I'm guessing your card went south. My Radeon 8500 worked fine for 2 years, then the fan started grinding to a halt. When I used it under Linux, I got horizontal lines from the edges of all of my windows. Under WindowsXP, if I tried to play a DVD, I actually got the BSoD. So I emailed ATI, got a replacement card. The fan on that one was loud and wobbly, so I sent it back again. Third card, I think I shorted it because I didn't ground myself (and wore socks while walking on carpeting.) Fourth card was the charm though, and ATI even covered the expense for shipping the 3rd card back!
I've heard these kind of stories much too often for my personal comfort. You should rarely ever have to take any video card back for a defect, yet motherboards, video cards, etc. seem manufactured at such a pace that quality is only a probability variable. Failure rates on PSU's and CD/DVD ROM drives at some assembly plants are acceptable at 15% or higher because of the volume. Really. I'm happy to shell a couple hundred for something that works right off and lasts for a few years.
The fan works fine on my card, can hardly even hear it with the cover open. I've re-seated the card and cables a couple times, but no real difference achieved.
Your mobo does not have a VIA chipset does it? There is a known problem with 9700/9800 and some via chipsets (and both via and ati keep pointing fingers at each other)
Does have VIA. ASUS A7V8X variety with the onboard audio, gigabit lan, SATA, etc.
Also make sure that your power supply can handle the load. I've seen systems reboot when the GPU kicked in hard because the PS was too weak!
Great big PCP&Cooling PSU, no problems there, though I did experiment by disconnecting anything unnecessary for a boot-up to see if there was any kind of voltage drop problem.
Don't need the latest and greatest 3D performance? Then try a Matrox card. Solid cards and they have the added bonus of being supported better under Linux.
I've had good experience in the past with Matrox video cards, in particular a dualie which never let me down.
he 512MB card can't outperform its 256MB counterpart and costs 50% more.
I'd be thrilled just to have my ALL-IN-WONDER® 9800 Pro not be so damn fragile. Often it comes up with
bars and artifacts and I keep rebooting until it behaves. I've tried all the driver and firmware updates and
fiddled with AGP volage settings to no avail. Graphics benchmarks all pass with flying colors (no pun intended) then
the PC crashes when I start up some games. Meanwhile, a $37 graphics car (with a $10 rebate) from Circuit City is 100% reliable (except I can't
watch TV on it.) Time for ATI/Nvidia race to focus on quality rather than quantity.
What's interesting about this... Is that the planet is something like five times as large as Jupiter, which defies all known data about planetary formation.
Update: The planet was discovered shortly after a bout of sneezing around the telescopes. New speculation has emerged that the giant planet is composed of phlegm.
That, and it's orbiting a brown dwarf.
"We prefer to be called people of extraterrestrial-melanin-enhanced-skin-vertically- challenged", said a spokesextraterrestrial.
Basically, Paul Murphy is wrong about what SCO is suing IBM for and wrong in his misinformed conclusion that SCO's case has any merit. The rest of his position piece follows logically from those two initial errors.
Would you hire this consultant?
it is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Just take the floormats out and put them under the wheels for traction. Or you can let some air out of the tires which will give them a bigger footprint and better traction.
Hilarious. You should do stand up.
Seriously, floormats are usually much more slippery because they're plastic. You'd be better off carrying a 5 pound bag of sand around in your car during the winter. I've seen people try the floormats and they make interesting projectiles. This is what a flying carpet would look like!
Letting air out of the tires doesn't work, period. It's like urban legend stuff. If you let too much air out of a tire then the snow bunches up under the middle of the tread which becomes convex.
Moderation is the trick, go easy instead of trying to spin out of deep ice or snow. Once you've broken the coefficient of friction you'll never get anywhere and just end up packing snow into ice and polishing it.
Here in so-cal, the average daily accident rate doubles from about 200 per day to 400 per day when it rains. People just don't slow down.
Not so much a matter of not slowing down, they don't allow more space between themselves and the next vehicle, even the knackerheads who cut in between cars with only a whisker to spare. Small wonder there's more accidents, there's less room for error and compensation.
In a talk Douglas pointed out that W W W is 9 syllables, 6 more than what the abbreviation stands for 'World Wide Web' He suggested calling it "Triple-U"
Also a question of who inspired Ford Prefect, it wasn't Eric Idle (as I'd guessed, from his minor involvement with the Pythons) but a college roommate, whose name he didn't give.
