Marshall
msg:4427861 | 3:08 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Remember the days when a little extra RAM, a few MB, cost $600.00 or more? Had an old Packard Bell I expanded about 18 years ago and seem to recall it was about $100.00 per MB. How times have changed.
Marshall
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incrediBILL
msg:4427895 | 7:03 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I remember a few years back when I spent about $5K on a computer and the cost was mostly memory.
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Marshall
msg:4427897 | 7:30 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| and the cost was mostly memory. |
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Yours or the computer's :)
LOL
Marshall
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Essex_boy
msg:4427907 | 8:18 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
just bought a laptop 6gb cost £380 - my last cost £1000 and had 1Gb !
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outland88
msg:4427915 | 8:57 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| extract cards the first time as they simply don't want to budge |
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Tell me about it. I've got one right now where it seems just to clean the graphics card I'll wreck everything.
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lucy24
msg:4427946 | 10:52 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Would be nice if every bit of plastic in the innards (of anything!) had a little flag that said either
"It is OK to break this, just be sure to use heat-resistant glue"
or
"This innocuous-looking piece has vital circuitry inside so don't mess with it"
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incrediBILL
msg:4427958 | 11:59 pm on Mar 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
After we practically destroyed the computer I finally found a PDF on the manufacturers site that went into details about upgrading and replacing hardware. Went into details about clips you can barely see that need to be released and such vs. posts people make online "just pull hard, it might break off but it'll be OK" LOL
Wonder why I couldn't find that PDF until after I almost wrecked the machine? :)
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rocknbil
msg:4428163 | 3:59 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
My guess would be that you couldn't access the Internet because the machine was inoperable while you were working on it. :-)
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incrediBILL
msg:4428168 | 4:06 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Nope, had other machines and multiple ways to connect. Lack of internet would require a total loss of the power grid or a nuke strike.
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J_RaD
msg:4428172 | 4:21 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
hahaahahahahahahh I just have this vision of you tugging really hard on this PCI-E card without knowing about that little tab on the slot that keeps the card locked in.
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engine
msg:4428205 | 5:51 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
> little tab
Yeah, i've done that, and broken of the tab. It was a memory card and it seemed like it was glued in place. Despite breaking the tab, the new memory went in ok and all worked fine.
Anyhow, i'm glad you goy it all sorted.
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incrediBILL
msg:4428212 | 6:02 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| tugging really hard on this PCI-E card without knowing about that little tab on the slot that keeps the card locked in. |
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We knew it had to be there, we simply couldn't see it!
You could tell something was holding it in place but those big double-wide gaming graphics cards kind of obscure the view of the slot.
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J_RaD
msg:4428237 | 6:38 pm on Mar 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I normally end up breaking them on purpose just for that very reason. If you have a big card , dending on the placement its a real SOB to get to the tab. I give it a good try but if its being stubborn its getting broke off.
got a few in SLI? ha good luck, might as well break them off before install.
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rocknbil
msg:4428675 | 4:56 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Nope, had other machines and multiple ways to connect. |
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But of course you did, it just - oh, never mind . . . :-P
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lucy24
msg:4428730 | 6:35 pm on Mar 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
My router's (re)installation instructions are only available online. Unless you're in "been there, done that" mode and take the precaution of writing it all down on a piece of paper before you start turning things off.
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