From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.
AngularMomentum ·
I bought me a new Gigabyte motherboard for my q6600, dead, put my old board back in, that was dead too...
So I bought me a phenom II x4 920 with mother board as the shop I bought the Gigabyte motherboard did not send it off for repairs (RMA), even after two weeks, and started telling me it was all my fault and lying he had made terms with me...the motherboard was in tip top shape he said when he sold it to me, although it came sealed and everything, so he could NOT know...anyhow, my girlfriend is handling him as I can get very upset with people sometimes when it comes to stuff like this, paying good money and getting service denied, I like to jump over the counter. There is only two things I really hate, the soundtrack of TItanic and liars.
Well what do you know...the new Phenom did not work as well...and why? The power supplie was blown up by the Gigabyte motherboard I bought for the Q6600...man...I should have tested that before getting that new stuff...
At least I have two very fast computers now...I am not sure yet which one to use with Cubase.
sunsynth ·
Hmm,
normally the Power supply should have
Industrial grade protection circuitry prevents damage from short-circuits, power overloads, and irregular voltages, and helps increase the life of the power supply.
...so the ps could have killed your old and the new motherboard
Here in Hamburg we had a dealer which always says the user damaged the hardware or 'there is no fault but U have to pay 75 Euro for the test' ... 😝
P.S: Just got a Cabletester and i can't beleive it: the Red Ground shorten LED is dead 🙁
btw: ordererd per ebay a handyaccu: got a three years old used one original instead a 3 x power alternative...
and send me the second PC 😉
electrogear ·
Lol I just bought a new laptop, came yesterday and I was looking forward to test driving Windows 7 on it, that was until I realised the processor didn't support the Virtualisation (for XP Compatability mode) so if I install Windows 7 I won't be able to use Synthmaker, Max/MSP, etc etc... well I won't be able to use anything really! D'oh! Wish I'd checked before hand... I'm going to have to stick with this terrible Windows Vista, or maybe put XP on it...
aliasant ·
electrogear wrote: Lol I just bought a new laptop, came yesterday and I was looking forward to test driving Windows 7 on it, that was until I realised the processor didn't support the Virtualisation (for XP Compatability mode) so if I install Windows 7 I won't be able to use Synthmaker, Max/MSP, etc etc... well I won't be able to use anything really! D'oh! Wish I'd checked before hand... I'm going to have to stick with this terrible Windows Vista, or maybe put XP on it...
Lol
no. I dont think thats a problem. Im running Win7 on a Mac and everything tuns smooth. Much much better then my old XP32
Give it a try. Youll be in OS paradise. At least compared to Vista and Xp.
electrogear ·
Nope, my Laptop Processor ('Centrino Dual Core T5670') does not support VT-x, the hardware virtualisation extension that is required for the virtual machine (For XP compatibility mode) in Windows 7. That means; I can install Windows 7, BUT, any software that is not compatible with the Windows 7 OS can't be run under the virtual machine and therefore won't work. I've already got Windows 7 up and running with my PC (from the PC I'm typing from now!) and SM works fine under XP compatability mode but will not run without it...
aliasant ·
Ooh. I thought that the virtual thing was something extra that could be installed in Win7 and that I didnt have it,
or that this was when you set your xp app to run in Compatibility mode which my SM doesnt need.
Didnt read enough as usual.
exonerate ·
electrogear wrote: Nope, my Laptop Processor ('Centrino Dual Core T5670') does not support VT-x, the hardware virtualisation extension that is required for the virtual machine (For XP compatibility mode) in Windows 7. That means; I can install Windows 7, BUT, any software that is not compatible with the Windows 7 OS can't be run under the virtual machine and therefore won't work. I've already got Windows 7 up and running with my PC (from the PC I'm typing from now!) and SM works fine under XP compatability mode but will not run without it...
Really? I'm running SM on windows 7 (64 bit) with no problems and not in compatibility mode either.
By the way I like your sig 😀 , so true. I find the idea of nationality and patriotism quite abhorrent concepts which only serve to promote an us and them mentality. But of course the people who run their countries need this or else there would be no one to fight and died for their wars.
I often hear where I live people complaint about immigrants and how there taking "all the jobs" from British people, I fear that especially during recessions people become even more nationalistic as though some how this is going to help matters. It only goes to raise the us and them mentality, as though somehow we have more right to work here and all foreigners should give up there jobs. When in reality all a British citizen can claim is "I was here first".
One world. one people 😀 😉
Cheers 😉
Exo
AngularMomentum ·
I run Windows 7 64 with SynthMaker on a ACER Turion x 2 laptop, and it runs very well. I thought that the VT is only to make a virtual machine go faster, not to not run at all? KickLab runs without a problem on that, I even did some work on that when my computer was assumed dead.
electrogear ·
exonerate wrote: Really? I'm running SM on windows 7 (64 bit) with no problems and not in compatibility mode either.
That's really weird, I've just checked and it's not running in XP mode, but I'm sure when I installed the RC about 2 months ago I had to mess about with some settings to get it working.
AngularMomentum wrote: I thought that the VT is only to make a virtual machine go faster, not to not run at all?
Ah right, maybe I've been misguided then, I will give it a shot.
Totally agree with you exo on the patriosim thing, I think it's hilarious this idea about 'pure English' there's no such thing! In the long run we're all from Africa, and even those who divided off and evolved are still 'hybrids'! The BNP talk about kicking out anyone who was not born in England, or who's ancestors settled here and had children. I think this concept is laughable because if they did this they'd have to draw a line at some point to stop themselves been thrown out!!