More like Opportunity is being piloted by people who never lived in the Great White North and haven't had the pleasure of learning to drive in deep snow without 4WD and chains.
I used to do about 10,000 miles a year of winter driving, often on ice, through slush or snow. Even cruising home a few nights in blizzards. I'm fascinated, living in California, how few people seem able to drive in rain. (We're having a rainy year, BTW)
This brings up interesting questions on how they're going to know where in the world your VoIP enabled laptop is when you call 911."
With the universal adoption of GPS, it wouldn't be hard to put a GPS receiver on a USB key-fob and relay the information in some standardized fashion.
It's being bundled into cell phones these days for the same purpose.
Just don't bundle it into the computer itself, or the conspiracy theorists may become the conspiracy realists.;)
Nice, but if you're connected via dialup (like me) the ISP and Telco could figure this out pretty quick (assuming they felt like doing it, maybe there is or should be a requirement for this. There probably is...) For DSL, same. For anywhere else, best of luck. Fixed and mobile are becoming a blur with mobile VoIP.
The downside? A bunch of mindless dorks DoS'ing 911 services.
Didn't we see this astroturfing "reviews" when the latest episode came out? It was supposed to the best episode ever and when I went to see it, it was fucking crap aimed at 13-year old.
Well, based upon what you're likely to see if you go to this film, you'll see what depths Anakin and Palpatine sink for evil. I mean, this isn't rub your hands and cackle maniacally evil, this is turn on anyone and everyone to settle your scores, while having your strings pulled by a Mighty Evil Master(TM) evil. Darth Vader is supposed to be sinister and all we've really seen up to this point is a kid with some promise, growing up and getting angrier and angrier, sort of like the dark clouds gathering before a good old fashion midwestern thunderstorm which will probably be proceded by some devastating tornadoes. Revenge of the Sith will probably make some people very uneasy and produce some raving reviews 'won't someone please think of the children (yeah, get them GTA:SA instead.)
Sounds like Lucas did a fine job and I'm looking forward to my artery-clogging bucket of popcorn and half gallon of carbonated sugar water while gazing at the screen in total fascination.
Maybe americans expect 40 hours a week, health care, paid sick and vacation, etc. Why hire them if you could find someone thrilled to work 30 hour weeks and forgo the fringes. I'm sure he's really just looking for people with masters and doctorates who would consider half what an american would expect a great deal, because the taxes in their country or opportunities in their country are unattractive and non-existent (in that order)
Is their editor drunk or is this standard British English?
Could be drunk, or could be the new editor who was lower on the salary scale than the guy they sacked. I've been hearing some sniping on the World Service broadcasts, little digs about pay and benefits as off-hand remarks. Probably as a result of the BBC doing major cutbacks, which were announced a month or two back.
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More like gambling on putting your PC on the internet. Will it become a zombie or not?
Just hazarding a guess, extortionists favor Windows over other leading brand operating systems. Some sales pitch...
I've heard these kind of stories much too often for my personal comfort. You should rarely ever have to take any video card back for a defect, yet motherboards, video cards, etc. seem manufactured at such a pace that quality is only a probability variable. Failure rates on PSU's and CD/DVD ROM drives at some assembly plants are acceptable at 15% or higher because of the volume. Really. I'm happy to shell a couple hundred for something that works right off and lasts for a few years.
The fan works fine on my card, can hardly even hear it with the cover open. I've re-seated the card and cables a couple times, but no real difference achieved.
Does have VIA. ASUS A7V8X variety with the onboard audio, gigabit lan, SATA, etc.
Great big PCP&Cooling PSU, no problems there, though I did experiment by disconnecting anything unnecessary for a boot-up to see if there was any kind of voltage drop problem.
I've had good experience in the past with Matrox video cards, in particular a dualie which never let me down.
I'd be thrilled just to have my ALL-IN-WONDER® 9800 Pro not be so damn fragile. Often it comes up with bars and artifacts and I keep rebooting until it behaves. I've tried all the driver and firmware updates and fiddled with AGP volage settings to no avail. Graphics benchmarks all pass with flying colors (no pun intended) then the PC crashes when I start up some games. Meanwhile, a $37 graphics car (with a $10 rebate) from Circuit City is 100% reliable (except I can't watch TV on it.) Time for ATI/Nvidia race to focus on quality rather than quantity.
