Recent content by normteke

My purchase of an Elite is finally justified!

The store invited him there and the four people in line when he got there were fine with it. They actually wanted him there in the front of the line. The Apple Store manager allowed him to sit on the chairs in front of the store because he has a herniated disk in his back that prevents him...

I think his problem comes from his pay coming from Union negotiated contract terms. I don't think he could negotiate his own contract if he is part of an acting union.

I work in the automotive finance industry and created training on FACTA Alerts (Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act) for our credit analysts, which is what this service relies on. Consumers can call the credit bureaus and have an Initial Alert placed on their credit report, themselves...

1. I would replace my 939 Opteron. 2. Phenom

My company has locked down the appearances and themes and pushed a horrible desktop design (of course, anything designed by a 12 person committee with no designers will look awful) out to all users and set the default theme to Windows Classic because so many people complained about the switch to...

I'm running upside down in a Lian-Li PCV-1100B and the northbridge fan is running at around 2300 rpm. The temps are usually around 12-15 degrees higher than what my Opteron 148 is running at any one time (which is usually around 36C with the side panel in place). This case is quiet, but it...

Thank you DamienThorne!!! Driver Cleaner plus the very latest 71.80 drivers got rid of the dots! Thank you so much. The only thing I am worried about now is Playing FarCry again. What settings should I be running on my 6600GT to prevent the card from hard-locking like that again?

This was a brand new everything build, with a new OEM copy of XP Pro. No I did not use driver cleaner; I'll hunt for that later when I get home from work. Thanks for the tip.

I just built this new box with a Gigabyte NForce 4 SLi with a Winchester 3200+ and it is powered by an Antec NeoPower. I will check to make sure the card is seated, but the card works fine at 1280x1024x16 bit color. The dots only appear when the color is set to 32-bit. I was playing FarCry...

This is the card that defaults to 550 core and 1120 mem. I was playing FarCry and the screen just went blank and then my monitor acted like there was no signal coming from the card. I had to hard boot and when Windows loaded my screen was covered in dots. The card was running at 1280 x 1024 x...

I am having problems with the onboard Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet. I installed AirSnare and Ethereal on my system and all of a sudden the Nvidia Networking port kept repeating that a network cable was unplugged even though it was still connected. It kept telling me it could not acquire a network...

I have a new Gigabyte SLi board in my new machine. I have a Raptor 74 with my Windows XP Pro install and a Seagate NCQ 160 as secondary. While attempting to format my 160 after having installed XP Pro on my Raptor, I accidentally began installing windows on my Seagate. I canceled the install...

You can get the Leadtek 6600GT Extreme like I got. GPU clocked at 550 and Ram at 1120.

They are all right next to each other, and to use dual-channel you have to put the two dimms in adjacent slots so they are almost touching. I have Crucial Ballistix PC3200 . Sorry, the only camera I have is my phone, and it is only half-vga so the pictures suck.