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Thread ID: 136278	2014-02-12 23:20:00	computer freezes after some short time if it is able to boot at all.	Mirddes (10)	Press F1

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1367475	2014-02-13 09:34:00	hangs if i try to isntall teh si3114 drivers. not being able to access over 3TB of data is woeful. any suggestions for a modern pci 4xsata card? even 2 pci 2xSATA cards could be a viable solution. is this viable? pricespy.co.nz	Mirddes (10)
1367476	2014-02-13 18:48:00	Is the card you've installed similar to this?? (dx.com) if it is, someone posted that 3 TB hdd's arent supported. It's probably too old As above someone also said it'd be better getting a PCIe NOT PCI card. PCI is too slow I think this will be faster than the link you gave (www.pbtech.co.nz)	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1367477	2014-02-14 02:23:00	Could be a capacitor issue. I had to replace some in my own server PSU. A good Delta PSU but used an awful CapXon and some mediocre LTec, along with some good brands that were just fine.	Agent_24 (57)
1367478	2014-02-16 13:08:00	Is the card you've installed similar to this?? (dx.com) if it is, someone posted that 3 TB hdd's arent supported. It's probably too old As above someone also said it'd be better getting a PCIe NOT PCI card. PCI is too slow I think this will be faster than the link you gave (www.pbtech.co.nz) it is that card. 2x1TB, 1x1.5Tb an 750GB however. am thinking this card here is a worthy upgrade. dx.com would probably be much better use of my 16x(4x)PCIe2.0 slot than a hd4850. plenty of expansion potential. how widely supported is svideo/component/composite over VGA?	Mirddes (10)
1367479	2014-02-16 17:44:00	Cant say I've seen monitors with s-video or component on them. Unless you're going to connect it to a TV. So, I dont think either are widely supported at the mo	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1367480	2014-02-16 19:54:00	am thinking this card here is a worthy upgrade. dx.com Personally I would not trust my data to some el-cheapo controller card from China. What's the chipset - they don't even tell you. Is the heatsink big enough? Are the drivers written by some 8 year old kid in a back alley?	Agent_24 (57)
1367481	2014-02-16 21:56:00	Cant say I've seen monitors with s-video or component on them. Unless you're going to connect it to a TV. So, I dont think either are widely supported at the mo i am goign to connect it to a 32" widescreen CRT-type television wikipedia seems to indicate its a standard function of vga. dx.com Personally I would not trust my data to some el-cheapo controller card from China. What's the chipset - they don't even tell you. Is the heatsink big enough? Are the drivers written by some 8 year old kid in a back alley? it's not exactly cheap at ~$100nzd. seems to be a marvell chipset. doesn't look all that small although my case is relatively well ventelated with plenty of cable management. the drivers are probably written by mavell... do they employ 8 year old childrn in back alleys? manufactured in china is a mark of quality if you're under 25. most of the electronics manufacturing moved to south east Asia a long time ago. hard to find much that isn't manufactured in china or elsewhere in the region. being manufactured elsewhere usually means expensive shipping	Mirddes (10)
1367482	2014-02-16 22:39:00	manufactured in china is a mark of quality if you're under 25. most of the electronics manufacturing moved to south east Asia a long time ago. hard to find much that isn't manufactured in china or elsewhere in the region. Depends who by and who for. Of course well known brands owned in America or Europe will want to ensure their products are high quality even if outsourced to China, so you are likely to be OK there. But some a Chinese brand nobody has ever heard of - well, think about it. They might use the exact same chip as a big name company, but everything else on the board is going to be cheaper and crappier. it's not exactly cheap at ~$100nzd. seems to be a marvell chipset. doesn't look all that small although my case is relatively well ventelated with plenty of cable management. the drivers are probably written by mavell... do they employ 8 year old childrn in back alleys? Sure, Marvell aren't a dodgy company, but DX don't advertise the chipset for the card on the website which makes me suspicious. There are more and more el-cheapo semiconductor design houses now which produce sub-performing products and awful drivers and software to go along with them. From experience I just don't trust no-name PC peripherals. I once bought a Gigabit Ethernet card from eBay - I thought it would be fine, it used a well-known VIA Chipset used in many products, and my reasoning was that by using a common chip from an established company it should work no matter who put the card together. And sure, it seemed to work fine at 100Mbit mode, but would BSOD\Lock the machine instantly you tried 1Gbit. Also the MAC address was non-existent, just a bunch of zeros. You never know what they are going to cheap out on when you buy some unknown or no-name branded item.	Agent_24 (57)
1367483	2014-02-16 23:37:00	the same can be said for any electronics, or other living organisms.	Mirddes (10)
1367484	2014-02-16 23:43:00	That cable may or may not work. SVGA uses 5 signals for video: R,G,B and H,V sync. Most "component" video using 3 signals use YPbPr which is a luminance signal + sync, Blue - luminance, Red - luminance. The conversion of 5 to YPbPr is not trivial and I would suggest probably not done in this cable (it normally requires a powered converter). It is possible to create an RGB component signal for "sync on Green" with passive components from a 5 signal source, but this works for only some frame size definitions as the sync signal polarity on SVGA is not consistent across different frame sizes. Sync on Green is also not that commonly used - certainly most current TV component inputs would be YPbPr.	wuppo (41)
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