Worry not, he'll be promoted to Colonel (kernel) in no time.
sorry...
At first I thought it was some obscure reference to Beetle Bailey.
Update: The planet was discovered shortly after a bout of sneezing around the telescopes. New speculation has emerged that the giant planet is composed of phlegm.
That, and it's orbiting a brown dwarf.
"We prefer to be called people of extraterrestrial-melanin-enhanced-skin-vertically- challenged", said a spokesextraterrestrial.
Would you hire this consultant? it is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
I think Bill Gates would volunteer to fly him there.
just like everything else
Hilarious. You should do stand up.
Seriously, floormats are usually much more slippery because they're plastic. You'd be better off carrying a 5 pound bag of sand around in your car during the winter. I've seen people try the floormats and they make interesting projectiles. This is what a flying carpet would look like!
Letting air out of the tires doesn't work, period. It's like urban legend stuff. If you let too much air out of a tire then the snow bunches up under the middle of the tread which becomes convex.
Moderation is the trick, go easy instead of trying to spin out of deep ice or snow. Once you've broken the coefficient of friction you'll never get anywhere and just end up packing snow into ice and polishing it.
Not so much a matter of not slowing down, they don't allow more space between themselves and the next vehicle, even the knackerheads who cut in between cars with only a whisker to spare. Small wonder there's more accidents, there's less room for error and compensation.
Also a question of who inspired Ford Prefect, it wasn't Eric Idle (as I'd guessed, from his minor involvement with the Pythons) but a college roommate, whose name he didn't give.
There's my minor nuggets.
More like Opportunity is being piloted by people who never lived in the Great White North and haven't had the pleasure of learning to drive in deep snow without 4WD and chains.
I used to do about 10,000 miles a year of winter driving, often on ice, through slush or snow. Even cruising home a few nights in blizzards. I'm fascinated, living in California, how few people seem able to drive in rain. (We're having a rainy year, BTW)
"ok, it's not going to budge, call MAA"
"No, it's a diagnostic."
Nice, but if you're connected via dialup (like me) the ISP and Telco could figure this out pretty quick (assuming they felt like doing it, maybe there is or should be a requirement for this. There probably is...) For DSL, same. For anywhere else, best of luck. Fixed and mobile are becoming a blur with mobile VoIP.
The downside? A bunch of mindless dorks DoS'ing 911 services.
Well, based upon what you're likely to see if you go to this film, you'll see what depths Anakin and Palpatine sink for evil. I mean, this isn't rub your hands and cackle maniacally evil, this is turn on anyone and everyone to settle your scores, while having your strings pulled by a Mighty Evil Master(TM) evil. Darth Vader is supposed to be sinister and all we've really seen up to this point is a kid with some promise, growing up and getting angrier and angrier, sort of like the dark clouds gathering before a good old fashion midwestern thunderstorm which will probably be proceded by some devastating tornadoes. Revenge of the Sith will probably make some people very uneasy and produce some raving reviews 'won't someone please think of the children (yeah, get them GTA:SA instead.)
Sounds like Lucas did a fine job and I'm looking forward to my artery-clogging bucket of popcorn and half gallon of carbonated sugar water while gazing at the screen in total fascination.
Maybe americans expect 40 hours a week, health care, paid sick and vacation, etc. Why hire them if you could find someone thrilled to work 30 hour weeks and forgo the fringes. I'm sure he's really just looking for people with masters and doctorates who would consider half what an american would expect a great deal, because the taxes in their country or opportunities in their country are unattractive and non-existent (in that order)
Sounds like he wants a bunch of foreign workers who wouldn't quibble over a $20,000-30,000 salary where a US coder would expect a bit more.
You just never know what will show up at that Michael Jackson trial, do you?
Could be drunk, or could be the new editor who was lower on the salary scale than the guy they sacked. I've been hearing some sniping on the World Service broadcasts, little digs about pay and benefits as off-hand remarks. Probably as a result of the BBC doing major cutbacks, which were announced a month or two back.
Now that WOULD be a useful feature. Send a code which activates your phones own hold music.
I've got an old bag phone... I wonder what the range on that monster is...