Funny problem & results.

[Bill69]

PSU

Hi GP 38-2,

I have exactly the same power leads plugged in now as I had the last time I tried this card, and it works now. The only thing that has changed since last time I tried it is, two Sata drives added which use a different power channel from the IDE drives. BTW watts do have a relationship with amps. If you have 230v going in and the power supply is rated at 600 watts there must be a fixed number of amps comming out. I can't remember the acctual formula atm. there are acctually two steps to work it out. you have to know the resistance and the amps to get the wattage and you have to know the voltage and the amps to get the resistance. That's if my memory serves me right. E=volts over I=amps times R=resistance thats one of the formulae but can't remember the other one.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[OldEric]

Watts = Volts x Amps for DC lines. For AC this formula will be near enough.

Eric

 

[Bill69]

Power

Hi OldEric,

Yes that's it. My memory is failing slightly, It's such a long time since I used these calcs.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[johnwhelan]

Hi GP 38-2,

I have exactly the same power leads plugged in now as I had the last time I tried this card, and it works now. The only thing that has changed since last time I tried it is, two Sata drives added which use a different power channel from the IDE drives. BTW watts do have a relationship with amps. If you have 230v going in and the power supply is rated at 600 watts there must be a fixed number of amps comming out. I can't remember the acctual formula atm. there are acctually two steps to work it out. you have to know the resistance and the amps to get the wattage and you have to know the voltage and the amps to get the resistance. That's if my memory serves me right. E=volts over I=amps times R=resistance thats one of the formulae but can't remember the other one.

Cheers,
Bill69

Some of the newer power supplies split the power over a number of cables. Although you get 600 watts over all the cables it is technically possible to not have enough amps available over two particular connectors. It's to do with Intel's power supply guidelines.

Cheerio John

 

[Kelly88]

I read this and a few words came to mind:
Hacking. Viruses. Registry hive. System restore. Vista sucks. Video card drivers. Monitor. Vista is awful.

Any one of those. Apart from the Vista comments. They are from past experience. (My Aunt bought a new Acer laptop with Vista preinstalled and it takes longer to boot than my four year old one running XP does.)

Vista is known to be slower that XP this is due to all the system checking it does all the time

the problem is Windows and Microsoft
instead of keep rehashing the old ex MsDos core they need to start again from scratch and build a new sysytem completly

but they will not do this as it would be finacialy suicidal

 

[GP_38-2]

still going through Physics

Anyways, who knows. Technology does some funky things sometimes.
Hope it keeps working for ya

 

[ZapperJet]

but they will not do this as it would be finacialy suicidal

For a company that makes 40 billion dollars annually at our expense, I highly doubt that...

Cheers,
John

 

[johnwhelan]

Vista is known to be slower that XP this is due to all the system checking it does all the time

the problem is Windows and Microsoft
instead of keep rehashing the old ex MsDos core they need to start again from scratch and build a new sysytem completly

but they will not do this as it would be finacialy suicidal

Strangely enough the old MS-dos core is not part of the Windows NT family. The NT range was developed by some one new they brought in from Digital and was based on the same design features as the Multics operating system. The NT operating system is the only example I can think of an operating system built from scratch recently, and Vista was a complete rewrite so they knew the code was secure.

Cheerio John

 

[Bill69]

Red Overlay

Hi All,

My original problem is solved. The red overlay on the monitor was caused by the monitor itself. A bad connection inside. I took it back to my supplier this morning, they tested it, found it was a bad connection and replaced the monitor on guarantee. So I now have another new monitor.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[johnwhelan]

Hi All,

My original problem is solved. The red overlay on the monitor was caused by the monitor itself. A bad connection inside. I took it back to my supplier this morning, they tested it, found it was a bad connection and replaced the monitor on guarantee. So I now have another new monitor.

Cheers,
Bill69

Yes but it much more fun fixing things you didn't know were wrong. Also if the monitor acted up on both graphics cards then it narrows down the problem.

Cheerio John

 

[GP_38-2]

Hi All,

My original problem is solved. The red overlay on the monitor was caused by the monitor itself. A bad connection inside. I took it back to my supplier this morning, they tested it, found it was a bad connection and replaced the monitor on guarantee. So I now have another new monitor.

Cheers,
Bill69

So all in all you get a sweet deal.
A new monitor, a graphics card that absolutely kicks compared to the 9600 and a better Trainz experiance

good to hear your gold

Happy Trainzing
GP_38-2