I had an issue with my dual 30” Cinema displays where the internal USB hub
prevented one from coming on. It was when I moved last time - I connected
everything up and only one of them would come on. I poked around and couldn’t
figure out what was going on. I had the USB hub in that monitor
> Maybe you can tell me why my Mac occasionally wakes from sleep and the
> machine’s monitor won’t come alive but the external monitor does. I have to
> reboot it(unplug it plug back in) and it will work ok again for some random
> number of sleep wakes.
Every once in awhile my main 30"
Maybe you can tell me why my Mac occasionally wakes from sleep and the
machine’s monitor won’t come alive but the external monitor does. I have to
reboot it(unplug it plug back in) and it will work ok again for some random
number of sleep wakes.
--FT
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> On Aug 3, 2020, at
I've periodically reported on my various Adventures in Computing, and I
thought I'd check in again. As some may recall, I upgraded my main
desktop home/work (now) system from a Mac Pro 2,1 to a Mac Pro 5,1
(both were common firmware upgrades from the immediately preceding models,
followed by CPU
> What do you mean by "de-lidded"?
Some systems, for thermal reasons, use Intel CPUs that do not have the
integrated heat spreader,
a.k.a. 'lid', on them. This includes the Mac Pro 4,1 dual-CPU. Intel would
make them for you this
way, but that is not the normal product. You can remove the
Jim Cathey via Mercedes writes:
> Some may recall that I recently upgraded to a MacPro 4,1 machine, and
> I had upgraded its CPUs to dual X5690s, which I de-lidded myself.
What do you mean by "de-lidded"?
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Some may recall that I recently upgraded to a MacPro 4,1 machine, and I had
upgraded its CPUs to dual X5690s, which I de-lidded myself.
Unfortunately it turned out not to be reliable, and would crash periodically
with
an internal OS synchronization problem. Either X5690 would work OK by itself
> I'm not willing to try and delid CPUs. I’ve read and seen too many horror
> stories about the process going wrong.
Having been through it, it's easy. There are just a few mistakes to avoid.
I learned what not to do on a $6 X5650, which I destroyed. You could, too.
Or, learn from my mistakes
> I bet I could heat my house with that setup.
The 4,1, according to my calibrated feet, puts out less heat than the 2,1 did.
It's not that much. My work on the 2,1, when trying to get its power draw down,
had a minimal system drawing about 100W. Even fairly loaded up it was still
only about
> Am I to understand this involves cutting off/removing the metal can
> covering the CPU's chip?
Yes. Some people use a vise and extreme force. Others, including me,
use heat to melt the solder. There is a low-temperature indium (?) solder
used to solder the top of the die directly to a heavy
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> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers
>
> Recently I had purchased a dual-CPU MacPro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) to
Jim,
You are a far braver man than I. I have both a single and dual CPU tray for a
4,1. My current cheesegrater (flashed to 5,1, of course) is running the dual
tray but with two quad core Xeons running at 2.26 GHz. I would love to do a CPU
upgrade just for grins and because it’s a huge bump in
I bet I could heat my house with that setup.
G.
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Recently I
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 12:33:57 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes
wrote:
> For thermal reasons, though, the heat sinks are different on the
> dual-CPU 4,1 machines. There isn't enough room to fit two of the
> single-CPU sinks, so Apple spec'd de-lidded CPUs for the duals, and
> those are a bit hard to
Recently I had purchased a dual-CPU MacPro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) to upgrade from
my 2,1 running El Capitan. I had to have High Sierra in order to run my work's
VMware tasks, and the 5,1 is capable of this. (Not, however, without the 6-core
CPU's.) I'd bought a low-speed 4,1 single-CPU tray,
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:22:41 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> I bought a new enterprise grade HP Ethernet switch when I set up
> networking in the new house. It’s a fan-less 24 port model that even
> has a couple of ports for multimode fiber transceivers, which will
> never be used, I
I have a Mac Mini 2009 (3,1) on a shelf in my rack in the utility room that
runs my Plex media server. You wouldn’t know it was there unless you looked.
The DVR for my camera system makes more noise.
I bought a new enterprise grade HP Ethernet switch when I set up networking in
the new house.
