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  • #122
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Grab your motherboard manual, and find the CMOS battery on that page where it labels all the basic stuff for you.

    Turn your PC off
    Unplug power (to be safe)
    Pop battery out
    Plug power back in
    Hold power button for ~20 seconds
    Unplug, pop in battery, turn on again.


  • #123
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Just followed those instructions down to the letter and still nothing. Downgrade the bios?

    Speci s here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=91697779&postcount=9


  • #124
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Reverting to the F4 bios fixed things for me


  • #125
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,823 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Anyone notice OC have dreadful stock levels?


  • #126
    game4it70
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭game4it70


    Headshot wrote: »
    Anyone notice OC have dreadful stock levels?

    Yes.I've been waiting for a few things to come back into stock for a few weeks.
    I contacted support and i was told maybe 3 weeks but not even sure :confused:

    If you stuck for something they usually stock you could try their parent company www.caseking.de
    Ok prices but deliver is silly money (approx 35e)


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  • #127
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Not that silly considering most of us have given HWVS €30 more than once for delivery. ;)


  • #128
    game4it70
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭game4it70


    Serephucus wrote: »
    Not that silly considering most of us have given HWVS €30 more than once for delivery. ;)

    If for a full build then its ok but for a bottle of this caseking want 34.90e :eek:


  • #129
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Holy ****! Some people need reality check ASAP!
    On local Facebook "buy and sell" group dude has a few items for sale. I asked how much he wanted for a very simple office chair. You know, those most simple ones, which go for about 30eu? It looked rough, so I though I might pick it up for tenner as its local and it would do me for now. Well, he pmed me and he is looking for 50eu!!!!! I almost pissed myself!


  • #130
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Holy ****! Some people need reality check ASAP!
    On local Facebook "buy and sell" group dude has a few items for sale. I asked how much he wanted for a very simple office chair. You know, those most simple ones, which go for about 30eu? It looked rough, so I though I might pick it up for tenner as its local and it would do me for now. Well, he pmed me and he is looking for 50eu!!!!! I almost pissed myself!

    In fairness I'd like to see the chair a tenner would buy you!


  • #131
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    wolverine-chair-01-26.jpg


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  • #132
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Lu Tze wrote: »
    In fairness I'd like to see the chair a tenner would buy you!

    I don't think it's totally crazy, you can get these sort of chairs for €25 euro new, I'm guessing that's what he meant. A well used 2nd hand one for a tenner isn't unrealistic. I've had the same chair for 5 years, it's not actually even a computer chair, it's a recliner, but I've gotten so used to it that I feel wierd trying to play a game with a proper chair, feels way too high up!


  • #133
    papu
    Registered Users Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    game4it70 wrote: »
    If for a full build then its ok but for a bottle of this caseking want 34.90e :eek:

    cheaper to fly to Berlin and pick it up yourself from their store!;)
    Their store is fantastic :p


  • #134
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    I don't think it's totally crazy, you can get these sort of chairs for €25 euro new, I'm guessing that's what he meant. A well used 2nd hand one for a tenner isn't unrealistic. I've had the same chair for 5 years, it's not actually even a computer chair, it's a recliner, but I've gotten so used to it that I feel wierd trying to play a game with a proper chair, feels way too high up!

    Exactly. Those chairs go brand new for 30 eu. It's a poor state, but I would take it for few quid just as temporary solution. 50eu for a chair that costs brand new 30eu and on top of that it is in poor state so Paying 10eu and taking it off his hands is doing him a foivour. Throwing it in a skip will cost him a fiver...


  • #135
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Got my Internet back!!! 100mbit too! Sweet!!!!


  • #136
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Just 100Mb? I don't know how people manage with such speeds (spoken from a high UPC horse). :pac:


  • #137
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Monotype wrote: »
    Just 100Mb? I don't know how people manage with such speeds (spoken from a high UPC horse). :pac:

    100mb of stable internet, mind you! :pac: The fella whowas installing has UPC 200mb and hates it to core!


  • #138
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Ordered R9 290, should I be worried about it fitting into a haf 932? It's like 30cm long


  • #139
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,130 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Should be fine


  • #140
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Got my Internet back!!! 100mbit too! Sweet!!!!
    Monotype wrote: »
    Just 100Mb? I don't know how people manage with such speeds (spoken from a high UPC horse). :pac:

    Absolute bastards with your 1st world problems :D, I'm lucky to get 8mbit down/2 up living up this bloody mountain.

    At least vodafone have updated to 4G in the area-well most of the area/time.


  • #141
    Gehad_JoyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Gehad_JoyRider


    went to turn on my screen just morning and got....

    a black screen with this symbol _ its not blinking :( I'm seem to be in the technological unlucky streak at the moment :(


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  • #142
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Can you get into the BIOS? could be missing boot info.

    Have a look to see if it's detecting your boot drive, etc. If it's not, recheck cables are seated correctly, try different cables, ports, all that.


  • #143
    Gehad_JoyRider
    Registered Users Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Gehad_JoyRider


    I can get into the Bios


    Options I have are,

    Windows boot manager
    P4: St10000DM003
    Uefi wd Ext hard drive

    Boot option #1 is windows bios manager
    Boot option #2 is sayng UEFI : WD


  • #144
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Hey, everyone!

    Clicky

    It's. About. ****ing. Time.


  • #145
    McSasquatch II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭McSasquatch II


    Serephucus wrote: »
    Hey, everyone!

    Clicky

    It's. About. ****ing. Time.

    HPj4EKF.gif

    So how long 'til the adaptive sync version? :pac:


  • #146
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Serephucus wrote: »
    Hey, everyone!

    Clicky

    It's. About. ****ing. Time.

    Price: 5 BILLION DOLLARS

    dr-evil.jpg


  • #147
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    900 series benchmarks. Salt required.

    http://videocardz.com/52166/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-gtx-970-gtx-980m-gtx-970m-3dmark-performance

    Desktop cards are decidedly "meh" to be honest, though it'll depend on price. Those 900M scores though... There just might be a new laptop in my future.

    Anyone want an Alienware 17? :P


  • #148
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Looks good to me but entirely dependent on pricing. I'd be very interested in the GTX970.


  • #149
    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    Serephucus wrote: »
    Hey, everyone!

    Clicky

    It's. About. ****ing. Time.

    Happy Days, would it be cheeky to look for a curved, 21:9 144Hz IPS?

    tumblr_lks6fzJvuF1qhfyv3o1_400.gif


  • #150
    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    glynf wrote: »
    Happy Days, would it be cheeky to look for a curved, 21:9 144Hz IPS?

    Not at all! I'd love that, +G-Sync. ;)


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  • #151
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Serephucus wrote: »
    900 series benchmarks. Salt required.

    http://videocardz.com/52166/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-gtx-970-gtx-980m-gtx-970m-3dmark-performance

    Desktop cards are decidedly "meh" to be honest, though it'll depend on price. Those 900M scores though... There just might be a new laptop in my future.

    Anyone want an Alienware 17? :P

    I know, we need a **** truck of salt, but those numbers look extremely disappointing. And I have a feeling, that it wont be too far away from real numbers. Looks like they did same **** again as with other 2 generations.
    Few months later there will be 980ti too...

    It all boils down to pricing now. If its prices with usual "more performance, but more expensive" then we are back in squire one and its another disappointing generation.


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