Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

2006-06-02 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off? No surprises there! Funny they don't just cut to the chase and flat-out offer to re-install the

Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 11:03 AM 02/06/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The world has accepted the explanation, The computer is down when over 90% of these instances could be avoided if computers were built of quality and without bloatware. All the Windows XP OEM Preinstallation Kit does is turn your computer into

Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 01:10 PM 02/06/2006, Ben Ruset wrote: Click here to install AOL Click here to install Earthlink Free Trial of Quicken This has nothing to do with OPK. Those are choices made by unscrupulous dealers. I use OPK and none of these things are installed. T

[H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
Ok, I can't figure this out, so I'm turning (once again) to the Collective. I have a customer with an AMD X2 3800+ system. In the shop it runs fine: I've run Burn-In-Test Pro 4 and 5 for 110 hours, I ran UT2004 in demo loop for 50 hours, and I ran various Photoshop benchmarks. Then I just

Re: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Reeves
Bad USB can cause your problem and the test is easy disconnect all usb at hos location and see if results change I have a client with a brother hydra and that bastard will blue screen any pc I have ever attached it to CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message-

Re: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:10 PM 02/06/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Ok, I can't figure this out, so I'm turning (once again) to the Collective. I have a customer with an AMD X2 3800+ system. In the shop it runs fine: I've run Burn-In-Test Pro 4 and 5 for 110 hours, I ran UT2004 in demo loop for 50 hours,

RE: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Bobby Heid
Could it be bad/noisy power at the client site? Take a UPS that has AVR on it and see if it runs ok. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 1:11 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject:

Re: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:23 PM 02/06/2006, Chris Reeves wrote: Bad USB can cause your problem and the test is easy disconnect all usb at hos location and see if results change I have a client with a brother hydra and that bastard will blue screen any pc I have ever attached it to Thanks for the confirmation.

RE: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 02:34 PM 02/06/2006, Bobby Heid wrote: Could it be bad/noisy power at the client site? Take a UPS that has AVR on it and see if it runs ok. What's AVR? I'm using a SmartUPS 1000Net. The line power LED blinks like crazy regularly, but connecting the computer to the UPS doesn't solve the

Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

2006-06-02 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off? Click here to install AOL Click here to install Earthlink Free Trial of Quicken Technically the

Re: [H] Geeksquad/Bestbuy rip off?

2006-06-02 Thread Ben Ruset
Oh sorry, I wasn't talking about the OPK doing that. My mistake. Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: At 01:10 PM 02/06/2006, Ben Ruset wrote: Click here to install AOL Click here to install Earthlink Free Trial of Quicken This has nothing to do with OPK. Those are choices made by unscrupulous

RE: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread RLS
Why don't you provide (temp) diff mouse and keyboard if they are USB, and if the printer is usb/parallel run it parallel. There is also a switch in the registry that lets u alter the frequency that the usb ports are sampled. Set it to an abnormally high number and see it that at least changes or

RE: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread Thane Sherrington (S)
At 04:37 PM 02/06/2006, RLS wrote: Why don't you provide (temp) diff mouse and keyboard if they are USB, and if the printer is usb/parallel run it parallel. There is also a switch in the registry that lets u alter the frequency that the usb ports are sampled. Set it to an abnormally high number

RE: [H] X2 problems

2006-06-02 Thread RLS
Besides the issues, how do you like the way X2 runs: 1 Do two windows show up under Task Manager? 2 Performance wise how does it do, can you compare it to any Intel Products or older AMD? 3 Which Motherboard did you go with? 4 OEM or Retail? If OEM what fan? What's normal/high usage temps?

Re: [H] -OT- Steve, Don't Eat It!

2006-06-02 Thread George Pantazopoulos
Steve, Don't Eat It! http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php LOL that was awesome! I showed it to like 3 people at work and they were laughing too. Thanks! George

Re: [H] -OT- Steve, Don't Eat It!

2006-06-02 Thread Jin-Wei Tioh
At 07:17 PM 6/2/2006, you wrote: LOL that was awesome! I showed it to like 3 people at work and they were laughing too. Thanks! George Call 911! Call 911! :D -- JW