Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabashed (17)

Woolburr wrote in post #11344372
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I agree. Comcast needs to fix it. There has to be a traceable signal loss somewhere. ...

In my case there wasn't When they hooked up their meter to the cable and ran a ping test, all looked fine even for thousands of pings. Running the same test on my pc I would see most pings returning quickly and with little variation between the sampling times, but then it would at times pause. It took a lot of convincing to have the Comcast guy try just replacing the splitter as he kept saying it was my PC. But when he did, the problem disappeared.

Gobble Gobble...

Since we're still talking tech on Turkey Day, guess what?

nVidia's spec for minimum power supply with the 9500GT is 320W and my computer has a 230W P/S...

No wonder I've been having issues. Gonna have a little "chat" with the store manager after the weekend.

Have a wonderful day...

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #11344494
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nVidia's spec for minimum power supply with the 9500GT is 320W and my computer has a 230W P/S.........

Oh boy.. big nono.. I put in a 1000w supply when I rebuilt my PC. The power supply is one unit aI don't want to go cheap on. My rule of thumb, if it doesn't weigh a ton, it ain't gonna push out a lot of power for long.

Having an ample power supply is definitely important. Sounds like the repair shop booted that one.

gjl711 wrote in post #11344490
In my case there wasn't When they hooked up their meter to the cable and ran a ping test, all looked fine even for thousands of pings. Running the same test on my pc I would see most pings returning quickly and with little variation between the sampling times, but then it would at times pause. It took a lot of convincing to have the Comcast guy try just replacing the splitter as he kept saying it was my PC. But when he did, the problem disappeared.

Well, I do have a tech who spent a lot of time here when there was a serious cable TV problem and worked through the problem (a faulty outside connection) and he gave me his card so I know who to call. Of course like I said the modem "acts" like things are OK so the ping thing might appear "good" but at best the connection crawls -- I'm connected but it can take forever to do something like load a page.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #11344494
Gobble Gobble...

Since we're still talking tech on Turkey Day, guess what?

nVidia's spec for minimum power supply with the 9500GT is 320W and my computer has a 230W P/S...

No wonder I've been having issues. Gonna have a little "chat" with the store manager after the weekend.

Have a wonderful day...

Yikes! That's low power! I recently had my power supply replaced. I don't have a ton of stuff inside so we went I believe with a 500W (I believe I previously had a 600W) and things seem to be fine but I certainly wouldn't want to go lower.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

gjl711 wrote in post #11342447
Details.. details...


Actually I think I meant win3.11

Woolburr wrote in post #11342468
Funny thing....MS says it was an OS....based on a DOS shell.

Either way....my wife worked for IBM in those days and we had one machine with Windows 3.1 and one with OS/2....OS/2 was fine for the folks with a streak of geek...but it didn't play well to the average person just learning computer basics. Even though she worked on writing code for the OS/2 platform....my wife always used the Windows computer at home. That left an impression on me.

Anything up to and including Windows ME but excluding the NT systems* wasn't really an OS - just a fancy DOS shell.

* Windows NT, Windows 2000. XP and onward the old DOS shell version of Windows was completely ditched.

gjl711 wrote in post #11344505
Oh boy.. big nono.. I put in a 1000w supply when I rebuilt my PC. The power supply is one unit aI don't want to go cheap on. My rule of thumb, if it doesn't weigh a ton, it ain't gonna push out a lot of power for long.

I approve of this message. Better to go big on a power supply than skimp out. Brownouts can be bad for hardware no matter where they form. Just ask Mike, I'm sure he'll agree!

Anyone else catch the NG documentary on WH photographers on PBS last night?

They said Pete Souza and his staff had made already made nearly 30 Million images of the current administration (as of the eve of the health care reform vote last year.) Two 5DMkIIs is all he ever uses. Looks as if his favorite glass is a Brick on one body and the 200mm f/2 on the other (sans hood!) He has a very unique way of supporting the 200: left palm facing up but with the lens resting on his thumb and two fingers.

He's got a fantastic eye and a great sense of "the moment." Appears to use higher ISO when able. Very little use of flash.

Interesting to note that Carter did not have a WH photographer at all!

I missed it Jay. I did see a PBS program on a photog whose name I forget 2 or 3 weeks ago -- he's a world traveler type of photog. I was tickled to see he often shoots all kinds of stuff with what looked like a 70-200 f/2.8, don't know if it was MkI or II.

Pete really does do an amazing job... I've been watching his work a bit.

JJ, ain't it funny how the cable techs don't understand SNR?

gjl711 wrote in post #11344505
Oh boy.. big nono.. I put in a 1000w supply when I rebuilt my PC. The power supply is one unit aI don't want to go cheap on. My rule of thumb, if it doesn't weigh a ton, it ain't gonna push out a lot of power for long.

1000W might be a bit of an overkill for all but servers and hard core gamers. My i7 PC runs around 200W when rendering 1080p video, maxing out all 8 cores.

In2Photos wrote in post #11346178
1000W might be a bit of an overkill for all but servers and hard core gamers. My i7 PC runs around 200W when rendering 1080p video, maxing out all 8 cores.

C'mon Mike, don't confuse exterior draw with interior usage! Those power supplies are rated for what they provide inside the computer, not what they draw from outside. Lots of stepping going on in there.

But yeah, people generally do overdo it on the PSU quite a bit, won't argue that.

Harm Riley.....nice work on killing things.

In the words of 10cc.

In case you haven't guessed I'm just home from a day at the Cricket. Had a great time.

WAKE UP!!!!