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    Hey all:
    I have a problem with my desktop. I have replaced the PSU a few times but now have a new problem. When I turn on the power the green led on the asus motherboard glows green, but it is a dull green and I cannot power up the machine. After some time (30-60 secs or more) it turns bright green and I can power up.

    Then sometimes I am in the middle of working and the power will just reset. When the computer boots up it starts loading the drivers then reboots again and keeps doing this so it keeps rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting....you get the idea.

    Diagnosis? My dad said maybe there is a micro fracture in the motherboard-makes sense as I have driven 1000's of km's across Australia from Melbourne to Darwin with the beast in the back seat. The psu is plugged into a UPS so I don't think power supply is a problem. I thought maybe a coil or diode or something (I don't know much about electronics) is on the way out and takes a while to store power.

    I am thinking to replace the motherboard but wonder is there any way it could be the case-the reset switch is kind of stuck so I don't use it. Also I have kicked the case on more than one ocassion due to frustration and threatened the computer with more voilence. This usually results in it sulking for a while then behaving itself for a short time....then back to bad behaviour and more threatening and voilence from me....it's a viscious cycle.

    Please help or I think we will both end up in therapy.

    KJ


    If you are using an Asus motherboard My guess is it could be a motherboard problem. Not necessarily due to the distance you've travelled but may be a manufacturing defect. If possible get it replaced . . But before doing that try checking it with an alternate PSU.

    It could be that your PSU is not able to handle the load of all the system devices .. You haven't specified what all you have in your cabinet along with the Motherboard :lol:

    and what exactly is the power rating of your PSU.. Try a bigger PSU , It could be one of the reasons

    and

    If this also doesn't fix it .. you can beat the crap out of your system ^_^

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    Thanks for the reply

    Well if u want to get into shape very fast with no concerns on monetary part then u can go for liposuction.....A surgery in which the fat is removed from specific locations (which we in medical profession call love sites ex. flanks, buttocks, abdomen, inner thighs, breasts etc)

    :lol: .. I cant go for that .. Am afraid of needles.. ^_^

    If not that then u can join a wight reduction programme but u have to be very careful regarding the regimeThere have been instances where a person was 110 kg, came down to 65 kg, went up to 108 kg.
    These things occur in case of use of hormones example thyroid hormones.
    When the hormone is stopped the body goes into hypothyroid state and the person puts on fat i all the wrong sites


    Wont go for the weight reduction program either bcoz I don't find time to travel.. have to complete some work along with the weight reduction thing.

    One more thing, Fat is best reduced by a good balance b/w diet and exercise, an unnecessary starving will do no good.Excerise with appropriate protein intake is the key
    and fat obeys the rule of first come last burnt.



    This is the best possible solution but please advice on what type of Exercise will burn belly fat ? I mean should I just keep running or should i do crunches ?

    btw.. I am doing my Masters right now and have to climb stairs a lot. Will this be counted as an Exercise ?

    And Does Pepsi include any Proteins.. ? I mean I usually drink only regular sodas ? :D

  3. Posted · Edited by bluedragon (see edit history) · Report reply

    I have a primitive Dell POwerEdge2300 that i got from a friend. I remember when he he gave it to me 5 months ago we ran Windows Server 2003 but when I switched it on yesterday it could not find any boot device. After playing around with the hardrives it finally booted with Win2K which I had not seen when we ran it the first time.The problem is when I am in BIOS I see both drives but when I boot into windows only C:\ appears in Windows Explorer. I can see both drives in the device manager and they are said to be working fine how do I access the other drive which I believe was the one with Win2K3?


    Hi .. I couldnt understand your problem completely but I'll try to provide a solution that will work :lol:

    Right click on My computer and Select Manage ..
    Go to Disk Management and See if the drives are listed there ?

    If yes then probably they will be inactive/ offline.. just make them active and that should solve the problem

    ..


    I hope this helps.

    Also , If you want to boot in Win2k3. I believe it will be in the First partition of the second hard-drive. Just change the boot order of the drives in the Bios. Or select the Other Hard-disk from Boot Selection menu if your Bios has one.

    I would say. Just check your motherboard's Cell.I Guess it has died out and hence messed up the BIOS settings, bcoz you were saying it was booting up in Windows 2k3 earlier and now its booting win 2000. ^_^


    btw.. Just a thought .. Were you able to run Win 2k3 properly on this machine .. I mean i think its only 333 MHz and 128 MB of ram ??


    pls rep me if this helps .. :D

  4. Posted · Edited by bluedragon (see edit history) · Report reply

    Hi folks.
    Im currently trying to go freelance with another guy i know making websites, he is the designer, im the coder and i was viewing SM's tutorial on flex and i thought, damn! We could use that! And so my searching began.

    I really like the sleek and smoothness of the tutorial SM posted, im always making contact forms for clients and if i can provide something as jazzy as that itll really boost the business. But i hit a brick wall! I found out that the main IDE released by adobe is unsurprisingly ridiculously priced and way out of my range. So i got the SDK and thought, hum wheres the installer? Then of corse realized it was the framework to be used by another IDE and wasnt an IDE in itself, and thats where im stuck. I cant find an IDE to use!

