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[Tech News] Google Demos its OS

DarkKrucifix7 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:11 GMT

+ YouTube Video
ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.

In case the YT tags don't work: YouTube - Google Chrome OS Demo

Looks like something I'd try out.

[Help!] How can I move all the text messages from one cellphone to another?

janneluu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:38 GMT

Well,I�ve got a new cellphone, HTC Mega.And I have valuable text messages in my old mobile phone,how can move it to the new one?

A good Blu-Ray player

Billz1282 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:42:17 GMT

I'm looking for a good Blu-Ray player. I currently have a Sony BDP-S300 and yes, while it plays Blu-Ray discs, it takes ages to load a disc (Sony, when the loading bar is at the end, the disc should play, it shouldn't have to do a loading bar several times, lol :p ), its huge, and it doesn't come with BD-Live.

I got it from ebay for �75. Its my own damn fault for not doing research on the model before buying.

So, to reiterate. Looking for a quick loading Blu-Ray player, must play most formats, preferably region-free and with BD-Live. Same applies for a possible Blu-Ray PC drive.

Well?

(PS: Do I need anything extra for a Blu-Ray PC drive? Like some kind of HD converter or something? I don't have a clue what is needed for a Blu-Ray PC drive).

Computer Freezing

Graeme — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:24 GMT

Hello techies,

Well, it seemed that my notebook started acting strange ever since yesterday... without a reason at all. It keeps freezing up every once in a while and it's quite annoying, especially when I try to play a game, or browse the forums. It's even freezing up while I'm writing this thread at the moment. So, I've been wondering; are there any other possible solutions beside reinstalling Windows? I've never overclocked my GPU (or anything, at all), my drivers are fully up-to-date and my power supply does deliver enough Voltage to prevent freeze-ups, as far as I'm aware. I've also did several virus scans as well as registry and disk defrags.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, because this is seriously annoying the hell out of me.

Computer Showoff

helloclan13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:35 GMT

Here is my pc:

Spoiler:

Also watch: YouTube - My Gaming Room 2009 April

Memory Wrong???

-=SnipeR=- — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:40:21 GMT

Iv got 4GB of OCZ Platium PC2-8500, but on cpu-z its saying PC2-6400? have a been had or somthing?

Thanks

[Help!] keyboard isn' working

America! — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:39 GMT

my keyboard isn't working. the key's in Question are:

Q w r e t y L. tab, L. Shif.

I had to insert the letters into a word doc and copy them form there.

I thought I was a pretty dirty programmer...

eezstreet — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:23:45 GMT

...but Blizzard takes the cake.
The Phrozen Keep • View topic - v1.10-v1.11b Bugs Collection

Nearly 60 bugs in Diablo 2, and many more.

Some of these are pretty retarded too, like they royally screwed up a portion of vendor code simply because they misspelled a certain NPC's name :rolleyes: (*cough* Hratli, not Hralti)

[Help!] MAJOR Computer Porblem

||G|| — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:56 GMT

This is a new thread related to an older thread of mine here, http://forums.filefront.com/tech-dis...ard-fried.html

I'm begining to get extremly frustrated, unpatient and my computer will soon be in flames and in pieces all over the road. We all thought my problem was solved (please check in link posted above) but it's back. It's doing the exact same thing as before, starting on for a second then going blank. But this time it actually started up once and came of up a pop-up saying "Your computer could not start, checking for solutions". That clearly did shit all and my problem still continues. I've noticed a new thing aswell, when the screen goes blank my fan (not sure which one, video, motherboard, or PS fan) goes extremly loud.

Please can someone help me solve this problem! I really want to get back to playing CoD: MW2!
BTW: I highly, highly reccommend to everyone, never buy a Gateway computer. Once I fix this problem I'm getting rid of mine straight away and starting brand new.

[Help!] Rundll32 error

ikyojo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:53:13 GMT

I've had graphics card problems for a long time but Ive choose to ignore them but i fixed one recently there was an updated bios for all gigabyte GTX200 series as far as i know for a problem in vista not showing out put on dvi nearly 99% of the time. The new problem i have and this is with the newest drivers from nvidia is i get a rundll32 error nearly every time i log on and two of them always two. Then when i play a game that doesn't use DirectX say Urban terror i will get it constantly. Then last but not least when i quit a DirectX game sometimes not all the time it will happen dose anyone know why and how to fix this i'm sick of not being able to play half of my games due to this.:mad:

[Tech News] New Hydra Bench tests @ PC Perspective.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:02:55 GMT

PC Perspective - Lucid HYDRA 200 Multi-GPU Technology Performance Preview

While this technology is a bit revolutionary as mentioned in the article, it's also looking to be a bit of a novelty vs practical. I would wager to guess most considering multi GPU even as an upgrade path vs initial setup are going to want to go with same GPU vs dissimilar ones to get the best performance, what gamer wouldn't? It's not hard even a yr or two after building to find the same GPU you started with, and at an even better price. The exception would be someone starting out with a GPU that is already a gen old or more, and that's not that common in gaming enthusiast rigs that use multi GPU. Smart gaming rig builders would opt to avoid that scenario.

This would take away the primary "advantage" of Hydra technology, and even that so called advantage is not showing good scaling. You add that to the fact that performance is hit and miss as far as games that play better or worse than SLI/Crossfire even with similar GPUs, and what you have is near equal performing technology for all intents and purposes at the disadvantage of being already WAY behind on title support. Don't get me wrong, initially I was optimistic that games wouldn't have to be compatible with this tech and that even dissimilar GPUs would scale well, but that appears not to be the case. And quite frankly, they almost NEED that to be the case to compete getting started so late in the multi GPU game.

I was starting to get skeptical when I saw that MSI's "flagship" Big Bang gaming MB was a P55 vs X58. Sorry if that sounds pessimistic. I really wanted to like, no LOVE this tech, but the realist in me says it's not looking what it's cracked up to be. It's no doubt more practical a project than Nvidia's PhysX, but I'm not sure it will be best used in gaming. The end of the article is where it really started sounding practical IMHO. So, in summary I now see why Nvidia and ATI did not pursue marketing scaling with dissimilar GPUs or even profiles other than split or alternating frame rendering (w/ the exception of ATI's Supertiling). Looks like they've already done their homework and saw it as a waste of time.

A better iphone web browser?

NiteStryker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:09:04 GMT

Is there a better iphone web browser than the crappy safari one?

[Advice] How is this computer for some mediocre gaming?

Skanker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:11:04 GMT

My friend is depending on me to get him a new computer.

All I want to know is will "he" be able to play games like Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Empire: Total War, and games along those lines, maxed out on graphics on a widescreen computer? 1600x1000 I think or something along those lines.

I have a BFG 8600GT OC 512mb.

The question in simplified form would be would this computer do him just as good or better than than my 8600?

Note: Would I need to buy him a cooling system to run it equivatlently to my 8600GT (assuming it is just as good or better than my 8600)

[Advice] Why the MASSIVE price difference in these two hard drives?

LaughingCheese — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:19:13 GMT

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!

They seem virtually the same, but the cheaper one has more cache, and has the same capacity!

I don't get it?!

Which would you recommend, or is it a no brainer here? :p

Best free firewall

MoonJelly — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:39:58 GMT

I use Avira AntiVirus Free, and its been going well. I was wondering what you guys would recommend for a free firewall, better than Windows firewall. Once thats real secure and flexible.

Thank you.