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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
I have done some searches of my own on the
titles but couldn't find anything. The last link seems to describe my problem best but why on earth would anyone design a program to introduce corrupted data? As I recall these DVD's played fine the first time but now have this problem so my guess is that they were badly made. The one I couldn't think of was 'War of the Worlds' (older version) and it had a spot where it stopped and stuttered and I contacted the seller and he gave me a replacement and it had the same spot on it too! At any rate, I didn't want this to take away from my computer post but only asked the question in passing. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Mark Twain wrote:
I have done some searches of my own on the titles but couldn't find anything. The last link seems to describe my problem best but why on earth would anyone design a program to introduce corrupted data? As I recall these DVD's played fine the first time but now have this problem so my guess is that they were badly made. The one I couldn't think of was 'War of the Worlds' (older version) and it had a spot where it stopped and stuttered and I contacted the seller and he gave me a replacement and it had the same spot on it too! At any rate, I didn't want this to take away from my computer post but only asked the question in passing. Robert Here's a thread from ten years ago on WOTW. You can compare where your bad spot is, to where some of the people had problems. http://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/...worlds.402286/ Paul |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Very interesting reading,....
Seems like the one guy doesn't have any problems but I'm just trying to watch a movie not burn anything. So I guess it all depends on what does it and what software they are using and what kind of disks (cheap or good) Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
I forgot to add that while all the holes
are the same on the power supply my top right hole has what looks like a 'prong' from the computer back panel going into the screw hole. It has an open square with the prong in the middle whereas all the others have metal around the screw hole. So it's obviously designed like that. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Power supply has been ordered.
Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Today while online I lost my Internet
connection. After several tries at rebooting and powering off/on I called Verizon to see if they were up to anything and turns out my modem is acting up and I need a new one. So now I'm waiting for the power supply for the 8200 and a new modem for the 8500 and have no idea when I will loose connection again or if I can get back online. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Mark Twain wrote:
Today while online I lost my Internet connection. After several tries at rebooting and powering off/on I called Verizon to see if they were up to anything and turns out my modem is acting up and I need a new one. So now I'm waiting for the power supply for the 8200 and a new modem for the 8500 and have no idea when I will loose connection again or if I can get back online. Robert Sometimes when your networking equipment acts up, it's actually a power problem. My ADSL modem started dropping sync, and it would do it around 9PM at night. It turned out, the ATX supply in my PC was feeding electrical noise into the same power strip as the ADSL modem was plugged into. The ADSL modem "floats" electrically, and doesn't have a defined ground. Replacing the ATX power supply pf the adjacent PC fixed the problem, without calling the ISP at all for support. It continues working to this day. Not all devices are that sensitive. My old ADSL modem, was "rock steady". It was made by Alcatel and never got hot (never overheated), was easy on the electricity, and I never had a stitch of trouble with it. The new modem is noise sensitive, so you dare not make an (electrical) noise near it, or it could affect the noise floor. The difference between the modems, is the old one only did up to 8Mbit/sec, while the new one can go all the way to 24Mbit/sec. But I don't pay for 24Mbit/sec service, and so the modem really isn't all that necessary from a speed perspective. Maybe some day it'll be worth while, assuming it is still working then. The old one was a rental, and I was paying $3 a month or so for it. The new one, I own it outright, so no more rentals. I think it's paid for itself already (by no longer getting dinged for the $3 a month). Paul |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
I've been able to connect with the
Internet (obviously) but every now and then I loose the connection and then I have to reset the modem. Not as often as I did when this first occurred though. I was going to ask the question that although Verizon is sending me a new modem (at no charge) if I'm better off using their modem or buying a third party modem? However, after reading your reply I'm wondering if I would still have issues? Usually, everything is fine and I have no problems. This is my present Ethernet modem: http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Veri.../dp/B0036VO6NW I have no idea what unit they will be sending to replace it or when it will arrive. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Mark Twain wrote:
I've been able to connect with the Internet (obviously) but every now and then I loose the connection and then I have to reset the modem. Not as often as I did when this first occurred though. I was going to ask the question that although Verizon is sending me a new modem (at no charge) if I'm better off using their modem or buying a third party modem? However, after reading your reply I'm wondering if I would still have issues? Usually, everything is fine and I have no problems. This is my present Ethernet modem: http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Veri.../dp/B0036VO6NW I have no idea what unit they will be sending to replace it or when it will arrive. Robert Did you notice the first customer review for it ? "This one needs to be reset at least once a day if not more often." I used to have a piece of networking equipment like that once. My Linksys BEFSR41 would require a couple resets per day (evenings). Its replacement has never had a problem like that, never needs to be reset. An ADSL modem can drop sync, and the status LEDS should indicate that from the outside. But if the function of the thing stops, that is either a bug in the firmware, or the SOC (system on a chip) in there is defective, or the internal power is acting up. Mine uses a wall adapter (so the voltage is already regulated), but also has a switching converter inside the modem. Paul |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
No, I actually didn't read any of the
reviews. This is the modem they gave me the last time I had connect issues and they had to replace the outside terminal box as well. You know what though, I think I was right from the beginning that Verizon was doing something on their end because ever since I haven't had a connection problem and I haven't had to reset it. I also remember that when I was having problems on the Verizon IP Address page it showed under the Broadband connection that the DSL was connected but the IP Status had 3 red PPP's. This was the first time I've had to reset the modem and I've had it maybe 5 years. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
It's been a month of Sundays,....
