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So I just upgraded my PC. What you all running?
Intel P4HT 2.6ghz on MIS Motherboard with 533mhz Frontside bus
512mb DDR333 ram
ATI Celestica 9200pro Video card 250mhzGPU/128MB Vram
52X CDRW/DVDRW
Standard ATX case, 450watt power supply
Onboard Intel 10/100 ethernet connects to cable modem.
Replaced a Compaq deskpro 266MMX ('nuff said)
Not the top of the line, but for 700 bucks, its a pretty sweet deal to me. My very first graphical game can be found here:
http://www.knight-online.com.my
Yes, you may all be rid of me.
/rejoice
Well, since you asked:
Athlon 2500+ (Barton Core) (Slightly overclocked)
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard
1 GB of Corsair 3200LL matched, dual channel memory (runs at CAS 2)
2 37GB, 10K RPM, Raptor SATA drives in RAID 0
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card
Sony G-400 19in Flat Screen CRT monitor
Pioneer DVD-Player
Creative 52x CD-Player
Logitech MX-700 wireless optical mouse (awesome mouse)
Logitech Z2200 2.1 speakers
HP LaserJet 1012 printer
And some other odds and ends
Oh, and a 450W PS, plus an SuperMicro SC-750A tower case.
You did ask... heh.
Athlon 2500+ (Barton Core) (Slightly overclocked)
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard
1 GB of Corsair 3200LL matched, dual channel memory (runs at CAS 2)
2 37GB, 10K RPM, Raptor SATA drives in RAID 0
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card
Sony G-400 19in Flat Screen CRT monitor
Pioneer DVD-Player
Creative 52x CD-Player
Logitech MX-700 wireless optical mouse (awesome mouse)
Logitech Z2200 2.1 speakers
HP LaserJet 1012 printer
And some other odds and ends
Oh, and a 450W PS, plus an SuperMicro SC-750A tower case.
You did ask... heh.
>Until recently I was jamming with a 233 mhz...couldn't even play winamp some days. Man oh man I'm glad thats over and done with.
Tool - Lateralus - Grudge on teh winamp right now! Before coffee even. Its pretty nice to be able to do more than one thing at a time on a PC. Heh.
http://www.knight-online.com.my
No DR in 4 days.
Tool - Lateralus - Grudge on teh winamp right now! Before coffee even. Its pretty nice to be able to do more than one thing at a time on a PC. Heh.
http://www.knight-online.com.my
No DR in 4 days.
>Soil and Mushroom Head at the moment, with some Hatebreed hiding in there somewhere, and yes, multi tasking is useful.
I knew there was good in you somewhere. :P
http://www.knight-online.com.my
No DR in 4 days. Demeanor improving.
I knew there was good in you somewhere. :P
http://www.knight-online.com.my
No DR in 4 days. Demeanor improving.
I couldnt help it.
<<52X CDRW/DVDRW
I'd love to see a DVD burned in like 2 minutes. YUMMY i could go on a download fest everyday.
Clynlyn
Check out Genie2 A Great New FE
http://www.clanshroud.org/genie
<<52X CDRW/DVDRW
I'd love to see a DVD burned in like 2 minutes. YUMMY i could go on a download fest everyday.
Clynlyn
Check out Genie2 A Great New FE
http://www.clanshroud.org/genie
Hey all you smart computer gurus...This is too ironic. Yesterday my primary harddrive decided to lay waste to itself. I upgraded to a 120 GB, reinstalled Windows, and got her running again...with only one problem. I have no sound. I have an integrated sound card on the motherboard, but for the life of me cant determine its manufacture...therefore I cant go online and find the driver for it. Is the anyway at all to determine what kind of motherboard you have? Im no expert in computer things, I can only do the mundane to semi-hard tasks...Im just stuck. Im about at my wits end and ready to just get a soundcard...any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
Just for clarity, I looked under my Device Manager, and it doesnt give the name of the sound card, only thing I could find was that the motherboard uses Via technology to an AGP...which probably means bubkas..thanks again.
