Where to start? Ideas? Suggestions? Opinions (except Vista) welcome? Hi Duncan You mentioned that you changed motherboards (presumably without doing a clean reinstall of Windows 2K or XP). This is something that I've done a few times while running one Win2k installation and I've run into a problem similar to yours. With XP running normally, check to see how large (the single file) SYSTEM is. Problems like yours can occur if this file (no file extension, its name is just system, without the quotes of course) gets too large. Why would it get too large? Because Windows XP and 2K don't remove hardware information from the registry when you physically remove hardware devices from your box. By the way, SYSTEM is usually in the folder C:\WINNT\system32\config or C:\WINDOWS\system32\config). SYSTEM is the file that holds the part of the registry with all the hardware information (past and present). If SYSTEM approaches 10 MB in size (in Win2k, not sure the actual number in WinXP), Windows will not boot fully because it doesn't allocate enough memory for all the files needed in memory during the boot process for all the files that need to go into memory during boot. It doesn't matter how much RAM you have, it's just the way Microsoft handles things. I've lost the Microsoft Knowledge Base article that described all this, or I'd give you a copy or a URL for it. So if SYSTEM gets near 10 MB, Windows will think the registry is corrupt and will refuse to boot fully. You can shrink the size of SYSTEM by using ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE in Control Panel (or wherever it is in WinXP) to remove all ghost hardware. By ghost, I mean hardware that was once in the system but has been physically removed from the system but not from the registry. Windows hides this stuff in Device Driver and ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE. It might take an hour or two to remove all the hardware from previous motherboards, previously removed disk drives, USB devices, etc. When my Windows periodically failed to boot, I shrunk the SYSTEM file from 9.8 MB to 4.4 MB and the problem has never returned. I do recall that this problem occurs in both Win2k and WinXP. Maybe it's not your problem...but why not just check the size of your SYSTEM file and see if maybe it's too large. When I had this problem, I found over a hundred hidden disc drives in ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE, as well as dozens of hidden copies of every hardware device that you'd normally see once in Device Manager or ADD-REMOVE HARDWARE. If you deed to, you can get a copy of the free VERITAS Volume Manager 4.2 to remove more stuff from SYSTEM due to old disc drives. Let me know. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] OT Inclined planes
At 20:42 07/13/08, Harvey Best wrote: Thanks! I had been searching for a formula when I should have run a search like you did. How long does a ramp have to be to raise a plane 8 degrees from horizontal to a hight of one foot... One shouldn't have to find a formula to solve this. It's simple trigonometry (the definition of the sine of an angle in a right triangle) from high school math. If X is the hypotenuse of a right triangle (call it X because this is what we're looking for), A is an angle, and L is the length of the side opposite from A, then sine of A is defined as opposite over hypotenuse. Sin A = L / X Use A = 8 degrees and L = 1 foot. We get Sin 8 = 1 / X or X = 1 / sin8 Get sin 8 = .13917 (using the calculator applet in Windows). Note: be sure your calculator is set for degrees and not radians. X = 1 foot / .13917 = 7.1853 feet The whole point is not to look for (and memorize) some formula but to use a concept learned (hopefully) long ago. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] xp sp3 ?
