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Post #86,898 by deSitter 3/9/03 2:05:52 PM Reply	You know ..it's bad taste to go online with a problem when you haven't figured out the basic things, like seating a card. -drl
Post #86,899 by admin 3/9/03 2:07:12 PM Reply	Don't be an ass. That's what this place is for. Asking questions. If reseating the card didn't occur to him, that's hardly his fault. It's not the first thing I think of either. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #86,910 by Nightowl 3/9/03 2:48:12 PM Reply	Re: Don't be an ass. That's what this place is for. Asking questions. If reseating the card didn't occur to him, that's hardly his fault. It's not the first thing I think of either. Well, it isn't that we didn't think of it, we did. What he didn't realize is everytime he "reseated" and "rescrewed" the card in, it unseated. ;) I appreciate all your help, and had you not made the suggestions and such that you had made, he might not have tried again to put it back in, and we'd have been out the cost and use. Since you made viable suggestions, he tried, and thus.. found the problem! So in a way, you did help solve the problem and I thank you! Nightowl >8# "Honesty is the best policy, and the one I use." :)
Post #86,921 by Andrew Grygus 3/9/03 4:17:18 PM Reply	You must do on-line Linux support, right? Seating can be deceptive in a crowded PC, and people who don't do this hardware stuff all the time don't realize you should shove all the cards back down hard after tightening the screws. AGPs are particularly bad because the bracket has a lot of leverage (the slot is way back). For this reason, some motherboards have a special clip to hold down the heel of the video card. Cheap cases are the worst problem, because they are often way out of tolerance. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #86,955 by kmself 3/9/03 8:30:02 PM Reply	Foiled by this myself Friday Attempting a memory upgrade on a Dell box. Dell uses some\r\nnonstandard (two notch) DIMMs. New stuff doesn't fit. Put the old\r\nstuff back in. Box won't boot, or POST. Five beeps, repeating. \r\n\r\n Re-seat the dummy DIMMs in the two additional memory slots\r\n(I'd pulled one to look at it). Waddyaknow -- you have to properly seat\r\nthe dummy memory sticks for the box to boot. And no, I didn't catch\r\nthat, our IT guy did. \r\n --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #86,964 by Meerkat 3/9/03 9:17:33 PM Reply	Can verify Cheap cases== Bad Seating And I don't mean the mini-tower collapsed under my weight... Years ago I had a very cheap case, a 586-133 (Cyrix, I think), and a 3Dfx Voodoo card... and there was absolutely no way I could screw the thing in - the card perilously gripped the PCI socket with all the tenacity it could muster. Which, since I went to a lot of LAN parties in those days, wasn't much. Every move of the PC was accompanied by ten minutes of "can I seat the card properly?", often followed by "bugger it. PixelQuake (i.e. not GLQuake) will do..." John. Busy lad.
Post #86,969 by kmself 3/9/03 9:26:58 PM Reply	You'll just have to find... ...a better class of dates who can afford the front-row center stuff\r\nand treat you right. \r\n\r\n;-)\r\n --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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