Tuesday, 25 July 2006
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| Installing Ubuntu on a REALLY old computer Bbbl67 02:17:05 |
| | I just upgraded my brother's computer from Win XP to Ubuntu 5.10. It
was an unbelievable success! It surprised even me how smoothly it went
-- didn't need to go into the command-line even once. Linux has
arrived, it seems. My brother is a highly typical computer user,
doesn't know how it works, just wants to use it for: email, chat, IM,
P2P, videos, MP3's, etc. What surprised me too was that after I
finished installing Ubuntu 5.10 for him, he himself went to the
Internet and upgraded it to Ubuntu 6.06 without my assistance! You know
you've got fool-proof system when it's that easy. So he's got his
Firefox and Thunderbird just like in Windows. He's found himself a
bittorrent client that he likes, IM's with Gaim. I've even found the
solutions to allow him to play Windows *.WMV and *.WMA video and audio
files. He's happy. 
So, later I told this story to some of my cousins and now they're
interested in putting Ubuntu onto a secondary computer of theirs. Now
my brother's computer was easy because it's a relatively modern PC (AMD
Duron 1.1Ghz), but the cousin's PC is a really old museum piece of a
computer, an old HP Pavillion with an original Pentium at 100Mhz. I
tried to boot from CD, but I'm not sure if this thing can even boot
from CD. Looking up the HP site seems to indicate that it can boot from
CD, but maybe that's only for its own original equipment CD drive --
that's long since died and it's been replaced with an aftermarket CD
burner. I can't even get into the BIOS setup of this HP PC. Anyways,
long story short, I'm thinking of taking the hard drive out of the HP
and temporarily plugging it into a more modern computer to install the
Ubuntu from CD there. Then when it's done installing the packages and
it asks you to reboot the machine, I'm thinking of then moving the hard
disk back to the old HP, and let it finish its setup there. I'm
assuming that there's nothing system-specific that's being done in the
first part of the install, and all of the system-specific stuff is done
in the second part of the install? Does this have any chance of
working?
Yousuf Khan
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Monday, 24 July 2006
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| Re: New PCI card on old motherboard Tony22r 20:40:10 |
| | Doh! I wish I woulda read this thread Yesterday!
I bought a Netgear WG311 Wireless PCI card (PCI2.2) for Asus P2B-F
mobo (PCI2.1).. and it wouldn't even Boot!
..tried flashing mobo Bios.
I hope BestBuy takes it back, I opened it and everything.
So any folks here with Older motherboards... what solution worked for
you?
I'm thinking of exchanging for a USB 802.11g Wireless adapter.
My mobo is only USB1.1 so transfer rate will be ~12Mbps ?
I think that should work.. since i only have the $14.95 Verizon
768/128 DSL.
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| I want to make my computer faster Ozzie 02:58:24 |
| | I would like to make my computer faster and I am thinking about bying a
new processor. But does it fit on my mainboard?
I got a AMD duron processor 1.3 ghz.
I already extended my DDR memory with 512 mb with the origenal its 1 gb
now but stil working slow. What can I do??
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Sunday, 23 July 2006
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| effects of Installing PC 100 DIMMs along with PC133 SlickRCBD 08:29:38 |
| | I have a secondhand Dell Optiplex GX110 computer that I got from
somebody that was computer illiterate. The only documentation that I got
with it was found in the C:\Dell\doc directory. That said that it
probably used PC100 RAM, but a few models would use PC133. The BIOS
reports that the PROCESSOR has a 133mhz Bus. I just got my hands on some
PC 100 DIMMs and since the manual said it probably used that, I plopped
a 256MB DIMM into the spare slot. The computer has booted fine and I'm
using it to type this post. What are the bad effects that I would expect
to see if the RAM chips are mismatched and how do I figure out if they
are? I couldn't see anything one way or the other if it was PC100 or
PC133 on the other existing DIMM.
I haven't tried any serious tests at this point to try out the new RAM.
