Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel
Hi,
Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently
got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky
all the time, esp when it rains.
So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter.
I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild
about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet
another set top box to have to deal with...
So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service?
Thanks,
John
7 months, 3 weeks
LCD - to fix or not to fix?
by joel d
Hi WLUG,
My conundrum is whether to work on soldering most likely capacitors into an old
18 inch LCD later this week in a haze of starch and tryptophan.
Is it worth it to re-hab it for use as a basement/workshop PC?
Happy Thanksgiving,
Joel
6 years, 6 months
November 14th?
by The Hammer
Hello,
I see of the website that our next meeting should be tomorrow (the 14th),
but the location is to be announced. Wondering, do we have the location
yet?
Ron
6 years, 6 months
Announce: Meeting November 14th 7PM, WPI Higgins Labs 230
by Chuck Anderson
Sorry I'm going to be missing the meeting this month, and thanks to
Henrique for taking care of the room.
-Chuck
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:14:34PM -0500, Henrique wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I just talked to Chuck, and he is a bit busy. I got WLUG the same room as
> last time Higgins Labs, Room 230,
> (HL230<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.274129,-71.808384&num=1&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8...>),
> if you have any problem locating or getting into the building, just send me
> a message at (631) 316-8142. I also already got a better room for next
> month.
>
> Do we have a topic?
>
> Cheers,
> Henrique "nican" Polido.
6 years, 6 months
help diagnosing PC issue: suspect power supply
by Brett Russ
Hi,
I'm trying to diagnose a home built PC running fine since 2007 but lately
starting to act odd. Here are the system specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz cpu
Asus P5B Deluxe mobo
Nvidia 7900GS graphics card
Kingston KHX6400 2x1GB DDR2 memory
Sparkle ATX 400W power supply
3x 1TB SATA HDDs
1x SATA DVD-RW
$ uname -a
Linux spider 3.0.0-25-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 13 17:58:59 UTC 2012
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"
$ uname -a
Linux spider 3.0.0-25-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 13 17:58:59 UTC 2012
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What recently changed:
i) replaced monitor, last one died
ii) (carefully) vacuumed the dust from inside. Kept hand on case chassis,
didn't touch any PCB/chips, etc.
Here are the symptoms:
1) first started seeing BIOS claims of bad CMOS checksum at boot time.
Immediately suspected the CMOS battery, replaced it and reset CMOS settings
but I continue to see this. This is the one symptom that I can't yet
place, unless it's simply a bad replacement battery.
2) next started seeing the monitor fail to wake up after entering power save
3) powering on the PC shows issues:
3a) often the monitor won't wake at boot
3b) the bios often doesn't finish POST, gets stuck at splash screen
3c) bios settings often don't survive across power cycles (possibly related
to #1--battery issue?)
3d) bios doesn't always give the affirmative beep (likely same symptom as
3a, 3b)
3e) a cold power on or reset can take several "tries" before the system
stays on. I.e. fans will spin up, then spin down, one to three times
before staying on. When this happens it's pretty much guaranteed that it
won't boot successfully.
4) system will freeze to user input while up. I.e. once I get Linux
booted, as long as I disable monitor power save it will stay running for a
while, but I observed it stopped responding to KB and mouse input earlier
this morning.
Here's what I've tried:
a) reseated both DIMMs, reproduced issues; tried with just one DIMM,
repro'd; tried other DIMM, repro'd
b) reseated graphics card, repro'd; removed graphics card (now headless),
repro'd problem 3e
c) reseated CMOS battery (CR2032), repro'd
d) pulled all non-essential cables and internal connections, including
power and SATA cables from all drives, repro'd
e) updated BIOS to latest version, repro'd
Unfortunately I don't have another ATX power supply to try, but was
thinking of buying one. I might also try an old PCI video card, but I
suspect due to repro (b) above that it's not the cause.
Anyone have any other insights or agree it sounds like a bad PS? I still
can't explain symptom (1), will probably buy another battery to be sure.
Five years seems like an old PC, but I'm not a gamer so this suits me fine.
Thanks,
Brett
6 years, 6 months
Next meeting on the 14th?
by Tim Keller
Hey Gang,
Firstly, I presume that the next meeting is going to be on the 14th?
Secondly, do we have a topic?
Later,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
6 years, 6 months