At 17:52 04/29/08, FORC5 wrote: looking for the dl at MS and can only find sp3 overview. anyone have a link ? and is tt final. Want to dl it separate for streaming. When I goto live update they want to install the new wga and I say no. on a side note what was the dll causing the reboots ? I need more memory 8-) I downloaded SP3 this morning from Microsoft at http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2008/04/windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu_c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4.exe I just checked and this link still works. (If this link gets broken, please recombine it.) I don't know if it's the final final. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] UPSes
At 22:32 04/17/08, Bobby Heid wrote: Hey, My old APC Back-UPS Pro's battery finally died. I run my monitor, router, and a few other pc related items off of it and I have an APC Back-UPS 1000 for my PC and external drive. Hi Bobby I replace the batteries in my UPS when they die with generic replacements from http://www.batterymart.com/c-replacement-ups-batteries.html. For example, a replacement for the battery in any BackUPS 650 (Pro, Pro PP, Pro S, regular, etc.) costs $29.95. A replacement for the BackUPS 1000 costs $59.90 If you don't see the model you have, call them and they'll check to see which battery replacement will fit your model. It's much more price effective to replace the battery than to buy a new UPS or even an official APC replacement battery. I've bought batteries for everything from hearing aids to tennis ball machines from Batterymart.com. I'm not saying they always have the best prices, but I've always been happy with their service and the quality of their products. I've used APC UPS' since 1995. Sizes from 400 to 1400. (I currently have three SmartUPS 1400 and two SmartUPS 1000 for my computers and peripherals, plus three BackUPS 1000 for phones, stereo, scanner, etc.) Regards, Bill
Re: [H] UPSes
At 02:12 04/18/08, Joe User wrote: Hello Bill, Thursday, April 17, 2008, 9:22:56 PM, you wrote: I replace the batteries in my UPS when they die with generic replacements from http://www.batterymart.com/c-replacement-ups-batteries.html. I guess I'll check these guys out. My replacements from Batterymart.com seem to last as long as the original batteries did. Good luck! Regards, Bill
Re: [H] UPSes
At 02:18 04/18/08, Joe User wrote: Have you bought and used APC batteries to compare vs these? Last few times I got bargain batteries the lifetime was horrible. Yes. I did replace with APC batteries (in my old BackUPS models) at first. I didn't see any difference between the APC batteries and the ones from BatteryMart...except for the price. And, if anything, I've gotten better life with the replacements from Batterymart than from the *original* APC batteries, (the ones that came inside the UPS when it was new.) As they say though, YMMV. Regards, Bill
[H] test (sorry)
Trying to see if I can post to the Hardware Group
Re: [H] test (sorry)
At 22:58 03/25/08, Jeff Lane wrote: Nice try, Bill Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:41 PM Subject: [H] test (sorry) Trying to see if I can post to the Hardware Group Hi Jeff Thanks for replying. This seems to have been the first message of mine that made it to the list in over a year. For some reason I don't get a copy of my own messages...even though the HW Group preferences webpage (for my mail and password) says I should. I'll see if I got a copy of this one. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Surge suppressor / power filter
At 00:53 03/11/08, JRS wrote: I use a 1200 watt APC Smart UPS for my computer gear. True sine wave output. :) Three computers here (each with 10 internal SCSI drives)...three APC SmartUPS 1500 (computer, external drives, monitor for each UPS). Plus one SmartUPS 1000 for the little stuff: two routers, two switches, a printer server, and my wireless phone system's base station. (The SmartUPS 1000 started out on one of the aforementioned computers but I noticed one day that adding a measly thumb drive to one of the computers overloaded the 1000 VA UPS, setting off its alarm.) There's a vertical set of 5 lights on each of these SmartUPS models that indicates % of max load. The SmartUPS 1000 shows no lights lit. Each of the SmartUPS 1500 shows 2 lights lit. (The SmartUPS 1000 showed 5 lights lit when it was on a computer.) I've replaced the batteries on each of these UPS at least once. I get about three years on each set (two internal batteries in each) of batteries. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Video Problems (NVidia related)
