Friday, 20 July 2007
Saturday, 26 May 2007
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| Re: Twinhead VXe P88TE Windows XP works with sound ! Jeffbrntn 19:53:41 |
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WhatAboutBob? Wrote: > Hey people,>
I just wanted to let anyone know that I have a Twinhead Slimnote VXe> (model P88TE) that I have upgraded on my own.> I upgraded the cpu from a Mobile Pentium II 366MHz to a Mobile Celeron> 466MHz (it uses a Micro-PGA1 a.k.a. uPGA1 processor package) without a> hitch! I also installed a 6X DVD-ROM drive into the system, as well as> a 20GB hard drive. I also maxed out the memory at 256MB... this thing> is a speedy little machine now  > Now I ran into a problem where the system worked perfectly with> Windows 98 and 98 S.E. but when I installed Windows 2000 the speakers> were not working  No matter what I tried to do they would not work.> The drivers provided did not seem to work... or did they?> I found out that the drivers are not optimized properly, there is a> setting that you have to play with to set the speakers to either> digital or analog, and analog seems to do the trick. By default the> setting is set to autosense (autodetect) and that seems to be the> problem... I think it is cancelling itself out somehow.> Anyways... Windows 2000 worked perfectly, and I thought why not try> WinXP to see what happens, because all the drivers for Win2K are the> same for WinXP... well I am happy to say that Windows XP now runs> beautifully on the Twinhead Slimnote VXe P88TE!!!> Best of luck to you people!>
Could you tell me where this setting is as I cannot find it on the
laptop.
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Jeffbrntn
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Sunday, 29 April 2007
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| Army men RTS Guest 19:27:33 |
| | hey guys!!
i have a problem when I try to install the game army men RTS... before the installation starts this error box appears:
"error number:0x80040707
description:dll function call crashed: chkreqs.setupwindow
setup will now terminate"
then i press the ok button (it's the only one available) and the setup terminates... it's been long since i played this game and i want to play it again...
i've already made some google searches but i can't find any solution...
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Thursday, 8 February 2007
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| acer travelmate 230/280 Rauf Ayub 17:59:25 |
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Hi,
how can i clear bios password on my acer travel mate 230/280
i have accidently enabled it and cant seem to clear it
please advise
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rauf ayub
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Monday, 14 August 2006
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| IBM expands Opteron lineup Bbbl67 10:42:36 |
| | IBM falls in love with Opteron all over again | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/01/opteron_redux_ibm/
IBM announced 5 server models based on the Socket F/Rev F Opterons.
Despite all of the hoopla surrounding Woodcrest, it does look like the
Opteron momentum keeps growing. A recent article also said that AMD has
now captured 25% of the overall x86 server market already.
Yousuf Khan
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| AMD gives reasons for not opposing ATI subpoena Yousuf Khan 07:01:40 |
| | bbbl67 wrote:> Intel subpoenas ATI> "It looks like Intel hopes to show that the ATI purchase will make AMD> more competitive; what this has to do with Intel's own alleged> antitrust violations in the past is not clear."> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060811-7476.html>
AMD gives reasons for not opposing ATI subpoena
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33647
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Sunday, 13 August 2006
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| Intel to open-source its graphics drivers Yousuf Khan 21:50:25 |
| | It seems that Intel and AMD are so competitive with each other that they
even come up with the same thoughts at the same time. Now that's
hyper-competition. AMD was musing about this too just a few days ago
about ATI's drivers.
Yousuf Khan
Intel aims for open-source graphics advantage | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_3-6103941.html?tag=nefd.lede
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| Cool 'n Quiet Bards1888 16:53:15 |
| | can anyone cofirm/deny that cool'n quiet only works in 64 bit mode,
under linux specifically. I have tried Centos 4.2 (Redhat Clone) and
when I install the i386 version it does not throttle the CPU (cat
/proc/cpuinfo shows the CPU always at maximum speed) however on the
64bit version the CPU slows down to 1ghz courtesy of the 'cpuspeed'
daemon. This daemon does not even seem to exist on the i386 version.
