What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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bergauk
Well, I've contacted Thermaltake about a discontinued product of theirs to see if there is any way they could help locate one. Maybe they'll be cool about it. Though really, all I'm looking for is the Waterblock to the system.
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Hahahaha, good joke! I rebuilt my laptop for the forth time, trying to replace the trackpad.
 
korza493
Hahahaha, good joke! I rebuilt my laptop for the forth time, trying to replace the trackpad.
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You never know..

I've already contacted Thermaltake before for certain things, and as crazy as it may sound to you. They've responded quickly and with the information I was looking for.

Besides, they might have a list of retailers that have sold the item before, or have spare parts.

Sure it sounds stupid, but it's worth a shot to see if they'll respond.
 
AOS-
Found and installed these in my search for a Nixie Clock Screensaver:


Drop Clock


Polar Clock


I sort of want this:


But I really just want a screen saver that will look like this:
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Mind sharing where you got these?
 
Got the memory in my bulldozer machine to it's advertized speed of DDR3-1600. Gonna be running some prime95 and do some benchmarks after I'm sure it's stable.
 
eSZee
Let's hope you have one of the good MSI boards.
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What are you talking about? It says "Top Quality & Stability" right on the manual, so it has to be true. ;)

I always thought it stood for Micro Star International, but perhaps you experienced "Mucho Suckiness Inside".
 
Yes. I have a $50 AM3 MSI motherboard in my parent's computer and it works perfectly fine. All manufacturer's have bad seeds that end up in a product. Even some well known motherboard brands can have some sort of bad stigma from unhappy people due to problems that may or may not be the motherboard's fault.
 
Welp, I found some time tonight to play and everything went pretty smoothly, though the fan from my budget Xigmatek Gaia gets right up next to the heat spreaders on my RAM. If I had gone with the Hyper 212+ Evo (1mm deeper) it wouldn't have cleared. I'm glad I measured beforehand.

Gotta love Windows 7; it handled the upgrade from LGA 775 to 1155 with grace. I didn't have to Sysprep, repair, or reinstall the OS. Just booted up and started updating chipset drivers. I also took the opportunity to install a little "catproofing", so hopefully I want have to clean out the dust bunnies as often.

The only hitch was in the UEFI. It doesn't like my RAT 9. It's erratic and it's impossible to move the cursor to the left. An older USB mouse worked just fine. I vaguely remember a similar anecdote an another modern motherboard review, with a different brand of "exotic" mouse. My friend noticed similar behavior with his RAT 7, testing it in the EFI of his Mac. I'll have to research this one of these days. It's not a major deal, but I'd love to know why.
 
Today I created another Live USB. Formatted my Kubuntu disk and put Ubuntu 11.10 onto it, although I already Wubi'd it onto my hard drive. It's just nice to have a operating system with me at all times like this.
 
Ran 4 simontaneous physics model calculations for my dad's work. Took about 24 hours. Temps were hovering at about 69 C. His Q8200 would have taken 57 hours!
 
Installed a free academic version of Windows 7? Actually, I installed quite a lot of software.
 
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Can you restore FireFox back to like, version 6 or 5 or something? I hate the tabs being up the top instead of below the navigation bar. And when i say hate, I mean hate with a passion.
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Bloody software developers don't give a 🤬 about us consumers, they make it to the way they like it and the way they think it helps security. We should have a choice of how our bloody browsers are set up for donkey's sake...
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You can restore to a previous version if you made a backup of that version, which is what I did. To my knowledge Mozilla won't let you download any but the current version. I could be wrong on that, as I didn't do a whole lot of searching on their site.
 
Installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop after pulling all the data off it. It should make a nice temporary solution until I can get my hands on a copy or 2 of Windows 7. Might keep it permanent though.. Seems pretty nice and simple. Just need to figure out how to get Minecraft running on it.
 
Oh the fun that is Minecraft.

I've been messing around with Android on my HP Touchpad, which has been an interesting process to get together so far. Now to see how much stuff breaks on it. At least WebOS is intact, so I have that to fall back on unless I really make a mess of things.
 
Panicking cause my hard drive would not mount.

Turns out it was a screwed USB controller.

WD Hard Drives have never failed unexpectedly on me.
 
I've seen HDD's fail randomly before..

Had one that was working fine when I left work on friday, came in on Tuesday and apparently the drive had died.

Had one that was brand new that I was putting an image onto that decided to die during the imaging process. Absolutely fantastic..


Anyways.. Deciding whether or not I want to dual boot my desktop with Linux. I don't see why not, but I also don't see why for either.. Dilemma..
 
Well the drive was working fine 20 minutes ago since I used it to store audio/video BD rips during encoding since the program I use demuxes the streams then reencodes them at the bit rates I entered.

Now I have to get some files off then log it for warranty.

But I do expect a long time to get a replacement with the floods at the WD plant and all.

My S.M.A.R.T tool just warning me about this drive.

Current pending sector count: 460
 
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Grayfox
WD Hard Drives have never failed unexpectedly on me.
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I always tell people if they have a favorite brand of drive it's only because that brand hasn't failed on them YET. They're precise mechanical devices. SSDs aren't necessarily more reliable either. NAND has a finite lifespan and controller firmware in mechanical and solid state drives can often be the cause of issues.

At my job my goal is to make people terrified of their hard drives. Not because drives are catastrophically failing left and right, but because when they do fail there's often little warning and many people don't have a reliable, automated backup plan.

Luckily, you're able to mount the drive, but given the issues you had and the fact SMART is actually reporting serious errors, I'd make sure to get critical data on that drive backed up immediately. I wouldn't continue to use that drive at all except when rescuing data from it.
 
12thgear
Not because drives are catastrophically failing left and right, but because when they do fail there's often little warning and many people don't have a reliable, automated backup plan.
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My favorite one was when I decided to run HDTune one day for an error scan. By the time it found some errors, I couldn't boot into Windows anymore.
 
WD have never failed on me which resulted in a massive loss of data.

I check the S.M.A.R.T values each week so their will be no surprises from my drives.
 
I still hope you're backing up regularly. WD doesn't have any special sauce that guarantees their reliability. They make good drives, but they can still fail. SMART won't catch everything either. A drive can fail even if it passes SMART verification.
 

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