Recent content by Kenjura

Well, "timedemo demo1 1" certainly got rid of the hiccups (in the demo, anyway), but now I have a new problem. My flashlight doesn't work! As in, it sheds no more light than my ugly face. You can imagine the difficulties. The problem started after I changed some video settings (just AA/AF)...

I seem to be having a problem in Doom 3. The framerate is consistent most of the time, but every now and then the whole game freezes for a second or so, usually when a bunch of monsters appear. It's extremely noticable in timedemo. It kind of takes away from the experience. Where is the...

Then obviously you haven't been using computers very long. For quite some time, BIOS was stored in EPROMS, erasable rom chips. The only way to erase them was to shine ultraviolet light through a special window. This window is usually covered by a sticker of some sort, and is generally only...

clearing my bios? how am I meant to do that? I don't have an ultraviolet light handy. Maybe ripping out the battery or the cmos chip would do it? I'd rather not screw with what is probably a perfectly good motherboard. I'll give the old motherboard a try, perhaps, though I did already buy a...

I was installing my new a7v333 mobo today. I remove the heatsink and cpu from the old mobo, swapped the boards, then planted the cpu and seated the fan. I tested it. It worked. The bios asked me to set the speed, and I set it to 1333 (normal). I rebooted several times. The cpu was running...

I found it at computerhq.com, which has been very reliable so far. ^_^

I just ordered an asus a7v333 and a stick of lovely corsair pc2700 ram (256 mb). I felt a little weird, considering it's been almost a whole year (gasp) since I upgraded to a t-bird 1.333 / 512mb ddr266 / amd 760. anyhow, I'm going to get the new board and ram soon. I'll plug in the old...

And I rebut the deskstar problems in general. I've had two 45gb 75gxp drives in my machine since july 2000, and a 75gb 75gxp since april 2001. I keep my computer on 24/7, and the drives see heavy use. Obviously, I keep at least a 25% free space margin (how could I not with 165gb of storage)...

I love my notebook, but the sound it produces could use some serious help. I can only output to external speakers via the headphone jack, and the audio quality is poor for my tastes. Where on earth can I find notebook sound cards? There are none offered by Sager for the notebook.

I can't find any sites with any recent notebook articles. Any sites or recommendations? What I need: A solid platform. I want at least 800 mhz (1000 from intel), 128 (preferably 256) mb ram, and a sizable hard drive (40 gb would be nice). Networking. A simple ethernet port (10/100) would...

I've outgrown anandtech for audio. I need a site like it that reviews good audio cards (NOT the live, read: soundblaster 16) and speakers (I've outgrown my digitheatre DTS). Anyone know of any good sites? I'm not talking audiophile, I'll keep it under $1000 per speaker. ^_^ thanks ^_^...

Heh, when I get my new system, I'll run the benchmark. I'm pretty sure it will suck, even if I get a geforce 3. Damn windows 2000 and it's directx...for god's sake, use opengl.... my ath 950 can't even run 3dmark2001...and that system never crashes. new machine: athlon-C 1.33 Ghz Asus...

all right, I've got some people saying KT133A supports the 266 mhz front side bus. I've got other people saying there are only three motherboards that can run at 133 with ddr 2100...and they use amd 760. AAGH!! Too confusing! Does KT133A support DDR-SDRAM? Does it support PC2100 SDRAM...

If you don't want to overclock or use raid, then flip a coin and forget about raid support. However, the extra $20 or so will make sure you can use it in the future if you want to. It's not hard at all...provided you don't want to install on it. This is coming from someone who tried to...

This motherboard comes highly recommended from a friend. For now I can put in a spare p2-400. It will merely be a low-end server, running an ircd and a quakeworld server (maybe half-life as well) on linux with 128 mb of pc100. If worse comes to worst I can find a p3-700e to plug in there and...