I would do a search on the guys handle from the creative forum.... should eventually pull up some links. According to his letter the crystallizer is in fact 100% SOFTWARE based - he said he even got it to work on non creative cards so you shouldn't have any problem on sblive 5.1 if you manage...
So you are saying even though *the actual box* SAYS it has these features and even has a sticker ON THE BOX saying "Vista compatible" it is OK for the drivers to intentionally be written to break Vista compaitiblity and disable the features Creative advertises it supports? Features that people...
I think the point is, however, that they wouldn't WANT his code. If you read through his response letter he says that he found evidence they actually WROTE CODE to DISABLE features intentionally. The fact is creative has been intentionally disabling features on vista drivers in order to force...
Is anyone else reading all the tech news site articles about creative labs demanding that a person who released working drivers for Creative cards under Vista stop at once?
I am honestly surprised at the amount of outrage over this.... just because I am surprised people are just figuring this...
I am surprised no one has mentioned Samsung. The Samsung F1 is faster than all other 7200rpm drives right now in virtually all respects. Also if you read comments about it on Newegg and other sites you see MUCH fewer negative comments about drive failures vs positive comments compared to the...
Advantages are seek times basically don't exist anymore. SSD destroys the raptor on seek times.
No risk of mechanical failure.
Using the SSD as the primary drive also will cut the work load on the mechanical drive(s) which in turn increases that drives life span.
At this point in...
The point is $10 is nothing to a company like wal-mart. Why lose a customer over $10? I left a basket full of stuff for them to take back to the floor. I had my debit card IN HAND ready to pay after they credited me my $10. They lost more money than they saved.
Look I don't want everyone to think I'm an ass I just don't think they handled the situation well and I didn't want to let them screw me out of my money. I normally am not like that to retail workers, but normally they are respectful.
No but I am a customer and he shouldn't have been trying to interupt when I was trying to talk to the manager above him. How is that appropriate at all? No wonder customer service is so bad these days. Everyone seems to think that's completely ok.
I told him not to talk because I was trying to talk to the senior manager not the 20 year old low level manager who's opinion didn't matter and kept trying to tell me what he thought.
Even if their system said it was $20 they could have at least offered some good customer service and credited me the $10. More than likely one of their employees screwed up.
And his attitude telling me he'll "say anything he wants" was also unacceptable. Especially after I told him not to talk.
Wal-mart has the worst service ever and employees that just don't care.
I was doing christmas shopping today (btw they had far fewer lanes open than needed for such a busy day) and I went to the register to pay. After waiting in line for 10 mins I handed the cashier my $30 gift card my...
I am almost embarassed to ask, but can anyone recommend a good chair for an overweight person? I am seriously overweight (250lbs 5' 11" tall) and my last chair literally "snapped" and sent me to the ground.
I basically just need a good office chair that is well built and can support me.
Can anyone confirm for certain what panel the BenQ FP241W uses? On the LCD buyers guide here it says A-MVA, but I have also read articles saying it is P-MVA. Does this monitor use two different panels depending on which one you get maybe?
I am somewhat confused about Dolby Digital and what you need in order to have it.
If you have a C-media CMI8788 based sound card that has dolby "decoding" and 5.1 speakers does that mean you can listen to Dolby Digital sound with any 5.1 speakers? And with any 5.1 speakers will it play the...
Hi all,
Ok as stupid as this sounds I have never had anything more than 2.0 speakers, but have always had a high end sound card.
Right now I have an X-fi.... and I have decided to put it to use by getting speakers for it. I will mostly use it for games, music, and rarely movies.
I have...
Hi all,
I have been looking for bluetooth enabled printers. Seems like few exist.
The most reasonably priced one I have found is the Epson rx595.
My question is this - is bluetooth for printers limited only to printing? For example, the rx595 is an all in one. Am I going to be able...
Hi all,
I have two pocket PCs. One of them is running Windows mobile 5 and the other Windows mobile 6 professional. (Well I just bought the Mobile 6 one today)
They are both designed to be used on the sprint network, and the Windows mobile 5 one is currently setup and being used on the...
So what's happened with the talk of next gen hard drives? A few months ago there were tons of articles coming out about flash memory based drives and hybrid drives. Now there isn't really anymore talk about them.
I just had another drive fail today and I can't wait for something more...
Can anyone recommend a sound card that is decent other than a Creative one?
I am sick of creative issues. If it is not crackling sound, no drivers, drivers that half work, or BSODs it's something else. Now my sound randomly goes out for periods of up to an hour unless I reboot. I have just...
Are you using Vista lektrix? I had NO problems ever with my EVGA 7900GT under XP, but as soon as I installed vista I had video artifacts like crazy. I was NOT able to solve the issue with anything I tried. I think it is a video driver issue, (since the problem doesn't happen in XP) but I...
Can anyone recommend good (Free) software for using SMART capabilities on a hard drive to discover if the drive is going to die? I am trying to diagnose a problem that I *think* may be due to a bad drive, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for any help!
Wow thank you so much for the suggestion! This was driving me crazy. The Nhancer utility worked when I forced off all FSAA and anio filtering using it.
Apparently the Nvidia control panel doesn't fully turn everything off even when you select "off" for everything...
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to truly disable anio filtering and FSAA on a Geforce 8800 running on Windows Vista X64 with the newest drivers?
I have disabled them in the Nvidia control panel, but I am getting massive gridlines on Final Fantasy 7. These lines only occur when FSAA and...
Can anyone recommend a good reliable esata external hard drive enclosure? I bought one and ended up killing two hard drives before I realized the thing got so hot I'm surprised it didn't catch on fire.
Hey everyone,
I have read about hybrid drives being released recently for notebooks but haven't been able to find much info on regular 3.5 drives for desktop PCs. Does anyone know when they are coming out? Any good preview articles about them? They sound very interesting from the info I...
It is rediculous. I also can confirm the issue does not exist on my WinXP dual boot.
Vista is saying it is copying at less than 500kb/sec. What a joke. And this is two different drives not even the same drive, it should be WAY WAY faster.
I am trying to copy 30 gigabytes from one SATA drive to another SATA drive. These are two seperate drives not even the same drive. I am using an MSI P6N system board with 3gigs of RAM and a core 2 duo. I am using Windows Vista. I am using the SATA ports on the system board. No add-in card...
Does anyone know if it is safe to use a 4PIN power connector on an 8-pin power socket on a system board? Specifically the MSI P6N for core 2 duo.
Thanks
I think I'm going to just RMA (should still be in warranty) it and sell it and get a new one. Really the reason I was flashing it was to try and resolve weird issues.
For instance, everytime I tried to hibernate it would hibernate and then power back on a minute later by its self. (now it...
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