I think the main thing here is lack of education. Edinburgh University conducted a study into this and found that BNP voters had a lower than average IQ of 98.4 (average):
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Gle ... 4652904.jp (it's the last section in the article)
As for "taking jobs", I always mention that my job is very safe, it's generally the people who sit around on their arse all day rather than working who still have the gall to complain that people are coming and taking their jobs. I'd rather have people who are contributing to the economy than lazy fat 'native' (as they call themselves) people who want me to pay for their lifestyle through my taxes...
rant over 🙂
exonerate ·
electrogear wrote: Totally agree with you exo on the patriosim thing, I think it's hilarious this idea about 'pure English' there's no such thing! In the long run we're all from Africa, and even those who divided off and evolved are still 'hybrids'! The BNP talk about kicking out anyone who was not born in England, or who's ancestors settled here and had children. I think this concept is laughable because if they did this they'd have to draw a line at some point to stop themselves been thrown out!!
I think the main thing here is lack of education. Edinburgh University conducted a study into this and found that BNP voters had a lower than average IQ of 98.4 (average):
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Gle ... 4652904.jp (it's the last section in the article)
As for "taking jobs", I always mention that my job is very safe, it's generally the people who sit around on their arse all day rather than working who still have the gall to complain that people are coming and taking their jobs. I'd rather have people who are contributing to the economy than lazy fat 'native' (as they call themselves) people who want me to pay for their lifestyle through my taxes...
rant over 🙂
Yes I'd have to agree on the IQ thing, I have an IQ of 157, but I have practically no formal education what so ever (I never really attended school and got kicked out at age 14, never to go back). The majority of the people I come into contact with are likely to have low IQs. For instance my family (non have gone to uni ect..) and I think most would or do vote BNP.
I was actually having a conversation about immigrants with my family the other day, they were cursing polish immigrants. Saying how their taking British jobs and there bad for the economy, so I explained how immigration is good for the economy and how it can be bad. To which they go on saying about toughs that come here sponging of the state getting higher priority on council housing lists ect. To which I explain they are a tiny minority, the majority do add to our society. Not sure they were convinced. But if you ever have a conversion with a BNP supporter they will always focus on the minority completely ignoring the beneficial majority of immigrants.
Of course the British spongers are a much larger majority than foreign ones, but they get conveniently over looked, Why because the issue isn't sponging, it nationalism and patriotism with some racist undertones. ( I won't say racist out right because many are not really, there just ignorant)
Cheers 😉
Exo
aliasant ·
Agree there Exo.
Im in a similar situation and it can get a bit exhausting trying to explain why immigration is a good thing.
Ignorant people dont understand since they dont have the capacity to collect and interpret the information. So what they cant understand they fear. Its natural. What we dont understand we fear.
Education is the best weapon against these problems and that really makes me wonder why governments seems to always want to cut down on education. Instead of educating us making us better equipped to understand the world they dumb us down. They help the fear grow.
electrogear ·
My brother-in-law is a Polish immigrant. He came over at the age of 5 with the rest of his family. His dad set up building companies in the Hertford area with his own hard earned cash. His sons work 60 - 70 hour weeks building quality houses, restaurants, public buildings, etc. I would say this is the typical Polish immigrant - hard working, contributing citizens, and without contempt for others around them of different creed. The sort of low educated people who complain about them are likely to see the minority side of Polish immigrants, those who sponge and live in council houses, drinking every night and fighting, quite ironic really.
Tom7777 ·
aliasant wrote: Education is the best weapon against these problems and that really makes me wonder why governments seems to always want to cut down on education. Instead of educating us making us better equipped to understand the world they dumb us down.
True dat explains itz m8, in britain we all got 2 get da D grades now innit 2 b cool. l8rz, i iz off to listen to sum banging tunez. 😀
Edit -
Just looked at that website you link to aliasant, it seems like a really stupid idea what they are trying to do to the internet. It seems like to solve one problem they are going to just create hundreds more of them. If anything the solution would be to just get the major search engines to block all the piracy stuff because they usually put it a few pages in if not on the first page of results after typing in a apps name.
Acrobat ·
AngularMomentum wrote: There is only two things I really hate, the soundtrack of TItanic and liars.
Ah ah Titanic is really a bad thing, totally agreed!
I tend to buy pre-assembled PCs, I come from the Mac world so I don't trust too much cheap components of IBM compatible computers. When I opened my first PC I was literally scared of all that plastic. Even the smell was different.
I think that for a good PC you just need a good PC assembler, a professional one, as far as you know.
As for the political posts, I never tested my IQ, but I think immigration is good as far as it doesn't help or provoke too much globalisation. We need to control immigration to preserve differences: they are the basis of natural selection and survival of humans themselves. I don't trust those who claim that they gave work to immigrants, usually they are under-payed and taken in the ghettos for decades so usually it's not a good thing at all, especially for the first generations... 😉
MyCo ·
Shit happens 🙂
As the first Pentium 4 came out, the motherboards had the first time 2 power connectors (ATX + 4 pin Power connector). So I bought all the components for a new PC, and tried to assemble it the way I did it all the years before. Nothing happens, no CPU found. So I thought: maybe the CPU is damaged, and I sent it back to Intel. 2 Weeks later, the CPU came back with a testing report saying "everything is OK". I put it in, start the PC, same problem... So maybe the motherboard is defect, I disconnected everything and want to make a package to send the mainboard back to the manufacturer, then as I put it into the the antistatic cover I noticed: hm there is a small 4 pin connector on the left side of the CPU socket, what's that for? Well, it was the additional power supply for the CPU, and without this connection, the CPU doesn't get enough current to power up. I put everything together, and it works.
Since this day I'm reading manuals even if I think that I know how it works.
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