At 00:57 01/26/07, KHumrich wrote: How is your Power Supply? You said the card powers down and/or runs fine at the lower resolution, also the problem happens on cold boots, sounds like power supply COULD be the problem..Ken Hi Ken Thanks for the suggestion. I have to admit that I didn't consider the power supply. On the one hand, it's a PCPC 510 Watt supply (costs over $190) and I would hope that it isn't the problem. On the other hand, there are seven Seagate 15K Cheetahs in the case (and SCSI CDRW and DVD reader) along with the dual processors. Actually, the computer would show video just fine in 640X480, if (and only if) it was using the Microsoft generic VGA driver. (That's what choosing VGA Mode in the boot menu results in.) But the video always failed at 640X480 after booting into regular Win2k. (Video would corrupt a fraction of a second after Win2k started to display the desktop in regular Win2k.) I think video was failing right when Win2k switched to the manufacturer's video driver (either NVidia reference drivers or Asus drivers). So at the same resolutions, the MS generic VGA driver always worked but the NVidia (or Asus) drivers wouldn't. Okay. An hour ago I changed video cards again. I replaced the Asus FX5200 with a Leadtek A6200 that came by UPS today. First I uninstalled the NVidia driver software set, then deleted the video card from Device Manager, and then ran an utility called Driver Cleaner. (Thanks M!) Then I pulled the Asus card and put in the Leadtek card. I installed drivers from the Leadtek CD-Rom and all seems fixed. I've warm -and- cold booted many times and it is now running in 1600X1200 with 32 bit color. Time will tell if it keeps running. I don't know if the problem was a bad video card, corrupted drivers (fixed by using Drive Cleaner), or if it will return. Regards, Bill ---Original Message--- From: Bill Cohane Date: 1/25/2007 6:28:18 PM Subject: [H] Video Problems (NVidia related) I've been trying to set up one of a new Dell 2007FP monitor the past two days and I keep having big problems. I'll understand if you don't want to read all the following, but doing so will let you know all the steps that I've tried. Basically, my system boots okay into Win2k VGA Mode (640X480, 256 colors, 60 Hz.) but video is completely corrupted whenever I boot into regular Win2k..
[H] Video Problems (NVidia related)
Hi Guys! I've been trying to set up one of a new Dell 2007FP monitor the past two days and I keep having big problems. I'll understand if you don't want to read all the following, but doing so will let you know all the steps that I've tried. Basically, my system boots okay into Win2k VGA Mode (640X480, 256 colors, 60 Hz.) but not into regular Win2k. (VGA mode is like Safe Mode in the boot menu, but it has more functionality.) The system is dual PIII-1400, 1GB RAM, running Win2K SP4 and I'm using an Asus GeForce FX5200 128 MB video card. (I had been using an older Asus FeForce FX400 with no DVI out before changing to the flat panel monitor.) I don't run games, and the motherboard is AGP 2X only. I installed the 2007FP monitor and FX5200 video card with a DVI cable and installed the Asus drivers that came in the box with the video card. After successfully rebooting, when I attempted changing to 1600X1200 (32 bit color, 60 Hz of course), the monitor screen became horribly corrupted (only streaks of color side to side across the screen, from top to bottom) and dropped to power saving mode after about 3 seconds. I could now only boot into VGA Mode. I tried changing drivers to the NVidia reference drivers that came on the CD-Rom, then the FX5200 enhanced drivers from Asus's website, and finally some NVidia drivers that I had downloaded sometime last year. I tried changing drivers the Windows way (update drivers from Device Manager) and when that didn't help, by running the setup utility on the Asuss CD-Rom. I always looked for and deleted all video software from Control Panel's Add/Remove Software and deleted all graphics cards from the system (including ghost devices after clicking show all devices) using Control Panel's Add/Remove Hardware. I'm using the 2007FP driver from the Dell CD-Rom. (This works fine on my other computer which has a Dell 2007FP monitor and Asus FX5700 128 MB video card.) Over and over I deleted all the utilities that NVidia or Asus set to run at Startup (NVidia Contol Panel and Taskbar utilities, and something called NWiz.exe). Tuesday night I finally got the system to work at 1600X1200 (using the Asus enhanced drivers) in regular mode and ran the system for an hour, rebooting several times. Then I powered down for the night. Wednesday night I powered up but video had become corrupted again. It would work only in VGA mode. Then I changed from DVI cable to VGA analog cable and installed NVidia drivers from their website. I finally had success and the system booted okay and let me change to 1600X1200. The system ran okay for about two hours, during which time I rebooted several times with no problems. But the one time I powered down (after Shutdown), the system wouldn't boot into normal mode when I powered up. Video was corrupted again, even though the drivers hadn't been changed and had been working only minutes ago. Would you say I have something corrupted (drivers?) that isn't being replaced when I change drivers? Or could it be a hardware problem (video card or monitor)? Remember that it always works using the Microsoft VGA driver (640X480, limited colors) but not with the Asus or Nvidia driver (even at the same 640X480). When I get it working, it continues to work after warm reboots but not after cold reboots. I've wasted 8 hours on this problem. I don't want to start switching video cards and monitors until I'm convinced that it isn't a driver problem. (I don't want to risk corrupting my main computer.) On the other hand, the problem may in some way be hardware related since doing a cold reboot is when the problem resurfaces. Anyone know of a driver cleaner program that works with NVidia and Win2k drivers? Google only seems to refer to Win98/ME utilities or links that are dead. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Jim HWG Subscription problem Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sort of have the same problem as Bobby. By sort of, I mean the following. I stopped getting HWG mail to my Verizon address a few weeks ago and had trouble resubscribing. So I subscribed to the HWG using my Road Runner email address. Messages started coming fine to the Road Runner address but I found that I couldn't send to the HWG list from that address. I gett the same error message that Bobby got (below) from my Road Runner SMTP server: The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - hardware@hardwaregroup.com. Maybe HWG is blocking Road Runner? I seem to recall something about that being necessary a year or two ago. So how am I posting this? I tried subscribing to THG from my Gmail address but can't send to THG from there. The other day I got a ton of old HWG messages to my Verizon address and HWG seems to be okay with my Verizon address againfor now. (One of my resubscribe attempts must have succeeded.) But Verizon is apparently not reliable enough for mailing lists and news letters and I suspect that sooner or later Verizon will start bouncing HWG messages again. (I've been dropped from lots of newsletters that I had delivered to my Verizon address because of bounces.) I am resigned to reading HWG messages that come to my Road Runner account and posting HWG messages while logged onto Verizon. Not too bad a problem. Regards, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You aren't alone. I've been trying to contact jim as have about 15 other people Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:14:52 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Jim HWG Subscription problem Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted on behalf of Bobby Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, Sorry to bother you with the off-list email, but I am unable to post to the hardware group as of the last several days. Could you please post this to the list so that someone may see it and may know what the problem is? I seem to be receiving at least some HW emails. Here's the returned message: --- start of message -- The original message was received at Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:18:13 -0500 (EST) from cpe-024-168-241-112.sc.res.rr.com [24.168.241.112] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - hardware@hardwaregroup.com - Transcript of session follows - 451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mail.hardwaregroup.com. hardware@hardwaregroup.com... Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.hardwaregroup.com. Message could not be delivered for 2 days Message will be deleted from queue end of message - Thanks, Bobby
[H] Is the list quiet or do I have a problem?
Hi Guys I haven't received anything for a couple of days...so please forgive this test message. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] 2k wireless
At 13:40 12/13/06, Winterlight wrote: It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for games and multimedia. 2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner. Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose 2k over XP is wrong? The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA ...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k ...right? I'm running Win 2K on my laptop and I added an Intel mini-pci wireless card. The Intel driver/software that came with this wireless card included WPA support and it runs just fine on 2K. I don't know (kind of doubt it) if Win 2K has built in WPA wireless support. I have a separate hard drive (I can add/remove the two hard drives to change operating system) with Win XP installed for this laptop and I find the native WPA to be much more confusing than what came with the Intel wireless card. So I use the Intel networking support instead of XP's wizard based stuff which I couldn't get to work, probably because I wasn't willing to spend enough time on it. I only wrote this message because nobody has yet commented on Win 2K and WPA support. So my answer is yes, it's possible to do WPA on Win 2K. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Laptop Battery Replacement
At 15:56 08/02/06, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 03:37 PM 8/2/2006, GPL typed: Anything anyone can recommend I be aware of? Anything to look for? I assume if I just match up the specs and computer I can find a quality battery replacement. http://www.kahlon.com/rm34731_Dell_Inspiron_600M.html I've always had good luck with these people. Here's another place to get Dell batteries. http://www.pacificbattery.com/dell.html I've bought a half dozen new Dell batteries from them and all have been as good or better than the ones Dell sells. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] LCD burn in ?
