What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

[TB]

Got a completely legit version of Win 7 on it too *exadurated wink*.

Home Premium 64-bit. As I said, it's completely, and fully, 100% legit *wink*... *runs away very fast*

If you've installed a legitimate Windows 7, stop trying to look like a bad ass.

If you've installed an illegitimate Windows 7, I'll remind you of this:

You will not use these forums to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.

Either way, drop it.

 

[djinline]

Finally, I got my rig go past the Windows animation screen at the startup.
I have this very frustrating issue where the startup animation freezes, Safe Mode loading freezes at storport.sys and it also freezes when trying the startup repair.
Otherwise my computer is working perfectly fine, boots successfully after keeping it unplugged for over a day or two.

Oh man it felt so good to see that animation glowing and moving.

 

[bergauk]

Finally, I got my rig go past the Windows animation screen at the startup.
I have this very frustrating issue where the startup animation freezes, Safe Mode loading freezes at storport.sys and it also freezes when trying the startup repair.
Otherwise my computer is working perfectly fine, boots successfully after keeping it unplugged for over a day or two.

Oh man it felt so good to see that animation glowing and moving.

An interesting thing to note about Safe Mode is the last thing that you see on your screen before it freezes was actually loaded. Whatever came after it was the the problem.

It is more than likely a random driver issue, I'd suggest going through the hardware manager and finding anything without a driver and updating it to have one. That should help you get past loading everything.

 

[tlowr4]

...
Either way, drop it.

Thanks for the reminder, will keep it in mind. 👍

In other news, I'm trying to revive and old 775 board (from a HP DC7400). The owner gave it too me because he thought it was shot, but I've got other suspicions. Apparently "All the DIMM slots have died. None of them will recognize memory". Now I know this is true with at least two slots, but the other two are a bit iffy. Sometimes they work, other times they don't. Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to try a raw boot, then a CMOS clear. If neither of those work, I'm really not sure what else to do.

 

[thechosenwonton]

Windows 7 was pissing me off (again) on my Thinkpad, so I wiped it and install Linux Mint - my previous issues were closed source drivers for Windows only, and not having access to those made the battery life about HALF what Windows gave me - so I switched back to Windows begrudgingly. After installing Mint, I ran a cool utility called powertop which gives you the ability to enable some cool power management things that I hadn't thought of before - while the life still isn't as good as Windows 7, it's within 20-30 minutes, and I can live with that.

Everything works out of the box; all your codecs, flash are pre-compiled for your pleasure, and even all the keyboard hotkeys for turning wireless on/off, backlight brightness, volume, and the keyboard light all worked with no intervention. AND it doesn't use the horrid Unity UI that Ubuntu has started using (yes, I know you can install another desktop, but its a matter of principle - making a UI worse, with less features, is not a road any distro should start going down) - uses Gnome3 by default, which so far I'm digging.

Edit: You can get discrete drivers to work with a bit of work - it isn't automatic though (at least I haven't found a way to automate it), but you can make a very simple script that you can then bind to a hotkey so if you want to switch on the faster graphics controller, a simple alt+ctrl+. will do that for you, and a alt+ctrl+. to toggle it back to the onboard graphics. Mint ships with the Nouveu (sp?) drivers installed for Nvidia, and that functionality is included, if not automatic. Fun stuff

 

[DQuaN]

Thanks for the reminder, will keep it in mind. 👍

In other news, I'm trying to revive and old 775 board (from a HP DC7400). The owner gave it too me because he thought it was shot, but I've got other suspicions. Apparently "All the DIMM slots have died. None of them will recognize memory". Now I know this is true with at least two slots, but the other two are a bit iffy. Sometimes they work, other times they don't. Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm going to try a raw boot, then a CMOS clear. If neither of those work, I'm really not sure what else to do.

Have you tried using different memory?

 

[Biobunny]

Ubuntu 12.04 has been released. I'm going to install it now on my Mac Mini and tweak it like crazy.

 

[tlowr4]

Have you tried using different memory?

No, no, just the same stuff. In the same slots too!

I kid, of course Dunc. I'm not completely stupid, contrary to some belief (and I know what I just said )

 

[Epic B]

Installing Ubuntu 12.04. 70 minutes left. I can already hear the 24 ticking sounds.

