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glynf · 10-01-2013 07:41PM

reason i mentioned the network carrier Shadow, where we are I get good coverage nearly allways with Vodafone, the gf is on O2 and for a while her signal went very weak and when she called O2 said it was temp as they were working on the network and it would improve. In fairness it was sorted a week or so after, I thought her phone was knackered initially.

glynf · 10-01-2013 07:47PM

Serephucus wrote: »

It doesn't, AFAIK. The whole idea of RAID 0 is that the data is written to both drives at once, once you try to write the 129th gigabyte, you'll be stuck with one drive.

Ah well, will have a mess about anyway as I want to do a clean win 7 install . Sorry I did'nt get a 2nd one now

challengemaster · 10-01-2013 07:50PM

glynf wrote: »

reason i mentioned the network carrier Shadow, where we are I get good coverage nearly allways with Vodafone, the gf is on O2 and for a while her signal went very weak and when she called O2 said it was temp as they were working on the network and it would improve. In fairness it was sorted a week or so after, I thought her phone was knackered initially.

I think you got the wrong end of SH's lithuanian stick.... he's on about Wifi

glynf · 10-01-2013 08:15PM

ah. disregard that then. I'm blaming the phone..not my eyesight.

Andy!! · 11-01-2013 02:01PM

Whelp, just managed to pull the plastic covering of a SATA II port while swapping HDDs. The SATA cable was so tight for some reason. Is the PC safe to turn on? Could probably stick the piece pack on but looks like I'd have to take out the mobo which is just a pain in the hole.

Then I also placed the two HDDs on top of each other to compare thickness and felt this big magnetic pull. SMART. Wonder if they're dead too.

Headshot · 12-01-2013 12:30AM

Lads did ye ever experience an external hard drive acting up in terms of that it will only turn on if you have the mini usb connection in at a certain angle for example with mine it has to pushed to the right to activate the hard drive and kept in that position for it to stay on

Not sure can it be fixed tbh

Serephucus · 12-01-2013 12:31AM

You could always buy another enclosure and swap it out.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DIGIFLEX-Drive-Caddy-Enclosure-Laptop/dp/B002UZO07C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357947064&sr=8-1

ED E · 12-01-2013 12:34AM

Headshot wrote: »

Lads did ye ever experience an external hard drive acting up in terms of that it will only turn on if you have the mini usb connection in at a certain angle for example with mine it has to pushed to the right to activate the hard drive and kept in that position for it to stay on

Not sure can it be fixed tbh

Could be the PCB is loose in the cage or a damaged USB port(common). Pop it open and take a pic, it should be an easy fix in any case.

Headshot · 12-01-2013 12:38AM

Serephucus wrote: »

You could always buy another enclosure and swap it out.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DIGIFLEX-Drive-Caddy-Enclosure-Laptop/dp/B002UZO07C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357947064&sr=8-1

I did not think of that, sound Serephucus

ED E wrote: »

Could be the PCB is loose in the cage or a damaged USB port(common). Pop it open and take a pic, it should be an easy fix in any case.

I opened it up already and nothing jumped out at me. I reckon its the usb slot. The previous owner is not the best with electronics

Andy!! · 12-01-2013 01:54PM

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/lego-mindstorms-ev3-the-better-faster-stronger-generation-of-robotic-programming/

Dunno about Lego, kinda of outgrew it many many years ago, but this is very cool!!

ED E · 12-01-2013 04:02PM

Linus always goes on about how he loves the Steelseries 7H but googling suggests they have a f'ck load of QC problems. Anyone have them, worth a punt?

Gbear · 13-01-2013 01:28AM

Balls.. my brother took away my HDD to try to get it working.

It's toast. There goes a TB of data.

Andy!! · 13-01-2013 12:11PM

Gbear wrote: »

Balls.. my brother took away my HDD to try to get it working.

It's toast. There goes a TB of porn.

:pac:

Squeaky the Squirrel · 15-01-2013 01:26AM

http://www.magicscroll.net/ScrollTheWeb.html

What ya think?

Headshot · 15-01-2013 02:36AM

Man im ****ing raging here. Near 24 hrs of downloading Batman:Arkham City (16.9gb) and the ****ing thing is 32bit instead of it being 64bit

This isnt the first time downloading it and it was previously 64bit so those wasters gamefly must of changed it

Andy!! · 15-01-2013 02:52AM

AC has a 64bit version? What version is on Steam?

Headshot · 15-01-2013 02:56AM

Andy!! wrote: »

AC has a 64bit version? What version is on Steam?

Doing some investigation, it seems that its only 32bit

Andy!! · 15-01-2013 04:43AM

Yah games dont tend to be 64bit.

Serephucus · 15-01-2013 09:08AM

That doesn't make sense. 99% of games are 32-Bit and run fine through built-in emulation, why would this one not run?

tuxy · 15-01-2013 09:57AM

The error message seems to think it's a 16 bit app.
Of course there is no way they released a 16 bit version so something is not right.

Headshot · 16-01-2013 12:17AM

Im re-downloading it again

****ing kick in the teeth tbh

ED E · 16-01-2013 12:28AM

Really random, need some lights for my desk, gotta go under a shelf and a high output of white light(helpful for working on stuff/photography of sthuff. Any suggestions?

Headshot · 16-01-2013 12:30AM

Yo ED that router I got is immense, I swear my internet has gotten better lol

Thanks for the advice again

ED E · 16-01-2013 01:04AM

No probs. A good unit can reduce pings and process packets faster, so you could perceive a slight difference.

Andy!! · 16-01-2013 02:02AM

Headshot wrote: »

Im re-downloading it again

****ing kick in the teeth tbh

Maybe consoles are more your thing, they're simpler :P You've had nothing but trouble with this PC.

Headshot · 16-01-2013 02:03AM

Andy!! wrote: »

Maybe consoles are more your thing, they're simpler :P You've had nothing but trouble with this PC.

I couldnt go back to console and my pc is running superbly these days. Its not really my fault that gamefly ****ed up tbh

Fluffy88 · 16-01-2013 11:37AM

Headshot wrote: »

Yo ED that router I got is immense, I swear my internet has gotten better lol

Thanks for the advice again

Can I ask which router??
I wouldn't mind getting a decent one that has lots to mess with and being faster would be nice too :P

Our internet goes down a ridiculous amount. I think what happens is the DSL will drop for a split second and then the router doesn't realise and never tries to reconnect. So we have to manually restart the router every-time (actually when I say it out loud that's probably not the issue). I would hope getting a good router would fix the problem.

Headshot · 16-01-2013 01:22PM

You need a modem and then use it as a bridge

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003FZ3QSK/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00

And then the router
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007W16SMO/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01

ED E · 16-01-2013 03:42PM

Just after noticing my post count. F'ck, I need to get out more

Headshot · 16-01-2013 03:43PM

ED E wrote: »

Just after noticing my post count. F'ck, I need to get out more

lol your still a green horn

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