Re: [H] FTTP

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 01:21 AM 6/22/2005, joeuser typed: Yeah had it for about a year now - they are just beginning to get this dark fibre used. Ohhh the possibilities. But I still can't connect to yours from Ohio. :-( --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
thanks Chris, looking at this MB my only *nag* is the fans and the location of the FDD header. the Asus premier looks good but I am not looking for sli but it has no fans :{) fp At 10:41 PM 6/21/2005, Chris Reeves Poked the stick with: It's a very by-the-book Nvidia Reference Ultra 4 chipset.. I

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Bobby Heid
I replied to this but it never made it to the list. I do want to replace the stock speakers. I may put a new front-end in at some point. A long time ago, I used to be into car stereo, but I no longer feel the need to sink so much into my vehicle. I had a $1200 system in a $6500 car - lol. I

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread CW
I've got to admit, it's been a long time since I even connected a floppy on my box.. just replace it with a card reader.. :) Hell, the ECS (and any NF4 type board) will boot to a card.. makes them more convenient then floppies :) -Original message- From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Ben Ruset
The BA Rally speakers are OK to use with a non-amplified system. I have always felt that the Infinity's were more geared to amped setups anyway. The reason why I suggest Pioneers is that most of their low-end stuff is designed to work as drop in replacements for stock systems w/o an amp. You

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Antoniou
Nah, they're just better communicators because they have two sets of lips. Did I just say that??? 3#-) Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent:

RE: [H] Grado SR-80 headphones

2005-06-22 Thread Ryan Vorachek
Glad to hear you are liking them. :D I've had my SR-125's for over 6 months now, all nice and broken in. At first they really lacked bass, but after a couple months the bass started coming in stronger. They aren't boomy, thankfully, but there is a very nice and detailed bottom end now. At

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Antoniou
I can comment on the Bostons. I have a set of Boston Acoustic ProSeries 6.5 splits (2 way) in the rear and MAN they are the SWEETEST sounding speaker to my ears. Note, I place particular emphasis on those last 3 words to my ears. I have used JBL (GTO963 - 6x9's) once upon a time, well balanced

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:15 PM 22/06/2005, FORC5 wrote: have a ga-6bx7 needs a new drive. had a 80gb wd ( will not post ) 20gb will not post. 16gb will post. drive in box ( bad) is a 13 gb Make sure you have recent BIOS updates (I've gone as big as 120GB on a BX.) Make sure the drives are set to either master

Re: [H] Grado SR-80 headphones

2005-06-22 Thread Zulfiqar Naushad
I just got some Etymotic ER6i's about 1 month ago. They are super amazing.. I use them at work with a laptop and they sounded real good. In fact so good, that all my MP3's had to be recoded at 320K. For shits and giggles I plugged them into my SB Audigy 2 at home and WOW!! The

RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations...

2005-06-22 Thread 007
Harmon Cardon is a good middle of the pack choice. 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Antoniou Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Car speaker recommendations... I can

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
problem solved, flashed with latest bios and now it will not post at all. was the correct bios from GB fate says it was time to upgrade :{) unless someone has a ga-6bx7 bios laying around ? thanks fp At 09:19 AM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: At 01:15 PM 22/06/2005, FORC5

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread Carroll Kong
FORC5 wrote: problem solved, flashed with latest bios and now it will not post at all. was the correct bios from GB fate says it was time to upgrade :{) unless someone has a ga-6bx7 bios laying around ? thanks fp At 09:19 AM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: At 01:15 PM

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread Greg Sevart
2) Your harddisk is having problems with UDMA negotiation. While UDMA is backwards compatible, there was a bug in the old implementations where it would hang while negotiating. Download the UDMA utilities from your hardware vendor to hardlock the UDMA to some value that is support

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 11:14 AM 6/22/2005, CW typed: I've got to admit, it's been a long time since I even connected a floppy on my box.. just replace it with a card reader.. :) Hell, the ECS (and any NF4 type board) will boot to a card.. makes them more convenient then floppies :) Just this past Sat. I had a

[H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have an AMD64 in the shop that a customer installed and covered with thermal compound (it looked like the CPU had been caulked into place.) He was complaining that it would work fine for awhile and then the temp would spike to 80C. I cleaned the CPU, put new thermal compound on it, and it

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread dsinc
Chris, What card reader are you referring to? I have been moving to a usb cruiser device until I find a suitable FDD replacement. Thanks. At 11:14 06/22/2005 -0400, CW wrote: I've got to admit, it's been a long time since I even connected a floppy on my box.. just replace it with a card

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:37 PM 22/06/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: nothing in the box to screw up. Come to find out the NIC came with drivers on a floppy disk the machine didn't have a floppy drive so I dumped the drivers onto my thumb drive installed the card. I charged her double for buying a Dell then buying

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:46 PM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Isn't it nice of Dell to save customers the $9.00 Cdn for a floppy drive? They should pull the numeric keypad and the second shift, alt and ctrl buttons to save costs too. :) You know they would if they could but they're would be too many peeps

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 02:44 PM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Is the CPU toast, or is there something else I can try? Prayer. Sounds to me like he expects you to work miracles. This is exactly why AMD doesn't want customers to use un-approved heat sinks. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson

