How about Dell laptops with other nVidia series cards?
My company bought 3 Inspiron 9400s, identical to one another. Each one has a GeForce Go 7900 GS.
One of those three shipped with the video card already defective. It started off with minor polygon/3d-model distortion in 3d applications (games mostly). Then the distortion got worse as time went on. Then eventually we started seeing other aspects of the video rending start to go corrupt, such as stretched/distored 2d graphics, bits of the screen missing. So we had Dell ship us a replacement video card. It’s been fine since then.
Then recently another laptop (mine) started showing the same symptoms as the first one. So we called Dell again and they sent us another replacement video card. Only this time the video corruption was still there and worse. So next, I tried swapping RAM with the last “no problems” laptop. Still didn’t work. We even tried swapping the CPUs. Still didn’t work. So we called Dell back and they send us a replacement motherboard. We installed it. Still no change.
So finally we swapped the video cards on my laptop and the “no problems” laptop. And it finally worked again.
So apparently the video card Dell sent us was defective out of the box. Which brings us to a total of 3 defective videos cards we’ve received from them (the first laptop, mine, then the replacement for mine).
We’ve called in again that we need another video card, and they basically told us that they don’t believe us and will be sending a technician to us to check it out him or herself, which has left me very angry with them as this means I’m without my laptop for even longer. It’s been about a month now since mine has become unusable. And to make matters worse, I live in a remote region that DHL doesn’t ship to, and Dell always insists on shipping through them even after we tell them we can’t receive DHL. And I’m sure it’ll take them another month to send a technician down from wherever just to look at it, tell us it needs a new video card, then leave us waiting for Dell to send another one, that could be defective out of the box.
There were a few requests on YouTube for the builds (formulas/recipes/whatever) of my custom characters. So here they are. Some of the characters were tweaked a bit after the video was made.
Sorry for the lousy quality of the screenshots, but my capture device only captures at 720×480 and 640×480.
Checked the stats and saw that no one has downloaded anything from my repo in the past few months, so I’m dropping it. The apps only worked on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 anyway.
Here’s a rundown of my thoughts about the games shown at E3 08.
The list is long and still missing a lot of games that were featured. The ones I didn’t list are ones I just have absolutely no interest in or haven’t looked at.
Odd glitch in Mass Effect that sometimes equips you with a non-existant gun while on the Normandy. Can’t do much with it except run around aiming at stuff. Can’t shoot, can’t change to a real gun, and it goes away when you talk to someone.
After a couple of exchanges and about 2 weeks of waiting for parts, my new computer is complete.
Originally, I wanted a small, simple linux box to sit next to my TV and act as a media center, but later decided that wasn’t the best choice due to my TV being a low resolution SDTV. But I still had the “I need a new home computer” mindset, so I ended up building a gaming computer.
Before building this computer, I only had 2 computers. One is an old 1.8 Ghz AMD Duron box running Kubuntu. Over the years it had become a server, used for file storage, testing website stuff locally, and running an irc bot and bnc. The other is my 1 and a half-year old laptop that used to be one of the best for mobile gaming and now can’t even run Bioshock on the lowest settings without having framerate problems. Plus the laptop is owned by the school district I work for, so it’s not technically mine. But I do have a lot of freedom with it, such as installing games, music, etc. I could even run linux on it if I wanted to. As long as I can do my work on it.
I’ve gutted old computers and put together working ones from the parts, but this was my first experience putting together a brand new one from the ground up. Everything was bought from Newegg.
I’ll be record-happy for a while as I continue to play with my new capture card.
These are two videos I recorded of the popular swing glitch in GTA IV.
I recently built a new computer from the ground up, and one of the specific things I wanted was a video capture card so I could record online sessions in GTA IV, Halo 3, and such where we've been screwing around. This one is from a saved Halo 3 film from when me, Spikey, and lagman played co-op campaign until lagman suddenly went AFK for about 40 minutes.
<@SpikeyNDS> you should make a blog post with the vid, Samutz
I'm the blue elite, lagman is the arbiter, and Spikey is Master Chief, but inside a Hornet most of the time. Unfortunately, YouTube's processing fucks up the the bits at the end when it speeds up the video.
Today, I’m introducing a new tool that allows you to convert your bookmarks from common web browsers to the format used by Safari on the iPhone/iPod Touch. Click the link below for all the details and instructions.
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