I have two active cheese graters in my little work-from-home office, close
enough
to touch, and with the exception of the 'bad RAM' episode they never make any
significant noise. (Some RAM went bad, causing the thermal management subsystem
to decide to try to eject the RAM from the box via
Free enterprise at it's best - maximize $s once you have a virtual monopoly
on the market. I also will not buy subscription software from Adobe.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:48 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> > The point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware.
>
Back in the '90s if you were doing digital video you were using a Mac. Windows
options were slim.Today its shifted the other way, if you're not in LA you're
probably using a Windows machine. Apple has shafted the Pro video market so
regularly that they've finally come to their senses.
For
Nice.
I did some work in that building in the late 90s, and the guy who liased
between our distributor and NBC took us around and showed us the studios and
writer’s rooms for SNL. It was off season at the time, so there wasn’t anyone
around to speak of.
I noted that they had all Mac based
I don't know if I've told you guys this story before but if I have feel free
to delete.
Back around 2006-2007 I was teaching at NBC News in 30 Rock. One of the guys I
was teaching was ex-Saturday Night Live staff and asked me if I wanted to eat
lunch on the SNL set. Well duh...After lunch we
I rarely hear my fans unless I’m rendering video, and even then not that much.
As Jim said, I hear my hard drives more than my fans.
There were rack mount versions sort of until 2010 - the Xserve products, but I
don’t think any of them were as powerful as the cheesegraters. At least not
past
> I wouldn't keep a cheese grater around for what I do, they're too big and
> noisy.
They're big enough, but mine never make noise unless they get hot, which they
don't.
The hard disks inside make more noise seeking than the fans do. The all-metal
case is probably my favorite of all the
One of the major assets of the cheese graters is the internal drive bays.
(Here I'm disregarding the G5's, and the newest re-issue of the form.)
All of them support 4 SATA drives with ease. All of them support 6 SATA
drives, with varying amounts of fiddling around. The oldest ones support
8
+1 Amen
Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote on 3/17/20 8:47 PM:
I intend to avoid ALL subscription software like the plague that it is. Just
as I avoid the cloud.
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> The point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware.
ONE point of virtualization is to fully utilize hardware. That's not what I'm
using it for, though.
I'm _simulating_ what would be independent boxes in production within my
development environment.
I don't care much about the
It is. I wouldn't keep a cheese grater around for what I do, they're too big
and noisy.
I never liked the cheese grater case and in particular I loathed Apple's answer
to how to mount them in a 19" rack which involved a hacksaw on your $5,000
computer...
-Curt
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020,
Well, Jim was talking about running VMware. The point of virtualization is to
fully utilize hardware.I've never used Fusion for any serious virtualization
but I've got some dual 8 core machines in the office with 320GB of RAM each
that we do student systems on.
Its amazing that with 4 servers
Sounds like you’ve got the “trash can”, not a cheesegrater.
-D
> On Mar 17, 2020, at 9:11 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
>
> With all this talk I had to go check what I've got.
>
> Mine is apparently a 6,1. Quad core 3.7Ghz, 32GB of RAM. IIRC its only got a
> 256GB internal drive. I've got a 4TB
With all this talk I had to go check what I've got.
Mine is apparently a 6,1. Quad core 3.7Ghz, 32GB of RAM. IIRC its only got a
256GB internal drive. I've got a 4TB external drive I move between it and my
Macbook Pro for video editing.
Mostly this machine gets used for watching Amazon prime
> What is a cheesegrater?
Every Mac Pro except the now-superseded round 'trashcan' model, and including
the first G5 PowerMac. So named because of the strong resemblance the
front of the case has to the common kitchen tool.
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> On Mar 17, 2020, at 5:55 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> What is a cheesegrater?
>
> Allan
>
> Dan Penoff via Mercedes writes:
>
>> Nice.
>>
>> I’ve got a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 with dual quad
> Unless you have software designed to use all of [the cores] what use are they?
None whatsoever. DxO PhotoLab (current name) _is_ one of the things that
will make good use of all available cores. This program is what prompted my
move to a cheese grater to begin with. This after processing
What is a cheesegrater?
Allan
Dan Penoff via Mercedes writes:
> Nice.