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Saturday, 22 July 2006
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| AWD64GB Martin Boulte 12:52:32 |
| | I was to wimsbios site to find a patch or big HD for GA-586ATS in which I
thinj I find good stuff.
But It references awd64gb to flash. Is ther some body who can tell me either
if I could use the gigabyte flaher either I must use the awd64gb because I
could not find this exe.
Thank
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| Netgear SC101 Gxb 12:34:50 |
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Does any body know what UDP port the Netgear SC101 storage works uses.
It looks like my PC-cillin is blocking the port, thus preventing the
storage works from functioning.
--
GXB
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| Is there someting wrong with my cpu? Allenchan2829 05:43:32 |
| | There is something wrong with my cpu. It is an AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton
Cpu with a ABIT KD7A mobo and it keeps on making my pc restart. What
is the best setting for this cpu?Now it is set to FSB= 166 Multiply=
11 Cpu Voltage= 1.60.
ABIT KD7A Motherboard
AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton Cpu
(runing at 1.85ghz)
Windows XP Professional
(2) 512MB Kingston KVR400/512R
(1) 512Mb Corsair VS512MB400
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160 GB Hard Drive
PNY GeForce FX5500 AGP 128MB DDR Dual VGA
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
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| Should I wait until the 24th Rdn 01:40:32 |
| | In June ZipZoomFly drop the price of some of their AMD CPUs
(Venice core chips). I understand from reading web forums that AMD
will drop the price of thier AM2 and 939 socket chips after July 24.
I wonder. Has ZoomFly drop their prices in advance of AMD's drop
or will they drop their chip prices again after 7/24/ 2006.
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Friday, 21 July 2006
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| what is memory bank? Guest 09:16:37 |
| | Hi all,
Can any one please explain me, what is memory bank in the world of
hardware?
Is a DIMM called as one bank or is it a page in a DIMM?\
Can any one please help me in getting this answered.
Regards,
VJ
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| Intel misses its own guidance Bbbl67 03:45:03 |
| | Intel posted $8.0B in revenue for Q2-2006, vs. estimates of $8.3B by
Wall Street. Wall Street also predicted $0.13/share EPS, but Intel beat
that by getting $0.15/share. But that means that Intel was able to get
cost savings (e.g. selling off unprofitable units and laying off
managers). To top it off, Intel is forecasting revenue for Q3 to be
between $8.3-$8.9B, which is less than the $9.0B that Wall Street has
previously predicted.
AMD also suffered some pre-announced pain during this quarter, so it's
unclear how marketshares have been affected up or down for either
company. We'll only know for sure when AMD announces it's own full
report next week.
Intel tops Q2 profit collapse with pessimistic forecast | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/intel_q2_06/
Intel profits fall by 57%
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33140
Intel income pain not as deep as feared | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/Intel+income+pain+not+as+deep+as+feared/2100-1014_3-6096097.html?tag=nl
Yousuf Khan
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Thursday, 20 July 2006
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| Samsung T series SATAII, any good? Garrot 20:16:41 |
| | I'm thinking of ordering the Samsung T series Sata II 300gb HDD for $99.00
CAD. I read it is quiet so that is why I want it but is it a decent
performer too?
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| Rambus to Restate Earnings, Faces Possible Delisting Chrisv 18:20:36 |
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What a shock that these scumbags backdated of stock options.
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6354583
How many different ways are there for the evil businessman to screw
the common man, I wonder?
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006
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| Rambus, Hynix and JEDEC Ar Q 00:33:48 |
| | News from Bloomberg:
"A federal court jury in April awarded Rambus the $307 million, agreeing
with its claims that Ichon, South Korea-based Hynix infringed patents
covering aspects of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, the main memory
used in computers.
In a third and final portion of the case, Hynix will argue Rambus, based in
Los Altos, California, attended meetings of a memory-chip standards panel
without disclosing patents it would later enforce. Hynix argues the Rambus
patents are unenforceable.
Rambus has said it made all the required disclosures to the memory-chip
standards committee, called the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council."
