Got some upgrades for Jess and a new desktop for me for at home.
Jess's upgrades:
Samsung 21.3" 214T montior
GForce 6600GT 128mb video card
Logitech Wireless Trackball
My New PC:
Samsung 21.3" 214T montior
Antec SonantaII case
Asus A8N-E
AMD 64 3700+
Gforce 7800GT CO
1 GB X 2 Ram (total 2GB)
300Gb SATA2 HD with 16MB Cache
Logitech cordless desktop MX3100
NEC DVD+/-RW
Got everything running this weekend - no issues at all. The monitors are amazing.
The Antec Case is very nice and has everything running very cool (CPU ~30-35 degrees Celcius).
We may utilize EVGA's upgrade window on Jess's video card. Its not quite enough to crank up WOW at 1600X1200 with high detail. I'll try tweaking it some more before we go that route though.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Sager 9860
Recently I've had a few issues with my Sager 9860.
While doing anything significant the laptop began to freeze or simply reboot. I didn't update any drivers so I guessed heat was the issue.
Opened it up and cleaned it out mostly corrected it (lots of crud on fans and heatsinks - yuck!).
Its really nice to work on - easy access to everything, even under the keyboard. Wow.
Still it was rebooting (although much less frequently).
Opened it up again, cleaned it more throughly, and new ArticSilver5 on the CPU and GPU. Then it didn't want to boot. Yikes!
Next day I opened it all back up, redid the thermal compound on CPU and GPU, and its back to booting. Bluetooth is now not working reliably.
Installed Mobile Monitor during this process - it reboots if the CPU hits 71 degrees celcius or so. After the first cleaning it was getting up there, but after the second its mostly staying around 50-55.
However now it reboots if it gets jarred at all (a quarter inch drop when setting it down will cause a reboot). And since the internal bluetooth isn't working (finds the BT mouse and looses it 30 seconds later) I beleive I'm going to have to send it in for service.
Kudo's to the machine though - its been used about 10 hours a day (work, school, and gaming) for over a year before any problems. We'll see how the warranty service is.
While doing anything significant the laptop began to freeze or simply reboot. I didn't update any drivers so I guessed heat was the issue.
Opened it up and cleaned it out mostly corrected it (lots of crud on fans and heatsinks - yuck!).
Its really nice to work on - easy access to everything, even under the keyboard. Wow.
Still it was rebooting (although much less frequently).
Opened it up again, cleaned it more throughly, and new ArticSilver5 on the CPU and GPU. Then it didn't want to boot. Yikes!
Next day I opened it all back up, redid the thermal compound on CPU and GPU, and its back to booting. Bluetooth is now not working reliably.
Installed Mobile Monitor during this process - it reboots if the CPU hits 71 degrees celcius or so. After the first cleaning it was getting up there, but after the second its mostly staying around 50-55.
However now it reboots if it gets jarred at all (a quarter inch drop when setting it down will cause a reboot). And since the internal bluetooth isn't working (finds the BT mouse and looses it 30 seconds later) I beleive I'm going to have to send it in for service.
Kudo's to the machine though - its been used about 10 hours a day (work, school, and gaming) for over a year before any problems. We'll see how the warranty service is.
Wilson ORMapper update
Version 4.2.1.o was released last week!http://weblogs.asp.net/pwilson/archive/2006/01/24/436388.aspx
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
CSS replacement for table with borders
I like this approach:
http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2005/12/28/2392.aspx
http://donxml.com/allthingstechie/archive/2005/12/28/2392.aspx
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