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Chaintech VNF3-250 and Quiet N Cool
Well, I tried to get my DFI Lanparty board working and I’m pretty sure I toasted it. At least I tried the Seasonic Supertornado 400 against a known good machine and it worked fine. Also put the memory in and the OCZ memory seems good. So, now I just have to wait for the new…
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Bluetooth Headset
Broke both my Nextlink Bluespoon AX headsets. In one case, Calvin stepped on it. Yuck and in another, it cracked because of a manufacturing defect. So on to find some others. There have been incredible price drops. The original Bluespoon AX that “CNet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Nextlink_Bluespoon_AX_Bluetooth_headset/4505-6448_7-31228822.html?tag=pdtl-list loved and I did costs $120. Now, they are $60 at “Blueheadsets.com”:http://blueheadsets.zoovy.com/product/BLUESPOONAX-C?ref=cnet.…
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DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D problems
I’m a failure. Have had great luck building my own machines, but now my latest masterpiece, a DFI NF4 Ultra, Athlon 3800+ X2, OCZ 4000+ and nVidia 7800GTX won’t boot at all. It is very flakey what is going on. I’ve had any number of issues: * The system starts and then all the fans…
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nVidia Driver Install
PlanetAMD64 > New nvidia driver 78.01 shows older 77.77? as they point out. There is always a new driver. However, if you do this, you really do have to clean everything up. The safest way to do this takes a while but it works: # Install DRIVERCLEANER PRO. Google for it. # Uninstall the nVidia…
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nvmcp.sys Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with SimCity 4
nvmcp.sys.. I thought that this problem was solved, but Calvin just got this with SimCity 4 (not exactly a state of the art game) on his Athlon 64 3200+ on a Chaintech nForce3 board. Basic solution is to either. There is a new (August 23 dated) nVidia Sound driver their “download”: # Get a Creative…
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Kids Bikes
Tong Family Blog: Christmas is coming, time to. It’s been three years since Alex and Calvin got their K2 Zed road bikes. They have loved them ,but they are getting bigger, so nows the time to find out what’s next. They need bikes that are really right for someone who is about 5″ tall and…
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Gmail for sending big files
viksoe.dk – GMail Drive shell extension. I’ve had two requests for this in the last week. Basically, what’s the easiest way to send a big file over the Internet that mail systems can’t handle. Here’s the easiest way I’ve found: # Get a Gmail account. It stores up to 1GB of stuff # Compose a…
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Mini Microsoft
Mini-Microsoft. Wow, written up in Business Week, Slashdot, etc. Shows the power of the web when someone can put up a site like this about the insides of a company. Wonder how long it will last, so read it while it lasts. Some really greet insider comments. It took me an hour to read one…
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Points.com and PriorityRewards Club
Points.com | Get More Rewards, Faster. The wonderful free Internet is back. This is a site that lets you track all your various mileage programs and then trade between them. It is sort of free, it is $20/year to exchange all year, so that means, you can aggregate all those miles that are scattered across…
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Laser Printer
PCWorld.com – Top 10 Monochrome Laser Printers. Printers have been most worst purchases over the last five years. I usually use reviews like PC World to buy a printer. The print quality has been great, but the reliablity has been awesomely bad. Of the 4 printers I’ve been part of buying, only one is still…