Recent content by tom.etc

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    Will there be any payback for better ram

    according to moore, someday the threads will be trolled by those we will not be able to distinguish as human and machine. clearly not an existentialist. i'm gonna go setup a ti99/4a webserver on a 110baud modem making fun of him. =p JUST KIDDING DO NOT COME AND MURDER EVERYONE I KNOW BECAUSE...
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    What AMD Cpu do you currently use? Post here!

    with just a stock sink i have my 4800+ X2 up from 2.4 to 12.5 X 250 = 3.125 and run ~107 deg F. just a little AM2+ ASUS M3N78-VM
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    W7 and the dreaded "Unidentified Network" problem

    what gets fun is when you grab an arp table out of your old router and try to register your new NIC as their MAC addy ;)
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    W7 and the dreaded "Unidentified Network" problem

    Perhaps you have HPET enabled? switching it off ended my 6 hour stress-fest when i realized i was a bit over-clocked on my M3N78-VM. might have been enough to warp a finicky timer past understanding layer 2 segments.
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    what does HPET do

    Apparently having that timer enabled threw off the timing for the on board NIC on my M3N78-VM, but only since i moderately overclocked my X2 4800 to 3.125GHz and Ram to 833. It was driving me up a wall b/c devman didn't throw out errors, the dialogue said all was well, but not single packet...