Re: [H] Motorola SB5101
They laugh and say BFD because they have no competition since there is no common carrier access for cable unlike POTS DSL services. We're suffering here with one of the few surviving local cable co's that have a 20GB/mo cap @ 3Mb for $49 or you can get same speed no cap on DSL for $39 from Verizon. It's a shame that most vendors put that signal status page on their modems but the cable co's never use it. All I kept hearing was it's green on my end., What status page?, or That's not a reliable indication of signal strength! when I was right all along. Funny that in the early days line men would not hook anything else up to the modem's drop and tended to leave out entertainment filters for fear of causing problems, now they just tack it on anywhere in the house. Of course that could be because now they use unskilled contractors and slightly better skilled repair techs. The advanced techs that finally came out and solved my problem had nothing good to say about the normal techs and even less good to say about contractors. Wayne Johnson wrote: At 22:39 10-03-2007, DHSinclair typed: I am reminded of the old engineering saw of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I do know squeaky wheel. . :) The other thing one can do is tell them that you'll take your business elsewhere. ---+-- I'm a geek that loves to tweak. Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mailp=graduation+giftscs=bz
Re: [H] Ageia Physx ?
with multicore processors and the continual advancements in graphics cards the PhysX cards will lose or have already lost their appeal. I've seen a few video captures of various games showing some of the differences that occur with the cards installed vs. a system without. They were mostly minor differences like prettier water effects, extra droplets of blood, more shrapnel or sparks, finer details in waving flags, etc. Things that could be appreciated if you had one but not something that will make or break your gaming experience. -Tharin O. FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed Airborne demo, installed this sw and I do not have one of these cards. Game seems to play just fine without it cept I think my laser mouse is real fussy ( or it is just harder to aim ) Please tell me this Ageia is a gimmick cool game fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Bigamist: An Italian fog.
Re: [H] Motorola SB5101
Yes, this works well too. But, usually only in major markets with many choices. Here in rural GA our choices are limited. Best, Duncan At 23:16 10/03/2007 -0400, Wayne wrote: At 22:39 10-03-2007, DHSinclair typed: I am reminded of the old engineering saw of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I do know squeaky wheel. . :) The other thing one can do is tell them that you'll take your business elsewhere. ---+-- I'm a geek that loves to tweak. This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
Re: [H] Motorola SB5101
Where 'bouts in GA do you live? DHSinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this works well too. But, usually only in major markets with many choices. Here in rural GA our choices are limited. Best, Duncan At 23:16 10/03/2007 -0400, Wayne wrote: At 22:39 10-03-2007, DHSinclair typed: I am reminded of the old engineering saw of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I do know squeaky wheel. . :) The other thing one can do is tell them that you'll take your business elsewhere. ---+-- I'm a geek that loves to tweak. This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
Re: [H] Motorola SB5101
Yes, I believe I got to visit your BBS onest or twicest just after you joined the List and before you took the BBS down. Long time ago... :) Back when I lived in sunny SoCal (where the sewer meets the sea!) Best, Duncan At 12:28 10/04/2007 -0400, you wrote: At 11:33 10-04-2007, DHSinclair typed: Yes, this works well too. But, usually only in major markets with many choices. Here in rural GA our choices are limited. We use to be that way here in rural Ohio. I couldn't wait for broadband got satellite [DirecPC] when we could afford it before it was 2 way even then cable dsl came to town. Heck I was the 1st person in town on the Internet made the front page of the local rag but before that I ran a BBS on a PC XT that I had souped up with a NEC V20 10MHz processor a AST Sixpack Plus memory card with all of 4 meg of ram. Therefore I feel your pain. ;-) ---+-- I'm a geek that loves to tweak. This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
[H] Strange partition issue
I have an ancient Tyan S1854 motherboard and I put a 320GB HD in it. The BIOS recognizes it as being 132MB, and Windows Explorer says it's a 128GB partition, but diskpart says it's a 310GB partition. Is Explorer simply showing me an incorrect lower number, or is diskpart wrong? T
RE: [H] Strange partition issue
If you are trying to format it FAT-32 that is the GB limit. IF you are trying to format it NTFS, it maybe a Bios issue. Good luck, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:14 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Strange partition issue I have an ancient Tyan S1854 motherboard and I put a 320GB HD in it. The BIOS recognizes it as being 132MB, and Windows Explorer says it's a 128GB partition, but diskpart says it's a 310GB partition. Is Explorer simply showing me an incorrect lower number, or is diskpart wrong? T
Re: [H] Strange partition issue
I'd think that your ancient Tyan m/b's bios can not deal with a big drive. IIRC what the bios sees is processed and handed off to Windoz at boot. Does the bios allow LBA addressing? Best, Duncan At 15:14 10/04/2007 -0400, you wrote: I have an ancient Tyan S1854 motherboard and I put a 320GB HD in it. The BIOS recognizes it as being 132MB, and Windows Explorer says it's a 128GB partition, but diskpart says it's a 310GB partition. Is Explorer simply showing me an incorrect lower number, or is diskpart wrong? T This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net
RE: [H] Strange partition issue
That board only supports up to UltraDMA 66 so is limited to 132GB drives. I've had a look at the BIOS page and unfortunately there isn't an update to enable 48-bit LBA http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/trinity400_spec.html If you added a UDMA-100 or later controller card you could use the drive without a problem. n. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: 04 October 2007 20:14 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Strange partition issue I have an ancient Tyan S1854 motherboard and I put a 320GB HD in it. The BIOS recognizes it as being 132MB, and Windows Explorer says it's a 128GB partition, but diskpart says it's a 310GB partition. Is Explorer simply showing me an incorrect lower number, or is diskpart wrong? T
RE: [H] Strange partition issue
At 06:46 PM 04/10/2007, Neil Davidson wrote: That board only supports up to UltraDMA 66 so is limited to 132GB drives. I've had a look at the BIOS page and unfortunately there isn't an update to enable 48-bit LBA http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/trinity400_spec.html If you added a UDMA-100 or later controller card you could use the drive without a problem. Cool. Thanks for looking that up. I may give WD Lifeguard Tools a shot. IIRC, that will get around the BIOS limitation. T
