[H] weird FDD bug ?

2006-05-15 Thread FORC5
Have a system on the bench, I can copy to the floppy no problem and files are there and AV scans them as there. remove and re insert the disk and nothing that was put there is there. gone. tried a different drive with same results. found this by copying bios files to floppy for a flash and when

[H] sketch program

2006-05-15 Thread FORC5
from google http://dl.google.com/sketchup/GoogleSketchUpW-EN.exe not readily available, got link from Andrew's teacher. fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them.

Re: [H] weird FDD bug ?

2006-05-15 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 10:36 AM 15/05/2006, FORC5 wrote: Have a system on the bench, I can copy to the floppy no problem and files are there and AV scans them as there. remove and re insert the disk and nothing that was put there is there. gone. tried a different drive with same results. found this by copying

Re: [H] sketch program

2006-05-15 Thread David L. Gabler
At 08:52 AM 5/15/2006, you wrote: from google http://dl.google.com/sketchup/GoogleSketchUpW-EN.exe not readily available, got link from Andrew's teacher. fp Hey Fred, It should be available here also: http://sketchup.google.com/index.html -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Join the army,

Re: [H] Printer Recommendation

2006-05-15 Thread Hayes Elkins
USE THE WEB CHAT SUPPORT from HP.com! It will be similar to an IM session. Trust me on this one. Do not call. Their indian accents are impossible to understand, but they have better grammar when typing than most Americans. From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List

RE: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-15 Thread Hayes Elkins
Jesus. I never had the fortitude to finish an elder scrolls game. Just so damn big and vast. Is the scope bigger than Daggerfall or is it more linear? I would imagine the latter because unless this thing ships on HD-DVD there's only so much you can squeeze considering their graphics take up

Re: [H] weird FDD bug ?

2006-05-15 Thread joeuser
Or floppy R/W protection in the BIOS? Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Sounds like a bad drive. T -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)

Re: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-15 Thread Julian Zottl
Since I don't have much time for games lately :( , I've been picking them pretty cauciously. Right now I'm about 25% done with Dungeon Seige II. Oblivion sounds like my next one though since everyone is raving about it! _ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network

Re: [H] weird FDD bug ?

2006-05-15 Thread FORC5
looked there and there is none. tried another drive but it screwed up also but when I put in a new drive it was better. go figure. FDD's have really gotten bad and need to go away IMO. thanks fp At 07:23 AM 5/15/2006, joeuser Poked the stick with: Or floppy R/W protection in the BIOS? Thane

Re: [H] sketch program

2006-05-15 Thread FORC5
opps, went to wrong address :-| need program. I have a 3d cad program I have never been able to use and this works right away. hohoho At 07:03 AM 5/15/2006, David L. Gabler Poked the stick with: At 08:52 AM 5/15/2006, you wrote: from google http://dl.google.com/sketchup/GoogleSketchUpW-EN.exe

[H] HP Pavilion dv5140us Notebook PC

2006-05-15 Thread James Maki
Anyone familiar with this product? Pros/Cons. I am looking for a notebook for my daughter for college next year. More of a desktop replacement than ultra portable. This product has many features I'm looking for at a price (Office Depot) of only $1250 AMIR. 2GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive. Windows XP

Re: [H] OT - Oblivion

2006-05-15 Thread Brian Weeden
I have an Athlon 64 3000+, 2 GB of RAM, and a Radeon X800 GTO2 that has the extra pipes unlocked. While I didn't get awesome framerates, I was able to play at 1024x768 with little problems. The scope is much, much bigger than Daggerfall. I have friends that have put 100+ hours into the game

[H] more weird problems

2006-05-15 Thread FORC5
installing a 80gb drive, replacing a 20gb 20gb boots fine, after clone the new drive has a driver conflict with kb and mouse. even touching the kb locks it up hard. have cloned it twice, currently cloning again with a different drive. ghost 8 mouse works fine. have done the usual remove and

RE: [H] more weird problems

2006-05-15 Thread Rick Quilhot
You could try resetting the BIOS's irq allocation Rick Q -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:16 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] more weird problems installing a 80gb drive, replacing a 20gb