RE: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Hunter, Gary
Great idea, you know I never considered going to an actual store LOL. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Anger Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:45 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Al Anger
Hunter, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any trick to ensuring you get a monitor with no dead pixels? The only way I've found is to buy retail; open and test in the store. Ask before paying if you can test and return if not happy. Also pay with a CC as a measure of last resort.

[H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Hunter, Gary
Hi, Is there any trick to ensuring you get a monitor with no dead pixels? Any places that guarantee them. I don't mind paying slightly extra for a perfect monitor? Are there any models that guarantee them. I think I will be getting the Dell 2407WFP for my main monitor so I guess I don't have

Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:26 AM 18/05/2007, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, Is there any trick to ensuring you get a monitor with no dead pixels? Any places that guarantee them. I don't mind paying slightly extra for a perfect monitor? Are there any models that guarantee them. I haven't had a screen with a dead pixel in

Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Ruset
We ordered several 22 widescreen's from them and got one with one dead pixel. All of the other ones we got seem to have been fine. Thane Sherrington wrote: At 11:26 AM 18/05/2007, Hunter, Gary wrote: Hi, Is there any trick to ensuring you get a monitor with no dead pixels? Any places that

Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread tmservo
Acer has easily been the most trouble free. Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:10:44 To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

RE: [H] SATA AHCI vs Standard

2007-05-18 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:51 PM 18/05/2007, Hayes Elkins wrote: If the drive does not support NCQ than there's really no benefit of setting AHCI. Neither option does any harm, just a little more work installing in ahci mode. Am I right in thinking that AHCI would allow upgrading to an NCQ HD down the road

RE: [H] SATA AHCI vs Standard

2007-05-18 Thread Hayes Elkins
If the drive does not support NCQ than there's really no benefit of setting AHCI. Neither option does any harm, just a little more work installing in ahci mode. From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com

RE: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one without dead pixels!

2007-05-18 Thread Hunter, Gary
Thanks, that sways it for me with three recommendations, I will take a look at Acer. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 10:16 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] LCD Monitors - getting one

Re: [H] ready made NAS box.

2007-05-18 Thread JRS
My whole computer room is twice as quiet right now with the Snap turned off.. Playing with the new D_Link DNS-323 I just got, 320 gigs of RAID 1 storage. RAID 1 is mirrored, so a whole drive is wasted, but I got two 3-year warranty 320 gig WD SATA drives for only 79 bucks each. Sorta makes it

[H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Joe User
I plugged it into the iMac and the iPod screen says 'do not disconnect' - What is it doing? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Probably a firmware update. -- Brian On 5/18/07, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plugged it into the iMac and the iPod screen says 'do not disconnect' - What is it doing? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

RE: [H] SATA AHCI vs Standard

2007-05-18 Thread Hayes Elkins
From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] SATA AHCI vs Standard Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 15:17:33 -0300 At 02:51 PM 18/05/2007, Hayes Elkins wrote: If the drive does not support

Re[2]: [H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Joe User
Hello Brian, Friday, May 18, 2007, 2:02:25 PM, you wrote: Probably a firmware update. Wow, it's been like an hour now... Other thing is iTunes didn't start up when I plugged it in... -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re[3]: [H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Joe User
Ah hah, Parallels caught it and installed it into the XP VM. Once I killed that app everything seems to be working. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Scott Sipe
it always has that do not disconnect whenever it is being used in target disk mode or is syncing. Scott On May 18, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Joe User wrote: I plugged it into the iMac and the iPod screen says 'do not disconnect' - What is it doing? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the

Re: [H] iPod is here!

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Yep. Just hit the eject icon in iTunes or unmount the iPod by some other means before pulling it out. You aren't really going to do any harm to it unless it's writing data when you disconnect it - that is your standard dont remove the disk while we are coping data to it warning. -- Brian On