Re: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-23 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Weird. > Yeah, just like writing software. You don't know why it doesn't work and then don't know why it does work. What CPU did you get? Is the RAM DDR3 or DDR4? Some boards can run both > types. > > Asus mainboards boast of “audio aficionado” quality chips for > sound/multimedia. My current

Re: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-23 Thread Greg Harris
Hi Greg, Warning tangent alert... Back in the day (early 80's) one of my mates to test the boot process of a new machine, would set his transistor radio going next to the machine. It would be totally off station so as just to hear static. Then as the machine boots, you listen to the RF interferen

Re: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-23 Thread Greg Keogh
> > I do not think it would be as valid today with much faster clock speeds. > Oh yeah, processors are so fast now, that only a dog would be able to hear the supersonic squeals of the boot sequence. But seriously, I have a 1982 vintage Sansui G-3500 tuner-amplifier on my desk, and when I have the

Re: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-23 Thread 罗格雷格博士
We used to write code to play tunes on drum printers - nice and loud The most hard core lady from HP product group that I ever met when working there, could walk up to one of our green screen terminals and, from memory, enter enough machine code to make it play a car game. She'd spent way too mu

RE: [OT] New PC no video

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
Could it be that someone’s already had a play with the board? Seems like an odd configuration, and if it were normal, I’d guess that it’d be the #1-10 hits on Google as every man and his dog would be running into the same problem. Also, just a thought, if the board supports Intel vPro, then the