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" Or have you really honest to goodness as a power user EVER called or Emailed MS ? Paid support for regular users is highly over rated. (honestly its over rated for most companies as well... for most small and medium sized companies they are going to end up paying a local tech company for...

In the video associated with this article, a guy was complaining about receiving 7-10 robocalls a week. Hell, I would be happy with that. I get that many a day! Like most, I don't even answer any call I don't recognize. I get enough calls to start seeing a pattern. These guys work primarily...

In a thousand years, if I am calculating correctly, I would be REALLY old. Oh wait, I am already! Nevermind

Hopefully poor choice of naming http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/passenger-grounds-an-entire-flight-with-their-poor-taste-wifi-hotspot-name/ar-BBsAz1m?li=BBnbfcL

Just to set the record straight. There has been only one CEO after Apotheker. That one was Meg Whitman. The order is: Carly Fiorina Mark Hurd Leo Apotheker Meg Whitman

Yes, HP wants/needs to provide good results to their shareholders. Whether it is the 1% types or not I won't argue. However, I know a lot of employees who hold a lot of HP stock in their 401k. These folks sure are not the 1% types. As far as getting rid of 25,000 to 30,000 employees, that...

Carly cut costs by outsourcing jobs to any 4th world country she could find. All CEOs that followed simply refined the process to outsource more and faster. Cutting 30,000 jobs doesn't mean the work is gone. It just means that the work will be done by some outsource company. It is the HP...

Thanks for reminding me why I took a retirement package and got out of this stuff. :D

:D It is all in the planning!

The sad part for the 15,000 laid off, is that their jobs did not go away. The jobs were simply moved either off the payroll to a third party provider (outsourced) or moved to a cheaper 4th world country. Carly started the process and the next three CEO's simply refined and accelerated the process.

Old houses breakers? Heck, until I had the panel switched out, my house had fuses. Our house before that had spool and bobbin wiring! When I was a kid, my folks had some of these new fangled circuit breakers. It was fun to flip a breaker off and put a penny under the bulb in a socket and...

Update: The EVGA Supernova 1000 G2 has been working fine for a few days now. So, I take that as confirmation that the Seasonic was indeed faulty. Regarding Seasonic, I sent my RMA Seasonic X-1250 last week. They got it on Thursday 1/22/2015. I received a FedEx Shipment Notification on...

My sig is correct as of this moment. I have a habit of switching things around and went overkill on the PSU so that I don't have to be concerned about it when I add/change other hardware. ;) While I am at it, I did notice one other thing while swapping PSU's. On my MB there are several...

I received the EVGA Supernova 1000 G2 and installed it last night. Everything is back to normal. Since both cold boot issue is gone with both the 510 watt PC Power & Cooling or the EVGA power supplies, I am certain the Seasonic power supply was bad (or at the very least going bad). Now...

Good news / Bad new thing. I tore the system down and cleaned everything up. I was still having the same symptoms. So I went to the closet and drug out an old PC Power and Cooling 510 watt Power Supply. I just hooked up the 24 pin connector to the Motherboard and a 4 pin to the...

Yup, tried that this morning. No luck. Thanks though!

I need so advice from someone a lot smarter that I am. After doing some reading (not one comment Mick), I have an idea. Since the issue I am having is the PS not turning on when not completely drained, I should be able to isolate the issue with either the PS or MB by doing the following...

Nenu The memory settings look right. Tsumi: You may be right (unfortunately). I think I'll strip everything down over the weekend and see what happens with a bare bones system. Then it looks like a tossup between motherboard and power supply. Guess I'll flip a coin and see what...

Unfortunately, reseting the cmos did not help. I did the reset with the jumper on the MB and after that did not help, I reset with the jumper and removing the cmos battery. Again no luck. It does not seem to matter if the system is on for hours or a few minutes. If I do the shut down thru...

I had not thought of a simple cmos reset. I'll give it a shot. Thanks

Thanks for the idea, I'll give that a try over the weekend.

Thanks for the response, I checked with a DVM and the Idle Voltages on the 24 pin power connector to the motherboard are 12.13 and 5.04. The voltages while running Prime95 and the CPU at 100% are 12.11 and 5.04. One thing I did notice this afternoon when I was messing around with the DVM...

Hi, I have a Seasonic X-1250 power supply in my rig. It is about 3 years old. In the last month I have been having cold boot issues. When I press the start button on the case (either right after shutting down or after the computer has been shut down over night), absolutely nothing happens...

Had one of these idiots call the other day. His English was worse than mine! Always, I simply told him that I was 80 years old and didn't have a computer and would not know what to do with one if I had one. This seemed to confuse him. It took him a few seconds for that to sink in and then he...

As far as the products HP has been putting out, Mark Hurd was the one who cut HP's R&D budget to close to $0.00. His successor, Apotheker, did not change that trend. So, what can you expect when the only products you can produce are clones of what everyone else is shipping, and you have to...

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No interruptions for ATT DSL in Eastern Nebraska.

Ryiort, Good choice! I have the CM Cosmos II and love it. Easiest build I have ever had and the wiring does not look like dinner at the Italian restuarnt. For me, that is a vast improvement. :) I am still looking to find the optional forklift to move the case around. Enjoy!

Without getting too far off topic and since this is turning into a USPS vs Fedex vs UPS discussion, I guess the value of USPS depends on pespective. If you are an individual or small shipper and you simply want to get a package moved from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of time and...

I agreed completely! From a consumer/recipient point of view the USPS tracking information is worthless. With UPS or Fedex you can at least plan on what day the package will arrive. With the USPS there is normally no update until AFTER the package was left at your door. By that time, you...

I have had the P9X79 WS board for a couple months now. This board is the most stable board I have had over the past 5 years (4 boards from EVGA and Intel). I can truthfully say that, EVERY issue I encountered was due to user error or simply not understanding what I was doing. This board is...

devil22, I have had my system up and running for almost a month. This board has run solid once it was set up. I just finshed my month end reporting and for what I do (crunch data) the combo in my sig runs thru Access queries 50% faster (actual time stamp measurement) that the I7-960 on and...

Cisco Guy, Yes, I got the Gold X-1250. I actually wanted the Platinum 1000W. But, I could not find one around at a reasonable price (especially when you include shipping cost, but that is a whole seperate tirade!). Every place I looked was either Out of Stock or had an extreme idea of what...

MatDef, that worked like a champ! Thank you so much! Bob

Thanks MatDef, I'll give it a try. Bob

Hi folks, I have had this HP Home Server EX495 for a couple years. I use it strictly for backups of one PC. Like most folks on this site, over the past couple years I have switched motherboards in the PC a few times, switched OS hard drives, switched OS, and botched a few OS installs. The...

I finally have my P9X79 WS up and running. I have not seen a "Nvidia driver quit" error for a couple of days now. I wound up changing the PSU to a SeaSonic X-1250 and installed Nvidia 290.36 Beta drivers (clean install) and got rid of a bunch of trash using Ccleaner. So far so good this time...

Thanks Kohl, I have not seen a "Nvidia driver quit" for a while now (sounds like begging to be jinxed). The only thing I did as far as the video card was move the card around to a different slot and when I reloaded the drivers, I did a custom install and left out the 3D and Audio drivers...

Kohl, Can you run the windows experience index? Mine errors out at the DIRECT3D 10 TEXTURE LOAD ASSESSMENT. Looking at the Winsat.log, it shows "CreateShaders failed to produce a valid shader cache". Thanks, Bob

No, still have all 8 sticks in. I may run home this afternoon and "work from the house" and try 4 or even 2. Bob