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shiny_red_cobra
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Those temperatures are not that high, even if it's idle. Notebooks in general have terrible cooling because there's no space for serious fans.
shiny_red_cobra
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Can you run hardware monitor and post a screenshot of it here? I'm curious to see what it says.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from Squelch :I find it hard to agree with you here. If you have driven your car, or been involved in such a serious accident that you go so far "out of bounds", that really is a retirement however you look at it.

You can always return to the pit.

In that case, the car should be returned to the pits, rather than being "retired" endlessly.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from Scawen :FIX : Endless auto car reset after falling into the underworld

Scawen, I'm kinda disappointed with this fix, now it just says "RETIRED". What am I supposed to do when that happens? If i hit reset again, it says retired again...Why can't you make it reset the car to the nearest solid point on the track? That retired message is really not a fix, it's just a pointless workaround I'm afraid.
shiny_red_cobra
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I don't understand what exactly it is you wanna do...you want to run at 1600x900 on your external monitor? If that's the case then forget about it, it's not possible. Do you want to run the monitor at 1024x768 and the laptop at 1600x900? That's possible, just stretch your desktop over both of them. Although it won't look very good.
shiny_red_cobra
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Download the memtest86+ bootable iso, boot from it, run the test till the end and make sure there are no errors.
shiny_red_cobra
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ATI drivers have been getting worse and worse unfortunately. Try the latest (11.4), they just came out and they might help. Make sure you have your chipset drivers installed (this is not as important these days as it used to be a few years ago). Turn down your 3D settings a bit. Leave your case open when you're gaming. Run memtest86+. These are all my suggestions, as it's very hard to find the exact cause of the ati2dvag BSOD. I get it too now and then, but then again my 4870 is at 78C all the time...
shiny_red_cobra
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That's funny, I thought Kid was permabanned.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from Scawen :Thanks, I'll have a look to see if that can be updated in the incompatible version. I think there will first be a compatible version, hopefully on Friday, then I'll get on with the few incompatible fixes and updates.

I raised this point (autocross start lights have a fixed delay) a long time ago, in the bugs section I think, and was told by an admin (or it might have been Victor) that it was designed that way on purpose because you're racing against the clock (or something along those lines).
shiny_red_cobra
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I really don't think he should be attempting to flash his video card's BIOS. Don't do it.
shiny_red_cobra
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Yea, we'll get accused of animal troll cruelty
shiny_red_cobra
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...just a lack of good drivers.
shiny_red_cobra
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Really? My first reaction was to ask how he's driving at fern bay.
shiny_red_cobra
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Do you have one of those little speaker things attached to your motherboard? Does it make any beeps when you turn it on? Have you tried booting without video card and hard drives and cd drives? Just boot with CPU and RAM attached to the motherboard, see if it beeps or something.
shiny_red_cobra
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:feedtroll
shiny_red_cobra
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Seriously hazaky, go and do some (a lot of) reading up on video cards. Come back when you actually know what you're talking about. Your posts are just not making any sense anymore.

The 6850 and 6870 are in the same generation, so I don't know what you're on about. We're talking about rebranding between different generations of cards. Perhaps I should define rebranding so you know what I mean: it's using the same GPU chip/architecture year after year and simply adding more RAM to it and overclocking it a little, and calling it a whole new card.
shiny_red_cobra
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Ummm it WAS a bad thing, one of the main reasons I don't live there anymore. You shouldn't joke about that.
shiny_red_cobra
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Why not a 3650 AGP?
shiny_red_cobra
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I've said this before and I'll say it again, never upgrade such an old system. You won't be happy with the results. Save your money and buy a new system. Any dual core system will beat the shit out of a single core P4.
shiny_red_cobra
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Get one of these USB fridges:

shiny_red_cobra
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You can buy a floppy disk drive for that kind of money...
shiny_red_cobra
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He meant it's shit compared to today's top of the line cards. Keep up guys.
shiny_red_cobra
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I don't understand what you're on about hazaky, shotglass is correct. The GTS250 is just a rebranded 8800. That is a fact. Look at this pic, look at the release dates, the process, number of transistors, and so on. It's the same ****ing chip. Get YOUR facts straight. Sure it has higher clock speeds and more RAM which accounts for the better performance, but that's the only difference. The GPU is exactly the same. The 8800 series was amazing, 3 years ago. Today they have become a mid-range lineup, which says a lot about how good they were if they're still using them today.

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shiny_red_cobra
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Put it on ebay, start it off at $0.01 and let it run for a week. I saw an e6400 at over $37 just now, so you'll get something for it. But the longer you keep it, the more value it loses.
shiny_red_cobra
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lol you don't need a 650W power supply for that system, 400W is more than enough. Also 18.5" monitor? I didn't know they still made them that small....
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