At 21:40 07/12/06, FORC5 wrote: I have had the same wallpaper on my desktop forever, the other day my son said he could see the image burned to the screen, I thought he was nuts but he is NOT. I did not think this was possible. On boot and booted to a pe disk or a Norton recovery disk it is plain as day. me not to happy. anything to do ? thought about running the stuck pixel video for grins to see if it helps. Sorry to have no advice for you. Just wanted to mention that I can see burn in on my 8 year old Viewsonic 21 P815 CRT monitor. Yes, it's from my desktop too. Not obvious, but you can see it when you have a white background. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 13:49 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: I'm still waiting for the internet to break like Steve Gibson said it would when Windows 2000 was released. Gibson warned about the inclusion of raw sockets in Win2k. Everyone laughed. Since then, Microsoft has quietly eliminated the raw sockets with patches. To his credit, Gibson never made a big deal about their elimination. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Nutty Steve Gibson claims WMF bug was planted by Microsoft
At 20:06 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote: Everyone laughed because raw sockets is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses. Raw sockets on Windows could have been a much bigger problem than those *nix systems because for every *nix system user, there were probably a thousand clueless people using Windows. Besides the fact that there aren't as many *nix users (as windows users), most of those *nix users are not so clueless. I don't see why people are so quick to attack Gibson. He puts out many free security utilities and spends a lot of effort educating windows users. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Bad Netgear 314 ?
At 09:59 01/12/06, you wrote: I finally ended up buying a new router for 60 bucks from Office Depot. Problem solved. Lost 2 of these cheap consumer routers in 3 years. I've had three power supplies go bad on Netgear PS105 8 port 10/100 switches. These switch's work for a couple of years, then start to have problems, then die. The problems usually are indicated by the switch's port lights flashing on and off (all ports flashing synchronously at once) for short periods. This happens more and more frequently and then the switch dies completely. Maybe Netgear used really cheap power supplies on their consumer grade switches. Could this be the problem with your (Winterlight's) Netgear Router? Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade
At 22:30 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote: Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware) if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel chipsets) but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard? should not be a problem but w2k can be very anal sometimes. Thanks Fred. I needed some moral support before taking the plunge. Also, thanks to Chris Reeves who wrote Yes, I've done this exact same thing on W2k Server a few times. and to Wayne Johnson who wrote Have done it several times with Win2k, Xp once with 2k3 without a problem. At most you may need the SCSI drivers on a floppy to re-install during boot up but usually that isn't even req'd. Sounds like I should be okay. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade
At 22:10 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote: in device manager set hard drive to standard dual channel pci ide controller ( I am assuming not SATA ) I have a reg file to set boot back to default settings. have yet to have a xp mb swap not boot. ( w2k yes but not xp ) should be on THG FTP luck the trick with the add on controller works to most of the time. fred Hi Fred I have a computer booting off an Adaptec SCSI card (39160) and SCSI hard drive (15K RPM Cheetah). Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware) if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel chipsets) but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard? Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Possible Phishing Attack? Fwd: Amazon Payments Billing Issue
At 16:21 12/03/05, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I got the same thing the other day. The key is to type in the wrong password and see if it lets you in. If it does, then it's phsihing I also get these almost every day. I've checked view source for many of them and I've seen some where the underlying link is maybe a thousand characters long. This leads me to think that if you merely click on one of these links from within your email program (and it opens in your browser), it's possible that some dangerous script or unchecked buffer overflow might attempt to execute. I don't feel 100% confident that Microsoft has patched all vulnerabilities like these. It's getting so that I really hesitate to click on links in any message, even in ones from vendors and organizations that I've been getting for years. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] USB boot