>
> I’ve got a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 with dual quad core Xeons running at 2.26GHz,
> 28GB of RAM, a GTX680 flashed with Apple firmware, 500GB SSD for the boot
> drive, two 1TB hard drives for file storage and a 6TB hard drive
> It’s in another physical location in the house, which is good enough for me.
My brother suffered a catastrophic house fire. It got his primary computer,
a new-to-him cheesegrater, and its backup drive. It also got his former
primary computer, an XP machine of some sort which had not yet been
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:56:13 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes
wrote:
> This tower can hold much more RAM and disk than I can use with
> the new-ish laptop I've been using. And, the 30" monitor is pretty
> nice. When I'm done I should have a 12-core (24-thread) 3.3GHz CPU
> array, 48GB of RAM, 3TB
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:11 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I see some people’s eyes glazing over as they read this, but I can’t
> emphasize enough how important it is to BACKUP YOUR DATA! I got burned many
> years ago and swore never again. Removable storage is
Good point, but I don’t run VMware on my cheesegrater so it’s not an issue. The
few VMs I run on occasion I’ll do on VirtualBox. Since swapping CPUs on these
means taking them apart (de-lidding) I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
My 4,1/5,1 came with an Apple RAID card and four 800GB 15k iSCSI
> I’ve toyed with the idea of upgrading processors, but for what?
VMware Fusion 10 & 11 will NOT run on your E5520 (?) Nehalem CPU's, just as
they do
not on my X5570's. That's what prompted my push to putting in two X5690
Westmeres;
if I have to do surgery anyway, I might as well put in the
Nice.
I’ve got a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 with dual quad core Xeons running at 2.26GHz,
28GB of RAM, a GTX680 flashed with Apple firmware, 500GB SSD for the boot
drive, two 1TB hard drives for file storage and a 6TB hard drive as an internal
Time Machine backup that I mirror to my FreeNAS box daily.
I'm in the middle of upgrading my tricked-out Mac Pro 1,1 to a
tricked-out Mac Pro 4,1. This is essentially for work purposes,
and when I'm done it'll be running High Sierra instead of El Capitan,
and as a result capable of running the latest VMware and DxO packages.
This tower can hold much
Computers are getting smarter and that is a good thing.
Yesterday morning, I came into my office and when my monitor lit up,
there was a box in the middle of the screen telling me that Microsoft
Windows thought my hard drive was failing and suggested I take immediate
steps to secure my data.
No jars needed, I have a kegerator (photo attached).
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
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Jim said...
I thought the first true computer was build by the British...
Not talking about the _invention_ of the computer, that can
serve as a point of contention among all who care to debate
it. (Fun over beer.) Talking about the explosive proliferation
of same. That's quite clearly a US
I say we all head over to Tom's house to continue this debate over a few
jars of his 14% brew ;-).
Ed
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On 17/02/2008, Royce Engler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim said...
I thought the first true computer was build by the British...
Not talking about the _invention_ of the computer, that
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I say we all head over to Tom's house to continue this debate over a few
jars of his 14% brew ;-).
Ed
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Long drive..
Tom
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Wow, perfect, we're on our way over!! ;-)
Ed
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On 17/02/2008, Tom Hargrave
On Feb 17, 2008 3:12 PM, Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Long drive..
Tom
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How long?
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(Note I'm not saying it can't be done on Windows, but I know from
exp. that it takes a heck of a lot more work to get it happening
than it should on modern hardware with a modern OS, and UNIX was
built in the 70's.)
It's klunky on windows, I think you have
On Feb 1, 2008 10:55 AM, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you don't use a GUI you can do a surprising amount of business
computing on very modest hardware.
Allan
Even if you do use a GUI you can do a surprising amount of business
computing on modest hardware. You wouldn't see a
On Feb 7, 2008 10:46 AM, Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Note I'm not saying it can't be done on Windows, but I know from exp. that
it takes a heck of a lot more work to get it happening than it should on
modern hardware with a modern OS, and UNIX was built in the 70's.)
And the end
On Feb 7, 2008 2:48 PM, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Note I'm not saying it can't be done on Windows, but I know from
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than it should on modern hardware with a modern OS, and UNIX
Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers
I could really use a tube tester. Any idea where to get a decent one for a
good price? Ideally it would be multiple voltage for when I go back home.
