Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Bunch of little stuff

Still waiting on my refund, but it should be in Friday.
Had to replace the low beams on my car as one died in the last couple of days.
I thought I had fried the logic board on my 530S while trying to do a case transplant, but turns out it might have been a short to [...]

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Almost done with changeover

I have canceled DirecTV and tomorrow I will be stopping by Frontier with the modem and canceling them.
Also tomorrow I will be getting the PCI tuner card so I can get back to recording the shows that I want to watch when I want to watch them.
After that I plan on reorganizing the living room [...]

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Switching things up

And now I have plans to dump both Frontier Communications and DirecTV and go with my local Cable provider.
Frontier(Phone & Internet/3MB down): $90.00/month
DirecTV(Basic TV and Starz): $73.00/month
Total [...]

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Quad is back up and running

It was the PSU as a new one started the machine right up.

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Bad computer day

I just lost the PSU in my gaming machine, I got home from work today and it was off.
Tried different outlets but nothing and the Dell work just fine on the same power cord plugged into the power strip.
Ordered a new one from Newegg and now will just have to wait for it to arrive.

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Another 2 days off almost over

Had Wednesday & Thursday off and mostly only worked on getting AP running on different video cards.

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Heat sink fun

I am trying to get my heat sink to connect properly to the CPU of the quad, I tried one with the clips and that one only managed to connect on the 2 edges and my CPU was running hot.
I just got a new one that has a connection plate and am working on getting [...]

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Memory

I finally ordered the 4 GB of memory for the quad, once it arrives I can put the other 2 GB back into the 530s and put it back at 3 GB.
I installed Vista SP2 last night on the 530s as it was available on Windows update.

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Thunderstorms

I got woken up this morning to thunder rolling in the sky.
Both computers on the bedroom were off and took a little coaxing to come back on, the 2 in the living room kept running just fine.
SETI is still having problems on the download front as I have about 50 units still trying to [...]

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Milkyway@home

Now that Travis has fixed the server, my RAC is soaring right now.

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