Konnor
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown
Just for clarity, I looked under my Device Manager, and it doesnt give the name of the sound card, only thing I could find was that the motherboard uses Via technology to an AGP...which probably means bubkas..thanks again.
Konnor
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown
when you boot up you should see some kind of info, track it that way.
Clynlyn
Check out Genie2 A Great New FE
http://www.clanshroud.org/genie
Clynlyn
Check out Genie2 A Great New FE
http://www.clanshroud.org/genie
1. If you know the model and manufacturer of your motherboard, then go to the MB maker's website and look up the board (for example, my board is an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe, and it also has integrated sound). If you have a GForce2 or 3 chipset, you can go to Nvidia's site and look around.
2. If you don't know the model and manufacturer of your MB, you can try opening your case and looking for it. This could possibly void the warranty, so check on that first.
3. You may also want to look at your BIOS settings.
4. You might try the Sound part of your Window's Control Panel, if the OS detects integrated sound, it'll list it as a selection for various sound sources.
That should be enough to get you started. Good luck.
2. If you don't know the model and manufacturer of your MB, you can try opening your case and looking for it. This could possibly void the warranty, so check on that first.
3. You may also want to look at your BIOS settings.
4. You might try the Sound part of your Window's Control Panel, if the OS detects integrated sound, it'll list it as a selection for various sound sources.
That should be enough to get you started. Good luck.
Okay this is my baby, bear in mind she's almost 3 years old.
AMD Athlon(tm)XP 2000+ 1.7 GHZ (don't remember FSB speed, too lazy to look, prolly around 400mghz or so)
VIA694- 43202e31 w/UDMA Shuttle Moonwalker MB Award Modular w/onboard sound
384MB DDR Ram
28.63 GB Caviar HD
800x600 in 32-bit color video, 64mb AGPx16 (I think, again too lazy to check) RADEON 9200 series version 6.14
4 PCI slots.
2 USB ports
1 Parallel 2 Serial ports
She has all the amennities, scanner, laser printer, CDRW, DVD, USB mouse/keyboard,
BUILT COMPLETELY FROM SCRAP BY YOURS TRULY. I pieced her together one part at a time, salvaging a few parts from my old Pentium 2 computer, which I bought for 1800$ back in 98. NOTE This one only cost me about 600$ and is like 900 times better.
Installed pirated Win XP, stole Norton AV from my job at Dell, and bummed other programs (eventually had to give in and buy some of them for product support reasons) have managed, cleaned, fixed, installed, upgraded and all that good stuff on this baby for the last 3 years. She's my pride and joy, now after reading some of your computer schems, I'm totally depressed. Guess it's allmost time to upgrade again....sigh.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
AMD Athlon(tm)XP 2000+ 1.7 GHZ (don't remember FSB speed, too lazy to look, prolly around 400mghz or so)
VIA694- 43202e31 w/UDMA Shuttle Moonwalker MB Award Modular w/onboard sound
384MB DDR Ram
28.63 GB Caviar HD
800x600 in 32-bit color video, 64mb AGPx16 (I think, again too lazy to check) RADEON 9200 series version 6.14
4 PCI slots.
2 USB ports
1 Parallel 2 Serial ports
She has all the amennities, scanner, laser printer, CDRW, DVD, USB mouse/keyboard,
BUILT COMPLETELY FROM SCRAP BY YOURS TRULY. I pieced her together one part at a time, salvaging a few parts from my old Pentium 2 computer, which I bought for 1800$ back in 98. NOTE This one only cost me about 600$ and is like 900 times better.
Installed pirated Win XP, stole Norton AV from my job at Dell, and bummed other programs (eventually had to give in and buy some of them for product support reasons) have managed, cleaned, fixed, installed, upgraded and all that good stuff on this baby for the last 3 years. She's my pride and joy, now after reading some of your computer schems, I'm totally depressed. Guess it's allmost time to upgrade again....sigh.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
Power Mac G4/933, 1GB RAM, 80MB internal, 200GB/8MB FireWire 2 external, GeForce 4MX card (weak link), 22" CRT at 1600x1200x32/ 72Hz. This is the DR system and plays a few games.
