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[QUOTE=chrishind10;30430421]Can you not get Bootcamp to do that? I've seen a few threads on ubuntu users doing it.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if holding the option key on boot is part of bootcamp, but doing so only shows optical drive and harddrive partitions.
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;30430882]I'm not sure if holding the option key on boot is part of bootcamp, but doing so only shows optical drive and harddrive partitions.[/QUOTE] wat I used to own a macbook, booting from legacy os (Non-EFI) flash-drives was sometimes wonky but you can get it working.
Yea, mac uses EFI instead of BIOS. To open it use something like [url=http://refit.sourceforge.net/]rEFIt[/url]
[QUOTE=haloguy234;30424554]Someone on Steam messaged me explaining that their video card might have failed. I asked them to try re-seating their card and make sure that all power connections are secure, and then added to check the CMOS setup and ensure that the primary video adapter is set to that of their video card. After half an hour he logged back into Steam and said that it didn't work, and then added: "My card was taped to the motherboard, it was a real hassle trying to re-seat it because of that. The weird thing is, there was a slot which one end of the tape fit perfectly into on my card and no other slot on the computer matched it." I wouldn't have laughed so hard at that if he wasn't going to major in Computer Science.[/QUOTE] Unfortunately, that's not the worst I've heard. but that's pretty hilarious. You all remember the legendary post on some Hardware forum where a guy bought a 7900GTX and saw'd off half the PCIexpress in order to fit it in his AGP slot? Oh man. Good times.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;30431000]Unfortunately, that's not the worst I've heard. but that's pretty hilarious. You all remember the legendary post on some Hardware forum where a guy bought a 7900GTX and saw'd off half the PCIexpress in order to fit it in his AGP slot? Oh man. Good times.[/QUOTE] Saw off a bit more and fit it in x4 or x1 PCIe slot.
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;30431075]Saw off a bit more and fit it in x4 or x1 PCIe slot.[/QUOTE] I wonder if that would've worked. Unfortunately he trimmed off the front of it so it wouldn't fit in a PCIe since AGP is set further from the back of the case.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;30431157]I wonder if that would've worked. Unfortunately he trimmed off the front of it so it wouldn't fit in a PCIe since AGP is set further from the back of the case.[/QUOTE] I did it and it worked.
It can be done, but you have to be very fucking gentle doing it, and if you fuck up, you're screwed
Gah, just got back from my Aunt's - I was helping fix her computer problems. Internet was easy - hook directly up to the modem and do a hard restart on. Seems like the router must've gone bad. I then did some basic tune-up stuff. First off, start IE. Literally half the screen is covered by a toolbar. It's a netbook, though, so that's not too much space. It was only three or four. Uninstalled all of them - the MSN Toolbar was using literally 100% of her CPU. Cleaned out Firefox too - I'm not sure which browser she actually uses, to be honest. Then, the defrag. 28% fragmentation. With 70% of the disk empty. *sigh* (Almost all of that was AVG, by the way - incavi.avm was fragmented into 600 pieces) Speaking of anti-viruses, she'd been on the phone with Comcast trying to get her internet working again. First tech told her to reset the modem. Nothing changed. Second one got her to restart the router. No change. Last one somehow was convinced it was a virus, and made her talk to Acer (the laptop manufacturer) to try to fix it. That's a serious WTF right there. Fortunately my aunt isn't completely tech-retarded, and decided to have me check it out before paying about half the computer's cost for a "tech support license" or whatever. Ran a full virus scan, uninstalled most of the crap she'd accumulated, and installed SP1. Boots up twice as fast and runs pretty well for a netbook, now. Not perfect, but what do you expect for three hour's work?
[QUOTE=Warship;30432063]It can be done, but you have to be very fucking gentle doing it, and if you fuck up, you're screwed[/QUOTE] You could say the same in bed.
[QUOTE=C:\;30433718]You could say the same in bed.[/QUOTE] :iiaca: No wait... It is a sex analogy.
What is this i dont even: Turn on mac -> Fans at 110% and a loading bar under apple logo -> Laptop restarts right away and fans turn off.
So our Router and Modem failed, so my mom insisted on calling Cox, which we had to, but she just said "Our internet isn't working." So some Cox guy comes over, gives us a new Modem, explains to my mom we need a new Router because our current one is 5+ years old. Here's the funny thing though, the Cox guy actually knew what he was talking about. -poorly phrased ignore this- Rate dumb, I deserve it. I wish I could rate myself dumb.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;30435008]So our Router and Modem failed, so my mom insisted on calling Cox, which we had to, but she just said "Our internet isn't working." So some Cox guy comes over, gives us a new Modem, explains to my mom we need a new Router because our current one is 5+ years old. Here's the funny thing though, the Cox guy actually knew what he was talking about. Also, this new modem sucks, I'm on the internet by Ethernet cable to it and I freeze every few seconds while typing. JUST on the Internet though, works fine in Notepad.[/QUOTE] That's not the modem, you aren't using an internet connection to type into text boxes.
Content? [QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;30435008]So our Router and Modem failed, so my mom insisted on calling Cox, which we had to, but she just said "Our internet isn't working." So some Cox guy comes over, gives us a new Modem, explains to my mom we need a new Router because our current one is 5+ years old. Here's the funny thing though, the Cox guy actually knew what he was talking about. Also, this new modem sucks, I'm on the internet by Ethernet cable to it and I freeze every few seconds while typing. JUST on the Internet though, works fine in Notepad.[/QUOTE] A bad connection wouldn't cause your computer to freeze. You should probably get your computer checked out, there's probably something wrong with IT. EDIT: Damn, ninja'd.
