26-01-2003, 10:53 PM
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Hmm, yeah, maybe I should try to get a screwdriver with a magnetic tip. Those are unsafe to use for other computer parts, though, right?
And actually, all four screws are like this. That's because I didn't try to tighten them until I had all four in, so I didn't discover the problem until they were all in. The drive is fine as far as front to back movement goes, but it can move slightly up and down. Do you think that'll be okay? Yeah, both of these fans I got from a friend of mine, so they don't have any screws. I figured I'd be able to use screws that came with my case, but apparently not. Whoa, since when was MSI's site www.msicomputer.com? I always went to www.msi.com.tw. That site no longer works, however www.msicomputer.com does.
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26-01-2003, 10:30 PM
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msi.com.tw should still be valid, I believe it's still an after effect of the exploit that took place yesterday.
From reports I've seen all of Korea and quite a few other countries where down so I wouldn't be suprised that yesterday's worm is to blame for not being able to access the site. My own sites are still having intermittent problems with email and downtime and when they are up it's pretty much crawling at a snails pace. Bandwith being used is huge, at one point yesterday the Wireless ISP I'm attempting to set up had 2 T-1's and an OC-3 pipe saturated with traffic. |
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27-01-2003, 02:14 AM
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27-01-2003, 03:34 AM
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Is www.msicomputer.com a new site? It's very odd. Some links on their site lead to an msicomputer directory, while others lead to an msi.com.tw directory. The latter links do not work; the former ones do. I checked the manual with my KT3 Ultra board to see which site it listed, and surprisingly it listed NONE. No contact section in the manual at all. How very odd.
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27-01-2003, 01:07 PM
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No. That link's been around for a few years at least.
Whatcha lookin' up on MSI's site(s)? You might wanna e-mail the tech support department or another department that can get you the info if you can't find it. |
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28-01-2003, 12:03 AM
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Well, www.msi.com.tw is back up today, but it's running VERY slowly. I really don't get this still: Why does MSI keep and maintain two websites that have identical content but completely different layouts?
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28-01-2003, 01:10 AM
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Cool. I've done a lot of things wrong in assembling PC's before, and having to figure it out helps you learn. Screws still throw me, and hooking up floppy drives did to. My last box, I had the IDE cables on backwards (no wonder they didn't detect
 )...I've even put a heatsink on a 1.4 Athlon (Thunderbird core---still a very, very hot chip) backwards.  The CPU still is working however...but I have killed a couple of Duron's in the past.In otherwords, don't feel bad if you screw up. It happens to the best of us 
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28-01-2003, 02:42 AM
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Haha, thanks, that makes me feel better about the next thing I did wrong... You're gonna laugh at this one.
You see, I was putting in my PCI USB 5-port card today. For some reason, the ridiculous screw would not go into the hole. I could get it into every other one, but not the one I wanted. Every time I went to screw it in, just when I thought I had it in straight, it would wobble around crooked. So, I finally asked for help from my father, to see if he could do it. He did it instantly. How, I'm not sure. Either way, I was done, but I was still bothered by the fact that I was not able to do a silly screw myself. Plus, when I looked at it, the port was somewhat crooked, so, my reason being those two facts combined, I decided to take out what he just did and try it again myself. Well, the screw came out almost instantly, with very little turning at all. Putting it back in, I had the same problem as before. Eventually, it got to the point where the screws started to just drop right into the hole, without even being threaded at all. Using my keen eye sight, I noticed that that hole was somewhat bigger than all the rest. Thus, I have deduced, that from my dad's very tight turning and my own messing with it for hours on end, we made the hole bigger than the others, and now NO screw can be tightened in it. Any idea how I can secure this card now?
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28-01-2003, 03:41 PM
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I believe msicomputers.com is their US website, if you look at all the major manufacturers they tend to have multiple sites for each region and usually also tend to have the corporate site in the country their located in in both the native language and english.
I'm still feeling the effects from Sat. as two of my sites have just come back up in the last 30 minutes so it looks as though at least UUNet is still having problems and I'm guessing since Korea had shut down their whole network that region probably is as well. |
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