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| Re: Another Dumb Q [message #89215 is a reply to message #89214] |
Thu, 30 August 2007 09:00   |
Tom Bruhl
Messages: 1368
Registered: June 2007
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line.org> wrote:
>>>>On 10 Oct 2007 10:06:42 +1000, "chuck duffy" <c@c.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Sprinkle debugprints throughout your code, then pick up the output with
>>>sysinternals
>>>>>debugview, available at www.sysinternals.com
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>>>>Dude! WTF did you just say???? And is that legal here in the USA???
>>>
>>>No kidding... last time I sprinkled debugprints anywhere it
>>>cost me a $500 fine & a day in jail.
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>>>:D
>>>
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>Woke up this morning and came upstairs to my office where I was met with a
post screen saying that my system drive was nowhere to be found. First of
all, I hadn't rebooted my machine before I went to bed so I suspected
something disastrous right there. Anyway, I pulled the system drive and put
in in my other backup office computer. It worked (both mobos are VIA
chipset) so I started scratching around here looking for another mobo with a
VIA chipset so I could avoid having to jump through a bunch of hoops and I
found an old ASUS A8V-DLX here that I has scorched pretty good hotswapping
PCI cards in a while back. I had figured it was toast but I figured I'd
give it a try. It's just a bit blackened around the edges of a couple of the
slots. I poked around until I found my old AMD dualcore 4400 and heatsink
that I had replaced with the Opteron 185, snagged a couple of PC 2700 RAM
sticks out of my old Paris 333 MHZ mobo, dropped them in the (400 MHZ rated)
RAM slots, installed the CPU, loaded the AGP card from the dead computer and
tested it. All the PCI slots worked but the onboard NIC and audio controller
was toast so I dropped an old Intel Gigabyte NIC card and a Soundblaster in
it and I'm good as new.
I am typing this on the new frankencomp.
;o)"hot swap" and "PCI cards" are two phrases that should never appear in
the same sentence... ;-)
David.
DJ wrote:
> Woke up this morning and came upstairs to my office where I was met with a
> post screen saying that my system drive was nowhere to be found. First of
> all, I hadn't rebooted my machine before I went to bed so I suspected
> something disastrous right there. Anyway, I pulled the system drive and put
> in in my other backup office computer. It worked (both mobos are VIA
> chipset) so I started scratching around here looking for another mobo with a
> VIA chipset so I could avoid having to jump through a bunch of hoops and I
> found an old ASUS A8V-DLX here that I has scorched pretty good hotswa
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