I have to rant here for a second ..
I had an ASUS ATI 4850 (one of the first ones), and after a while, I started getting red lines on the screen. If I move the PCB of the card, it resolve the issue (bad traces maybe??)
Long story short, I RMA the card, and in the meanwhile, I replace it...
I ended up buying a 680i board a while back, that stopped working. I talked to support, and they had me RMA the motherboard.
After a couple weeks BFG sent me a motherboard, however the board itself looked damage and had traces exposed on the motherboard. I tried the motherboard anyway...
I got my second 4850 yesterday, and it turns out, my 400w power supply isn't beefy enough to run the entire system :)
The specs are:
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
Intel Core 2 E8400 (stock speed)
4 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 800
1 x Seagate 1TB 7200 SATA
1 x Hitachi 750GB 7200 SATA
2 x Asus ATI 4850...
I've read the router faq posted, but it really doesn't answer this question ..
I recently got verzion fios, with a 20/20 connection. Their actiontec router leaves much to be desired. I've modified it to work as a network bridge, and have started using my WRT54GS as my firewall. The problem...
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I got a MSI 865PE Neo2-V with the following configuration:
P4 2.8
2 sticks of DDR400 2x512mb
I'm rebuilding this computer after a move, and I can't get it to boot. The machine POSTs and goes through the BIOS, however, when it goes to boot, it locks.
I've tried the following:
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In the span of the last 9 months, I've lost a total of 4 maxtor drives -- no other brand (including ithe infamous deskstar 75GXP!).
The first was a PATA 200 gig 5400
The second and third, being a PATA 250 / 7200
and now, the fourth is SATA 160 (dell sc420)
The last one that died, had...
I shifted around parts of my mythtv setup, and needed a new video card for one of my mythtv frontends. I bought a MSI NVidia 5200FX card (AGP), and put it in the system, and the S-video was black and white (including the bios screen, etc). Which to make matters more interesting, I have a "mad...