h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've only just got back, the double post with pause inbetween stopped when I disconnected the modem.

The bios are exactly the same except now I've disabled ethernet.

This fan could be on the wrong standoff, because the springs are completely compressed.

If it is too high I could burn the cpu, because their is no way of telling when the surfaces meet.

But in the summer it will burn for sure. The plan is to take it off, and have a look. If arctic silver can reduce the temp by 10 centigrade at the top then nothing else required.

If not a proper heatsink has to be installed.

Computer planet have even had the nerve to ask if I'm pleased with their work. But I think they are really checking to see how many of their jobs are still running.

"If it is too high I could burn the cpu, because their is no way of telling when the surfaces meet."

If there is any spring compression at all the surfaces have met.

|||||||| If it was possible to fill that in with a solid block of vertical bars, then that's what the springs are like. No gaps. The screws are on too tight for ordinary posidrive screwdrivers,(I would have to apply downward force exceeding that which is safe) and I'm waiting for some new ones with a choice of size.

Here we go again Security; somebody is trying to attack your computer, intrusion detected on port 1434. All network activity shut down for 30 minutes.

Couldn't be Windows update could it.

Still couldn't budge those screws even with philips screwdrivers, so I have got local repair man to do it, he says he is insured but insisted I buy a new heatsink, which I have ordered.

The cheapest phenom rated thermaltake v1 ax.

What is the 'GPP power limit'.? I've seen it mentioned with reference to graphics cards, and what should it be set to.

What is PhysX? this is graphics, does it need DirectX10 to function, mine says hardware not installed.

I thought maybe PhysX doesn't function because of too little power, it only gets 50 watts, if that is what GPP is.

Postmen are doing my head in again, only ever leaves a card, doesn't knock. So my heatsink I paid £6 to have delivered is back at the sorting office 15 miles away

I don't know what GPP is in this context ("Genuine People Personalities"?) but PhysX is a proprietory hardware extention for calculating "real-world physics" in 3D game environments. If it says you haven't got it, you haven't.

It's from new hardware drivers from nvidia, I found a site where it says nvidia bought PhysX for 30 million, and have them develop drivers for series 8 on.

Also I found it doesn't need the hardware to work, I got a demo, it aint half hot, hot cpu I mean.

But with the hardware it's be more than twice the framerate and the CPU (and GPU) would run much cooler.

GPP=General Purpose Port, handled by interrupt requests.

I have done some dodgy links on my site, they are buttons that light up but they disappear as-well.

Have a look

http://arismetique.eu

They work fine in Firefox.

It's probably my operating system, they are alright now, but even changed order earlier.

Have you ever used the wonderful Royal Mail; I ordered a heatsink on 24hr delivery, but true to form get a sorry you were out card, when I'm in, in fact once being pushed through the letter box with a pile of mail and junk while I was passing the door.

So I re-arranged delivery for today, the postman is caught running away, I shout HOY WHERE'S MY POST.

I said a re-delivery is scheduled for today, a 1KG parcel. He looks in his empty bag.

Don't use the Royal Mail, I have to get a taxi tomorrow to take me to the sorting office, the chap who offered to do the job will put his already considerable price up, I missed an interview and will miss a hospital appointment tomorrow.

I found out the best place to find the meaning of acronyms is my site. DRAM dynamic ram ect.

Mozillazine forums to the rescue again, they noticed my new image objects didn't have a class name, hence moved.

But that's a good trick for a switch, you could put a image of a groove underneath and onclick movement, by actually taking code out.

I reckon the posty nicked my heatsink, he looks so guilty.

Got it! After complaining to the Post Office, the police after they accused me of receiving it, the postal review, trading standards, the police complaint authority,the county council and consumer-direct; the supplier sent another heatsink by private courier, which I received very soon after.

Now all I've got to do is saw of the old one.

What is DVI-I, and is the ACER 22" monitor ok, or is Samsung 20" better.

Can anti-virus beep the motherboard, because when I get a Helkern attack I simultaneously get a single beep from the internal speaker?

"What is DVI-I, and is the ACER 22" monitor ok, or is Samsung 20" better."

It's the longer, denser, slightly squarer video connector; "Digital Video Interface". Without model numbers I can't help with the monitors. Look up the maximum resolutions and screen latency (not to be confused with refresh rate) - higher resolution is better, lower latency (measured in mS) is better.

Have you seen the 20" Acer? http://www.saverstore.com/productinfo/Product.aspx?product_id=20024681 - it's under £92. (+ carriage)

If you can stretch to £170 (+ carriage) here's a 24" very much like my two: http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=50C4

"Can anti-virus beep the motherboard, because when I get a Helkern attack I simultaneously get a single beep from the internal speaker?"

Sounds like it's momentarily using so much processor power that there's a small thermal surge, causing an alarm beep.

I can't make my mind up, I 've bookmarked the one you suggested. I want HD tv, the internet connection on this is crap and 3 say's it is going to stay that way until January, so at least I will be able to watch my dvd's over xmas in surround sound.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000RT7J5I/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A33OI6QGUT9R0J

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270305777804

Which is best out of all three

The Samsung. All three have the same resolution, but the Samsung has a 2mS latency while the other two are 5mS.

You'll only ever see the difference if you're running a really fast shoot-em-up game and have exceptional eyesight, though. The number is the time that you can see a "ghost" of an old image when a newer image is displayed. (aka Blur)