At 15:13 12/02/05, Winterlight wrote: I have two fairly modern workstations. One is based around a Asus PC DL Deluxe, and one is a Intel 865PERL. Both are around 18 months old, and come with at least six onboard USB2 ports. I can't boot off any USB flash drive, or even leave a USB drive connected during a boot up, and I can't figure out why. I had a similar problem with USB compact flash drives and Windows 2000 on two systems with Asus motherboards. (Older systems than yours...P2B-D boards, each with dual PIII-1400 processors.) I got blue screens at boot every time if I left a flash card in the USB reader. I first started using compact flash cards in a USB card reader well before SP3 or SP4 were released. I had to install a Win2k driver (supplied by Crucial) to get the card reader to work. (I seem to recall that native support for these devices was introduced with one of the late service packs...but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe my USB got screwed up some other way back then.) Anyway, the blue screens at boot (if the memory card was left in the reader) continued until a few months ago when I removed all USB devices and drivers (Add/Remove Hardware in Control Panel with Show Hidden Devices enabled...to show all instances of the USB ports and hubs and memory devices.) When I rebooted, Windows detected the USB stuff but insisted on reloading the same drivers (some Genuide file from the Win2k folder on the CDROM that came with Crucial's Compact Flash card reader). I had to delete these drivers manually from the WINNT/INF folder to keep them from being installed by Windows. After deleting all the USB devices using Add/Remove Hardware again, I was finally able to install native drivers for all USB ports and hubs. (I chose Windows Update as the source of the drivers when Windows asked me for a location for the drivers.) After all this, removable USB stuff is automatically detected with no drivers required. No problems now...although I've never tried to boot from a USB flash card. (If Windows has to write a lot to the flash card, that might be a bad thing. You have a lifetime of what, only a thousand or so writes on each memory cell on these flash cards? I'd rather do writes and erases of pictures or files instead of system files and data like that.) The above applies to both the native USB1 ports on the motherboard -and- the USB2 ports on various PCI cards that I have used in these computers. (Right now I'm using SIIG combo cards with Fast Ethernet, USB2, and Firewire ports because I was running out of free PCI slots.) Regards, Bill
Re: [H] WIFY Encryption ?
At 19:05 11/11/05, Winterlight wrote: Yes but I believe everything has to be WEP, as 2K does not support WAP. I use WAP on my laptop that runs 2k. (It has an Intel mini-pci wireless card.) I used the Intel driver utility that I downloaded for use with the card to set up the WAP.) Using a generic 802.11g access point hard wired to my regular router. Only the laptop and access point are currently doing wifi. So while Win2k may not have WAP built in, you can certainly do WAP on a Win2k system if your Access Point and wireless card support it. BTW, I can swap out the hard drive on the laptop and run WinXP. The same Intel software does WAP with this. (The Intel utility was lots easier to set up than the XP wizard. I gave up trying to get that to work.) Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Gas prices
At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote: Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean, safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the scientific world standing on it's head for sometime until they discovered that it was not completely perfect, i.e., infinitely renewable. My question would be just how long did this run without renewal? After the idea of infinity went away nobody heard anything about these guys. If they had discovered pure cold fusion we could power a whole city in a clean reactor no bigger that a service station, if that big. The pellet to run a car thingall of it runs forever. Anybody think this won't or can't happen, or for that matter, may already be there??? Most scientists consider Cold Fusion to have been a fiasco. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann (the two Univ. of Utah Chemists who claimed to have first observed it) never could explain the physics behind their discovery. (Neutrons are always released by fusion reactions and none were ever detected with this so called cold fusion. In addition, most other scientists trying to verify the Univ. of Utah experiments failed to detect any energy release. The whole mess was probably due to the unreliability of closed calorimetry experiments.) So Physicists have pretty much debunked cold fusion. Interestingly, the DOE (Dept. of Energy) still occasionally gets suckered by cold fusion claims. These guys still seem willing to spend our tax dollars on research grants for things like perpetual motion machines, Kirlian photographs of the human aura, zero point energy, ball lightning, magnet therapy, etc. The most frequent warning sign of voodoo science is that claims are pitched directly to the media, like the way the two scientists from the Univ. of Utah released their results, instead of in scientific journals where they can be reviewed and tested by reputable scientists. That said, Cold Fusion still has believers, but not much confirmation. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] OT: Is this thing on??