    So if anyone knows of a good free flex IDE then link it!

    You can use Eclipse .. Most of the companies use it for this purpose only.. Its an OpenSource IDE that was built for Java but also supports many other languages. I've also used it and its quite easy. The SDK will automatically detect Eclipse and perform the install for it if it already exist on your system.

    You can download it from http://www.eclipse.org/

    I Hope you got the FLEX 3.0 and not the 2.0 because 2.0 had some issues which have been dealt with in the new version. I'd really like to ask you something, since you are also a FLEX developer, can you allow multiple user logins on a FLEX page ??

    Just a thought .. :D




    My next question is what exactly is flex? It looks like a cross between VB/actionscript and XML, i assume from various sources that it is compiled? So i would write it in the strange XML like code, have it compiled just like an ordinary flash item and then embedded in my HTML page?
    Any other advice is greatly welcomed, especially tutorials, i saw the video ones on the adobe site but i prefer text based ones so i can follow it at my own pace, and preferably a tutorial that gets in at the deep end and starts you building a form or something from the start, i get bored reading about it and learn a lot faster when im doing it :lol:

    So, any info? *looks in Saint Michael's direction*


    ok.. Flash was built previously and allowed you to build swf code that could be built in the web page . FLEX also produces the SWF code but in a slight different manner. Here the MXML (not XML) is used to bring up object and then build the SWF code. Also the ActionScript part defines the functioning of the different objects. Like Buttons, Vboxes, HBoxes, DropDowns, Lists etc.

    You should try some Video tutorials .. Lynda.com has some really good tutorials. Try getting them from somewhere ^_^

    I've used that only. Though I should tell you that I am no expert on this thing but i tried my best for answering your questions :D
    Hope this helps

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    Just a quick question.. I am too lame pls dont mind.. KPSC stands for Karnataka Public Service Commision and Kas for Karnataka Administrative Services ? right ?How was Public Administration and optional subject in a Public service Commision's Exam ??

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    Hi, I need to loose my belly fat in Four months .. I generally just sit around and have no exercise routine. But I am ready to put in something to burn this fat.. Thing is its my brother's engagement in about 8 weeks I need to loose some fat if not all of it :lol:In the long run.. I'd really appreciate if someone could help me in loosing around 4 inches of belly fat ^_^ .. Thanks P.S.. I dont know how many kgs i m overweight with , I just want to loose my Belly Fat .. Thanks

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    ohk .... I think this is all pre planned .. You read some guys theory and make it happen ppl will think otherwise :lol:.. just kidding.. Nostradamus was a great guy.. I've heard his theories .. never read them actually ( I am too lazy to read stuff) but as far as I remember he has also put up something on the End of the World theory .. I think its better if we discuss that instead of World War III.. Because by the looks of it.. I mean whats happening all around the world. . WWIII is unavoidable .. one more thing.. All of Nostradamus' work was based on Astrology and movement of stars .. I've never seen that theory go wrong.. NEVER ^_^

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    I think Assassins creed is the best RPG till date.. Haven't seen better graphics and better controls .. I've played lot of games but this one was the best .. probably the best optimized graphics .. It automatically detects your gfxCard and optimizes it.. Its also making use of the physics engine that comes built in on the new Geforce 8 and 9 series graphics card.. I think the next in the series would be even better ..

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    I have a dell inspiron 1420 laptop too... is that going to happen to me? hope not!
    Yes if computer when turn on is beeps and dont load the operating system, it must have problem with memory or video card. To test the memory, try changing slot, change the memory, to determine whether the slot is damage or your memory.



    having problem with a single Inspiron 1420 doesn't mean all the inspirons have this defect.. I've seen atleast two 1420 for around 6 months now and they are running properly without any problem.. Manufacturing defects are there with every product but that doesn't mean ppl stop buying that product .. Even Nokia has more than 30% failure rate but ppl still buy nokia phones :lol:

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    This will happen with most of the printers .. I have a Canon MFP and that also has this problem but that will happen only if I leave it for too long .. besides the Clogging problem theres a greater issue.. The printer will loose around 0.5 - 1 ml of ink every time it starts ^_^ .. and the Ink cartridge is costly .. atleast in my case since its a photo printer Anyways.. Clogging occurs if your printer is not used for around 7-8 months .. that is a rare case scenario in my case .. I buy around 3-4 cartridges every year. . so it doesnt get clogged.. I hope if you are buying a MFP your use will be similar to mine and hopefully it wont get clogged.. I'll recommend you go with Canon. . Bcoz the quality is better and plus you get loads of free software :lol:but then its your personal choice ..

