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ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

The only downside with a 360 is that water cooling involves pissing all over your tv cabinet. Not an insurmountable problem though.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:33

Riles wrote:

The only downside with a 360 is that water cooling involves pissing all over your tv cabinet. Not an insurmountable problem though.

You realise that you're clearly incorrect, of course.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:35

No, he's on a plane now, so I doubt he'll ever realise his folly.

Nemmie · **Joined:** 13th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1643

Sir Taxalot wrote:

The 360 returns/repair process is, from what I've heard, rather good.

Yeah well practice makes perfect and the returns/repairs department at Microsoft has certainly had a lot of practice.

kalmar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:43

Grim... wrote:

Riles wrote:

The only downside with a 360 is that water cooling involves pissing all over your tv cabinet. Not an insurmountable problem though.

You realise that you're clearly incorrect, of course.

I'm not sure this is a good thing to recommend: http://www.funtechtalk.com/boy-nearly-k ... -xbox-360/

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:15

BikNorton wrote:

'Anyone with an ATI GPU'

I've nothing against AMD, though Intel have been beating them senseless since they went back to the Pentium III and re-focussed on efficiency instead of clock rate.

You're having a bubble right?

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

myp wrote:

No, he's on a plane now, so I doubt he'll ever realise his folly.

folly now realised. Not massively surprised tbh.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 14:22

Teh yayages !!

Board came today and even though it wasn't flashed with the very latest bios it does work.

PHEWWWWWEEE.

Even better my raid array didn't cock up and I have a lovely Vista Ultimate install with which to spoon feed and make grow.

Fanny tastic !

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 16:07

JohnCoffey wrote:

Board came today and even though it wasn't flashed with the very latest bios.

How long before you 'fix' that?

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 16:34

Ner ner. The beast is back.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 16:39

Till you fix it.. lol

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 16:40

This time it works. Last time I had to continually clear cmos just to get it to boot. Was literally straight in, rescue the raid array and off ye goo.

Just disabling Indexing for Vista.. That'er give me a lovely speed boost, then it's time to try this Company of Heroes shit.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10093

No it won't. Not after the first day or two while it builds indexes of the stuff you install, anyway. And Vista Search is actually really useful, but we had that discussion elsewhere (and I'm sure you don't want to listen).

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

And it doesn't index unless the machine is idle, anyway.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 18:25

BikNorton wrote:

No it won't. Not after the first day or two while it builds indexes of the stuff you install, anyway. And Vista Search is actually really useful, but we had that discussion elsewhere (and I'm sure you don't want to listen).

I don't use it because I don't search. So it's pointless.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 18:25

Craster wrote:

And it doesn't index unless the machine is idle, anyway.

Right, at which point it mashes the bollocks off your hard drives.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 18:27

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 18:34

JohnCoffey wrote:

Craster wrote:

And it doesn't index unless the machine is idle, anyway.

Right, at which point it mashes the bollocks off your hard drives.

you sure you know about computers!

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 18:50

Grim... wrote:

8)

What the fuck evarrrrr. See how much I care ! :luv:

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10093

JohnCoffey wrote:

BikNorton wrote:

No it won't. Not after the first day or two while it builds indexes of the stuff you install, anyway. And Vista Search is actually really useful, but we had that discussion elsewhere (and I'm sure you don't want to listen).

I don't use it because I don't search. So it's pointless.

That's only because you don't know what it's useful for. For instance, popping up the Start menu, typing <part of program name> and pressing Enter. Far easier to just type "notepad2" (or regedit, or farcry or whatever) than fuck around browsing for it, finding it in the MRU or fannying with shortcuts. That's all I use it for, and I think it's worth it.

JohnCoffey wrote:

Craster wrote:

And it doesn't index unless the machine is idle, anyway.

Right, at which point it mashes the bollocks off your hard drives.

Only until the index is updated. And what do you care, if the machine is idle?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 23:27

You can alter the vista searches bios so it won't mash your hard drives.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 23:34

BikNorton wrote:

[That's only because you don't know what it's useful for. For instance, popping up the Start menu, typing <part of program name> and pressing Enter. Far easier to just type "notepad2" (or regedit, or farcry or whatever) than fuck around browsing for it, finding it in the MRU or fannying with shortcuts. That's all I use it for, and I think it's worth it.

