Not only is Loog getting a hardware upgrade, but I am as well. I purchased a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM hard drive (which is from the DiamondMax 60 Plus line) from my favorite retailer, Comp-u-Plus. I also got a Logitech serial mouse for some split-screen Doom Legacy…sweetness. It’s not even my birthday, though, so I still may be looking at a new Plextor 12x10x32 CDRW soon (in which case there will be another hardware execution). Que’s hoping for a Digital Camera for his birthday in November. Meanwhile, there have been talks of a Motherboard/CPU/RAM upgrade for the Gandalf formerly known as Gandalf the Cock. Tis the season for new hardware, apparently.
I emailed Speedbit (guys that make Download Accelerator Plus) about a problem that has occured to me twice, where a download will get to 100% and not build the output. This is usually followed by a time-out and if the file is stopped and resumed it’s back to 0%. If this has happened to you, then it’s likely to happen again. In which case, you should heed the advice given:
If it happens you may try the following procedure:
Please right click the file and choose properties, then move to the connection page. Click each one of the “Simultaneous connections” and write down all the connection’s “Temp file” for this file. Copy those .TMP files from their original location to a different directory (folder). Then, re-download the file from the beginning (you will have to delete it from DAP first). Just after it starts to to download the file, stop the download, then right click on the file again and choose properties, move to the connection page, click each one of the “Simultaneous connections” and write down all the connection’s “Temp file” for this file. Now, rename the old .TMP files into the new ones that DAP has created and copy them back to their original location, you will be asked weather you whish to overwrite the .TMP files that already exist in that location, please confirm. Now, resume the file again, this should create the file correctly.
Regards,
SpeedBit Support.
They were suprisingly prompt in replying. I hope this helps someone in the future, including me.
Now for a little bit of gHETto-ness, the fan switches. While this case mod wasn’t totally successful, it does work to satisfaction. I can switch the super-loud 80mm fan off and on at appropriate times. Twas a bitch soldering with an ancient “Solder Sucker” to get the switch connections to hold. It was also a bitch making my gHetTO wire twist-ties, which consist of electrical tape and an inch of garbage twist-ties. Well, here’s a pic that shows it pretty well. I will have a full gheTTO write-up on this later.
There’s also a new version of Motherboard Monitor out, 5.09. Pick it up at TweakFiles.com