 

[nick09]

I updated my virtual machine copy of ubuntu 11.10 today to 12.04 while running two other virtual machines, Office 2007 Word, and firefox in the background. Got it all updated in a length of 3 hours while doing lab work for my Linux class(setting two Fedora OS's to ping each other and some settings). Max used memory was 7.1GB out of 8GB.

 

[Epic B]

Well, that was faster than 42 minutes. How do I close the dock on Ubuntu 12.04? I don't want it in my way.
1313 posts!

 

[nick09]

The dock is part of the unity interface. You should look into getting the GNOME 3 interface installed if you don't like unity. Linux is very configurable and there may be some good guides on how to do it.

 

[Epic B]

I'm fine with Unity, I just want the dock to retract. Oh well, I'll live with it.

 

[bergauk]

Trying to update my laptop to Ubuntu 12.04 and having a hell of a time with downloading it. Did anyone else experience slower than normal speeds while trying to get it?

 

[Epic B]

It is a pretty huge update. It might take all night, even with a good connection.

 

[bergauk]

It is a pretty huge update. It might take all night, even with a good connection.

Its 700MB, I can do that in about a half hour with random files. It seems as if the server they're using for it is being bogged down and not sending out the data as fast as it should though.

 

[Spike125]

Got the keyboard for the EEE PC today.
Keyboard works and BIOS can be opened again.
Ready to install Windows, and then i've got a new toy

 

[nick09]

Trying to update my laptop to Ubuntu 12.04 and having a hell of a time with downloading it. Did anyone else experience slower than normal speeds while trying to get it?

For most of the time I was getting 30-140KB/s through my college's G WiFi. Though towards the end it went up to 300KB/s.

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

Sat idle in TF2, crafted myself a Sydney Sleeper.

 

[Solo]

Finally got round to making an entire system back up of my Mac Book. If anyone is looking for a portable hard drive I would seriously recommend looking at the LaCie Porsche Design range. My 1TB drive is brilliant, silent and stayed cool all throughout the backup process 👍

 

[Biobunny]

I'm fine with Unity, I just want the dock to retract. Oh well, I'll live with it.

You can set it to autohide in settings. Or you can completely disable it using Compiz Configuration Settings manager. By setting the dock to autohide and setting the dock not to appear, unless you press the start/super/command key.

 

[bergauk]

For most of the time I was getting 30-140KB/s through my college's G WiFi. Though towards the end it went up to 300KB/s.

Same here.. somewhere at the halfway point it jumped up to 300kB/s and near the end it jumped up to 600kB/s, the latter speed being half of what I normally have.

I got it installed though and it felt ok for the most part, the only issue is my laptop not wanting to run properly anymore. It's been somewhat broken for a while and I guess last night was the final straw, guess there's only so much you can do with a laptop that has a half dead trackpad.

 

[Submerged]

Connect a mouse to it.

Problem solved.

 

[bergauk]

Connect a mouse to it.

Problem solved.

I'm not an idiot. It doesn't fix the problem. It still hasn't fixed the problem. It will never fix the problem. The only thing that half fixes it is swapping the button config to left handed mode and then I only have the ability to click and not right click anymore. Even with an external mouse [I've tried multiple, including the one I use for my desktop], it still does the same thing.

 

[I Love GT6]

Nevermind

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

Re install drivers?

 

[nick09]

Cleaned emails out of an 11 year old Apple Powermac G4, wiped the plastic panels with some all-purpose window cleaner, and upgraded the 768MB of SDRAM 100 to 1GB of SDRAM 133(one stick was at 100MHz before despite being a 133MHz stick).

 

[Grayfox]

Compiling a new PC part list after my desktop rig died.