Cheers.
Bards.
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Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| Mac Installation Disc cd Malone 13:28:36 |
| | I followed the directions to download boot camp beta, updated my mac,
however the download did not prompt me to create a back up macdriver
cd. I am at a loss on how to proceed. Does anyone have any insight, it
would be much appreciated. I attempted to bifurate the hd via the
utilites menu, but this lead me no where. what should I do?????
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| Intel subpoenas ATI Bbbl67 09:07:47 |
| | Intel subpoenas ATI
"It looks like Intel hopes to show that the ATI purchase will make AMD
more competitive; what this has to do with Intel's own alleged
antitrust violations in the past is not clear."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060811-7476.html
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| Installed New Power Supply Gravitywell 06:36:23 |
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I just got a new power supply for my newer computer (Amd) and installed
it; turned it on: the keyboard numlock, caps lock, scroll lock leds on
the keyboard lit for a couple seconds, nothing else happened- no fans
(even the ps fan) started, or no bios start message or anything. Could
this be a motherboard issue or is my new PS possibly bad?
Deaf Community sees tragedy as entertainment
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Gravitywell
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| IBM's new memory latency reduction technology for Opterons Yousuf Khan 04:07:07 |
| | Will allow IBM Opteron servers to keep running at full 667Mhz speeds
even with a full complement of 8 DIMMs.
Turbo-charged memory and Opterons rev up IBM servers - Computing
"IBM hopes to distinguish itself in Opteron servers through a
patent-pending capability it calls Xcelerated Memory Technology that
will boost memory access speeds by up to 15 percent over rivals, the
firm claimed. ???It??™s like a turbo-charger for memory,??? said Stuart McRae,
IBM system marketing manager. ???It gives us the full 128GB [RAM capacity]
at the full 667MHz speed. Others will be restricted to four Dimms per
CPU whereas we will have eight.???"
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2161520/turbo-charged-memory-opterons
Yousuf Khan
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| Dell Laptop destroys a Truck YKhan 23:10:59 |
| | It killed Jenny!
"Exploding" Dell Laptop Destroys Truck, Imperils Outsdoorsmen
"Riddle recovered, but Forqueran is still grieving the loss of Jenny,
the family heirloom -- a stock 1966 Ford that Forqueran took to auto
shows."
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/dell_fire.html
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| CPU for a really old laptop Nobody@Nowhere.Net 19:14:57 |
| | I got hold of a real antic - toshiba satellite 2515cds with PMMX-266.
If anyone remembers how to deal with this dinosaur, please answer a
few questions:
1. Is it regular Socket 7 or something different?
2. Are there any multiplier and (hardly possible but still hope) FSB
clock jumpers? What are possible FSB settings?
3. Did anyone try AMD k6-2+ or 3+ in this? Did it work?
My plan is to use one of these (whatever I can have on ebay or
anywhere else - they must be around $20) to make this thing at least
marginally capable to run win2k. Even if the bus is locked at 66, it
still would make the CPU run at 400. If, against the odds, the bus
can be set to 75, that would mean 450. On-chip L2 will also speed
things up. And if the chipset happens to be Super7 (snowball in hell
chance) this baby might go up to 600. Right now it has only a corrupt
win98 that boots only to safe mode, and no NIC, so I can't even load
something like Sandra to get more info about the system. I want to
install win2k and office and give it to old folks - for browsing,
email, and light MS Word typing this thing should be marginally
adequate. I just don't want them to deal with crappy 9x, and 2k needs
a bit more horsepower than 266.