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    correction miladinoski .. I dont think you are totally correct .. i mean there are ways for ASP.net to work on Linux.. I think so .. And Linux is more stable than Windows.. thats why its generally there on 90 % of the servers. Also the hardware requirement in case of Linux pc is less than that in Windows based PCs. Since server is only a piece of software that runs on the OS.. The stability of the OS decides the stability of the OS :lol:

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    I like Code:Blocks . I think it has a neat environment. Its somewhat a hybrid between old turbo 4.5 IDE and Eclipse. The IDE can also support other languages but I work majorly on C++ :). This one also Uses MingW (GCC compiler) and its one of the fastest Compiler that I've come across. Also It was a hassle free installation, Unlike Eclipse which took me like 3-4 hrs to configure and then also I couldn't run my ANSI C code .@DeMOnFiRe -- I would say you try this one out. Since you are working on MingW. You just need to download the IDE. If you've worked on Turbo C++ 3.0 IDE before and you are missing the old fashion CTRL+F9 , This one was built for you :)

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    59 views 0 replies .. Can't some one help me .. I am seriously trying to set this thing up.. I had to install Vista instead of this.. Please reply so that i can install my linux properly .. I tried SLAX and it does detect and mount my hard drives properly so i guess there must be some command to properly mount these drivesand As for the LAN , it still doesn't work neither in SLAX nor in Ubuntu.pls help

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    I totally forgot I need one with a SATA interface :).. Thanks rvalkass, I'll look for a SATA one from Lite-on. I guess they make reliable drives.Though I dont trust Samsung and LG but I've had this Samsung drive and its working properly for about 6 yrs now .. Guess this was one of a kind. It never gave me any problems like Lens misalignment etc. It reads properly. I even dropped it 2-3 times.. :)Thanks for the suggestions and the LightScribe thing is there in one of my college's comp. I think I'll try burning a label :D

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    Thanks for all the replies.. The drive is quite new.. I bought it only 4 months back.. And its a Seagate , so a Five year warranty is there , But I want to know whether there are actually bad sectors on the drive or not. Bcoz I tried the SeaTool that Seagate offers and there is some Short DST and Long DST test. First when I tried Short DST it failed and suggested I run Long DST. So I tried Long DST and it showed some 22 errors. It was taking long to I went for a snack and when I returned it was showing Long DST passed after fixing the erros. Now When I tried Short DST it failed again. I want to know why it happened to this drive.. I've seen people run drives for 20yrs without a bad sector and this one failed in only 4 months.. Is this bcoz Seagate has reduced quality ??NEways.. I'll try to find some of the Above Listed tools@pedro-Kun -- I couldn't find Hiren's Boot Disk.. I was looking for it on google but i couldn't find a proper one. if you would be kind enough to provide a link that would be great . thanks@Salmangkero -- I tried running that but it failed one time and Second time it gave some files unreadable error.. I didn't try it the third time bcoz it was deleting too many file.. and Oh.. It was the one that showed me 12KB in bad sectors the first time, just after failing.P.S. DST is short for Drive self Test.

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    My first PC was an Osborne 1
    This was considered the first ever portable computer. It was so heavy because it had a 5" monochrome CRT screen built into it and a keyboard that flapped down from the front.

    CPU = 4.0 MHz
    64K RAM
    dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives

    It didn't have a hard drive so I booted into Dos 3.0 using a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk.
    I couldn't do much with it so eventially I pulled it apart just to see what was inside :)

    I even found it on wikipedia:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1

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    This is seriously nice.. How old is this comp now ?

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    I am considering buying a new DVD Writer for My system. Since My new System has only ONE IDE cable support so I cant add More than two IDE drives. I am thinking of removing my Old DVD ROM and put in a new DVD writerKindly suggest me a good DVD writer that has the maximum write capabilities and plus I want to know what Light-Scribe is exactly ? I mean how does it work ?? Also I want to know is there a DVD writer that has capability to write beyond 16x properly ? I have seen some with 20x write capabilities

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    Hi,I need a flash video recorder where you can record video from a webcam and then convert it in avi or wmv. It needs to very clear and of high quality.
    It needs to work with RTMP streaming server.
    Send me an email if you have one or can create me one to Shirley(at)globologic(dot)com.



    I dont think thats possible. A streaming server wont be able to do that through a flash interface.. Try using a VC++ instead or use C# if you can

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    Hi ShadowX, I am a Flash Developer myself :) I starting working with flash when I was fourteen .. and Flash was a cool thing then.. Started working with Version 4.0 .. Now I guess the latest is CS3. Anyways. I dont want to disappoint you but Flash wont get you anywhere .. I'll suggest you move on and try working with FLEX. FLEX has been released under open source .. If i remember correctly its FLEX 3.0. FLEX uses the same FLASH PLAYER as the FLASH does but is much more COOL :) Since FLEX uses ActionScripting 3.0 and MXML to produce Rich Internet Application. Ofcourse you wont be able to produce those cool Animations but you can work on this if you were going to work on it from Web point of view.FLEX is really Nice all u'll be needing is Eclipse and FLEX 3.0 both are free softwares and legally downloadable in most of the organizations including schools :Dand one more thing.. If you can work on FLEX you can always work on FLASH since the Actionscript in both is same but its not always the other way round. If you need any more help , I'll be more than happy.. You can pm me if you want ..

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