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BIOS Beep Codes
Well, I really torqued the DFI last night. Got it all working again and even played a game for a while. Got it back to the 81.98 BIOS and disabled the dual cpu enhancement, but I went a bridge too far. I also updated the bios I thought to 702-2 but now it hangs on…
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BIOS 702-2 for DFI with OCZ VX and Athlon X2
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI/ULTRA Bios. This table is hard as heck to read, but what it says that if you are willing to try a non-official BIOS (that is a BIOS which is not 623-3), then for a DFI LanParty UT nf4 Ultra D with OCZ VX PC4000 memory and an Athlon X2 you will…
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Disable Dual Core optimizations for 7800GTX and Forceware 81.98
NVIDIA Forums -> AWARE: NOT USE 8x.xx AT X2 DUAL CORE. _Apparently, lots of folks are like me, having trouble with BSODs and other crashes. Besides adding the AM processor driver, folks suggest disabling the dual core optimizations in the nVidia drivers. For high screen resolutions e.g., bigger than 1280×1024, they don’t help anyway since…
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Athlon X2 and Windows XP hotfixes
How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way. – XtremeSystems Forums. OK, I don’t know if this is valid, but the recommendation on this site is to apply two hotfixes to improve Athlon X2 stability and to make it work with ACPI… # Install the amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor…
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Athlon X2 and Windows XP hotfixes
How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way. – XtremeSystems Forums. OK, I don’t know if this is valid, but the recommendation on this site is to apply two hotfixes to improve Athlon X2 stability and to make it work with ACPI… # Install the amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor…
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DFI LanParty Cold Boot Problem Temporarily after BSOD
How to use the Zippy and 850SSI on DFI nF4 – 56K caution – XtremeSystems Forums. _This is reminder for me, that using the 5V and high voltage OCZ VX on the DFI LanParty is a little hazardous._ The long and short version is that you have to have the 618 or higher BIOS, this…
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Update on Seasonic problems
Tong Family Blog: DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D problems. An update on my DFI LanParty problems. I got an Enermax 600W power supply and these boot problems disappeared. Now it appears that there is a fix for the Seasonic power supplies and their 5VSB issues, so you have to contact Seasonic to get a new…
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DFI Forums – NF4 Ultra-D – Nf4 Ultra-D power issues with seasonic Been in contact with Seasonic for the past 2 weeks concerning a faulty S12-600 Rev. A1. Just heard back from them today that they have a Rev. 3 that DEFINITELY fixes the DFI boot problems (at least that is what I am told).…
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DiamondMax 10 why it didn’t work
DFI Forums – [Resolved] resolution for disappearing Maxtor drives? (post #12). It doesn’t often happen, but sometimes you learn exactly why something doesn’t work. In this case, the early DiamondMax 10 drives don’t get recognized in PCs because of a pecularity of the SATA specification about how pin 11 or stagger spinup is handled. There…
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No nVidia GART in PCIe systems and never nVidia IDE
DFI Forums – NF4 SLI-D – tweaking windows (video for NF4 LanParty) *mirror added*. _OK, this clears up the myths about what to do about when you need the various nVidia drivers, it is confusing because in fact, on modern systems, you don’t want any of it but the video drivers…._ In a PCI-Express system,…
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DiamondMax 10 not recognized fixed with Autodetect NONE
DFI Forums – [Resolved] resolution for disappearing Maxtor drives? (post #12). _The old fix was to update the firmware, but you need to actually buy a vanilla SATA drive card so I just instead spent another $120 and got a later Maxtor, but now I see there is a simpler fix, what is happening is…
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MP4 Files without Quicktime
Previously, I’d only been able to use Quicktime to playback .MP4 files. These are the newest sort of encoding that use H.264 encoding and AAC for the audio track. Turns out that it isn’t well documented, but the easiest way to use Windows Media Player or any DirectShow compatible player is to: # Install ffdshow…
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Using DirectShow Manager 0.5 back to defaults
Free-Codecs.com :: Download DirectShow Filter Manager 0.5 : DirectShow Filter Manager helps you to list, sort, find, add or remove DirectShow filters. If you are like me, you install all kinds of video products, the problem is they can really screw up video output. For instance, I reinstalled Nova Development’s Video Explosion. It installs a…
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Oscar Wu BIOS
