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Originally posted by colin:
I've seen things like that from time to time. I think it happens when the server is overloaded or crashing, and you manage to get some of the info you asked for, but not all. In that case it looks like at least the style sheet is missing. I actually have a suspicion that the style sheet for this forum is on a different server from the content.

You know more about such things than I do so I'll guess you're right, Colin. It just
mystified me a bit. I guess there's nothing I can do about it on my end then.

When I use the scroll wheel on my wireless mouse, I get a hissing/buzzing in the speakers. This hasn't happened before. Any ideas?

I remember having that issue on a computer once. I never did figure out why it happenend.

have you added new peripherals to your computer setup? or rearranged things? the physical relationship of electronic objects in space can cause interesting electromagnetic properties to arise, and the radio in the wireless mouse might be transmitting this. (actually that woeuld make more sense if the the mouse were wired and picking up signals.)

change the batteries.....

Probably just the RF from the mouse inducing current in the speaker's preamp.

ok this is pissing me off. i can't recall the correct code for changing font sizes on the WGB. i tried [ size=n], [ font size=n], [font size = "n"].... nothing going. help!

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nevermind. it isn't possible with UBBcode. html works fine.....

I thought misty had asked in this thread whether the WiFi in the DS could be turned off. I can't find the question now, but it appears, based on the instruction booklet, that if you're not using the wireless explicitly (i.e. playing a game with a multi-player component or using picochat) it isn't on, and if it is transmitting, the power light blinks. So I think you're probably OK.

I think I'm screwed.

My (self-assembled) computer keeps shutting down from overheating. It runs for about a minute and that is it. (Completely legit retail parts.)

The fan thingie - the weird starish thing the fan is on that blows air directly down onto the cpu - is friggin hot after one minute.

Don't know if it is the board, the CPU, both, or neither.

Had this thing for about two years, can't believe it. My apartment is unusually hot in the summer - that couldn't have helped - why I go out - or my jumped up power supply might not have jazzed right - who knows?

I'm now doing internet off of my old celeron XP machine, with no ATI or Nvidia card. Problems. Hopefully I don't lose internet.

I didn't want to buy anything new with all this Intel next wave stuff supposed to hit in a few months. Absolutely lousy timing. Nothing like buying equipment that will be worth close to zip in three months.

Maybe a Playstation 3 would hold me over till Vista makes progress. It has a browser (cringe) though it probably sucks. But then I read Sony is dropping the price of the new Bluray players from $600 to $500 so speculation is the PS3 with a blueray player may drop its price too. So maybe someone will actually buy it, if they can find one. Same problem though.

I can't be spending money but I need computer wheels. My widescreen display is 1/3 dark.

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Originally posted by Sartemius:
I think I'm screwed.

My (self-assembled) computer keeps shutting down from overheating. It runs for about a minute and that is it. (Completely legit retail parts.)

The fan thingie - the weird starish thing the fan is on that blows air directly down onto the cpu - is friggin hot after one minute.

Don't know if it is the board, the CPU, both, or neither.

Shouldn't matter if you have adequate cooling.

Did I understand your post to mean you've had
this computer for a while, yet this is a new
problem? If so, check that all the fans which
used to run are still running and make sure that
you haven't added any insulation (books?) or
otherwise blocked any of the air vents (time to
move those beer bottles). Did you start running
the machine with the case open?

If you're feeling somewhat reckless, I suppose
you could take the case off the chassis and
point a $15 desk fan directly at it. I knew a
guy who had done that (I believe the MB was
mounted on an old, and obviously used, pizza
box) and reported no heating problems or related
fires, but ymmv.

Great. That tells me it could really be anything. It is better to hear the truth than not, so thank you. I never checked how hot the CPU fan area normally is, so I can't say.

Coping time. I think I should get eight hours sleep, then go over everything step by step.

I've used this computer for two years - it actually worked pretty quickly and I was happy with it.

I wish I had learned more hardware back in school. It is extremely practical, useful.

I put this thing together about two years ago trying to address everything in computers I skipped over, and learned a lot. But this crash really is bad timing. A while ago, I chose software over hardware, then should have taken networking. But guess what? I did what was fun, all these programming problems like hand writing recognition off a bit matrix, or an evolution simulation of basic organisms over generations. Fun, but hard even to fake right to work. Plus it was never my strong point.

I should have learnt the business.

Oh, the first thing I did (which I thought might be a bit ridiculus, but your suggestion made me feel a lot better) was move the computer and display to table height, take the side off, and point a normal wall fan directly at the CPU. Hoping. No luck.

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I need some time on this one.

This probably isn't important but I bought both a retail box for the Intel processor and Intel MB, thinking it would avoid unknown problems. The memory then? I don't know enough about this and should keep it simple.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised this old internet celeron works okay on my DSL. Life could be a whole lot worse.

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Originally posted by Sartemius:
Great. That tells me it could really be anything. It is better to hear the truth than not, so thank you. I never checked how hot the CPU fan area normally is, so I can't say.

It can't really be anything. Seeing how it
worked for 2 years before having problems, it's
clearly that something has changed. In
hardware diagnosis, it comes down to figuring
out what that thing would be.

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Oh, the first thing I did (which I thought might be a bit ridiculus, but your suggestion made me feel a lot better) was move the computer and display to table height, take the side off, and point a normal wall fan directly at the CPU. Hoping. No luck.

That didn't work? Are you sure it's a heat
problem? If yes, just how hot is your apartment,
anyway?

As a starting point, I frequently like to just yank the case off and point a big-ass room fan straight into it. If it runs longer like that then you may actually have heat problems. If not, then you should explore power supply issues next, I suppose? Voltmeters are pretty cheap these days. Think I got the one I use now for about $20 and it's actually fairly nice.

Bic may have better ideas as he deals with this kind o' fun a lot more than me.

My apartment is too hot for about three months in the summer. It is cooler outside in August. I run to the mall and the Regal cinema to get air conditioning. I get off easier on energy bills around winter.

I wouldn't think the heat would be enough to cause a hardware error over time, but I don't know.

The computer beeps, then the diagnosic screen at least says heating shutdown, not that a lot of diagnostics don't say that by default, but I'm just being pessimistic, which isn't good.

I think double checking all the boards and wires tomorrow isn't a bad idea. Maybe it got banged with me stumbling around in the dark trying to find my own washroom in the early hours. No kidding.

I just don't want to lose my internet. I'll get my games back later.

Power supplies are the one thing that scare me. I don't recognize the name of any of the companies. I could just switch it. (That makes some sense, now that I think about it.) The one I have is just over 5 or 6 hundred, not that I know what that means, just that I should be able to hook a lot up to it. It may have gone.

I'm making myself look bad, ain't I? I don't mind. That's what I get for thinking about it half as much as I should have.

I've got another less powerful power pack. I think I may try it tomorrow.

Anyone know how to get proxies working in Opera? 'Cause I desperately wanna get Pandora back.

It's under: Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Proxy Servers.