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I know I saw it a few weeks ago, my parents were like, “I don't get it”, and I was like, “Thats the best commercial ever!” Oh ya and I heard that Marvel comics is going to be making an Ash Vs. Marvel Zombies comic.
Woo Hoo, I've been looking forward to seeing what you think of Vista. I'm probably not going to get it for a while but I've still been thinking of weather or not to buy the upgrade or the full. I've seen a lot of sites that say the upgrade leaves a load of unnecessary files and poorly functioning xp programs on your machine.
I just saw something online that said you get that “Windows Delayed Write Failed” error when you unplug a hard drive while its in use. So that means exactly what you said, either the hard drive is crapping out while its in use or the connection to the hard drive is crapping while its in use.
Wow thats crazy, a brand new install of windows on a formatted hard drive going screwy. Ya it must be a hardware failure. I guess you could try running windows off of a different hard drive and seeing what happens.
Ah yes, I miss dos. The only way to get your fix on these new computers is to
go into command prompt but its just not the same. I remember you just type in run win and you get that awesome
8-bit windows splash screen to come up, and running games in dos was great even though it took quite a bit of
troubleshooting to get them to work at first. Oh ya and I would always forget how to list directories in
columns instead of one long stream.
I got the hard drive installed today and its working pretty well after tcolvinMI helped me figure out
formating.
I took a picture of my
computer to show how nice alienware organizes the wires. You'll notice the hard drive is in backwards,
thats because alienware strung all of the power cables around the back of the case. I didn't feel like
opening the other side so I was only able to find one cable by the hard drive slots. It didn't stretch very far
out so I had to put the drive in and feel around to get the power cable in.
I have also noted on the
image the suspected zombie fan. Its the only one I think it could be although it's awfully small to be
making such a loud groaning noise. It doesn't come on very often but when it does it's loud.
I think I heard somewhere that the first SP for Vista was going to come out sometime in March, since
they've been working out the bugs since the unofficial Vista launch a few months ago.
And yes
I learned quite a bit about hard drives yesterday. It was pretty confusing when I looked up my hard drive, it
said Serial ATA, so I looked it up and the first sites I see say “ATA is just another name for IDE” so I
look at my hard drive and I'm like “the hell it is”. Then I see ATA and Serial ATA are
completely different. It has to be so complicated.
Cool I'm going to have to put that hard drive in. I put it in before but attached it to the same
IDE cable my dvd was running from. The hard drive showed up in device manager but not in My Computer. I
guess i'll probably need to string out an ULTRA DMA cable from my motherboard to only go to the new hard
drive. I think the jumper setting is set to slave on the HD.
Hmm, i'm not sure how much space the current windows takes up but i'v only got 12 gigs left on my
hard drive. I may need to figure out how to install my second hard drive on to this computer. I tried to
put it in a few weeks ago when I was switching out my graphics card but I couldn't even figure out where the
original hard drive was… ok it's an hour and a half later and I now know more about hard drives.
The weird looking thing, half the thickness of a normal hard drive with some weird looking wires sticking out of it,
is a serial ATA hard drive and I now know my motherboard specs… ok it's about another half hour later
and I know a lot about UltraDMA and I know my motherboard supports UltraDMA. So now my question is can IDE and
serial ATA hard drives work at the same time?
I'm not really doing anything, I'v got only one class and the teacher isn't giving us all that
much to do. I really should be working on portfolio stuff, I started something a month ago but I haven't
worked on it in a while. I stared making an environment but I only feel like making a character now and since
my class is character development I don't want to start making anything until its assigned.
I look
forward to hearing about how Vista runs, I'v seen a lot of articles (10 reasons to get vista, 10 reasons not to
get vista) there were a lot of good reasons to get it and most of the reasons not to get it were pretty lame.
There were two reasons not to get it that I paid attention to, a lot of programs have issues with vista, Nero,
Symantec Anti virus, Firefox, and the other problem is that the licence can only be transfered to another computer
once before its useless. There were a bunch of cool reasons to get it though, image based install – the DVD
holds a preinstalled image of windows so its a really quick install, it has a 19,500 driver base so whatever
hardware you have it has the most up to date drivers for it, this one made me laugh – sleep mode that actually
works, an undelete function – a nice feature. So be sure to tell us how it works and how long it took
you to crash or freeze it.
Yes I remember it as if it was yesterday, playing Serious Sam on my laptop on Andy's writing desk and Greg playing it on his computer when all of a sudden his PC just died. No problem we both thought, that kind of thing happens all the time. Little did Greg know of the horror that was in store.
I would say take out that power supply as soon as possible before it blows and takes out your hard drives again.
I currently have a weird problem with my nvidia drivers, every time I play a game nvidia resets the video color settings Gamma to -8%, so whenever I want to watch an avi or a streaming video I have to open the nvidia control and reset the gamma to 9% which is (oddly) normal looking. Also I can't play any of the battlefield games or world of warcraft with sli enabled.
I haven't played NFS: carbon, I got the Mechwarrior fever recently. It's cool playing
those series of games with a joystick.