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI/ULTRA Bios. For those of you who like living dangeriously, in addition to the stock BIOS that comes from DFI, you can also have a special set of BIOS that Oscar Wu, one of the geniuses on the web, he has actually tuned them for different memory and different CPUs. For instance,…
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Errata 123 Option
Adrian’s Rojak Pot – Where The Best In Technology Gather. Now talk about obscure! This is a BIOS entry in my DFI LanParty. It refers to the 123rd bug found in Dual Core Opteron and Athlon 64 X2 (socket 939)s. BAsically, at low frequencies, DRAM data gets there too early and the processor hangs sinc…
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nVidia IDE Drivers
DFI Forums – NF4 Expert – Random BSOD. Well, I just got another Stop 0x0A, I’m wondering if it might not be the IDE driver. That is usually the first thing folks say to uninstall from nVidia. Or maybe a later video driver. Seems like I have two problems, some driver is bad and also…
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DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D no boot 3 LEDs lit temporarily
DFI Forums – NO BOOT 3 LEDs LIT. OK, here is a strange problem that has just cropped up. The DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra D seems stable, but when you turn it off and then back on immediately, the system hangs with 3 LED lights on and the speaker beeping. This means that no ram…
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Stan on Marketing
Mobile Podcasting: Back to Basics. Stan is a super smart guy and he’s right about thinking about what marketing is all about.
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Sony Phone and Mouse
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Calibration Area Full
DW1640 – Calibration Area Full error when writing CD-Rs – BenQ DVD Burner / Philips DVD Burner – Club CD Freaks. Well, trying to copy CDs and I got this incredibly obscure error from Nero. What it means is that on modern CD drives, the laser actually changes power. It calibrates itself and there is…
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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Common Stop Messages. I had thought I had fixed my crashing Windows machine by installing the latest nVidia driver 82.xx, but just got another machine check. Seems like there is still a problem. When the system recovers, it complains about a memory access problm in nvsvc32.exe in the applications event viewer bq. Faulting application nvsvc32.exe,…
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Firefox Translation tools
Two great translation aids. The first is is Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar – All Releases. This is a freeware and a shareware version. It creates a toolbar in Firefox or IE and then when you hover over a Chinese character, it displays its dictionary meaning.
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Translation Toolbar
Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Chinese-English-Japanese Character Hint Bar – All Releases. A pretty cool add-on. You basically put your cursor over your a character and it shows you the english translation.
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KooWo
KooWo —— ????KooWo??!. My buddy Ming and Chelsea, launch their search site. Good luck guys!
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A Musical Journey
A Musical Journey. A great gift that Grace got for Christmas, this is a illustrated book that takes you to the various areas in China and let’s you hear the music. Beautiful and the original folks songs are great. By the way the author has some great recommendations for learning what I’d call practical Chinese.…
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Martin Luther King Quotes
Quotes From Martin Luther King Jr.. _Some great quotes that Alex found for MLK day… bq, There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have…
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nForce3 and 6800GT Stuttering
GeForce 6800 and random freezes – Page 97 – nV News Forums. Some folks still have this problem. Turning Fast Writes seemed to help and getting rid of the nVidia IDE driver, but now people are saying that upgrading to the 80 series nVidia drivers really helps. I’m at 77.77, so here goes on to…
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nForce4, 7800GTX BSOD
Please Fix Dual Core and 8x.xx Driver bug. Isn’t it my luck, turns out the ocmbination of the nForce4 motherboard plus the nVidia 7800GTX and the Athlon x2 causes blue screen of death. Specifically, I get a blue screen of death with the latest drivers. There are huge complaints on various forums, but this thread…
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Calling Mexico Cheap
As usual, this is incredibly hard to figure out. “Ratekeeper”:http://ratekeeper.com seems like a good site, but the best rates come from 1010phonerates.com It shows that 10-10-565 is the cheapest right now at 9 cents per minute plus a 99 cent montly fee. It is just 3.5 cents to Canada.
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iPod Photo hangs
This is the most frustrating thing. Having learned that for my iPod Photo, I’ve been having repeated hangs when plugging it into the PC to dock. It is a strange condition, I see a small icon appear in the tool bar. Cliclking on it, I get a standard dialog that says what action do you…