[H] Really weird car audio problem

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Weeden
Some background. About a year and half ago I bought a new Pilot and put a sound system in. For the source I used a Clarion head unit that was Sirius-ready, meaning you hook it up to a satellite tuner box and presto you have satellite radio. Everything worked fine up until today. Came home from

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:51 PM 22/06/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: Prayer. Sounds to me like he expects you to work miracles. This is exactly why AMD doesn't want customers to use un-approved heat sinks. It's an approved heat sink. It just wasn't installed by an approved installer. :) T

Re: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread Gary Udstrand
My new Shuttle came with a card reader installed conveniently enough. ;-) -Gary dsinc said the following on 6/22/2005 1:27 PM: Chris, What card reader are you referring to? I have been moving to a usb cruiser device until I find a suitable FDD replacement. Thanks. At 11:14 06/22/2005

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
thanks, did not think to negotiate the UDMA down in the bios. going to attempt a hot flash but have not had good luck in recent years with those. not sure why I want to do this, for grins I guess. bios flash should have worked, I have done a baziilion of those with zero problems, guess bin was

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 11:15 AM 6/22/2005, you wrote: anyone remember the drive limits on bx chipset ? have a ga-6bx7 needs a new drive. had a 80gb wd ( will not post ) 20gb will not post. 16gb will post. drive in box ( bad) is a 13 gb thanks memory is the first to go :{( fp Just update your BIOS. I have a MSI

Re: [H] bx chipset ?

2005-06-22 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 12:12 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: problem solved, flashed with latest bios and now it will not post at all. was the correct bios from GB fate says it was time to upgrade :{) unless someone has a ga-6bx7 bios laying around ? thanks fp If you have another, be a man - hotflash :P -- JW

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
booted to a spare ecs k7s5a, swapped out the bios and flashed it ( with the same bios that failed b4) all is well, new drive seen and ghosting now. my lucky day :{) even found $10 laying on the floor at Subway :-} thanks guys. FWIW this guy really needs to move up, hell with a $40 mb I have

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread jeff.lane
You better jump on the Lotto tickets - Original Message - From: FORC5 To: The Hardware List Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash booted to a spare ecs k7s5a,

RE: [H] new MB

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
amen to that :-} At 11:37 AM 6/22/2005, Wayne Johnson Poked the stick with: Some people you can't make happy others you can't tick off no matter what. I wish I could read the later kind better so I would know when to charge more. lol --+- Wayne D. Johnson -- Tallyho ! ]:8)

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
sounds like temperature and HE is lying to you. he fried it most likely ( if that is possible with the new chips ) I assume you pulled the hs/fan back off to check contact ? might be cocked a little fp At 11:44 AM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: I have an AMD64 in the shop

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 04:20 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: As an aside, if you can throw a gig of memory in that thing it will run XP very well even with the Celery. Jeff Don't really need a whole gig. Small fileserver is running on a puny P3-450 (yes, Katmai :P) w/512MB RAM. Runs XP pretty smoothly. -- JW

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread jeff.lane
Sure, it will run on a lot less but the extra just give it that super charge Jeff - Original Message - From: Jin-Wei Tioh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [H] bx chipset ?

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 04:29 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Sure, it will run on a lot less but the extra just give it that super charge Jeff LOL, true that. But I don't really notice a huge difference between 512MB and 1GB for general use. Throw recent games into the mix (Far Cry, UT2004, D3, etc)

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 03:29 PM 6/22/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: It's an approved heat sink. It just wasn't installed by an approved installer. :) It's suppose to have phase change material not paste. I thought you said there was paste all over the place? The fact still remains that the thing sounds cooked

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread CW
The approved all use thermal tape. So I'm betting this jackass left the tape on, applied plenty of past, so he had basically no connection. -Original message- From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:37:18 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] bx chipset ? fixed/hotflash

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
Windows 98 the man needs to upgrade. he has better computers at work ( I built all 3 ) fp At 02:20 PM 6/22/2005, jeff.lane Poked the stick with: As an aside, if you can throw a gig of memory in that thing it will run XP very well even with the Celery. Jeff - Original Message -

Re: [H] AMD64 powers off

2005-06-22 Thread Wayne Johnson
At 05:41 PM 6/22/2005, CW typed: The approved all use thermal tape. So I'm betting this jackass left the tape on, applied plenty of past, so he had basically no connection. I used an unapproved Zalman Flower with just a touch of Artic Silver 3 with my AMD64 3800+ everything has been fine

[H] Upgrade :)

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Reeves
OK, finally switched J I got in my 4400+ last week, and today, a XFX 7800GTX J Im not using an SLI board, but it appears from online benchmarks my results should be pretty good (and here I dont have a single damn game on my PC outside of Sid Meirs Pirates and War Craft III) but, still..

Re: [H] Upgrade :)

2005-06-22 Thread FORC5
I'm using these http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?CateID=47ID=220 then again I have been drooling over these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811152036 drool fp At 08:35 PM 6/22/2005, Chris Reeves Poked the stick with: OK, finally switched J I got in my 4400+ last