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Post# 136875 , Reply# 2 6/20/2006 at 12:06 (6,512 days old) by frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 136876 , Reply# 3 6/20/2006 at 12:08 (6,512 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
Brought to you in living colour | ||
| Post# 136877 , Reply# 4 6/20/2006 at 12:11 (6,512 days old) by bethann (Indianapolis) | ||
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Hi Steven, I'm still using the same monitor. It's not an LCD either. It's a Dell P1130. It's something I messed up in the settings more than likely! | ||
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Post# 136879 , Reply# 5 6/20/2006 at 12:26 (6,512 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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If you really want to see colors, in living color? Get a LCD monitor (with DVI connection), upgrade your video card (DVI ready) and get a DVI-D cable. If your monitor suppports DVI-D, get rid of that VGA cable and replace it with the DVI cable, the colors are sharp and lines are clean!!! Now if you viewing pictures and matching colors? Then stay with the true and tried CRT's. Larry | ||
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Post# 136880 , Reply# 6 6/20/2006 at 13:20 (6,512 days old) by mistereric (New Jersey (Taylor Ham)) |
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hrm... | ||
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Post# 136895 , Reply# 7 6/20/2006 at 14:28 (6,512 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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| Post# 136903 , Reply# 8 6/20/2006 at 14:41 (6,512 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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Post# 136904 , Reply# 9 6/20/2006 at 14:48 (6,512 days old) by gadgetgary (Bristol,CT) |
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I had a Dell, and it was a piece of sh.. 
Guess it is all in the 'luck of the draw' I have been using a Dell laptop(Inspiron 5100) since March '04 with zero problems. I would do it again if I had to. I have heard negative comments about Compaq & Gateway(my sister's Gateway WAS a piece of sh*t). Guess there are lemons everywhere. So you know the saying......make some lemonade~!(much needed with the HOT temps in CT today). | ||
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Post# 136986 , Reply# 11 6/21/2006 at 00:59 (6,511 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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What processor do you guys prefer...Intel or AMD?
Steven, My Gateway FPD2185W 21" Widescreen High-Definition LCD Flat-Panel Display monitor is fine, it's my camera. This is a Nikon cool pix 2000 camera and I hate it so much that it will be replaced with something better later this year. It's part of my last years Christmas wish list of want(s) and this too will come to pass. Anyway, I've had 2 Compaq computers with Intel chips and I thought it was the best thing to sliced bread......... Well that is in the past and the AMD chip is like Sazon in Puerto Rican food! The flavor is so robust that it will knock you off your feet! The key of finding the right chip is all about what applications you are running, if you're doing spread sheets go for the Intel's chip and if you are into gaming, go AMD! I had the AMD 3500+ Venice since January of this year and it was flawless and last Sunday my brother and I replaced my chip with the AMD 4800+ Toledo Dual core and it still blows both Intel's chips out of the water. So you see AMD made a believer out of me. Now if I had waited until I was really ready to swap out the 3500, I would of replaced it with the AMD's FX60 since the price is close to $400.00 lower since the new AMD AM2 chip hit the market last month. It's not too late for the next upgrade, but at this time I am beyond pleased with my home built system! Remember, home built PC's gives you flexibility to upgrade every component, pre-fab limits you and the money that you've spent is more for the software than the hardware that comes bundled, so in reality we all been ripped off and our pockets raped by the big boys with their little toys! So if any of you was to build a PC today, what would you put in it? | ||
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Post# 136992 , Reply# 12 6/21/2006 at 02:33 (6,511 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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This camera really blows! I will try to lighten up the area better for better viewing since it's my day off! I have 15 windows open and no signs of freezes or lag time delays...... CLICK HERE TO GO TO cleanteamofny's LINK | ||
| Post# 137012 , Reply# 13 6/21/2006 at 08:28 (6,511 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm) | ||
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Did you use bluing on your computer? | ||
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Post# 137021 , Reply# 14 6/21/2006 at 08:50 (6,511 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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| Post# 137026 , Reply# 15 6/21/2006 at 09:05 (6,511 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm) | ||
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I thought so :>) | ||
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Post# 137091 , Reply# 18 6/21/2006 at 13:39 (6,511 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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Chris, I'm not up to speed with laptops but there are two or three minor tweaking that can be done. 1. Adjust screen resolutions 2. Make sure you have the latest drivers for the video card 3. Add more memory Click on the link below to see if you need to adjust to clear type....... CLICK HERE TO GO TO cleanteamofny's LINK | ||