HP Alphastation DS15, 1.05GHz Alpha EV68, 2GB RAM, U160 SCSI dual channels, 4 each 72GB 15KRPM (two per channel, mirrored), 20/40GB DAT DDS-4 tape, Radeon 7500 dual head 1280x1024, OpenVMS V7.3-2, DECWindows V1.3-1 (X11-R6.x). This does everything else.
No wintels allowed in the house except when Pam has to bring her work notebook home. Standards must be maintained.
Glenlivet
HP Alphastation DS15, 1.05GHz Alpha EV68, 2GB RAM, U160 SCSI dual channels, 4 each 72GB 15KRPM (two per channel, mirrored), 20/40GB DAT DDS-4 tape, Radeon 7500 dual head 1280x1024, OpenVMS V7.3-2, DECWindows V1.3-1 (X11-R6.x). This does everything else.
No wintels allowed in the house except when Pam has to bring her work notebook home. Standards must be maintained.
Glenlivet
Yuck Macs........ Maybe I'm just prejudiced because i've never been trained on one.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
<<That should be enough to get you started. Good luck.>>
ROBI pretty much nailed it. Since you just recently reinstalled Windows, you may want to check to make sure you have all your patches and updates for your version of windows, on Microsoft's website, the lack of sound could be a driver conflict.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
ROBI pretty much nailed it. Since you just recently reinstalled Windows, you may want to check to make sure you have all your patches and updates for your version of windows, on Microsoft's website, the lack of sound could be a driver conflict.
Brittany (...the player of Aspasia Undojen'pelci)
"If ever the Darkness should conquer the Light, the last gleam shall come from the uplifted blade of one of a righteous Paladin."
Sir Cleworth, paladin initiation speech.
OBTW, all behind a pair of SonicWALL standalone firewalls, one cable connected, one IDSL (can't get DSL here and IDSL is faster upload than the slow cable upload rate here). Sweet.
MS released a group of major critical and not so critical security updates around Tuesday. There was also a 'potentially critical' warning about the help system that may or may not have been patched in that group. If you are on wintel best get patching... but then thats almost a daily occurrence anyway ;)
Glenlivet
MS released a group of major critical and not so critical security updates around Tuesday. There was also a 'potentially critical' warning about the help system that may or may not have been patched in that group. If you are on wintel best get patching... but then thats almost a daily occurrence anyway ;)
Glenlivet
>>I have an integrated sound card on the motherboard <<
AmI the only one who finds integrated sound and video on the motherboard to be one of the great evils of the world? Nothing will turn me off of a system I'm looking at faster than seeing "shared ram" in the video column. I ended up having to buy one that had it for price reasons, but the first thing I went out and bought immediately afterwards was a graphics card. I won't accept anything less than a Sound Blaster for my sound, either.
The mind of a warrior is like a mirror in that it has no commitment to any outcome and is free to let form and purpose result on the spot, according to the situation.
-Yagyu Munenori
AmI the only one who finds integrated sound and video on the motherboard to be one of the great evils of the world? Nothing will turn me off of a system I'm looking at faster than seeing "shared ram" in the video column. I ended up having to buy one that had it for price reasons, but the first thing I went out and bought immediately afterwards was a graphics card. I won't accept anything less than a Sound Blaster for my sound, either.
The mind of a warrior is like a mirror in that it has no commitment to any outcome and is free to let form and purpose result on the spot, according to the situation.
-Yagyu Munenori
Oh...and meanwhile, I'm currently running on this:
1.2 GHZ Celeron processor
256 megs of ram (SDRAM, this thing is ANCIENT)
120 gig hard drive space (1 40 gig, 1 80 gig 7200 8mb buffer)
64 meg Radeon
Soundblaster basic
16X DVD drive
Generic CD-RW
I'm about ready to start a new round of upgrades...what I'm looking at will eventually be something along these lines:
3.0 GHZ water cooled Pentium 4
512 MB DDR Ram
80 gig HD
256 Asylum Video
16X DVD Drive
52-32-52 CD-RW
Unfortunately I'm kind of strapped for cash, so I'm going to have to end up buying the parts one at a time. First up is the video, since I can stick that in my current computer for an immediate upgrade, and then I'll slowly start picking up a piece here and a piece there. Overall it looks like I'm going to be paying around 700 bucks, especially since I want to get a lian-li PC Case this time around.
