RE: [H] {OT} To all my Dell hating friends and acquaintances...

2005-03-13 Thread FORC5
and is why blockbuster is on the short list :-} At 07:05 AM 3/13/2005, Hayes Elkins Poked the stick with: One of Blockbuster Video's biggest days in rental sales is christmas day. You wont believe the amount of commerce involved on seemingly dead days of the year. Retail usually makes a killing.

[H] Smoking (was To all my Dell hating...)

2005-03-13 Thread Julian Hale
We can all see how well outlawing drugs has worked, or alcohol in the '20s. Prohibition creates more crime and social problems than the drug itself. If you outlaw tobacco, people will just start growing it in their houses, yards, national forests, etc. Ever seen a booby trapped pot

RE: [H] {OT} To all my Dell hating friends and acquaintances...

2005-03-13 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Hayes Elkins wrote: One of Blockbuster Video's biggest days in rental sales is christmas day. You wont believe the amount of commerce involved on seemingly dead days of the year. Retail usually makes a killing. Doesn't help my work, (Or most companies I would venture) we

[H] Here's why I hate our hobby sometimes...

2005-03-13 Thread Brian Weeden
Okay this is going to be a bit long but I figured I would interrupt all the off topic spew currently flying around here with a rant that was actually on topic. I have been struggling with a HTPC for months now and it is the main focus of my rant, but it actually applies to everything in the

Re: [H] Smoking/ freedom of choice

2005-03-13 Thread FORC5
if everyone lived by common sense and decency nothing would need to be outlawed. After WW1 there were practically no gun laws, it was legal ( and should still be ) to own literally anything the military owed and there was practically NO gun crime to speak of. go figure I still can't understand

RE: [H] Here's why I hate our hobby sometimes...

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Klein
Hi Brian, I've never had problems like those with all of the boxes I have built. Are they really cheap parts? Without being there to watch the way you assemble it's hard to comment. Maybe a flaky power supply? Maybe the motherboard is not mounted correctly? The only problems I've had with

Re: [H] Copying a file with Windows script

2005-03-13 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:40 PM 13/03/2005, W. D. wrote: Do you know about WinBatch? http://www.Google.com/search?q=WinBatch I looked at it, but I was hoping to do it without spending money. :) T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]

[H] NF7-S BIOS won't boot

2005-03-13 Thread C L Shaw
I did something stupid. I downloaded Abit's FlashMenu utility used it to update the BIOS on my NF7-S Ver. 2 board. Guess what? It won't boot at all now. I don't even get any beeps. The power supply comes on along with all of the fans (CPU, case, video card,etc.) as well as the hard drives CDROMS.

RE: [H] NF7-S BIOS won't boot

2005-03-13 Thread Chris Klein
Are you sure you downloaded the right bios? I once flashed a Shuttle system with the wrong bios. It didn't verify at all to see if I was flashing with the correct one. Luckily, I caught it before I rebooted(windows flash utility). Does Abit have one of those Cd-roms that you can use? Asus now

Re: [H] NF7-S BIOS won't boot

2005-03-13 Thread Al
C L Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did something stupid. I downloaded Abit's FlashMenu utility used it I don't know if it will help or not, but you might read: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=324662 Worst case, maybe you could find someone to sell/swap/flash you a chip... Al