At 19:43 08/10/05, JRS wrote: Haven't seen any posts in a couple of days Your post (above) was the first one I've seen today. I don't remember what came yesterday... Regards, Bill
RE: [H] hello, test
At 08:03 06/28/05, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 09:02 AM 28/06/2005, GP wrote: Seem to me Jim is never change isn't he, start to worry if this list suddently quiet. You know what Jim, we are getting older ;-) The list is getting quieter. I'm not sure if people are drifting away from the list, or if we are all just less interested than we used to be. Not drifting away, just not as talkative. Always lurking in the background. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] PCI NVidia card
At 12:05 06/28/05, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a computer with a GeForce 5200 PCI card in it (an onboard i810 video) - when I run the NVidia drivers, it tells me that there is no NVidia hardware in the system. Anyone ever see this before? I kept getting the same error message no nvidia hardware after I replaced a defective Asus GeForce FX5700 with an Asus GeForce FX5600 AGP card and tried to install the drivers. I ended up deleting all Asus and Nvidia software (including the driver software in Win2k Add/Remove programs) and all video cards (including hidden ones) in Add/Remove Hardware. Then I had to use the drivers from a different Asus driver CDROM before I could get things sorted out. Not sure if this was a problem with the first nvidia driver set I tried or if it was a windows problem. I suspect that the error message was one of those cryptic ones written for one problem that resulted when another problem had a similar effect software wise. Regards, Bill
RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?
At 13:10 04/16/05, W. D. wrote: At 01:22 4/16/2005, Bill Cohane, wrote: Guess I didn't look long enough for the source of that article! It only took a few seconds. The trick is to put a unique line in quotes like so: http://tinyurl.com/cp5h5 Yesterday, I used the exact same line (in quotes) and went through one page of useless results...mostly adds for PIII processors and short posts at discussion group. Today it worked right away. Go figure! Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?
At 06:32 04/15/05, Bill Cohane wrote: Also, P2B-D boards before revision 1.06 don't all work at 133 MHz. FAB (front side bus). If you have one of these boards, you'd be limited to 800 MHz. (8X100) Coppermines. Oops. You could do 8.5X100. Or even 10X100 MHz if you can find a pair of 1 GHz PIII that run at 100 FSB. Of course, you don't need to bother with multiplier jumper settings since PIII ignore them. Just the FSB jumper. Regards, Bill
RE: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?
At 00:01 04/16/05, rls wrote: Wow, thanks for all the good info. This board is version 1.05. I was thinking about going with the 8 x 100 PIII. But did not realize that the voltage limit would bite me. It was sort of an attractive way to go for me since I have about 700 mg lying around. But I wanted to with at least 1 gig hz on each cpu. I actually built this server originally for a company and has run 24 x 7 for nearly 8 years. Sort of aggravated to find out the Adaptec does not provide drivers for XP for the AAA-131U2. Was and expensive card way back when. Considering the obstacles, the cost of the processors, the age etc I think I will just pick up an MSI ATI 200 express m/b and 939 processor. But I appreciate all your input - btw - I had upgraded the bios to 14.003 while I was playing around with it. There's still a way to get your 1.05 (or older) P2B-D to take two PIII-850 or two PIII-1000. I saved an article that shows how to modify any slot one Coppermine PIII to request 1.80 volts from the motherboard. (All P2B-D boards can supply 1.80 volts to the processors. This is only .10 volts more than the official voltage for PIII-1000, or .15 volts more than for the PIII-850. A .15v increase that shouldn't be harmful to the processor. I've run dual PIII-800 at 1.80 volts for weeks without problems. I couldn't find this article tonight using Google. But if you're interested, I can zip up the webpage that I saved and send it to you. Here are some of the text contents of the webpage. (There are great pictures that I of course can't include here. They make the procedure look very easy.) Dual PIII 1.12 Ghz on the Asus P2B-DS Rev 1.04 the PIII 1Ghz/100Mhz Slot 1 processor is designed for 1.7v core. This is no problem for newer P2D-DS boards (Rev 1.06 and higher) - just plug in the processors and boot up - but gives us a problem on older revision boards. There are five voltage identification pins (named VID[0-4]) on the Slot 1 connector. These pins are used to support automatic selection