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    FYI: adding AHCI and NCQ to Vista (hard drive stuff)

    it had not occurred to me to re-install the chipset drivers. I just now did so but did not notice any difference anywhere. But good idea anyway! Thanks for mentioning it.
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    FYI: adding AHCI and NCQ to Vista (hard drive stuff)

    Certainly didn't mean to imply originality - just something I discovered on my own - glad you found it and posted it. To prove it's of benefit, one would have to drive the HD moderately hard, and not sequentially, such that the need for NCQ might arise. Perhaps something like a defragger...
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    FYI: adding AHCI and NCQ to Vista (hard drive stuff)

    (copied from my post to vista.general nntp) AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) NCQ ( Native Command Queuing) (puts commands to HD in order) Got a new drive (Seagate ST3 750 330 AS), and thought I'd try this NCQ stuff. Set BIOS to AHCI and AHCI BIOS. The BIOS did pick up all my...
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    Got a DVD player and reset the 89 to PC. :D
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    The 89 has lots of improves over the 81. Read the whole of this thread. Lots of nice info in there! By the way, thanks to the nice folks who started this thread!!! :D:D:D
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    Well, this fell off, yesterday :( That is, I looked at some other settings in the monitor, and then it wouldn't go into standby any more. I was trying to get Vista to put it into standby automatically after 10 min, but it wouldn't. Of course it won't now! Linux just shut it off and I'm...
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    Where I live, no one is likely to have an HDMI device.
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    you get bad karma doing stuff like that.
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    Follow up: after asking, I took it to BestBuy home theater and they let me connect it to a DVD player, I got the correct menu, I changed HDMI from Video to PC, brought it back home and works just fine now. Continues to show the old useless menu, but the setting change I made at BB remained...
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    Just bought a Hannspree HF289H 28" LCD

    noob to this forum but been reading this thread for a while. Finally read it from start to finish last 2 days and got to the solution re the not going in to standby when power off computer. Great catch guys!!! Just called Hannspree to check, but yeah, either a 9x00 vid card or PS3 or DVD...
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