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No. I don't have any such utilities at my disposal, Memtest crashes every time I try and that's all I know how to use. In any case, doing a repair job with the install media fixed the reboot loop. I was also LIED TO :arge: by the data sheet for this particular machine. It states the machine has...

Arrrgh! So I finally got my stuff installed onto it today. It's been perfectly reliable, if a little slow because of its modest stature. I decide to run CHKDSK on the next bootup to see if there's anything wrong with the drive that can be detected to see if I wasted my time again or not. It...

Took it down to two 64MB modules, 2k installs beautifully now. Looks like I need to raid the high school's parts bin for some 128MB modules that they told me they wouldn't miss... again.

XP crashes before getting to the formatting stage with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_EQUAL message. Online research suggests that's shorthand for it doesn't have valid drivers for my hardware, or my RAM is bad. Still scratching my head on Memtest. When I burn it to CD it crashes on the Pentium II. AAAAAnd I...

So I've got a new headscratcher for you. I finally got Win2k to format the hard drive, but when it gets to the Ds in the file copy list, it BSODs with the error name PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. I'm taking this to mean that I have bad media from what I could find online, so I made another copy. This one...

Today my aunt picked up a computer at a yard sale for me for about ten dollars. It refused to POST. All it needed was different RAM. I now have a Phenom II x4 945 in place of my Athlon II x4 630. My Athlon II x4 630 has in turn been given to my Dad, who has desperately needed a more reliable...

Thanks for the pointers, guys. Going through the motions of trying to reinstall win98 now, maybe it will work from freshly-burned media. Yes, I had an ISO. Yes, I have a genuine license, so there's no reason to be concerned. For the record, I know more than I ever will need to about older...

I think my selection of hard drives are just bad. I can't get them to work in the Pentium 4 either. I'll see about maybe grabbing a 10 GB drive off of ebay or something. Might also just grab a CF adapter and use a 16GB CF card.

It's (I think) an in-house IBM mobo with a 440BX chipset. FAT32 cuts off at 2TB, and an updated version of FDISK (which I have) can partition more than 64GB. It sees the 20GB drive for what it is alright but thinks the 80GB is 15GB in BIOS and 10GB through FDISK (that curiously formats out to...

On my recently-acquired Pentium II, I'm currently trying to set up Windows 98SE. :puke-l: The first phase of setup executes flawlessly, and then it boots from the hard drive. It BSOD's at about 46% when trying to initialize it's driver database, with an exception 0E at 0028:C0008997 in VxD ---...

In my experience things that require 3D acceleration, unless they're very simple and/or from the late 90's, simply run terribly under virtualization. I don't know what was going on, I may just not have had virtualization extensions active on my CPU of the time.

Even for gamers, provided they have hardware that can handle the overhead, WINE can handle most games just fine.

That really sucks, for you or for anyone who has it.

*looks at the dollar amount* *looks again, more closely this time* *cleans eyes, looks again with nose to monitor* What the hell are you buying that costs that much?!

I just did.

Oh balls. Hopefully the addons I use get extension-ified before the deadline. Recently found a couple of new addons that make FF especially cool, but these implement features Vivaldi has natively right now. I'm intending to migrate completely to Vivaldi once we get a full release. Actually, I...

Got back onto Arch. Running XFCE again, decided I didn't want to bother with installing MATE programs when the ones bundled with XFCE fufill their intended function and I didn't have to hunt them down to install them. Even got GPU folding working right off the bat! Thanks for the advice...

I personally loved Arch Linux. Well, love. I can't say that I don't, it's delightfully minimalistic and I have a bit of a thing for minimalist operating environments. I didn't consider it this time around mostly because I simply didn't think of it (and tried to justify my laziness afterward)...

I know, but if I don't need to then I don't particularly want to. Less work for me, y'know?

Ubuntu MATE seems a little more fully featured for a marginal requirements increase than Xubuntu, otherwise that's no doubt what I'd be on myself. XFCE is simply superb, but I found that I preferred several MATE applications to their suggested XFCE counterparts and found that the functionality...

For the Linux nerds among us, what distro are you using, and why do you feel that it was the best choice? I'm using Ubuntu MATE (though I have been known to use Arch and variants of Debian/Ubuntu/Mint in the past) because with an Ubuntu base things didn't take hours upon hours just to set up on...

Frankly my PPD count is getting a bit ridiculous given my hardware... I was getting roughly 13k PPD under Windows 10, now I'm getting almost 19k. Is Linux seriously that much more efficient with hardware resources?

GT730. And you got it right, the initial estimate was way off. Now it's saying something like 2 days, which is much more acceptable. And the credit more than doubled to almost 30k.

