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not too basic... i would like a decent web-based admin tool, firewall, packet routing type tools. I just don't need the flashy "Gamer Xtreeeme Routers" that sell for $200 for no apparent reason.
It doesn't want to work, and is anyway slower than just typing a password since the camera has to power up. Typical wave of the future.
Recognised me today. I'm guessing this is how I'll feel in a year or so when my kid calls me daddy.
i was just wondering if anyone had ever seen something like this:
how it goes is that after some hours of use, i start to see wierd things happening with stuff related to the video card. for example, games, geometry flicker and video files either show up black (with sound) or with a thick pinkish/gray line going horizontally at a random height. the line flickers but stays at the same position. restarting the machine gets rid of the problem, so it seems it's video ram corruption? it would occur more randomly, unless it only happens when overheating, but then I'd expect it to happen quite soon after the restart again. (same with most other problems)
vague idea: bug with mem management in driver? looked into it a bit more by running different 3d applications at the same time.
when the problem has started, i've found that running 3ds max will stop the problem from showing up in videos but it will cause the flickering when running doom3 at the same time. closing 3ds max will stop the problem in doom3, but the lines appear in videos again. i don't really know all that much about memory management or really video cards in general though. i guess i'll have to spend more time on google. :S I would try older drivers (eg half a year old, then a year old). Well, unless your's are old, try the latest ones then. Some similar problems happened to me on Linux and I could fix it with different drivers.
Here's some great photos and write up about ancient personal computers.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/dawn_personal_computer_altair_ibm_pc?page=0%2C0 I had lots of problems with my 6600GT on Linux recently. Graphic corruption, crashes and freezes happening with OpenGL applications (it even corrupted Quake demo recording). I tried various driver versions with no luck. Then I reinstalled Windows XP on another partition to play some QuakeLive. I had some (very) minor corruption even there, some geometry flashes every ~5 minutes.
Now I am back in Linux and everything is fine. Windows fixed my Linux. Fuck! Sometimes hardware *does* seem to need resetting, though i've never seen what you're describing... and can't think of the reason either ? (I've got an original 6800 agp).
I suppose you've got nvclock installed. It's got nice thermal monitoring as well as overclocking, etc. I could play several hours over two days without problems. Now they are back and affect Windows as well. Well, somehow this is good because the chance of me buying some new PC rises.
I ordered a tv from digitaldirect.co.uk about 3 and a half weeks ago, and it was meant to take 3-5 working days to arrive, so after several interim phonecalls and PM with them, yesterday I called them and they announced for the third week running that it would likely be next week.
So I cancelled it. It will probably take 5 - 7 worling days for them to refund my money, but luckily I had enough to order another one. I ordered the same model with 3 years warranty instead of 4 for �30 less delivered approx 24 hours ago (lunchtime yesterday) and it is now in my livingroom! Hooray for Amazon, boo-raa for Digital Direct! Online is nearly always better for buying stuff.
In fact the only things come to mind as being better bought in reality are houses and cars. And ice cream. to a third party retailer, I did ask the amazon online support for help with the process, but their answers didn't look like they even understood my questions.
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