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Santaman said:
The card probably wasn't properly seated in the first place, it happens.

Really good that I keep those ancient motherboard install CD's around, there was an old machine missing a driver, manufacturers website had a wrong file but I have more boards with the same chipset so popped in the CD of another board and now it recognizes the device.
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That's cool to know I keep driver cds just in case. A lot of boards use the same or similar chipsets so that's a good thing actually. My Asus board uses the same chipset as the MSI branded board I was looking at. The one I have now has tons of options and fine control in the bios. But I usually just run stock settings and have zero interest in overclocking.
 
Dug out my old Socket A Athlon machine, still runs, I've got a spare mainboard and spare graphics card of the same kind if I ever need them but I hope this one will still have a decade or two left in it.
 
Here's a real oddity of a thing. I'm lucky I caught it because it was driving me nuts why my system was a bit unstable and misbehaving. But anyway see the diagram here.

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I made a mistake wired my rest button between RSTCON and +3v and wondered why the button wasn't working on top of that I was having random system crashes. I think somehow this had caused instability and moving the connector to where it should be between RSTCON and GND was the proper fix.
 
Santaman said:
Yeah.. when connecting the front panel .. check, check, double check, check and check again.. :biggrin:
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But it's so damn odd. I'm wondering how that miswired button caused it to be unstable.

@Santaman what about multitasking?

With my old motherboard I could download a game and surf the web or watch youtube and there was hardly a problem but with this new build It's very laggy and I can do both but youtube seems to buffer a lot while I'm downloading and the old setup never did that. BTW this setup only has 16gig my old board had 32gig of memory so would that at all play a part in this?
 
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Strange, that new one should be able to do that and then some, so I guess check if there's a new BIOS and drivers etc etc, it should be totally smooth with the stuff you listed.
 
Btw, you didn't reinstall your machine fresh didn't you? That could be a cause too that it runs rubbish.
 
Santaman said:
Btw, you didn't reinstall your machine fresh didn't you? That could be a cause too that it runs rubbish.
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I reinstalled all the chipset drivers, GPU drivers and items like USB and other motherboard drivers. I removed nearly all the old stuff in safe mode before I swapped boards.

EDIT: I just did a complete wipe and reinstall now it's like butter. Now for my game launchers.
 
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Yeah.. sometimes it is best to reinstall and start over, I guess Windows holds on to old stuff really well which messes up everything.
 
Hmmm, they first should have brought this to the server market, those machines would benefit the most from this and then slowly have it trickle down to HEDT and then normal desktop, that way you already have a huge userbase that uses mostly 12 volt only stuff already and that way you can up production of these new beasties a lot, I'd rather see the server world pay for the initial cost of new stuff and not me, the poor guy who just needs a new desktop every 6 years ;):p
 
Is Python or Java/JavaScript the best beginners programming language?

Do they vary from each other like real human languages do? Or it is a ‘Coke versus Pepsi’ type difference?

Which of these, or any other, are good for people with very poor (sub GCSE) maths abilities?
 
The best "beginners" language would be BASIC. That's the one most schools will start with (or at least, they used to). It's existed for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

As I said in the other thread, what language you want to specialize in would depend on what you want to do with it. Learning BASIC is a good starting point and since it's been around so long, there are tons of books, and references all over the place on it.

Since this is a Star Trek oriented site, BASIC is the language used for the first Star Trek game I ever saw - run on mainframe systems back in the 1970's and 80's.
 
StarCruiser said:
The best "beginners" language would be BASIC. That's the one most schools will start with (or at least, they used to). It's existed for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC

As I said in the other thread, what language you want to specialize in would depend on what you want to do with it. Learning BASIC is a good starting point and since it's been around so long, there are tons of books, and references all over the place on it.

Since this is a Star Trek oriented site, BASIC is the language used for the first Star Trek game I ever saw - run on mainframe systems back in the 1970's and 80's.
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You’re deliberately giving me bad advice and taking the piss now.
 
Galactic Alignment said:
Is Python or Java/JavaScript the best beginners programming language?

Do they vary from each other like real human languages do? Or it is a ‘Coke versus Pepsi’ type difference?

Which of these, or any other, are good for people with very poor (sub GCSE) maths abilities?
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Your thread was closed, no need to start the same stuff in here, this is NOT the thread for it, so do me a favour, either talk about general computing or leave this thread alone.
 
BBC BASIC is pretty excellent as versions of BASIC go.

It combines the simplicity of BASIC with the sophistication of a structured language, allowing you to write utilities and games, use sound and graphics, perform calculations and create complete Windows™ applications. In short, using BBC BASIC you will be able to make your PC do what you want it to!

The free evaluation version of BBC BASIC for Windows is fully functional except that the amount of memory available for the user's program, data and stack is restricted to 32 Kbytes, and the Compile command (which allows you to create a stand-alone executable file from your BBC BASIC program) is not available.
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http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/bbcwin.html

It's a structured programming language so it's useful to learn if you want to move on to other structured languages. It's not object oriented. To learn that style of programming, I'd recommend Java or Python, which are available for free.
 
BBC BASIC doesn't even use line numbers. If you must really use GOTO statements, you can, although this is discouraged. Even if you use assembler, GOTO is no longer necessarily de rigueur.
 
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