Re: [H] Add to your list of vendors to avoid
Well I guess I have to say it's more their support people, Althon Micro, and to their defense like Asus (useless phone support) they are at the mercy of some asian corporation as reverse-outsourced. Althon/sapphire flat out drags their feet on responding to TS tickets and seems never does any perks like picking up the tab for shipping both ways or allowing a cross-ship. Right now it's mostly their (anyone at Sappire) silence concerning the fan problem the lack of repair solution other than gambling the next card they send won't have same bug. How can they let such a thing be swept aside with oh yeah, just rivatuner to control the fan and we will void your warranty if you remove the HSF install after market cooling. Guess you could call them bare bones? Just the device mam, no frills! =) Thane Sherrington wrote: At 11:32 PM 30/04/2008, j maccraw wrote: Sapphire Technologies has just made my shit list for the issues I am having the HD3870X2 broken fan support. Fraking thing idles @60C due to the fan not ramping up as it gets hot due to some glitch in the BIOS or something. I must point out that I've been selling Sapphire products for about four years with zero failures. So I can't comment on their service but the quality has been excellent. (I deal with my distributor, and my customers deal with me, so I guess it doesn't matter much anyway.) I will keep this in mind though, thanks J. T Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI
Been reading all the reviews drooling over the new 780P chipset for use as a HTPC and was wondering if we will ever see one with a 64-bit PCI-X slot? I just upgraded from an older mobo to a server one with a PCI-X for my 150-6 RAID card and it really makes a difference. But it would also be nice to have the 780G's onboard video capability. Or maybe I'm just dreaming that the two features I need most will end up together. - Brian
Re: [H] click of death
I'm looking for one of those as well, but my laptop's three years old and uses ATA instead of SATA. I figger the 7200 rpm HD outta give it quite a boost. :) So far, have not found anyone with one in stock. Been waiting for 2 weeks on Newegg's email list for when they come in stock. I like the 5 year warranty on the Seagate as well. :) -- JRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 3:03:26 PM Subject: [H] click of death Have a laptop here with a Hitachi drive with the click of death. What would be a good replacement ? Looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm. Not sure if the controller supports this speed pr not thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
[H] click of death
Have a laptop here with a Hitachi drive with the click of death. What would be a good replacement ? Looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm. Not sure if the controller supports this speed pr not thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
Re: [H] click of death
Look into Toshiba or Hitachi. When you do look for the Fall Detection or something. This way if you laptop takes a header into the floor or whatever the hd will be ok. Regards and good luck, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:03 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] click of death Have a laptop here with a Hitachi drive with the click of death. What would be a good replacement ? Looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm. Not sure if the controller supports this speed pr not thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
[H] MB bug ?
Have a friend with a system he built on a Asus p5e 775 ( not sure which one but probably pro ) about every 3 months he has to format reinstall due to errors, runs fine up till then. PSU is a seasonic 750 My only suggestions was to get it cloned after installed/activated to make restores easier. :-} Are there any know issues with this mb/chipset combo ? He is running a 8600 evga video. I really have not kept up on intel stuff but may be picking brains here soon on a build for myself, unless AMD pulls itself back up. Happy with my 6400 except for heat issues. thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
Re: [H] click of death
thanks Tim, customer laptop he uses in business with NO backups. for shame. talking him into sending it to you. only interested in qb data. initially it posted and kind of booted but was real slw. DFT detected it and said drive was bad and then asked to do a repair and then it went bye bye, not even detected anymore. Pulled the drive and brought it in the house to cool off, later I will hook it up to the shop system and see if I can get his data. Have not run any sw on it for data retrieval. If I can not see it I will leave it alone. thanks fp At 03:50 PM 5/2/2008, The Beave Poked the stick with: Look into Toshiba or Hitachi. When you do look for the Fall Detection or something. This way if you laptop takes a header into the floor or whatever the hd will be ok. Regards and good luck, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:03 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] click of death Have a laptop here with a Hitachi drive with the click of death. What would be a good replacement ? Looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm. Not sure if the controller supports this speed pr not thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
[H] dumb ?
Checking HP for purchase recovery disk sets, impressed. Less the $20. Dumb question, do HP recovery disks ask for keys ? I only ask this because the laptop has media center in it and I do not care for it and would rather order pro. I know the Dell RTM's do not ask for key or activations, shame the rest of us have to play mother may I :-} thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Tag line thievery..Coming up next on Geraldo.
Re: [H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI
Completely different segments. 780G is for ultra cheap bare bones all-in-one HTPC solutions. You'll be lucky to find one with an PCIe slot or hell, more than one PCI slot. Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:37:54 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI Been reading all the reviews drooling over the new 780P chipset for use as a HTPC and was wondering if we will ever see one with a 64-bit PCI-X slot? I just upgraded from an older mobo to a server one with a PCI-X for my 150-6 RAID card and it really makes a difference. But it would also be nice to have the 780G's onboard video capability. Or maybe I'm just dreaming that the two features I need most will end up together. - Brian _ Back to work after baby–how do you know when you’re ready? http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/articleNW.aspx?cp-documentid=5797498ocid=T067MSN40A0701A
Re: [H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI
I'm not aware of any 780g that doesn't have a x16 pci-e slot. Most have at least 3 pci + 2 pci-e x1. Need room for tuners in an htpc. Several have more then that. You just haven't been looking. :). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Hayes Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 20:13:49 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI Completely different segments. 780G is for ultra cheap bare bones all-in-one HTPC solutions. You'll be lucky to find one with an PCIe slot or hell, more than one PCI slot. Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:37:54 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] AMD 780G and 64-bit PCI Been reading all the reviews drooling over the new 780P chipset for use as a HTPC and was wondering if we will ever see one with a 64-bit PCI-X slot? I just upgraded from an older mobo to a server one with a PCI-X for my 150-6 RAID card and it really makes a difference. But it would also be nice to have the 780G's onboard video capability. Or maybe I'm just dreaming that the two features I need most will end up together. - Brian _ Back to work after baby–how do you know when you’re ready? http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/articleNW.aspx?cp-documentid=5797498ocid=T067MSN40A0701A
