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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Miles » May 5th, 2009, 11:16 pm

I am sucker for the season finale of The Biggest Loser.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by OZZIE4DUKE » May 5th, 2009, 11:20 pm

CameronBornAndBred wrote:
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CameronBornAndBred wrote:Good luck Ozzie, hope it's just a power supply or bad RAM.
Nope. =(( The mother board has a bad capacitor - the cap is swollen. Don't know if this actually failed or is waiting to fail, but it rules out fixing whatever else might be wrong, like the power supply. I am shopping, and trying to decide between staying with XP or going with Vista home premium. Both my printers have Vista drivers available, so it becomes a matter of choice, not necessity.
I don't know what motherboard yours was, but bad caps were a huge problem up to about 2 years ago. We still get them every now and then, I'm replacing one tomorrow in fact. But 4-5 years ago we were haunted by them. Even Machspeed, who warranteed their boards for life, gave in and said no more. Apparently, some guy bought a ton of capacitors for dirt cheap and distributed them to everyone, for cheap. Now we all know why, but not back then. When I open a case nowadays, caps are the first thing I look at. I'm almost bummed if I have a problem PC and the board looks good. But then I realize I actually have to figure something out and am happy. Stay with XP Ozzie, if anything buy a blank drive and I'll get you the OS.
The Asus board was installed in July 2004, so I think I got my money's worth out of it. I've got an OEM copy of XP w/SP2 that I can install if I go that way. Why do you recommend XP?
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 12:44 am

DukieInKansas wrote:
colchar wrote:
DukieInKansas wrote:You guys are good. I will need to sign up for remedial PW classes.

If you wanna hang here some training is necessary.
I'll study hard.
It took me until senior year to figure out that 'Study Hard' poster that all the guys had in their rooms.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 12:44 am

What can I say? She just didn't do that much for me.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by DevilAlumna » May 6th, 2009, 1:15 am

Miles wrote:I am sucker for the season finale of The Biggest Loser.
I soooo don't get the appeal of that show.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Miles » May 6th, 2009, 2:05 am

DevilAlumna wrote:
Miles wrote:I am sucker for the season finale of The Biggest Loser.
I soooo don't get the appeal of that show.
I get it during the final episode. I've no interest in watching people suffer through exercise, but I think the transformations at the end of the season are pretty phenomenal and inspiring.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by bjornolf » May 6th, 2009, 7:26 am

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bjornolf wrote:AND 1000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aw crap ya beat me. Post 1000 is a bunch of pirates!
Better than what it should be, a buncha whores. WAYTOGO on a 1000!!! woooohooo!! :ar! :-@ :-@ :-@ :-bd :-bd

You can probably do whores. These two kinda have the look. :ymbilly: o-+

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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by bjornolf » May 6th, 2009, 7:31 am

CameronBornAndBred wrote:You can download tools from the harddrive manufacturer for free on their websites. Usually one of the utilities is a low level format option, which rewrites over the entire drive with 1's and 0's. This is more destructive than just a format (which doesn't delete anything), as in all the data that's on it now is overwritten with new info.
Thanks. My only question is, will this work on a computer I can't even get to start up in safe mode? What do I do, download it with a different computer, burn it to a cd and put it in the disk drive as soon as I hit power on the old unit?

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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by devildeac » May 6th, 2009, 8:53 am

DukieInKansas wrote:You guys are good. I will need to sign up for remedial PW classes.
I haven't been on a PW binge yet on crazietalk...
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by devildeac » May 6th, 2009, 8:54 am

devildeac wrote:
DukieInKansas wrote:You guys are good. I will need to sign up for remedial PW classes.
I haven't been on a PW binge yet on crazietalk...
Maybe next weekend...
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Re: LTE 2.0

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devildeac wrote:
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DukieInKansas wrote:You guys are good. I will need to sign up for remedial PW classes.
I haven't been on a PW binge yet on crazietalk...
Maybe next weekend...
At the coast...
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by devildeac » May 6th, 2009, 8:56 am

devildeac wrote:
devildeac wrote:
DukieInKansas wrote:You guys are good. I will need to sign up for remedial PW classes.
I haven't been on a PW binge yet on crazietalk...
Maybe next weekend...
How's that for a mini-run? :oops: :D
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by devildeac » May 6th, 2009, 9:00 am

Sue71 wrote:
OZZIE4DUKE wrote: Nope. =(( The mother board has a bad capacitor - the cap is swollen.
Is that like the Flux Capacitor? :-B
Is that kind of language permitted here? :roll:
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:05 am

The doctor for The Biggest Loser is a friend of mine.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:05 am

That Bostondevil, always name dropping.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:07 am

I thought about creating a '5 Nobel Prize Winners You Have Met' on Facebook but then thought better of it. Besides, how could I pick just 5? ;)
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:09 am

That's the thing about working at Harvard (and having a Harvard physics professor for a husband), you meet really smart people all the time. In the smarty pants department, it takes a lot to impress me.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:10 am

In the golf department however, anybody who can shoot par, on any hole, impresses me. One thing I seem to be unable to do is hit a golf ball. I can putt fairly well but I can't hit a drive to save my life, at least not properly.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by Bostondevil » May 6th, 2009, 9:10 am

As you can see, I've decided it's time to get my post count up over 100.
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Re: LTE 2.0

Post by DukieInKansas » May 6th, 2009, 9:34 am

Bostondevil wrote:
It took me until senior year to figure out that 'Study Hard' poster that all the guys had in their rooms.
I never saw that poster.
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