Thanks
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Thanks,
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Hey Randy! That would be great. I'd appreciate any info you may
Does a VTVM still have the highest input impedence, therefore the
least effect on the circuit it's measuring?
I think the 10MOhm/V figure of the basic VTVM was the figure
to beat when they designed the FET-input (and subsequent)
meters, and so they did. (Or at least meet it.)
It's awfully
Gents,
How difficult is it to build a tube tester? I run a lot of tube audio
equipment and have LOTS of tubes I'd like to match up with regards to plate
rating.
Any schematics/plans you could point me to?
Thanks,
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Mine is more like 1963 or so --- still one the same tube also.
As the old saying goes, Real radios glow in the dark.
It's awfully hard to kill a vacuum tube, though, so I still
like the VTVM when generally poking around. Mine's still on
the original vacuum tube. We built it in what, about
: [MBZ] OT: Computers
My buddy had a PET with 4 kb of memory...
Little known fact: the PET was designed for Radio Shack, but
Tandy thought it so nasty that they designed the Trash-80 to
deploy instead. Commodore decided to sell it themselves.
-- Jim
Allan Streib wrote:
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I was in Havana in the mid 1980's the travel bureaus there were
using that 'Trash-80' in their offices.
The only reason I quit using my 8mhz Zenith notebook was that it refused
to power up one day, even after I took both batteries
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I was in Havana in the mid 1980's the travel bureaus there were
using that 'Trash-80' in their offices.
If you don't use a GUI you can do a surprising amount of business
computing on very modest hardware.
Allan
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Any one else here ever built a Heath Kit ??
Yup. Re-built a couple my dad built too, now they
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Any one else here ever built a Heath Kit ??
George Larribeau
Dallas Texas
The only reason I quit using my 8mhz Zenith notebook was that it refused
to power up one day, even after I took both batteries out for an hour.
It wasn't suitable for web browsing or windoze, but worked fine
available.
Randy
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Any one else here ever built a Heath Kit ??
George Larribeau
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Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I was in Havana in the mid 1980's the travel bureaus there were
using
On Feb 1, 2008 10:23 AM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Getting rid of the
extra stuff in our modern programs would sure whittle them down a lot. All
I need is word processing, spell check and a few fonts. How big does MS
Office Enterprise need to be to just do that?
A lot of people have
I still have my first one - an LED alarm clock. Sits right on my bedside table
and has been waking me up consistently for close to 30 years.
I built a bunch of HK stuff. Anything in particular you were wondering about?
Dan
Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any one else here
I did a VTVM, Tube Tester, RF generator etc. Should have kept them.
People now collect this stuff.
I still use the VTVM, every time I need to measure something
on the bench. The fluke gets used too if I need more accuracy,
or current. I collected two more of the same model at the
thrift
I could really use a tube tester. Any idea where to get a decent one for a
good price? Ideally it would be multiple voltage for when I go back home.
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Does a VTVM still have the highest input impedence, thereofre the
least effect on the circuit it's measuring? My Knightkit VTVM is in
the attic - need to get it down and fire it up again. I last used the
Tektronics scope (all tube) to measure the distributor pickup coil
output on the SLC a couple
It seems than at Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:28:18 -0600, OK wrote:
Does a VTVM still have the highest input impedence, thereofre
the least effect on the circuit it's measuring?
No. A good modern digital meters have a 10M ohm input impedance.
VTVM is about the same, if I'm remembering correctly.
A
a PET with 4 kb of
memory, and with that much power [!] and a 4 pen plotter [leased] he started a
business.
BillR
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My
My first computer was a Sinclare (sp). You had to plug it into a tape
player for storage. I built a Heath Kit all-in-one for my second. Enjoyed
building it more than using it.
Harry
On Jan 30, 2008 9:17 AM, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My first computer, a PC with a 40MB HD
My buddy had a PET with 4 kb of memory...
Little known fact: the PET was designed for Radio Shack, but
Tandy thought it so nasty that they designed the Trash-80 to
deploy instead. Commodore decided to sell it themselves.
-- Jim
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a Mac SE. With a, get this, 20 mb hard drive. Cost
$5500, and if you wanted real speed and set up to the SE30, with a 40 mb
drive, it was a cool $7500!
