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post #21 of 39
4/18/05 at 5:02pm
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Originally Posted by iterat0r
That's actually untrue... Most notebooks nowadays will have boot support for built-in CD rom drives. This is in fact untrue of it is an external CD rom drive, but for internals, the support is there.

for modern OSs, as long as you have a cd=rom drive built in, you're fine.
I agree, however we were talking about older notebooks (4+ years). And the OS has nothing to do with it, its all up to the BIOS.
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post #22 of 39
4/18/05 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by B Nietsnie
I agree, however we were talking about older notebooks (4+ years). And the OS has nothing to do with it, its all up to the BIOS.
Oh well, if you were talking about older computers, you are indeed correct. however, that's a VERy irrelevant debate, given that you have a floppy drive on a laptop that is, oh, 3 weeks old? If that can't boot from a CD...

Obviously the BIOS controls boot... Why was that in question?

*Edit*

You have a USB floppy drive... i may be completely off-base here, but wouldn't that mean you would need the motherboard usb drivers installed, thereby entirely invalidating the point of having a floppy drive for booting anywyas...?
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post #23 of 39
4/18/05 at 6:49pm
He never really said that he NEEDED to use them on his new notebook.. he merely claimed that there are people in the present day who still have to use floppy disks
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post #24 of 39
4/18/05 at 7:03pm
True, but why buy something that is essentially redundant?
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post #25 of 39
4/18/05 at 7:11pm
It may be redundent to you, but still some people need and use their floppy disks. Hey happened to me last month I bought a new optical mouse and the darn drivers came on a floppy disk. Even though I got the driver off the net it took me ages to find it then sign up to some website to get the driver
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post #26 of 39
4/18/05 at 7:23pm
hehe... bummer. ah well, yes, i do indeed find floppies useless, as everything now comes on cds.
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post #27 of 39
4/19/05 at 12:29am
I remember when computers didn't even HAVE operating systems, and the floppies were the medium 5.5" wide dealies. Of course, I wasn't around for the truly gigantic floppies that were as big as dinner plates. I saw one on the wall of the computer lab at school, though.
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post #28 of 39
4/19/05 at 2:01am
Anyway.. back to the topic at hand...

Nietsnie, do you think it's possible to capture the "sparkle" effect in a picture? I'm sure people would be very grateful to see what it actually looks like...
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post #29 of 39
4/19/05 at 8:38am
The sparkle or how I see it Gran effect is most evident on a green background. Its only evident on single block colours sush as whites bright light greens blues and so on. Here is a photo I took of a section of the screen. This should not put the LCD down as its a very nice screen with great viewing angles.

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post #30 of 39
4/19/05 at 4:07pm
lol, i actually have one of those in my computer desk side-draw. it take up almost the whole width of my draw

i keep it just to show people, and they are amazed at how HUGE they are

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Originally Posted by ellement
I remember when computers didn't even HAVE operating systems, and the floppies were the medium 5.5" wide dealies. Of course, I wasn't around for the truly gigantic floppies that were as big as dinner plates. I saw one on the wall of the computer lab at school, though.
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post #31 of 39
4/29/05 at 4:29pm
b_nietsie, where did you get that cool wallpaper, it isnt standard is it?
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post #32 of 39
4/29/05 at 7:45pm
1806 in 3dmark05 w/76.50 driver>native res.

Thats normal right?
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post #33 of 39
4/30/05 at 12:29am
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Yep thats pretty good.

tlo: I got it from DeviantArt... I think under Black or Space or Science or something like that.
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post #34 of 39
4/30/05 at 1:16am
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Originally Posted by B Nietsnie
Yep thats pretty good.

tlo: I got it from DeviantArt... I think under Black or Space or Science or something like that.
That's the BEST site for visual styles, wallpaper, and icons...
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post #35 of 39
5/6/05 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by olli3
It may be redundent to you, but still some people need and use their floppy disks. Hey happened to me last month I bought a new optical mouse and the darn drivers came on a floppy disk. Even though I got the driver off the net it took me ages to find it then sign up to some website to get the driver
True story.

I was hired to do some computer repair for a family. They had this old Compaq that they wanted me to fix up and get working.

I determine that it needs a NIC, so I go buy one and install it. The drivers came on a floppy disk.

Only problem was, the disk wouldn't go in the drive.

I ask the mother, and she said "Oh, about six years ago Grant jammed a pencil in there..."

So I lie on my back and hold the drive open with a screwdriver and shake and -- sure enough -- get hit in the face with a pencil.
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post #36 of 39
6/16/05 at 12:50pm
I know this is a little old, but I was curious when I read through the thread.

I have a question for those that are so convinced that floppy drives are useless. How do you load the SATA or RAID drivers when you are doing a clean install of XP?

Thanks!
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post #37 of 39
6/16/05 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by FishStyx
I have a question for those that are so convinced that floppy drives are useless. How do you load the SATA or RAID drivers when you are doing a clean install of XP?

Thanks!
Not only loading SATA and RAID drivers... but flashing the BIOS as well. I talked to rick (CEO ISTNC) and he said if you wanna do it the right way, a floppy drive is required.
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post #38 of 39
6/17/05 at 11:56am
I hate to say this but the cleanest way to install them is to create a slipstreamed installer of windows xp with sp2. On most of the systems I've seen that gives you sata support during the install process, of course I haven't updated my z71v with a sata drive yet (no 7200rpm sata yet ) but it should work just fine, no floppy needed.
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post #39 of 39
4/2/06 at 3:52am
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Originally Posted by Entropius
I ask the mother, and she said "Oh, about six years ago Grant jammed a pencil in there..."

So I lie on my back and hold the drive open with a screwdriver and shake and -- sure enough -- get hit in the face with a pencil.

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