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Forum: Homebuilt PC's March 11th 13, 06:46 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 13
Views: 649
Posted By Greegor
Any way to connect 10-yr old ATA drive (via USB caddy?) to Win7 PC?

Unfortunately, the mobo on the PC has the new-type IDE leads with the
little plugs, and there isn't a spare DC supply lead in there either.

The "little plugs" you're talking about are SATA data...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 18th 12, 01:33 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 5
Views: 585
Posted By Greegor
PC runs V E R Y S L O W after coming out of retirement

When you first pulled it out of the closet
and ran it up, did you have to reset the
BIOS settings? (CMOS settings?)

Do the SATA drive ports have an IDE mode, Legacy Mode or "Combination"
mode?

Set...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 14th 12, 05:45 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 31
Views: 1,201
Posted By Greegor
Any netbooks that *can't* run XP?

I would advise the guy to remove the hard disk
and replace it with a new hard disk drive, setting
the original drive aside in a safe place.

There's no sense in wiping out a correctly
set up boot...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 11th 11, 05:18 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 19
Views: 1,044
Posted By Greegor
Format Patriot flash drive to NTFS

If it's a 4G masquerading as an 8G and you write a 7G
file to it, guess what happens to the first 3G of the file?

Overwritten by the 5th, 6th and 7th Gig of the file...

Did you check for...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 12th 10, 05:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Greegor
Archie sent me an e-mail!! LOL

G Archie is a ball of fun.

Archie * greegor is a stalking retard.

You sent me a gripey e-mail?
Was it a mistake or did you MEAN to do that, Archie?

Always glad to cheer you up though!
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 5th 10, 03:57 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Greegor
Fan as generator

Archie's coprolalia is not even good for that!
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 4th 10, 09:07 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Greegor
Fan as generator

Apparently not ALL computer muffin fans
use commutator circuitry because I have
one that does work as a generator.

I'm not sure if it's especially OLD but
it seems to have an old school DC...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 4th 10, 08:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Greegor
Archie

Archie, Do you need a new evaluation?
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 3rd 10, 03:48 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.arch,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 52
Views: 1,833
Posted By Greegor
Fans could generate electricity and damage motherboard ?

Skybuck Flying, you have ASPERGERS don't you?
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 2nd 10, 09:45 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 4
Views: 311
Posted By Greegor
Website won't let me quit it

What website won't let you quit it?
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 2nd 10, 09:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.setup
Replies: 68
Views: 2,302
Posted By Greegor
Anybody use Linux? For old hardware, which distro?

Is there a Linux distro that is particularly good
for media player use - DVD, .FLV, MP3 etc?
Forum: Nvidia Videocards April 13th 10, 06:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.video,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 40
Views: 1,525
Posted By Greegor
Could lightning flashes damage a camcorder ?

On Apr 12, 8:05*pm, Robert Baer wrote:
Skybuck Flying wrote:
Hello,

I am thinking about purchasing/ordering an "expensive" camcorder... with
sound option too...
Forum: Asus Motherboards April 5th 10, 07:58 PM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Replies: 9
Views: 819
Posted By Greegor
This is just too funny to pass up "Newegg Selling Fake IntelCPU's"

Intel, NewEgg and IPEX are not talking about what
REALLY took place.

Way to reassure the market, guys! LOL

We know of 300 of these fake units.
There are no answers about how many may
have existed...
Forum: Asus Motherboards March 27th 10, 03:26 AM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Replies: 9
Views: 819
Posted By Greegor
This is just too funny to pass up "Newegg Selling Fake IntelCPU's"

On Mar 12, 8:32*pm, "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote:
On 03/05/10 07:22 pm, William wrote:

Newegg unknowingly got a hold of a bad batch of Core i7-920 CPU's from a
...
Forum: Cdr February 19th 10, 11:03 AM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,24hoursupport.helpdesk,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Replies: 20
Views: 3,275
Posted By Greegor
Utility needed to Verify ISO image with burned disc

On Feb 19, 1:25*am, thanatoid wrote:
Penang wrote
ups.com:

SNIP

In...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 2nd 09, 09:59 AM Posted to sci.electronics.design,alt.folklore.computers,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.computer
Replies: 1,182
Views: 20,400
Posted By Greegor
My Vintage Dream PC

G Either approach can work if properly executed.

G Wouldn't it already be difficult to find a new
G PC that isn't a dual or quad processor?
G The genie's already out of the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 29th 09, 07:48 AM Posted to sci.electronics.design,alt.folklore.computers,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.computer
Replies: 1,182
Views: 20,400
Posted By Greegor
My Vintage Dream PC

On May 28, 6:54*pm, John Larkin
wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 00:14:37 +0100, Andrew Swallow





wrote:
John Larkin...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 29th 09, 06:44 AM Posted to sci.electronics.design,alt.folklore.computers,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.computer
Replies: 1,182
Views: 20,400
Posted By Greegor
My Vintage Dream PC

On May 28, 10:32*pm, Charles Richmond wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

* * *[snip...] * * * * * * [snip...] * * * * * * [snip...]

Simple: use one CPU out of 256 as the...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's May 12th 09, 11:19 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.misc
Replies: 25
Views: 1,476
Posted By Greegor
How to identify a motherboard?

Jose What?! No pictures?! No explanation of how you figured it
out?!

Yeah, What did you find and how?
You owe the groups that.

cc emailed


On May 8, 8:10*am, wrote:
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