of power supply voltages. These pins are not signals, but are either an open circuit (logic 1) or a short circuit to ground (logic 0) on the processor. The combination of opens and shorts defines the voltage required by the processor core. The power supply must supply the voltage that is requested or disable itself. The table below shows the VID[0-4] logic states for 1.7v (Pentium III 1Ghz/100Mhz Slot 1) and 1.8v (minimum available on P2B-DS rev 1.05 and lower). Voltage VID0 VID1 VID2VID3VID4 (Pin B120) (Pin A120) (Pin A119) (Pin B119) (Pin A121) 1.7 1 1 1 0 0 1.8 1 0 1 0 0 If we can change VID1 from a '1' (open circuit) to a '0', (short circuit to ground), the processor will appear to be requesting 1.8v. This might sound like a task requiring some delicate work with a soldering iron, however there is a better way. VID4 (Pin A121) is a '0' and is adjacent to VID1 (Pin A120), which we need to change to a '0'. Slot 1 Processor VID Pins A120 and A121 are the last two pins to the right on the heatsink side of the processor. If we look closely at the Slot 1 connectors on the motherboard, there is a tiny gold contact for each pin on the processor. The contacts are spring loaded, and are forced outward when the processor is inserted into the slot. The upper ends of the contacts are visible in the small rectangular holes on the top of the Slot 1 connector, and move back and forth in these holes as the processor is inserted and removed. If we insert a small U-shaped piece of wire into the rectangular holes corresponding to pins A120 and A121, the gold contacts will be forced against the wire when the processor is inserted, thus connecting A120 to A121 and changing the processor voltage request from 1.7v to 1.8v The U-shaped wire used to connect pins A120 and A121 should be about 3mm tall and 1 mm wide. It also needs to be just the right diameter. I don't have a micrometer to measure the diameter but I used the thickest wire I could find which would fit into the rectangular hole in the top of the Slot 1 connector easily. Use tweezers to drop the wire into the holes. Put wires in both Slot 1 connectors. Now insert your processors and connect the fan cables to the headers on the motherboard. I recommend setting the FSB jumpers for 100Mhz initially, although my system is perfectly stable with the FSB at 112Mhz. The CPU multiplier jumpers do not need to be set as the multiplier is locked at 10x on the Pentium III 1Ghz/100Mhz Slot 1 processor. The pictures on this webpage make this method very clear. (My copy of the webpage was saved as an MHT webarchive document via Internet Explorer.) Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Access GMail through Eudora
At 23:29 04/04/05, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 10:10 AM 4/1/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: http://email.about.com/od/eudoratips/qt/et121004.htm Any one get this to work as I haven't been able to ? When I check the Eudora.log it says Could not connect to pop.gmail.com\r\n Cause: connection timed out (10060) FWIW I do have pop enabled at my GMail acct. Lots of people are having trouble getting *some* recent versions of Eudora to work with Gmail. The following worked for me: Start a new email-message in Eudora and copy this text into it: x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortReceiveVersion=6 x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortSendVersion=6 now HOLD your ALT key, and click both links (confirming the popup with OK) If this doesn't solve it, or it breaks your other SSL connections use these URLs to get back to your old mode: x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortReceiveVersion=0 x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortSendVersion=0 This information came from http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2456hq.htmlhttp://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2456hq.html. Regards, Bill
Re: [H] Access GMail through Eudora
At 00:53 04/05/05, Gary VanderMolen wrote: Good lord, is this supposed to be an example of a user-friendly app? Anything requiring that much obscure hacking I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. Gary VanderMolen The problem is presumably a bug in the way Eudora versions after 5.1 handle SSL negotiations on ports other than 110. Or else it's something with the way Gmail works. I haven't upgraded past version 6.0.1.1 to see if it's been fixed. (I'm waiting a while before paying Eudora for an upgrade.) Regards, Bill - Original Message - Start a new email-message in Eudora and copy this text into it: x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortReceiveVersion=6 x-eudora-option:SSLAltPortSendVersion=6 now HOLD your ALT key, and click both links (confirming the popup with OK)
