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Old June 4th 04, 07:05 PM
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In calgary.general M wrote:

I would strip it down to the essentials; mb/cpu,
vid card, ram, keyboard. Boot into
XP while keeping the temp constant
and see what happens. Try holding
the machine at the BIOS promt and
see if she crashes?
Are you using any "no-name" RAM?


All corsair.




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Old June 5th 04, 01:45 AM
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What's significant is HOW the power goes down. It isn't entirely
spontaneous, but is preceded by a 2 second freeze, in which there is video
on my monitor, but the computer is unresponsive. 2 seconds, later, it
powers down.


Video card . The same happened to me with an ATI all-in-one-wonder until I
updated the driver .
Good luck .


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Old June 5th 04, 05:31 AM
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Dan Overes wrote:

Eat Dirt wrote:

You don't wanna hear my thoughts on this. Therefore I shall refer you
to my sig and say no more.



Kind of quick to jump on ole' Billy Gates considering the problem
hasn't even been diagnosed to be hardware or software yet. Never let
your prejudice blind you to other possibilities.



Actually he said absolutely nothing about Bill Gates. He may well have
been referring to hardware also, in which case the Mac still holds the
advantage as a better quality of machine than the average future shop
off-the-counter POS.




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Old June 5th 04, 07:33 AM
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On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:31:04 GMT, Black Jacque Shellacque
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Actually he said absolutely nothing about Bill Gates. He may well have
been referring to hardware also, in which case the Mac still holds the
advantage as a better quality of machine than the average future shop
off-the-counter POS.


No agrement there, but for the price premium it sure as hell should.
From a design standpoint, no question. They make some very nice stuff.
And I'll be the first to admit OS X is pretty sweet, but if you're big
into games, need access to the widest range of software or looking for
the most computing power for your dollar, I'm not so sure they stack
up. That being said, I'd happily take one of each.
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Old June 5th 04, 07:38 PM
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In calgary.general catchmerevisited wrote:

Video card . The same happened to me with an ATI all-in-one-wonder until I
updated the driver .
Good luck .


if that's the case, download from http://www.ati.com


Is that where I get ati drivers from?

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Old June 5th 04, 07:40 PM
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In calgary.general An Unexploded Scotsman wrote:

Don't suppose you have "agp fast-write" (or something like that..can't
check via terminal server as it's grayed out) checked under ATI's
crazy control panel? That caused me some serious system stability
issues and no performance increase.


I unchecked it yesterday, and have enjoyed 24 crash-free hours.

I had a suspicion it was video-card related... Will post again in a few
days to update.




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In calgary.general veranda wrote:
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news:wD1wc.14494$jl6.13983@edtnps89...
What's significant is HOW the power goes down. It isn't entirely
spontaneous, but is preceded by a 2 second freeze, in which there is video
on my monitor, but the computer is unresponsive. 2 seconds, later, it
powers down.


Video card . The same happened to me with an ATI all-in-one-wonder until I
updated the driver .


Updating my ATI driver(s) is about the last thing I want to do.... I've got
a dual VGA-out w/tv, and it takes a lot of mussing and fussing to get it all
to work together. Something I'd rather avoid if possible...



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Old June 5th 04, 08:39 PM
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On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:38:27 GMT,
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In calgary.general catchmerevisited wrote:

Video card . The same happened to me with an ATI all-in-one-wonder until I
updated the driver .
Good luck .


if that's the case, download from
http://www.ati.com

Is that where I get ati drivers from?


****. I've been sending away 24.95 for the free cd update. *g*

 




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