It's kind of funny...I know guys who are all about their cars and how they've tuned them, but me and my friends are like that about computers instead.
The mind of a warrior is like a mirror in that it has no commitment to any outcome and is free to let form and purpose result on the spot, according to the situation.
-Yagyu Munenori
1.2 GHZ Celeron processor
256 megs of ram (SDRAM, this thing is ANCIENT)
120 gig hard drive space (1 40 gig, 1 80 gig 7200 8mb buffer)
64 meg Radeon
Soundblaster basic
16X DVD drive
Generic CD-RW
I'm about ready to start a new round of upgrades...what I'm looking at will eventually be something along these lines:
3.0 GHZ water cooled Pentium 4
512 MB DDR Ram
80 gig HD
256 Asylum Video
16X DVD Drive
52-32-52 CD-RW
Unfortunately I'm kind of strapped for cash, so I'm going to have to end up buying the parts one at a time. First up is the video, since I can stick that in my current computer for an immediate upgrade, and then I'll slowly start picking up a piece here and a piece there. Overall it looks like I'm going to be paying around 700 bucks, especially since I want to get a lian-li PC Case this time around.
It's kind of funny...I know guys who are all about their cars and how they've tuned them, but me and my friends are like that about computers instead.
The mind of a warrior is like a mirror in that it has no commitment to any outcome and is free to let form and purpose result on the spot, according to the situation.
-Yagyu Munenori
>>>AmI the only one who finds integrated sound and video on the motherboard to be one of the great evils of the world? Nothing will turn me off of a system I'm looking at faster than seeing "shared ram" in the video column. I ended up having to buy one that had it for price reasons, but the first thing I went out and bought immediately afterwards was a graphics card. I won't accept anything less than a Sound Blaster for my sound, either.
Depends on what it is for. I'm looking for a cheap PC with onboard sound/video/networking actually, to turn into a mdeia box.
Blue Fire
Depends on what it is for. I'm looking for a cheap PC with onboard sound/video/networking actually, to turn into a mdeia box.
Blue Fire
>>Yuck Macs........ Maybe I'm just prejudiced because i've never been trained on one.
Macs have very little use to the general public, especially when most people just want to use a computer to surf the web, write stuff, and play games.
Macs are very good for design stuff, and since that's a very small market, they have very little use for most people.
Meanwhile, I still can't find a mac based front end for DR :(
Macs have very little use to the general public, especially when most people just want to use a computer to surf the web, write stuff, and play games.
Macs are very good for design stuff, and since that's a very small market, they have very little use for most people.
Meanwhile, I still can't find a mac based front end for DR :(
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<< Macs have very little use to the general public, especially when most people just want to use a computer to surf the web, write stuff, and play games.
Games are a sore point, as well as a number of specialty (read 'niche') applications outside of design/music/publishing. Anything else you listed is as well covered on a Mac as a peecee. You can even do some of it with MS programs if you are willing to lower your standards.
<< Meanwhile, I still can't find a mac based front end for DR :(
Still cooking with Wizard here. Granted it has to run in classic (OS 9.x) mode, but I was "brought up" in Gemstone 2 and 3 using a chat mode terminal program without macros on an Apple II, so even the unexceptional fluff Wizard provides is still neat.
Glenlivet
Games are a sore point, as well as a number of specialty (read 'niche') applications outside of design/music/publishing. Anything else you listed is as well covered on a Mac as a peecee. You can even do some of it with MS programs if you are willing to lower your standards.
<< Meanwhile, I still can't find a mac based front end for DR :(
Still cooking with Wizard here. Granted it has to run in classic (OS 9.x) mode, but I was "brought up" in Gemstone 2 and 3 using a chat mode terminal program without macros on an Apple II, so even the unexceptional fluff Wizard provides is still neat.
Glenlivet
