"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Gail wrote:
>> Yes. 32 and 64 apps running fine. That's games, graphics stuff, dev 
>> stuff. I've had no problems with apps at all.
>
> Good to know.  I was just thinking about how I'm going to upgrade my aging 
> machine.

I have however had problems with drivers, even ones that are supposed to 
work on Vista 64.
Ever since I installed the wireless network card and drivers, my machine 
frequently hangs on bootup. They're supposed to work, but I get the feeling 
it was a half-done job for an older card.

> Has anyone used an XBox as a media center extender on Vista? I've still 
> got an N64 and a 15-year-old TV downstairs. Time to upgrade that too 
> maybe.

No. On my list of things to do is to 'persuade' the Xbox to talk to the 
Server 2003 machine.

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Gail wrote:

> Do you, by any chance remember what a single beep signifies?
> I'm getting it intermittently from one of my machines on startup.

Depends on the motherboard. On most "modern" systems that don't have a 
POST beep, it usually means the BIOS has a message on-screen. it could 
be as simple as a keyboard error, or something like a message stating 
the processor was overclocked too much (Yes-- I've seen it, no I didn't 
overclock, I think CMOS memory got junked somewhere along the way.)

But, check with the OEM or board manufacturer for any codes.

Of course, on some systems there's a beep on start-up if everything is 
fine.

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~Mike

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Gail wrote:
> Ever since I installed the wireless network card and drivers, my machine 
> frequently hangs on bootup. 

Wireless seems to be a bugaboo for everyone, which is rather surprising 
to me.

Interestingly (at least mildly so), my machine has been hanging trying 
to log out, with some compute-bound process locking up for 2 or 3 
minutes when I log out. I finally got around to replacing a failing DVD 
drive, and all of a sudden, it's not failing again. I wonder how much of 
the "My Windows slows down over time" kind of complaint is just hardware 
that's wearing out and causing hangs during retries in places where the 
kernel really doesn't need to be waiting for retries.

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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"Mike Raiford" <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Depends on the motherboard. On most "modern" systems that don't have a 
> POST beep, it usually means the BIOS has a message on-screen. it could be 
> as simple as a keyboard error, or something like a message stating the 
> processor was overclocked too much (Yes-- I've seen it, no I didn't 
> overclock, I think CMOS memory got junked somewhere along the way.)

The screen's black at the time, so no message

> But, check with the OEM or board manufacturer for any codes.

Intel board, intel processor.
I'll search their site, see if anything comes up. I should have the manual 
for it somewhere.

> Of course, on some systems there's a beep on start-up if everything is 
> fine.

This is intemittant, so...

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Gail wrote:
> 
> Not fun.
> Worst I had was not seating the CPU properly then switching the machine
> on. The system did nothing. No beeps, nothing on screen, zip.

1999 oslt, I had just fried ~half of my summer-job payment to new
hardware (AMD K6-2 350MHz, MoBo, 128MiB SDRAM DIMM etc). I carefully
loaded the set to my case, checked everything and re-checked everything.
I flipped the switch and the light at the ceiling of the room came out.

That kind of... hmm.. freaked me out a bit.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
      aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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A peace of advice:
1) You may want a 64-bit Windows, if u r gonna use Windows, on 4G system 
since is a tricky business to get Windows XP/(maybe Vista) 32-bit to 
recognize 3+ GB of RAM even 2+ GB 'coz of the PAE (Physical Address 
Extension) support on motherboards and their ability to successfully 
remap hardware addresses above the 4 GB limit and keep device drivers 
still working properly.

2) Don't forget to buy memory modules in even pair(s) to enable 
Dual-Channel and Dynamic Page mode on a Intel platform.

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Here's what I ordered today:

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
* Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU cooler
* Asus P5Q-E motherboard
* Corsair 4GB DDR2 800
* 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM drives (for RAID1 configuration)
* Asus EN9800GT video card
* Samsung 22X DVD burner
* Antec Three Hundred case
* Antec 850W power supply
* Samsung 2232BW+ 22" LCD
* Window Vista Ultimate 64-bit

It should be pretty sweet, so long as everything plays nice together.  We'll see when
it all gets here...

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Kyle wrote:
> Here's what I ordered today:
> 
> * Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
> * Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU cooler
> * Asus P5Q-E motherboard
> * Corsair 4GB DDR2 800
> * 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM drives (for RAID1 configuration)
> * Asus EN9800GT video card
> * Samsung 22X DVD burner
> * Antec Three Hundred case
> * Antec 850W power supply
> * Samsung 2232BW+ 22" LCD
> * Window Vista Ultimate 64-bit
> 
> It should be pretty sweet, so long as everything plays nice together.  We'll see
when it all gets here...
> 

It looks like you are going to have a bit of fun ;-)

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:27:43 -0400, Tom Austin <taustin> wrote:

>
>It looks like you are going to have a bit of fun ;-)
>

I can take that comment both literally and sarcastically, as it will likely be true in
both instance.  :-D

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:14:13 +0200, Kyle <hob### [at] gatenet> wrote:
>
> * Antec Three Hundred case

I am not a big fan of the Three Hundred. It may look nice on the outside,  
but it can be rather awkward when you actually try to mount things inside  
it. Antec cases are usually good, but this one seems almost deliberately  
poor.


-- 
FE

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