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It's been 10 years since I read it, but this is the guy who wrote "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", right?
> Robert Pirsig called those "gumption traps", and they can make us wind
> up cranky, misanthropic NT haters. (He didn't say that last part.)
>
> :)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:27 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I think I came across the route of the problem now.
>
> I have in fact installed all updated drivers from VIA,
> flashed the BIOS,
> switched IRQ's for my network card (it was in the adjacent
> PCI slot to the
> AGP slot) so there are no IRQ conflicts.
>
> I went on to the ELSA web support page, and discovered that
> if you want to
> run a GLADIAC 920 on a Win2K box, in 1024/768 resolution,
> your monitor needs
> to have a 120hz refresh rate. My (Shite) monitor (a Belinea
> 102010) only
> supports a 60hz refresh rate!! Now I'm not entirely sure
> about this, and
> don't have another monitor that supports this to hand to test
> my theory
> out - but I would think that if the card tried to overload
> the monitor with
> a 120hz refresh rate, when it is set to 60 this would infact cause the
> monitor to go in to standby to save frying the monitor? Am I right in
> presuming that?
>
> God I hope so!! This card as Ross pointed out is top of the
> range! Costing
> ?350!! If it doesn't work after I try a new monitor (More
> expense) heads
> will roll.. Not sure who's yet.. But OH BY GOD - HEADS WILL ROLL :)
>
> Thanks for the pointers any way guys.. I'll certainly keep
> you updated on
> the amount of people I blow away online in the Half Life/Counterstrike
> Modification!! <G> When I get it working..
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> McLarty
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:50
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi
>
> Try checking out all of your drivers.
>
> A mate of mine recently purchased a new motherboard and
> Athlon 900, firstly
> it seemed to run like a dog, after a bit of looking around
> he found out
> that it was probably the VIA chipset, so on went the new
> drivers, seemed to
> run better but still not happy. Reinstalled OS with the new
> VIA drivers and
> ram great, all except for this strange occasional lockup.
> He found the cause by chance when he was moving house and fired up his
> system without the modem attached. System was running very well so he
> hooked up his modem to check some email and shortly later bang system
> lockup. Got the new USRobotics driver for his system and last
> I heard he
> was rockin.
>
>
> Peter
>
> At 08:55 AM 26/06/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> ><RANT>
> >WHATEVER you do - DON'T GO ADDING ANY NEW FUNKY HARDWARE!!!
> >
> >I just got a brand new ELSA GLADIAC 920 graphics card -
> built on the new
> >nvidia Geoforce 3 chipset with 64mb on board DDR SDRAM! (I
> can hear any
> >gamers going YUMMMM)!!
> >
> >So - slip it in to my (not a year old - PIII800 256M RAM
> Win2K) PC and the
> >damn thing wont work - it switches video modes to go in to a
> game and turns
> >the screen in to stand by mode (NOW THERE'S A BLACK SCREEN
> FOR YA!!)!!
> DAMN
> >THING!! You then have to physically turn the machine off!!
> Support in their
> >infinite wisdom told me to upgrade my 4in1 drivers for the
> chipset(VIA),
> and
> >flash the BIOS(AWARD)! Not a very inviting solution - as a
> BIOS flash, if
> >gone wrong, will fry your BIOS chip, meaning that you'll need a new
> >motherboard! They then go on to tell me they won't support
> this. Call up PC
> >support - any they won't support it either!
> >
> >So there I am raring to get my hands on the ultimate PC
> gamer experience,
> >and decided to do as they recommend - I updated my VIA 4in1,
> and flashed
> the
> >BIOS - and guess what - the f*$^&r STILL WONT WORK!!! I installed the
> NVIDIA
> >driver - nope.. Installed the Win2K SP2 - nope.. try to
> tweak the settings
> >for screen res etc. - nope.. Made sure that there were no
> conflicts with
> >IRQ's etc. - nope..
> >
> >And at this very moment - IT STILL WON'T WORK!!
> >
> >DON'T GO THROUGH THE HASSLE!!!
> >
> ></RANT>
> >
> >Totally off-topic I know as you wouldn't dream of playing games on a
> >database server - but I needed to vent a little there - I've
> spent hours on
> >this last night!! And will later I suppose..
> >
> >Any graphics experts out there? PC support etc.?
> >
> >Mark (Gonna go and cry now) Leith
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >dgoulet_at_vicr.com
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 03:22
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix down was due to the local
> power utility
> >whereas
> >the last unscheduled down on NT was due to the "Blue screen
> of death" (Ok,
> >so
> >the screen is Black on 2000).
> >
> >----trim----
> >
> >--
> >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
> >--
> >Author: Mark Leith
> > INET: mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk
> >
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> Author: Peter McLarty
> INET: peter.mclarty_at_incts.com
> INET: mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk
> INET: MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com
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