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Gold Member Username: Van_man
Boston South,
MA
Post Number: 4793
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Thursday, May 07, 2009 - 09:25 pm: |
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well, as many of you dont know or care, my pc died.
So I just picked this up. Should be here next week.
HP A6700Y Desktop 1.8Ghz 500GB 4GB AMD QUAD CORE X4
My old pc started shutting off randomly, So i thought it was the PS, So I took it out and swapped it. still no joy. So i took th heatsink off to clean it, and the chip came with it..so whatever, i proceded to wash it off in the sink, being caefull not to get the chip wet, when it falls off the heat sink into the sink. whatever, So i stick it back in, it fitghts me a litle, turn it on and nothing...btw, the heat sink fan also got the sink treatment, so its flinging water around for a few before it dies too. So i take the fan, heatsink and chip out again, and noticed that I installed the chip upside down. I bent a few of the chip prongs in the process. So I get the tweezers and get them straight. reinstall every thing. great starts working like normal. Then shuts off. So I figure now its a OS prob. Do a reformatt on C, Start to rload windows and it would never finish. got about 1/3 done then it would shut off. So I bought a new one. |
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Diamond Member Username: Wingmanalive
Www.stainles...
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Post Number: 20401
Registered: Jun-06
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| Posted on Thursday, May 07, 2009 - 09:27 pm: |
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I want a mac. Pricey but worth it I'm told. |
Gold Member Username: Van_man
Boston South,
MA
Post Number: 4795
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Thursday, May 07, 2009 - 09:32 pm: |
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I looked and played with the macs, but i just couldnt get the feel for it. I sopose if I got one I would like it just fine.
My biggest worry is running the MS Vista. If I dont like it, I will upgrade/downgrade to XP |
Gold Member Username: Rideredder
Cornell,
IL
USA
Post Number: 1609
Registered: Sep-05
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 01:15 am: |
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I hate Vista. I have it on my laptop. When I customized it there wasn't an option between XP and Vista. I wish I knew how to put XP on it. |
Platinum Member Username: Nd4spd18
Philadelphia,
PA
Post Number: 10381
Registered: Jul-06
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 10:47 am: |
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How the hell do you install a CPU upside down. really. |
Gold Member Username: Pitbullguy
The Chicago area
Post Number: 3850
Registered: Oct-06
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 02:32 pm: |
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Cause he's human and it was an honest mistake? |
Gold Member Username: Big_edge_head
Milwaukee,
WI
Post Number: 3810
Registered: Mar-07
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 03:54 pm: |
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I like Vista a hell of a lot more than XP. Haven't had any problems running Vista yet, and I've had it for over a year. |
Diamond Member Username: Wingmanalive
Www.stainles...
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Post Number: 20411
Registered: Jun-06
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 04:36 pm: |
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Vista is a distant cousin to AOL. |
Gold Member Username: Mrskullz1
Brooklyn, New York
Post Number: 1137
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Friday, May 08, 2009 - 07:47 pm: |
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lol...vista blows....i m using windows 7 (its trial but its a souped up trial from torrents) and i lub it. Its almost like windows xp and windows vista got together one night and had a baby(windows 7!).
btw...that quadcore is gonna be awesome. get a blu ray player - good vid card (if it dnt alrdy have one)- hook it to tv = awesomeness. |
Silver Member Username: Mpinto19k
Dallas/Fort Hood,
Tx
Post Number: 146
Registered: Feb-09
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| Posted on Saturday, May 09, 2009 - 09:27 pm: |
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There's a program you can get to where you can run XP on your mac my friend has it, its really sweet. Thats what I want to do eventually. |
Gold Member Username: Skibum12189
Cleveland
Post Number: 3173
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2009 - 02:06 am: |
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macbook pro's can run windows better than most pc's can |
Platinum Member Username: Nd4spd18
Philadelphia,
PA
Post Number: 10388
Registered: Jul-06
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| Posted on Sunday, May 10, 2009 - 10:39 pm: |
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Parallels. Runs windows virtually on OSX, we use it at work. Not to much of a performance hit either, it suprised me.
I'd still prefer to just make a dual boot mac though. If I could ever justify the cost of apple hardware that is. |
Gold Member Username: Freezeman_7
FOR SALE,
BNIB RD AUDI...
USA
Post Number: 2487
Registered: May-06
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| Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 03:36 pm: |
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i love my imac and macbook pro. both have leopard os. |
Gold Member Username: Van_man
Boston South,
MA
Post Number: 4807
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 - 04:06 pm: |
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so...I hooked it up thursday... Have had nothing but issues with it. I am sending it back today for a refund. The hard drive is messed up, while doing a diagnostics, it would go to 98 percent, drop back tp 70, do that 3 times then it would cancell.
Also I has norton on it. Ive got a 30 day trial version of it..Its expirded after 2-3 days? Not that I wanted it..but it seems to cause issues with Vista.
btw, I like vista so far, Only thing is the font size is screwy, It wont adjust to a normal size. Its either super small or gigantic. Maybe a new flat sceen or 2 will fix that as this moniter may be out dated.
Lastly, I blame all my PC problems on Snow for hooking my up with Utorrent and btjunkie. |
Silver Member Username: Wolf_hound
Phoenix,
AZ
Post Number: 893
Registered: Sep-05
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| Posted on Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 02:42 am: |
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snows an @ss wipe. |
Gold Member Username: Snowball123
West Allis,
WI
Post Number: 2714
Registered: Oct-07
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| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 05:07 pm: |
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i didnt make you download it. You just buy shi*ty computers. |
Gold Member Username: Van_man
Boston South,
MA
Post Number: 4808
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 09:48 pm: |
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At least mine dont have Parental locks... |
Gold Member Username: Pitbullguy
The Chicago area
Post Number: 3858
Registered: Oct-06
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| Posted on Monday, May 18, 2009 - 10:27 pm: |
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snowned. |
Silver Member Username: Wolf_hound
Phoenix,
AZ
Post Number: 896
Registered: Sep-05
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| Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 02:15 am: |
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rofl |
Gold Member Username: Van_man
Boston South,
MA
Post Number: 4832
Registered: Mar-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 08:12 pm: |
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So, Running the new one again. So far so good. Also Aol Beta works well with vista. Now to reload all the crap.
I was really getting sick of looking at this.
It was like perpetual PC freeze for weeks.
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Gold Member Username: Big_edge_head
Milwaukee,
WI
Post Number: 3850
Registered: Mar-07
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| Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 10:42 pm: |
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lol |
