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Well, I have finally received a reply from Nvidia to the USB Legacy issue.

So in total, it looks like this:

MSI Taiwan” wrote:

Please notice if customer have below problem.

I ever heard a bug if customer didn’t set Keyboard/Mouse USB Legacy
support to enable or disable at same time.

System will need around 5 mins to enter OS.

When you set these two items to enable or disable at same time and it
solve.

It is Nvidia chipset limitation.”

“Nvidia” wrote:

The nForce4 Ultra Media Communications Processor can support Legacy USB Keyboard/Mouse function. NVIDIA customers other than MSI have this function working for legacy devices so this is a MSI BIOS issue.

In general, this does not sound like a chip problem but System BIOS issue or implementation limitation.

So, it’s funny, the responsible for this is moved between MSI to Nvidia back on forth. I think I will better connect my devices on PS/2, instead!

I just found it funny and so, I thought I would post it here! 🙂

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When my motherboard died it also took the CPU with it!

Infact, I have received an email from the mailtrader today, that the CPU is unfortunately damaged, too!

They wrote that I will receive a replacement CPU soon, at least I have today received a parcel with a replacement motherboard 🙂

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Blogger figures out more and more ways to protect its community of bloggers against spam and scary blogs. I have just read on Kaye’s Blog about Blogging the fact, that Blogger has since a while a new feature called “Flag This Blog. They write the following:

“the “Flag?” button allows the blogging community to easily note questionable content, which in turn helps us take action when needed. So we’re relying on you, the users, to be our eyes on the web, and to let us know of potential issues that are important to you.”

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I think it’s a pretty neat idea! 🙂

Oh she also links to other sources and examples!

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I proudly present my newest addition to the List Of Weird hardware errors!:

the board is dead, it died on October, 4th. I would switch the pc on
and the board would freeze after cpu detection. it did that also straight after
I have out the pc together, but pressing on all componnents fixed it once in a
while. also FDD wouldn’t be detected once in a while. But yesterday, pressing
all componnents no longer helped, the board won’t do anything but work. I have
spoken to a PC technican of the mail trader, they said it sounds very much like
the board was damaged right from the beginning and (that is also my opinion),
that the non-working front USB is a first sign of a slowly diying motherboard.

They also said, that they know from own experience that flashing MSI boards is
troublesome and that the bootdisks from LiveUpdate mave missing files, also
happened quite often.

Also, they meant that the replacement board will most probably carry a more
recent BIOS version, but it’s impossible for them to perform wishes like doing
BIOS updates before sending out hardware to their costumers.

Also quoting the manual and quoating the technican, this board features not the
diagnostic LEDs. However in contrast to the manual which states., that the
hispeed usb 2 bracket shipped with the board has 1 connector and no LED (there
is a picture of it in the manaul), the bracket shipped with the board _has LEDs
and 2 connectors_!

My replacement board will be here after 2-4 weeks.

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this is a followup of my ViewSonic story ala “A poor customer tries to receive a reply”
Meanwhile ViewSonic Sweden and ViewSonic United Kindom replied to me!

Notice that ViewSonic Germany on phone and ViewSonic UK in email said, that none of my emails sent to ViewSonic Germany ever arrived!

Now, I have the prove that they have arrived! The technical support just needed a month to reply to them.

Here is copy of my reply email to ViewSonic Sweden and ViewSonic UK:

“Hello Shermaine & Sophie,

Since you both replied to my email asking me about the status about my inquery to ViewSonic Germany, here the update on the situation:

it appears to me that my emails sent to the support form on the homepage of ViewSonic Germany (http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/de/support/technicalmail.htm?c=de – it causes a 404 error at the moment, by the way), finally got replied after 4 (!) weeks, since I have just received an email reply from a Mr. Kai Kugler, ViewSonic Warranty Line.

The sender address was Kugler@ml.xtrasource.nl and http://ml.xtrasource.nl leads me to “Xtrasource B.V. Login – Consumer Contact Solutions”!
(Which seems to be the system you use to reply to technical form emails?).

Replying to it causes a:

“… User unknown”

So the “not arrived” technical form emails from me arrived as it seems. ViewSonic Germany just needs a month to reply to them!
You really should improve the way you handle technical support emails.

By the way: My “support ticket” even got a reference number now!

It’s: VSCXXXXXX-XXXXX.

Sincerely,
Joerg Droege”

Wow! I am fascinated! 🙂

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Yup, I have bought Windows XP 64bit, yes I really bought it! And it’s interesting, it’s really quite faster, even while browsing using Internet Explorer (64bit version)!

I have found here a statement about Windows XP 64bit I fully agree with:

Omnipotent wrote:

“I use Windows XP 64bit. I find it to be awesome. It is pretty rare you will find something that won’t work with it in my experience. I couldn’t get a driver for my brother printer, but I tried a bunch of different ones and got a default one that worked fine with it.

The graphics drivers and etc are all sweet for it now. I have a 6800GT.

I don’t notice any improvement in games at all, but windows runs a hell of a lot faster IMO. (I have run XP 32bit and 64bit on the same PC as a comparison, FPS was exactly the same in games but windows certainly ran a **** load faster.)

I haven’t had any issues at all really. There are a couple programs that won’t run on it that I have found, the only thing that bothered me was Alcohol 120% which I used to mount CD images, but there is a freeware one that works on XP64bit and it is sweet as.