Is this the first time that IEEE JEDEC subcommittee gathered world major
semiconductor manufactures to establish an electronic device standard, then
after all parties invest billions of dollars, they found out that the
standard contains patents from some company? It seems to me that it is very
unfair for all memory makers to pay 4.5% royalty on all DDR and DDR2 DRAMs
sold in USA.
And I think it will be more difficult for USA as the leader to gather all
countries to establish technology standards. Not good for earth
civilization. To correct wrong doing, I think FTC will punish Rambus
severely. Anti trust suit against Rambus is a good start and is the first
step to re-establish USA creditability.
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006
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| New System Purchase Question Matt Silberstein 23:10:41 |
| | I am buying a new computer and really want an AMD. I will be doing
graphics and software dev and other stuff. I know that dual core will
be good for me. My problem is with the system maker, who do I go to?
Alienware looks great, but they optimize for games players and are
quite expensive (I know that the last 1% of performance costs the
most, I just don't need it.) HP seems so middling in what they offer.
I don't want to put this together myself, I can (and have) done it but
it is not fun for me. So does anyone have a suggestion for a
reasonably reliable, reasonably cost effective system?
TIA.
--
Matt Silberstein
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| Why no multiprocessor consumer machines? Rich 08:36:14 |
| | Seems like they are just coming out of the dark ages in terms of this.
Dual-core is the best they can offer. Why aren't some machines
available to
consumers made so you can plug in up to 10 processors, etc?
I figure the limitation is Windows, but I'm not sure.
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Monday, 17 July 2006
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| DDR2 versus FBD David Kanter 09:38:44 |
| | At some point in time, some of the folks here doubted that DDR2 would
present a capacity problem. I would like to instruct those individuals
to read the following PDF, in particular, page 37.
http://www-5.ibm.com/ch/events/fachtagung/pdf/system_x_performance.pdf
Just so you don't miss the highlights:
DDR2-400/533 supports 8 DIMMs across two channels
DDR2-667 supports 4 DIMMs across two channels
DDR2-800 supports 2 DIMMs across two channels
Perhaps now it should become abundantly clear why FBD is in fact
necessary for high bandwidth. There's an illustration of this on page
42 as well.
DK
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| Amazing K8 SPECfp score David Kanter 05:32:06 |
| | According to
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/benchmarks.jsp#question1 Sun
appears to get around 3500 on SPECfp.
They seem to be using some sort of autoparallelizing trick in Sun's
compiler (which is rather well known for SPECtacular optimizations). I
am definitely impressed and quite surprised...
Of course, this trick may be adopted by other vendors just as easily,
the Sun folks hardly have a monopoly on good compilers (and quite
frankly, I would expect Pathscale's to be far more common).
DK
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Sunday, 16 July 2006
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| upgrade Latitude X200 to more than 640 MB RAM possible? Guest 02:00:47 |
| | hello there,
the Dell Latitude X200 comes with 128MB fixed RAM, you can officially
add 1 x 512MB PC-133 SO DIMM.
is there a way to put in more memory (1GB)? will the bios recognise
more RAM?
thanks in advance
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Saturday, 15 July 2006
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| Athlon64 2800 warranty Venom 23:59:08 |
| | Hi everybody.
An old fellow over the street from me was having problems with his computer
and I offered to help. To keep it short the problem is his CPU. I said to
contact the company that sold the computer to him and he said they have gone
belly up and are no longer around. Not a problem I thought so I said to go
straight to AMD and as long as he had the purchase reciept he should get
warranty. The catch is that they can't seem to find the reciept for the
computer which was bought around June 2005. He does have the box that the
CPU and heatsink and fan came in as the seller told him to keep the boxes
that all the parts come in just in case of warranty. I don't really want to
become involved between him and AMD so I thought I would ask if anyone here
has had a similar problem with an AMD CPU.
I did say to just go out and buy a Sempron to get him going again but he
says that as a pensioner he can't see his way clear at this time to fork out
another $100.