Case: Lian Li PC-A77F Black $375.00
PSU: OCZ Technology ZX Series 850W $169.00
CPU: Intel i7 2700k $329.00
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz 2gbx4 $129.00
Mainboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77 $265.00
SSD: Corsair Force 3 120GB 149.00
HDD: WD 1TB Black $139.00
Mouse: Razer Mamba $159.00
Keyboard: Logitech G510 $95.00
Mousepad: ROCCAT Sota Granula Black Hardpad with Metal Foil $29.00
Cables: BitFenix Sleeved 24pin ATX Extension Cable $9.00
Cables: BitFenix 8pin EPS 12V Extension Cable $7.00
Cables: 2x BitFenix Sleeved 6-Pin VGA Power Cable $8.00($16.00)
Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 $9.00
CPU Water Block: Swiftech Apogee HD CPU $79.00
Radiator: Black Ice 240 $93.00
Coolant:Koolance Fluorescent Blue Liquid 700ml $19.00
Tank: XSPC Acrylic Single 5.25” Bay Reservoir $39.00
Pump: EK-DCP 2.2 12V $49.00
Hose: 2m PrimoChill PrimoFlex Pro LRT Tubing Black $18.00
Hose Clamp: 8x Bitspower Luxury Tube Clamp $5.00($40.00)
Headset: Logitech G35 Surround Sound Headset $135.00
RAM Cooler: Corsair Dominator Airflow Twin Fans $39.00
Fan: CoolerMaster 120mm Excalibur $29.00
Fittings: 4x EK G1/4 High Flow Fitting 1/2 $3.50($14.00)
Other: PCI-Slot Ventilation $5.00

Looking at the EVGA GTX680 Hydro Copper Video card which sells for US$699.99(AU$670.00)

This is my first major water cooling build, also prices include Australian Computer Tax.
Total will be just a little over $3,000.

 

[Spike125]

Compiling a new PC part list after my desktop rig died.

Case: Lian Li PC-A77F Black $375.00
PSU: OCZ Technology ZX Series 850W $169.00
CPU: Intel i7 2700k $329.00
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600Mhz 2gbx4 $129.00
Mainboard: Asus Sabertooth Z77 $265.00
SSD: Corsair Force 3 120GB 149.00
HDD: WD 1TB Black $139.00
Mouse: Razer Mamba $159.00
Keyboard: Logitech G510 $95.00
Mousepad: ROCCAT Sota Granula Black Hardpad with Metal Foil $29.00
Cables: BitFenix Sleeved 24pin ATX Extension Cable $9.00
Cables: BitFenix 8pin EPS 12V Extension Cable $7.00
Cables: 2x BitFenix Sleeved 6-Pin VGA Power Cable $8.00($16.00)
Thermal Paste: Arctic Silver 5 $9.00
CPU Water Block: Swiftech Apogee HD CPU $79.00
Radiator: Black Ice 240 $93.00
Coolant:Koolance Fluorescent Blue Liquid 700ml $19.00
Tank: XSPC Acrylic Single 5.25” Bay Reservoir $39.00
Pump: EK-DCP 2.2 12V $49.00
Hose: 2m PrimoChill PrimoFlex Pro LRT Tubing Black $18.00
Hose Clamp: 8x Bitspower Luxury Tube Clamp $5.00($40.00)
Headset: Logitech G35 Surround Sound Headset $135.00
RAM Cooler: Corsair Dominator Airflow Twin Fans $39.00
Fan: CoolerMaster 120mm Excalibur $29.00
Fittings: 4x EK G1/4 High Flow Fitting 1/2 $3.50($14.00)
Other: PCI-Slot Ventilation $5.00

Looking at the EVGA GTX680 Hydro Copper Video card which sells for US$699.99(AU$670.00)

This is my first major water cooling build, also prices include Australian Computer Tax.
Total will be just a little over $3,000.

Nice setup, but the 240 radiator could be a little too small.
You should have a 360 at the very minimum.
Also you will need more then 4 fittings, just from the components you listed I would say at least 10 to 15.
Also think about your routing, as you might need 45 or 90 degree angles etc.
Last thing, think about filling the expansion tank and quick connectors for the GPU/CPU part of the circuit.

On the topic, replaced the keyboard on the EEE PC only to find out that the HDD is gone. Well new HDD shouldn't be the big problem.

 

[tlowr4]

Compiling a new PC part list after my desktop rig died.

...
Total will be just a little over $3,000.

Noice! But as above said, a 240 rad is too small for a CPU and GPU (especially if you went with a 680, they're runnin' pretty damn toasty, especially when the GPU Boost feature kicks in [also ups the voltage just slightly, but it makes a differance[). With the LianLee case, see if you could squeeze another rad in somewhere, I'll have a look.


EDIT: Are you buying from PCCG? If so, a place like greenboxit.com seems to be cheaper for most things, and shipping is much cheaper from GBI as well.