I guess you will run into a couple problems but all of them you can sort out. Just make sure your motherboard has XP64bit drivers for it and if so you should be sweet.”

Luckily, my motherboard has 64bit drivers! 🙂

There is also a great list of 64bit drivers and 64bit prgs which can be found here. I am now using the avast virusscanner (as mentioned there).

Also Logitech released a 64bit version of the SetPoint drivers.

Also ATI released 64bit drivers.

Epson only refers to the 64bit drivers shipped with Windows XP 64bit.

Unfortunately no Leadtek or Plustek 64bit drivers as of yet, but Leadtek wrote the following to me into an email:

“Hello,

On this moment are we waiting for the driver of the manufactor of the chip
There will be a driver but I cannot tell you when

Met vriendelijke groet,
Best regards,

Leadtek Support”

I will let you know once I have news about it!

The Windows XP 64bit covers two CDs, one is the English versions (weird to install if you are not used to English Windows, hehe!) and one is the German/Japanese language pack on CD.

I have installed it, created a new user account with administrator permissions and everything is translated, except the Windows prgs descriptions in Sodftware ->Add/Remove Windows applications! 🙂

And Windows Update is great, just 12 updates to download and install, sweet! 🙂

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*Sigh*. Meanwhile it’s getting boring!
Once more I have to report about the lameness of German customer support of a company. Today in the spotlight: ViewSonic – “We do worse!”.

Infact, I have been waiting since over 3 weeks for a reply from ViewSonic Germany/USA, and I have sent 5 emails to ViewSonic Germany with no reply.
In the meantime some of the technical problems I have experienced got onviously fixed by getting a new PC. However I want to point out that the customer support
of Viewsonic SUCKS!

They ignore any email which customers send to them, ANY!
The only reply I have ever received from ViewSonic Germany was promotional crap as a “Thank You for registering your new ViewSonic VX924”.

I have sent a complaint email to Any contact email address of ViewSonic I could find. The result of this email are two auto responses: (which came straight in English, so no translation took place!):

From ViewSonic Germany:

“Thank you for your e-mail. I am out of the office from September 30th until Oktober 7th 2005. This message is not going to be deleted only delayed in
answering. I will get back to you after my return.

ViewSonic Technology GmbH

Beate Paefgen”

From ViewSonic Sweden:

“Hello, Thank you for your email.

I will be out of the office until monday 3th of October, in urgents matters please call the Swedish office at + 46 (0) 8 507 130 00

Med vänlig hälsning/Best regards,
Sophie”

At least I have received two emails, only automatic ones, though. 🙁

EDIT:Meanwhile I have received a phone call from ViewSonic Germany! 🙂
Terror emailing helped, it seems! 😎

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After AIM Fight (which works with some ICQ accounts (UIN = screenname), there is now ICQ Fight! 😀

Let us quote them a bit:

So what is ICQ Fight all about?
It´s a fun way to answer the question that has been bothering since 1st grade – we all know you’re popular, but is there anyone more popular than you?

Why fight?
To know how well connected you are in the ICQ network �and obviously, winning is always fun!

Who wins?
Your score is the sum of the current number of people online who have you in their Contact List, out to three degrees. This means the score is constantly changing, and the winner of the battle may constantly change.

Say WHAT?! Or how does it work?
It’s the wonders of geeks, mathematics and too much free time.Our computers use a complicated algorithm, so ICQ Fight can calculate how popular you are.Score is the sum of the current number of people online who have you in their Contact List, out to three degrees. It sounds a little complicated. But it’s not that bad. Here’s a diagram that makes it much clearer.

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Opera now goes for free and without ads!
Yes, this is no belated April Fool’s Day joke! Seems that due to the pressure of Firefox, they had to made it free! So, the latest version is now Opera 8.50, but unfortunately the new final does not contain a BitTorrent client anymore 🙁

Well, maybe next beta! 🙂

Enjoy Opera! 🙂

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My new Logitech USB headset arrived and I am happy. But the question here is _how_ it arrived!

Some time ago, DHL took over our national parcel service. And on a Saturday, I was in the bathroom doing big buissnes when the doorbell rang and of course I could not answer. Later I found an orange DHL Express parcel notification card in my letterbox.

I think to make it more clear, I should explain, that there is in this suburb a Post Agency and a Post Office. In the Post Agency you can do all your stuff like you are used to. But when the postman for parcels brings you a parcel, and you are not at home, he puts it either at the Post Agency (for COD (Cash-On-Delivery) or other special letters or parcels) or at the Post Office (for BIG parcels).

Since I exspected no parcel at that time and I had no idea what it was, I called DHL and asked them how that re-deliver thing works. So I have got told that I tick “re-deliver” and that in “On….” I can enter a date I wish them to re-deliver it to me as long as it’s 3 days after their try to deliver it to me and not later than 7 days after, since after 7 days the stock period expired and they return it to sender!

I have written int “On….” September, 15th and of course it didn’t come!

So, I called them and they said: “We cannot help you witout the postident number – as the sender.” and I was like: “I don’t know the sender!” and they: “Then if it doesn’t arrive, you can apply a complaint to us when we returned it to sender!”.- I found that was great! I can complain to them until after it’s too late!!!

It came the next day actually, but I wonder why offering a re-deliver service if it doesn’t work correctly???

That is the first and last time I took a use of their re-delivery service!

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