Nooooooo! My lucky number is 666 :(

[LoachDuke]

Ok, so I buying stuff for my new system at home. The first CPU was bad, 2 motherboards were blown because of it. After a tedious week of getting that fixed it was time to play. But the mobo I bought (Asus A7V) didn't have the ISA slot to support my existing SB-64 AWE card. Dammit. I went out and got a new one. The sound card was cheap, but good; SB-Live! Value.... for $69 (Canadian).

After playing some UT with friends the old computer speakers started a permanent buzz due to the volume I had over the Thanksgiving (Canadian version) weekend.

This brings me to now. I go to Future Shop and buy a set of Altec Lansinc ATP3 speakers (which kick ass for the meager price of $119.00 Canadian, or $115.00+shipping at Chapters).
So I get home and wire up the black beauties, unplug the existing speakers, then plug in the ATP3's. I turn on the amp (located on the right satellite) and start Winamp with Bassment Jaxx "Rendez-Vous". Great sound, turn up the base...rockin' soun d. Now, I shut off winamp and get up to go to the kitchen, then hear a wierd "vzrt!" sound from the speakers....Oh no! What the hell was that sound. Turns out my SB-Live card just died! Crap.

See, my luck sucks. But I do have some once and while. I managed to find the reciept for the sound card in my messy car, so I'm taking it back for another. Whew.

Don't trade places with me, not yet anyways. Lol


BTW, since I had the computer open last night, I looked over my Duron processor, and noticed that it was not locked..whoowhoo . Time to overclock.

I got it up to a stable 103/773 (@48°C) from a 100/650. Sweet. Now I have an extra 4-5 fps in the Q3 demo. Awesome.

[eyeball]

sounds cool.. wish i could afford some good speakers plus a nice sb live card right about now..

but i'm having a weird problem with my box.. ever since i installed redhat (deleted all my partitions on my D , my D: drive has intermittently been not detecting on POST. i seriously doubt that deleting all the partitions off the hard drive has to do with it detecting on POST.... OR DOES IT?

but now when it doesnt detect (which is usually after a soft reboot), i have to shut it down completely, then boot it back up.. i usually wait about 10 secs between boots.. the D: drive works perfectly fine when the system is on, no freeze up problems at all, i even ran defrag and scandisk surface scan on it with no probs (besides it being unbearably slow). i'm guessing the mobo's just needing a nice flash upgrade, since its over a year old now, and add to that the fact that it was a hell of a time installing the maxtor on D: with a WD hard drive on C: in the first place.

ok, just thought i'd share. (=

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[This message has been edited by eyeball (edited 10-13-2000).]