It does that any way. Even with it disabled.

See? I typed pain and it automatically suggests paint. If I type cm it automatically suggests command, etc, etc. You don't need drive indexing enabled in the drive's properties for that.

BikNorton wrote:

Only until the index is updated. And what do you care, if the machine is idle?

Because it does it all the time and causes games to stutter (on the audio). I would never have even noticed had it not been for my raptor. Which was constantly active all the time until I disabled indexing on the drive.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 23:35

Zardoz wrote:

You can alter the vista searches bios so it won't mash your hard drives.

Yes you simply disable indexing. The search thing still works.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

When I want my hard drives to stop being mashed all the time I simply confiscate their drugs.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 23:46

JohnCoffey wrote:

Because it does it all the time and causes games to stutter (on the audio). I would never have even noticed had it not been for my raptor. Which was constantly active all the time until I disabled indexing on the drive.

GTTT RRRR HREEE HHHISTEH

_(sorry)

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 23:54

kalmar wrote:

JohnCoffey wrote:

Because it does it all the time and causes games to stutter (on the audio). I would never have even noticed had it not been for my raptor. Which was constantly active all the time until I disabled indexing on the drive.

GTTT RRRR HREEE HHHISTEH

_(sorry)

Lay off the guiness.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 0:20

Piccy wiccy goodness.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38487

Where's the LEDs?

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:13

Perhaps he flashed the leds

*groan*

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:06

Oh dear.

So, about a year back, I bought an ATI 3870 card for my desktop. It arrived, and I plugged it in, and it worked fine.
But the point of buying it was to play around in DX10 (actually 10.1), and upon installing vista rather than XP, I got a blue screen with definate signs of hardware problems whenever the drivers were installed.
So I sent the card back as faulty, and they replaced it with another one. Great.
Except this one did the same thing, and ebuyer were slightly less keen on the second one being refunded. Me, being me, ended up keeping the card, even though I couldn't use it.

So, anyway, about half a year back, I tried it again with new drivers, and it worked. (Hurrah) But... (Boo) the GPU was fairly consistently crashing, and video files always displayed corrupted, and games hardly ran smoothly. Double boo.

So I wait for more drivers. But having looked up a small amount obout GTA4 and NVidia driver issues because of discussions with John Coffey, I also went looking for any new information about my problems.

There is a fix (and has been for the entire time I've had the card)... I have to flash my bios. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:13

Hiccup and shart then.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:29

Well, bios update does appear to have not bricked the system (although there was a moment of panic during the POST). Now testing to see if it has actually improved matters.

sdg · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:30

Mr Dave wrote:

Well, bios update does appear to have not bricked the system (although there was a moment of panic during the POST). Now testing to see if it has actually improved matters.

LOL have you just done it in fifteen minutes when we have a twenty page thread about it?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38487

superdupergill wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

Well, bios update does appear to have not bricked the system (although there was a moment of panic during the POST). Now testing to see if it has actually improved matters.

LOL have you just done it in fifteen minutes when we have a twenty page thread about it?

Generally, BIOS updates are pretty simple. I flashed the firmware on my blu ray drive last night for example.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

superdupergill wrote:

LOL have you just done it in fifteen minutes when we have a twenty page thread about it?

BIOS flashing is actually perfectly routine. I've done it hundreds of times over the years and only had one problem, when I was using a test BIOS from Asus that was clearly marked as "beta software". I was desperate to solve a graphics card problem very similar to what Mr Dave is working on. Of course, I never loaded a hex editor and started hacking away at the BIOS ROM file, either.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:34

I flashed a bios, and I liked it.
The taste of my pencil manstick.

JohnCoffey · **Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2009 13:16

I've got a feeling it's something to do with the flash drive I was using.

I do have a couple of niggles with this board.. One of which is my GPU runs 8c hotter on idle and full load which means the fan spins up loudly even when playing a low intensity game, but it'll do for now.

Be Excellent To Each Other

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