Hardware & Devices

Now that's just plain weird! It should have at least started, then fried in the first 30 seconds. "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

AMD. Especially for the new stuff. The opterons are great. Got a bunch of servers and they work like a treat. They spank the Xeon servers we have. And for home they are excellent as well, as they run cooler than the Intel's. The benchmarks speak for themselves. I reckon AMD have about a 2 year lead, but Intel will be back. For now though its an easy choice. And for those that say the chipsets are not there, what are you on? Even Nvidia is producing chipsets that are for workstations and servers now (2 and 4 way), with Supermicro jumping in with mobo's.

Thanks Chris :hug: The tigress is here :-D

Personally I like to look at LCD monitors, the quality of the black level (i.e. how grey is it ?) varies. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

The scan code will also be dependent on the mode the keyboard is in, XT or AT. You will actually also get 2 scan codes. The first is termed a "make code" which occurs when the key is pressed. The second is a "break code" which is sent when the key is released. In XT mode this is simply distinquished by setting the high bit of the scan code for a break code and clearing it for a make code. You then have two sets of extended keys which are "E0" and "E1" prefixed followed by one or two more scan codes to represent the key. AT protocol is a bit different. Make codes and Break Codes I believe are prefixed instead of setting the high bits (if my memory serves me correctly). As far as I remember, Windows 9x still actually set the keyboard into XT mode so break codes and make codes were determined using the high bits (and some keyboards would send E1/E0 for a break code you'd have to do special detection, I believe that perhaps the PC98 may have done this but I don't remember, been a while since I wrote a keyboard filter). 8bc7c0ec02c0e404c0cc0680f7018827ebee

Socket 754 is the first format that AMD released for the AMD 64 ...it only lasted a few months and they came up with 939. Socket 939 is the current 'De Facto' socket format for AMD and will for a little while as AMD plans to release their new Dual Cores AMD64-X2 processors in that format as well. If you don't already own a 754 motherboard, go with Socket 939. Dewm Solo - C# Developer

Actually its when a leg of a component goes through the PCB and does not get soldered. This causes the two components to only make a connection due to them touching each other. As a PCB flexes and warms up etc, this can cause the components to move and thus break the connection between them. Also, they can be affected by vibration. If you vote me down, my score will only get lower

Maximilien wrote: any good hard-ware reporting/problem finder tool ( and how-to )? Look Here hope it helps :) "Go as far as you can see,and when you get there you’ll see further" - Unknown

Shog9 wrote: these are specific to the mice they come with - they won't even work with older PS/2 mice I didn't find that adpater, so I couldn't confirm this. Shog9 wrote: you could probably try something like this though I did. I stopped on Office Depot on my way to the office looking for a USB to PS/2 adapter and I couldn't find any. I bought a PS/2 to USB adapter just in case, and.... it worked!!! :cool: I simply plugged the PS/2 barcode reader into that adapter by itself, and I left the USB keyboard as it was; and after a restart, everything worked fine. -- LuisR Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!