Hey, it works. Or seems to at least. I will hold my judgement until it finishes a complete WU. Which it says will take ten days for 13k points.

Thanks a million, trying it out now.

"sudo find / -name GPUs.txt" returns absolutely nothing. That could be a problem. Do you have a copy you could upload somewhere or tell me how to get it from F@H themeselves?

It tells me no GPU is available and removes the slot when I try to enable it.

For some reason GPU folding isn't working for me under Linux. It doesn't see my GPU. I have opencl installed as well the latest proprietary nVidia drivers.

Hmm. It seems to be working now. Odd. It was acting up for all of yesterday and the day before.

I'm having issues downloading the software. My connection to their website is very, very slow, and when I do manage to start downloading the deb files for use with Ubuntu, it fails less than a third into it. Are they having technical issues or is this something I need to look into myself?

Well, it looks like my fears have been disproven. Still, them being able to cut you off from their key services with no warning is kind of scary... if you care at all about their services.

I have read in a few spots online that, according to the new EULA for Windows 10, MS can now search your computer for pirated software and disable it, and automatically install applications of their own choosing, etc. I don't really know if this is true, and I'm not saying that's a bad idea...

No, but I was assuming you'd have me cover the cost of shipping.

I may have to take a raincheck on that, good sir. I am as broke as broke gets. In fact I'm actually pretty sure I owe money to someone.

I would, Handruin, but I'm using a slimline case so the heatsinks on Ripjaws create clearance issues for me. My DVD drive is sitting right over the memory. Normal profile memory does work alright, but heatsinks push the envelope a bit too far.

So I'm down to 5GB RAM (2x2GB, 1x1GB)right now. I'm going to see if I can scrounge up enough money for a 2x2GB kit as while 8GB is more than enough and 6GB is just about enough, any less than that and I start to feel really cramped, esp. under Windows. Memtest froze twice at the same spot and...

Ugh. So I only found this out because Linux actually USES all my memory (for caching) eventually but when it gets to a certain amount it just locks up. Windows always keeps RAM usage kind of low for me so I've never used enough that it locks up. Time to run memtest86+ and see which module is...

Rather off topic: I can get a Phenom II x6 1090T off Ebay for about a hundred dollars. Is it worth it or do I skip the upgrade next time I have the cash?

I've never been a very big producer, mainly because my most powerful machine is small fry compared to the fleet of servers you guys can make this stuff run on. I'm happy to have pushed my PPD from 400-something to over 10k in one fell swoop. Maybe I'm just used to the noise? I have had my main...

Yes. Out here in Kentucky, there is no law that school has to wait until after labor day to start. They usually start sometime in mid-August, but technically they can let out in mid-June and make us come back three days later or something. I'm still not sure what to do. I'm supposed to call...

While I admit I have no real need for these high-density storage mediums with my current consumption (honestly, though I'd complain about the speed a single 500GB hard drive would meet my needs admirably) it is rather exciting to see this stuff being made cheaper (well, less astronomically...

I'm trying out Waterfox and while it's a bit slower to start than Firefox or Chrome (even on my SSD, which is kind of weird... it honestly feels like I'm starting it from my HDD. I need to check out where I installed it.) it feels so much more responsive with large tab workloads than either of...

Local HS decided all my early college credit count for diddly-squat, so now I have to re-do my entire junior year and senior year. And I will have to take the ACT again with the rest of the juniors. Damn. It's a small consolation that they put me in all AP/Honors classes and that if I do worse...

I don't actually have a lot to complain about, tbh. It's reasonably priced, decent enough in the speed dept., my ping times are good enough for online gaming, and there's no data cap we can realistically hit.

I would kill for 70/16 service. I am stuck on 3.3/0.4 DSL now. OTOH my ping times are insanely low -- 27ms as measured by the speed test.

This is why I never aspire to go completely high-end, as the lower end parts meet my needs and don't completely wreck my wallet in the process. Makes me glad I have no need for such amazingly fast and expensive parts.

I use Daemon Tools Lite on any version of Windows prior to 8, as they don't have iso mounting baked into Windows Explorer.

These prices make me want to curl into a ball and never buy another computer again. Christ on a bike.

So I think I've resurrected another Pentium 4 machine... In the back room of the house I'm currently staying in, my aunt had an old HP Pavillion A705W. I've been acquainted with the A700 series before... but this was a socket 478 Pentium 4-based machine, not a Socket 462 Athlon XP. It has a...

I in particular use OneDrive just because its the only thing I can get to work with literally anything with a little elbow grease. Onedrive-d on linux, while not perfect, is more than good enough for me. Everything else (that i use with any regularity) has a native application.