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Post# 137254 , Reply# 19 6/22/2006 at 09:26 (6,510 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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Hi Cleanteam Thanks for the link. I am using the old 'puter tonight but next time I'm online with the new toy I will try it. It looks like just what I am after. You are a gem. Thanks again Chris. | ||
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Post# 137429 , Reply# 20 6/23/2006 at 00:43 (6,509 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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The system I'm using right now, at one of the offices, I built about 8 years ago. It's OLD. Asus mobo. SCSI drives. Dual-processor 233 Mhz Pentium III. Win NT 4. But it has been a workhorse and stable as a rock. My PC (the one I use at home, out of 15 others spread among two offices) crashed-and-burned last Sunday afternoon. The power supply fan had been 'sticky' for months. If turned off long enough to cool down, it'd not want to get running unless I gave it a poke. Wasn't a problem being as I never turn the thing off except during an extended power outage. I *knew* about the situation, kept putting off changing the power supply or rigging up an alternate fan. Apparently it got completely stuck, the power supply overheated, and took the motherboard and CD burner with it. D-e-a-d. Although I know better, I had not been doing daily backups (I have a tape drive). The tape drive had gone out months ago, and I'd disabled the backup scheduler. I replaced the drive, did an ad-hoc full backup of the C drive (but not the J partition) in February, but didn't turn the daily scheduler back on. By Sheer Luck the hard drive is OK so I slaved to the new system. The tape drive and SCSI card are OK, DVD burner, and modem. Back up your computer now and keep it backed up regularly -- daily if you use it for finances -- using some choice of media that holds the data separately and off the system -- tape, CD, DVD, external hard drive, whatever works for you. It does no good to keep backup copies of files on the local hard drive if the drive gets zapped. The new system is an AMD something or other. 4.3 Ghz? I don't even know. I don't have time to build a system these days, so I told the computer store in the room across from my desk, gimme one of what you got. They build 'em in-house. Gigabyte mobo. 1 GB RAM. 160 GB hard. DVD burner. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, I already had. I added the original hard drive, tape & SCSI card, DVD burner, & modem this evening. Windows 2000 Pro. I do not care for XP. | ||
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Post# 925313 , Reply# 21 3/6/2017 at 14:27 (2,600 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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Brought back from the dead! I had problems before I took sick back in 2011/2012 and now it's up and running with Windows 10, story to follow when I get some rest....
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Post# 925387 , Reply# 22 3/6/2017 at 22:03 (2,599 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 925390 , Reply# 23 3/6/2017 at 22:08 (2,599 days old) by Kb0nes (Burnsville, MN) |
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| Post# 925394 , Reply# 24 3/6/2017 at 22:15 (2,599 days old) by duke () | ||
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Which one do you prefer phil??LOL | ||
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Post# 925407 , Reply# 25 3/7/2017 at 01:23 (2,599 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York) |
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10 years is a long time and many changes in life been made!
So many things in life causes thing to be put off and that day finally came to fix the ole boy. When I built this PC back in 2006, this PC was near a screamer in speed for that day and Window XP arrived which was way better than Win. 98Se. ME came around and I've blew by that upgrade due to the fact it was nothing but eye candy. XP rolled in and liked it very much and Vista was just OK and lagging in performance, but very easy to navigate.
Now the death of my dad in 2007 forced my family to make housing changes and I've relocate to Monroe, NY. In 2010, I was down loading a Windows hotfix and the system was hanging so I made a rookie move and I've shut the PC down and rebooted to a black screen. Man-o-man, I just hit the crapper because of that and then I took sick in 2011/12 so there was no time to deal with this gem... So this weekend I've done a non-sleep marathon to work on this beast. I've started Saturday morning when I got off work, 11pm-7am was my work shift, had B.fast then jumped the CMOS jumper and cleared the memory. Great, a fresh start with the display screen viewing, then I've tried to update Vista and it was a no go, Windows IE is the life of the operating system and the security was on locked down, whatta man to do? Go and get Windows 10 and start fresh, oh the Joy! Windows 10 on a USB stick that was not fun to attempt to install and upgrade. Now I'm stuck between the digital crushing walls looking for a solution, Searched the web and found one, Windows 10 will not install via USB unless one of Win 7, 8, or 8.1 was on the system and lucky me had a copy of win 7 in my possessions. Installed that, looked for updates then installed Windows 10 via USB and we are in business! Now I have to work 7am-3pm Sunday, then back to work at 11pm to 7am for Monday so the body is tired but hey, this is what I enjoy doing! Windows 10 looks great on this old PC and the speed are fantastic compared to my low grade basic laptop with Windows 10! Thermaltake Tsunami Case 750 watts Thermaltake Power Supply A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard 939 socket AMD FX-60 CPU Zalman Cooling 2 Ball CPU Fan 4 150 Western Digital Raptor Hard Drives 10,000 RPM 4 patriot 1GB DDR 400 SDRAM LG blu-ray disk burner HP Burner DVD Creative Lab Sound Blaster X-FI SB0460 | ||
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