Anybody got any ideas please? Our location is the Gold Coast, Australia.
Cheers.
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| So how about price theory? David Kanter 03:08:28 |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:> Looks like the price cuts that Intel did have worked for it. Not too> bad, but it's certainly not back at the 90%+ marketshares it had in> retail in the not too distant past. It's never going to get to those> levels ever again, not with the anti-trust lawsuit hanging over it.>
I said this would happen...and what a shocker. Now we just have to
wait and see what the story is with servers.
DK
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Friday, 14 July 2006
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| pictures of exploding laptop causing Dell image problems YKhan 07:45:14 |
| | Here's a case of "no, duh?". (it's free registration to the link
below.)
Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/technology/10dell.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login
Also the exploding laptops aren't all due to battery problems,
sometimes they're due to overheating CPU's too.
INQUIRER story prompts Dell share warning
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32931
Yousuf Khan
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| Problems with Dual Core install and Tech Support (Long Rant) Jim 04:39:27 |
| | I bought a Althon Dual Core at Christmas. When I talked to the
salesperson I was told that it was shipped with 64 bit OS. Not true.
So, when I received it I decided no problem I'll just get the
"Trail Version" and install it.. Called Tech support and asked for
back-up disc just in case. Was told where to go to burn my own. The
system allows you to burn one and only one. Spent weeks looking for
driver for basic components such as the sound card, modem etc. The
e-mail site kept telling me to go to HP Tools and reinstall the 32 bit
driver. I guess they are unaware that there's a difference between 32
and 63 bit machines.
I then called the support desk told me that I would need a Windows XP
Pro disk (32 bit). So I got one and ran repair. That made it worse.
Could not run any apps. Decide to scrap the wholes 64 bit install and
just get my machine back to a point where I could do something,
anything with it.
Did a low level reformat and repartition and ran the System Recovery
disk that I had burned. The disks were bad and the machine crashed and
burned. Since you can only burn one set, if they don't work your
screwed. I called Tech support and got a set of recovery disks. Ran
those and the first time that I booted the machine it said that I
needed "Supplemental Disk" called Tech Support and was told that I
did need them. So, I ran the System Recovery program manually.
Then every time that I booted the machine it went into DO NOT shut off
machine wait mode for 16-18 hours and then crashed and burned.
Called Tech Support and did another delete reformat repartition now the
fourth time when through the whole process yet again. Got the same
message from called tech support and was told they would send out
Supplemental Disk, but didn't think that they would fix the problem.
So far I've deleted reformatted repartitioned drive four times, rant
the 'F' Full recovery at least ten times, the 'R" recovery four
or five times. I've had the box for over a month and still haven't
been able to use it.
The Tech Support desk in India is beyond useless. Manned by a staff
that knows nothing about computers you sit there reading scripts and
asking you the same guestions for the same open ticket over and over.
I'm no newbie. Have a degree in CS working it IT for twenty years
designing and deploying desktop apps a few years back. Is this typical
or am I the exception? Has anyone else had this level of difficuty?
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| Education Please - DDR2 Memory Peter van der Goes 04:26:10 |
| | I'm planning an AM2 system for later this month (after the CPU price cuts).
Asus M2NE motherboard and a dual core CPU in the X2 4200 range.
Looking at memory offerings at Newegg, I realized that I don't know a thing
about DDR2 memory, other than that I need 2 Gigs of it.
The motherboard says it takes DDR2 533, DDR2 667 or DDR2 800 memory, and I
realize that the speeds are PC2 4200, PC2 5400 and PC2 6400 respectively. Do
I need DDR2 800 memory to get the full performance out of the motherboard?
Reading customer reviews of some of the memory, I see claims that some DDR2
only works with Intel CPU's/Chipsets? I looked for recommended DDR2 on the
Asus web site and could't find a list, although that doesn't mean there
isn't one.
Any suggestions for further reading, speed/brand of memory, etc. gratefully
accepted.
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