TIA
NNN
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| SiS 748: best socket A chipset? Pigdos 18:31:53 |
| | I've never personally owned a motherboard using this chipset and I actually
can't even name one motherboard that uses this chipset, but on paper it
looks better than the Nforce2. It supports the same amount and types of
memory as the Nforce2 but features the Mutiol Northbridge/Southbridge
interface which communicates at 1GBps, which I beleive is faster than the
Nforce2 Northbridge/Southbridge communication channel. So was/is it the best
socket A chipset? Anyone ever owned a motherboard using this chipset?
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Doug
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Thursday, 10 August 2006
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| Latest news on AMD price cuts? Guest 20:36:52 |
| | Anyone know what's the latest on AMDs rumoured price cuts? Are they
going to be on July 28th after the Conroe officially launches? [And
therefore probably won't be noticable to us until August at earliest
]
I ask because I'm helping someone assemble a new comp. It's only for
Office work and the internet so will probably just be a Sempron so
unlikely to make that much difference in any case but just wondering
how things are going. Actually I am considering a Pentium D 805 because
as much as I dislike Intel and as crappy as the Pentium D is, this
doesn't change the fact that the average users doesn't ever see or need
the performance anyway but the advantages of dual core, especially with
Windows' sometimes crappy thread management may be be noticeable. But
it's a bit expensive and I expect extremely light usage in any case so
I'd probably just end up sticking with the Sempron
Cheers
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| Damaged to cpu? Dan 19:16:41 |
| | I managed to pull a AMD64 s939 cpu out of its socket without releasing the
lever on the side of the socket! After a thorough examination it seems to
be ok (no missing/bent pins) but, apart from actually plugging it in to
another mobo, is it possible that it will still work?
Dan
(i should add that the power was off - of course!  )
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| Macro-Op fusion does not work in 64-bit mode YKhan 09:41:26 |
| | "The thing is though, while MOF may be touted as the best thing since
sliced bread, it does not cause many performance problems when it is
off. It appears that the bottleneck in the CPU is not in that aspect of
the pipeline, so its loss has little speed impact. More on this when
the testing is complete."
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33347
Macro-op Fusion was one of the big hype items of the
Conroe/Merom/Woodcrest. This feature is supposed to be one of the
things giving Intel it's edge over AMD in the performance wars. Now it
turns out that it doesn't even work in 64-bit mode. But apparently it's
no big deal. Most of us have already figured out that the real secret
behind CMW is its big L2 cache, but Intel downplayed that. So Intel
can't have it both ways, either MOF is important, and Intel will have
to explain why it isn't available when in 64-bit mode and why CMW is
crippled in that mode? Or MOF isn't important, and Intel has to admit
that it's all due the cache.
Yousuf Khan
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Wednesday, 9 August 2006
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| Thinkpad Synaptics driver YKhan 08:00:45 |
| | Thinkpads with both the touchpad and joybutton can't seem to use the
standard Synaptics driver (which seems to be meant for touchpad-only
systems). If you put the standard Synaptics driver in, then the
joybutton features get degraded. The reason for upgrading to the
Synaptics standard drivers would be to fix some of the well known
scrolling problems that the touchpad has, the newer Synaptics drivers
completely solve those. But then you may find that your joybutton
buttons don't all work (for example the middle scroll button on the
joybutton controls will stop functioning). I tend to use the touchpad
and joybutton interchangeably -- certain things the touchpad is better
at, while other times the joybutton wins out.
Has anyone found a solution to this? The standard Thinkpad drivers seem
to be a hacked up old version of the Synaptics driver.
Yousuf Khan
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Tuesday, 8 August 2006
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| AMD's 939 production halt sends prices tumbling SpamBox 11:40:59 |
| | I saw this: -
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32603
and now I'm really miffed. I bought an Asrock 939Dual-Sata2, an Ath64 3000
and top spec RAM with the thought that in a year or two, I would be able to
pick up a better 939 as the prices would have dropped. Now it turns out that
AMD have stopped production of skt939 CPUs. What a bummer. I know that with
this mobo I have the AM2 upgrade path, but that wasn't quite what I had in
mind.
Bugger.
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