Today I made a hard drive chassis for 4 hard drives out of foam board and hot glue. I'll get pictures tomorrow but it's pretty nice.
I think I just gained the ability to control machines that run Linux with my brains. I wanted to turn on my Android phone, which had been charging for like 5 minutes and it just booted up before I even got to press the power button. Or since the battery was drained, when I plugged it into the charger and pressed the power button, it just waited until it had loaded the battery enough to boot and I just got lucky with the timing.
[QUOTE=compwhizii;30436030]Today I made a hard drive chassis for 4 hard drives out of foam board and hot glue. I'll get pictures tomorrow but it's pretty nice.[/QUOTE] This intrigues me.
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;30435659]That's not the modem, you aren't using an internet connection to type into text boxes.[/QUOTE] I phrased that poorly.
My oldest brother got a free Dell Vostro from where he works (It's pretty nice tbh) so i decided to hook it up to my screen, it was a 17" but the monitor looked horrible, then my father walks in and thinks it's connected wirelessly somehow, so i point to the HDMI cable, and he says "That's not a video slot, that's for the Hard Drive" :what: Anyways, how can you phrase talking about internet affecting your PC badly, it just doesn't make sense :witch: Oh, and a friend of mine gave me a ring today to talk about random shit, then he mentions to me, that his friend seems to think you overclock via switching the cooler :v:
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;30436492]My oldest brother got a free Dell Vostro from where he works (It's pretty nice tbh) so i decided to hook it up to my screen, it was a 17" but the monitor looked horrible, then my father walks in and thinks it's connected wirelessly somehow, so i point to the HDMI cable, and he says "That's not a video slot, that's for the Hard Drive" :what: Anyways, how can you phrase talking about internet affecting your PC badly, it just doesn't make sense :witch: Oh, and a friend of mine gave me a ring today to talk about random shit, then he mentions to me, that his friend seems to think you overclock via switching the cooler :v:[/QUOTE] Was trying to talk about two things but I said the modem was fucking with text boxes instead.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;30436492]My oldest brother got a free Dell Vostro from where he works (It's pretty nice tbh) so i decided to hook it up to my screen, it was a 17" but the monitor looked horrible, then my father walks in and thinks it's connected wirelessly somehow, so i point to the HDMI cable, and he says "That's not a video slot, that's for the Hard Drive" :what: Anyways, how can you phrase talking about internet affecting your PC badly, it just doesn't make sense :witch: Oh, and a friend of mine gave me a ring today to talk about random shit, then he mentions to me, that his friend seems to think you overclock via switching the cooler :v:[/QUOTE] Obviously HDMI stands for Hard Drive Mitigation Initializer.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;30436649]Obviously HDMI stands for Hard Drive Mitigation Initializer.[/QUOTE] Or Hard Drive Manager Informant.
Or Hard Dicks Molest Infants wait what
[QUOTE=Goz3rr;30430882]I'm not sure if holding the option key on boot is part of bootcamp, but doing so only shows optical drive and harddrive partitions.[/QUOTE] you can boot from USB from that menu too, if the flash drive is the proper format
I guess someone could mistake HDMI cables for SATA cables, especially at a distance. [editline]14th June 2011[/editline] Also he's probably never seen HDMI cables if he doesn't know 'bout them I suppose?
ghoooost paaaaage!!!! fuck
My sister is crying to me about the computer not working. I tell her to shut the fuck up She continues to cry so I decide to see if I can make things worse yet seem better Turns out my awesome friend had done the ol' desktop screenie delete all shortcuts replace desktop with screenie trick My sister thinks that she can fix it. I stand back to watch the magic happen. She deletes system32. Computer promptly crashes. Her reasoning is that "System32 is a virus so I must delete it and now the computer will fix itself because daddy made it like that" I try to tell her that she just permanently lost all her ancient Maplestory videos and 400x200 resolution retarded smiley faces and completely fucked up the computer so bad it needed to be sent to a repair shop but she insists that she's right.
[QUOTE=LightOfDarkness;30439196]My sister is crying to me about the computer not working. I tell her to shut the fuck up She continues to cry so I decide to see if I can make things worse yet seem better Turns out my awesome friend had done the ol' desktop screenie delete all shortcuts replace desktop with screenie trick My sister thinks that she can fix it. I stand back to watch the magic happen. She deletes system32. Computer promptly crashes. Her reasoning is that "System32 is a virus so I must delete it and now the computer will fix itself because daddy made it like that" I try to tell her that she just permanently lost all her ancient Maplestory videos and 400x200 resolution retarded smiley faces and completely fucked up the computer so bad it needed to be sent to a repair shop but she insists that she's right.[/QUOTE] This seems made up Nobody instantly assumes that System32 is the right thing to delete... hopefully And don't take it to a repair shop, just reinstall the OS yourself.
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;30439268]This seems made up Nobody instantly assumes that System32 is the right thing to delete... hopefully And don't take it to a repair shop, just reinstall the OS yourself.[/QUOTE] It happened I think it was more my sis going oh shit what do I do now and randomly deleting stuff though. I got paid to fix it and delete that 100 gigs of random shit she downloaded though, all because I said it needed to be sent to a repair shop
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