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Continue reading →: Machine Check
STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00020151) …. Once I turned off automatic reboot, this is the error I got on the DFI GME855-MGF. What it means in short is that the Pentium processor threw a specific exception (Machine Check Exception) meaning that it detected there was an internal CPU-specific error.…
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Continue reading →: Summer Camps
There are as many camps as there are kids. Right now, I’d say that you are just missing the summer camp season. The main resource for this is the annual open house at St. Thomas. Was last month though. _You can also find this post at https://richtong.net_ Connie’s approach to…
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Continue reading →: DFI 855GME NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS
OK, Jennie installed iTunes and the next thing I know, I start getting a strange stop code, the machine just blue screens and then on every subsequent restart has the same problem called the NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS Stop 0x00000035. Lots of digging to figure out why, the long and short of it…
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Continue reading →: Sim City 4 fixed
SimCity™ 4 – SimCity.com. Finally got this to work on an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard by vI had the same problem. It was the nVidia sound driver. Loading the latest driver (the 5.10 unified) helped but still crashed every hour or so vs. every five minutes. Finally solved by going to…
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Continue reading →: Trackback Spam
Is anyone else getting mountains of trackback spam. With comment moderation and Typekey authentication for comments, those aren’t a problem. (Of course with IE, most folks can’t even make a comment because of cookie problems, you have to delete all cookies to make typekey.com work). But, the trackback stuff is…
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Continue reading →: OCZ 4000 VX
AnandTech: OCZ VX Memory + DFI nForce4 = DDR533 at 2-2-2 OCZ VX Gold is the best performing memory that we have tested on the Athlon 64 platform. At the same speed and same timings, it significantly outperforms any other memory that we have tested on A64. VX does not…
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Continue reading →: PC vs. Mac spped
OK, here are some benchmarks with Doom 3 on the Mac vs. the PC. Shows the Mac is actually quite slow still. This is done with a Power Mac G5 2.5 GHz and the ATI X800 XT, so it is not because of lack of hardware. Macworld: News: A first…
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Continue reading →: Pentium M on 478 Motherboards
X-bit labs – Hardware news – ASUS Offers to Install Intel’s Mobile Chips into Desktops. ASUS Upgrade Kit CT-479 will allow installing Intel Pentium M and similar mobile chips into Socket 478 mainboards. The kit will be available as a standalone product bundled with a special cooler that is capable…
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Continue reading →: nVidia nforce audio driver 4.57 install
NVIDIA NForce Audio Driver 4.57. There is an update since the 5.10 unified drivers don’t solve the Sim City 4 crashes. But, it is not clear how to install them. Here are the note: * Drivers will not install on the following nForce2 products: Chaintech 7NJS. Please use the drivers…
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