Recent content by BlueMagician

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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    Well, I have to say, Lacie support have been superb about this... so far... The good news is that they advanced shipped a replacement within a week of me opening the support call, and they pay shipping both ways. That bad news is, having recieved the replacement unit, that too is completely...
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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    I've worked with dozens of cheap Shadow Mask CRT's over the years, and a couple of Sony NF Trinitron's and never seen a CRT shift over time - not by half a centimeter! I'll wait and see what Lacie UK say, but if they're gonna charge me postage to send it back and forth, I think I'll keep it...
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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    It's March 2005, which has got to be one of _the_ last made then. Everything looks okay elsewhere - I've downloaded the NEC test pattern software, and got things about as close as I can before I lost patience and my eyes went boggley looking at funky patterns. However, this monitor replaces...
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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    Now that's random - A sony tube exhibiting the same issue? :confused: TBH, I can live with the slight hooking/pinching (which really is slight) for that length of time, but the fact that half of my damned task bar is missing is a bit extreme. At 1600x1200 about 5mm of it is cropped off...
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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    Thanks to all for your quick responses. Yes, it is a late manufacture monitor (Q1 2005). Whilst the image seems spot on after that 45 minutes, it's a bit mad to see a new monitor acting like a 7 year old £50 CTX when first powered up... I'm intrigued to hear the similar experiences with...
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    Lacie Electron 22 Blue CRT Monitor

    Hi All! I finally got hold of a new Lacie E22B4 CRT, but have some troubles.. When turning the monitor on from cold, the geometry of the display shifts and changes over the first 45 minutes or so. The most noticable thing is the fact that for the first half an hour, the bottom of the...
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    LCD verses CRT

    <post deleted> I'm not kicking off the previous discussion all over again! ;) S.
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    Can 128MB nVidia 6800 Run LCD 1920x1200????

    I've been looking at this monitor for my 6800GT SLI setup - how good is it really? For gaming, I've been kinda put off TFT's because of black/grey/white change latency and ghosting issues - but can this expensive beast finally make a good job of it? Can you force games like HL2 and Doom3 to...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    GD, thanks for the suggestions.. I have tried the cpu/1ram/1gpu/psu combination you have suggested, albeit not outside of the case - are you thinking this could be a grounding issue? I don't have a multimeter handy, but the LED's on the back of the OCZ PSU indicate green/green/green, which...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    I have reseated the EZ selector card several times, and tried both cards in the blue PCIe slot one by one. I know people had issues with the beta1003 BIOS corrupting every 5 minutes, but I'm using 1003FINAL, so don't expect this!! I also can't figure out why I get a "System failed memory...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    NEW INFO! The only thing I left in the board, was the RAM. I have now removed both sticks, and for the first time in 2 days, I have beep codes, and that annoying woman says "System failed memory test" I tried putting one stick back in DIMM-B1 (as recd in the manual for single channel), but NO...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    Bump :) Sooo many people looking, but no suggestions...? TIA, S.
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    Ok.. I've done the following: > Removed Soundcard again. No POST. > Removed one GFX card, leaving the one in PCIe slot nearest CPU. Switched EZ card to SINGLE. No POST. > Tried other GFX card in SINGLE mode. No POST. > Stayed in SINGLE GFX card mode. Removed CD-ROM IDE Cable. No POST. >...
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    ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe - suddenly fails to POST..

    I've followed several threads relating to similar, but wanted to start my own so I don't hijack! Plus, I've been reading that many people have been having problems with corrupt BIOS when using the beta1003 a few weeks back, but I was using the final1003 so wouldn't expect it to have issues like...
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    Windows XP Pro install HANGS with Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe & RAID-0 Raptors ARRGH!!

    Hi guys, I'm about to go nuts. Apologies for the cross post - but I think it may do better in here! I'm trying to install WinXP Pro on my new system (see sig). I have the Raptors in RAID-0 attached to ports 1 & 2 of the NVRAID SATA ports, and a simple PATA CD/RW attached to the...