The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

What really bothers me is the design of the 210 GPU. Hopefully not others. When installed in this HEC case, via Low profile bracket, there isn't enough room for probably ANY HDMI cable. I had to shave away some of the protective layer, so it would slip into the slot.
Sorry about the crudity of the pics. My camera is really picky about up close shots. I swear, I will buy a friggin canon this year

I suppose the case could be more to blame.

 

I can testify to that; win7 takes over 30 min. to install on my Asus MB.

 

The case wasn't designed for proper cards, just use the DVI with a DVI to HDMI dongle.

 

Oh you're a dongle! LOL! Joking...
I believe I have one of those eh. The one on the right should serve that purpose, though there's no need now LOL! Unless the HDMI port causes an issue. The one in the center I have 2 of. Forget why I have the left one...

 

On another note, there may have been nothing wrong with 5000AAKB drive. I just restarted the freshly installed Windows 7 drive 5000AAKS, and it gave the same error. Operating system missing. It's possible, that when I was attempting to install Linux on a flash drive, that I screwed up the boot sequence in the bios, causing the issue on both drives LOL! Whoops. But I guess that doesn't explain why the AAKB tried to boot, and then blue screened. Aw well. All is well now, and time will tell whether the AAKB drive is still in good health. The only way to get its smart statistics that I'm aware of, is to connect it properly. That is, NOT Via usb. When I did that before, Speedfan would not acknowledge it. Though there are probably other programs that could.

 

SMART over USB is iffy anyway...

 

Shaff,
You're such a "Suck Up" to Vista and Win7, you would say that anyway! ROFLMSOAO!! J/K

 

Well we say it because it's the truth, for both of us...

 

I can third that, although I've only had 2 viruses in my entire life and that was back when I was using 2000 lol.

 

Hey! I'm a suck up too LOL! I truthfully have had less bugs and 0 viruses with 7 than XP...
I can't wait to get a touch screen monitor, and REALLY play. Gotta get Dragon Naturally Speaking reinstalled too. VERY awesome program. Windows 7 has an integrated speech program, but In my opinion, Dragon is at least slightly better. It seemed to be much more adaptive

 

omeg, oh you dusty piggie you lol.

I got maybe the same virus Russ got, I don't know about 7 only what you guys say and will take your words for it, but don't go knocking XP yet, my last virus was about 7 years ago, and thats when I knew absolutly nothing, and that's a pretty good track record for XP.

It took me about 6 hrs. to get rid of this one, it was a real bastard, sounded very simular to Russes, I can't believe I beat it without wiping my HD.

 

lol russ, i do have bias haha.

PS my dfi does it aswell


intel chipsets?

 

No, the nforce 650i has it too (even though the board I had with that chipset couldn't even install Vista due to being incompatible). The only system I've seen to not do it is an ancient Sony Vaio laptop.

 

Kinda funny. I don't even think that the MSI board is "Vista Ready". Go figure LOL!

 

You know what the funny thing is? I'm pretty sure the board in question (P5N-E SLI) was!

 

Just for the record and so people don't get the notion that Vista and Win7 don't get viruses, the last two computers I removed this particular virus from, were laptops, and both had Vista on them! The one before that was an AlienWare Desktop running Win7! The laptops were an HP and an Acer, mid priced dual core performance laptops, while the Alienware was a Phenom II Quad. All were less than 2 years old! The HP laptop was the one that would not allow you to install anything but Vista or win7 on it. It came without a Restore disk, and no recovery partition on the HDD. You have to buy the restore disk, extra! Mine got the virus, less than a day after installing SP3, and I have heard of others that had the same problem. Then again, I don't put anything past Micro$oft, so nothing would surprise me!

Russ

 

I wouldn't believe that Vista/7 are incapable of being infected. That would be pretty ignorant. Code can be compromised. It's only a matter of time
It's pretty sad, but there exist people that day by day, their thoughts are bent on either cracking code, or infecting it. Pretty sad. People work pretty hard for what they have. I bust my butt everyday. And I'm not paid enough for it. I suppose we all have that argument though LOL!

On a side note, anyone running firefox with Adobe flash plugin, noticing that the tabs shut down slowly lately? Only if there is flash content, and generally only on afterdawn???

 

Out of curiosity, were they 32-bit systems?

 

Sam,
Yes they were!

Russ

 

Therein lies the problem. Viruses are still common to any Windows OS in 32-bit. The way most viruses are written prevents them from being run on a 64-bit OS. This should apply to XP as well, but I'm not sure, since I never really researched it much.