today after I returned from the store all the power was out and wasn't restored until 6 hours later and I had the computer on at the time. Luckily, all seems fine but I wish I'd get a break. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Mark Twain wrote:
It's been a month of Sundays,.... today after I returned from the store all the power was out and wasn't restored until 6 hours later and I had the computer on at the time. Luckily, all seems fine but I wish I'd get a break. Robert We lost power a couple times here. (Fairly strong wind storm.) But being in the city it was restored reasonably quickly. My UPS wouldn't have lasted through the whole thing, so I shut down and turned the UPS off. Paul |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Still waiting on the power supply
so out of curiosity (no I didn't download it)I started looking at reviews for Windows 10: http://www.infoworld.com/article/300...windows-7.html What do you think? They don't mention how long they will continue to support XP or Win 7 and it's still pretty new to jump onto that kind of OS. I wish they would stay with what works. I don't know much about Apple/Mac's except they cost twice as much and are made differently and have a different O/S. Robert |
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O.T. Dell 8200 cannot power up
Mark Twain wrote:
Still waiting on the power supply so out of curiosity (no I didn't download it)I started looking at reviews for Windows 10: http://www.infoworld.com/article/300...windows-7.html What do you think? They don't mention how long they will continue to support XP or Win 7 and it's still pretty new to jump onto that kind of OS. I wish they would stay with what works. I don't know much about Apple/Mac's except they cost twice as much and are made differently and have a different O/S. Robert For a Macintosh, try pricing them carefully. Match the hardware features of the Macintosh you are interested in, with a PC which matches the features exactly. The additional price should not be a factor of two. ******* You would have to be nuts to voluntarily put Win10 on a perfectly good Win7 machine :-) (Sorry, Win10 people...) Windows 7 extended support ends some time in the year 2020. I have a newly purchased copy of Windows 7, bought around July/August of this year, which will be riding the support wave until the year 2020. I run the Windows 10 Insider edition, for tracking issues. The software works, but you never feel in control of the machine. And if you have demanding work to do (a program that needs to run for a week uninterrupted, like Microsoft ICE or a video render), your best advice is to disconnect the network cable from the Windows 10 machine. That's how I make the machine "trustworthy". First, you make sure the machine is updated, do a reboot, unplug the LAN cable, set up your long running program. One poster recommends changing the gateway address in the networking stack, to stop WAN traffic yet keep LAN functionality, as an alternative solution. I was doing a long-running program (would take days), and suddenly the "reboot" prompt came up, saying "I need to reboot within the next 24 hours, would 3:30AM be convenient?". Of course rebooting in the next 24 hours would be extremely inconvenient. But at the time, I had no way to stop it, so I had to shut down what I was doing, and "deal with the issue". Once the reboot for some silly update was completed, I unplugged the network cable, and set up my long running job again. If you like being treated to that sort of behavior, go right ahead and install Windows 10 :-) And if some kook management type at Microsoft tells me "he is performing a service for me", well "**** right off" is my reply. This is my computer, and I decide when it reboots - always. And if that means no Windows 10, then so be it... Paul |
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