My first computer, a PC with a 40MB HD purchased in 1990 was $10K, but that
included the nifty talking gadgetry (card, external speaker,
My first computer, a PC with a 40MB HD purchased in 1990 was $10K,
Mine was an 1802 single board computer with 256 bytes of RAM.
It was $99, as I recall. Gobs of fun at the time. I still have
it, it worked the last time I fired it up. Its special talent
was its video output port. (Block
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, computers again
thanks dude, I will give that a try.
George Larribeau wrote:
Kaleb, I am assuming W2K or XP. Try the 'custom button after it 'thinks'
for a while you will get a list with the 'critical updates on it (there
is also lists for 'optional software and hardware
Windows in the long run.
Thanks,
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Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dickie swears by BSD and we all know, um, just how reliable his
stuff is.
Wasn't all his hardware cobbled together from discarded salvage
though? As I recall most of the problems he had were disk drives
failing and not having proper backups. The OS can't
BSD is one of the most reliable subversions of UNIX. OS X is based loosely
around BSD, and Solaris is a BSD kernel. Just because Dickie doesn't know
how to tune his systems doesn't mean the engine is bad.
Ed
On Jan 30, 2008 12:27 PM, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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It seems than at Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:39:37 -0500, LarryT wrote:
Is it a problem using a SATA HD as a slave to a ATA HDs --
That doesn't apply.
The slave master designation is for the two devices allowed
on a ATA channel.
The term slave drive no longer
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As far as the heat, would it be permissable to leave the side panel off
to
pull extra air into the box?
Looks like I can mix the HDs as long as I can live with performance
issues.
Thx -
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Computer cases are designed to cool better with the cover on. That's why
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Larry,
SATA is only the interface and the drive mechanics are exactly the same as
a
standard ATA or SCSI
, 2008 10:52 PM
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The Antec cases are the way to go. They might be more
expensive, but you have something you'll be happy with.
Craig
Yup.
And they have good service. The power supply fan fail in my
Sonata.(extra quiet) I called
It seems than at Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:24:20 -0500, LarryT wrote:
I can pull the info about my mobo - but
is it safe to assume, since there is a power and data cable
from the mobo the SATA is supported? I better pull the manual
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speaking of windows update, I have 2 different computers that I do the
windows
its own airflow
design, as will the processor, everything else will start to run hot.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:24:20 -0500
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I had some trouble and had to reformat my XP hard drive again.
I've still got the SP2.cab file from the Service Pack 2 I downloaded
last weekend. Is there a way I can install sp2 from the cabinet file
without running windows update and downloading for seven hours again?
Mitch.
speaking of windows update, I have 2 different computers that I do the
windows update, it downloads them but wont install any of the updates.
AFter it goes thru its deal, says update failed. Anybody got a clue
about that?
If you repaired the copies of Windows XP from the Windows disk,
thanks dude, I will give that a try.
George Larribeau wrote:
Kaleb, I am assuming W2K or XP. Try the 'custom button after it 'thinks'
for a while you will get a list with the 'critical updates on it (there
is also lists for 'optional software and hardware(driver related) ignore
these lists
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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, computers again
Larry,
SATA is only the interface and the drive mechanics are exactly the same as
a
standard ATA or SCSI drive. That's not to say that SCSI is not faster
it sees a file it grabs it, compresses it and
spits a finished file out. One of my better low buck projects.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:32:00 -0600
From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT, computers again
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Well, what happened was I had an old cracked version of xp installed,
but got a legal corporate copy from my brother who is in the computer
business and did the upgrade option to install it so I could use windows
update. Before, with the old copy, it would say I did not have a
genuine copy.
WOW, that fixed my problem. These OT questions are great!! This list
is more helpful than just for MB problems.
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Well, what happened was I had an old cracked version of xp installed,
but got a legal corporate copy from my brother who is in the computer
business and
WOW, that fixed my problem. These OT questions are great!! This list
is more helpful than just for MB problems.
Glad it worked.
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:40:08 -0500 Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had some trouble and had to reformat my XP hard drive again.
I've still got the SP2.cab file from the Service Pack 2 I downloaded
last weekend. Is there a way I can install sp2 from the cabinet file
without running
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