Asus P5Q vs RAM KingMax

I state, I am not an hardware expert, but I work with my pc from a long time.
When I buy a computer, I'm the first that want to do the "Silly User", ie the average user who buys something and uses it happily, hoping that everything properly works, without speaking about BIOS, frequency, slots, overclocking, and so on .

Unfortunately, with all the efforts that Microsoft and hardware manufacturers do (not the ones into the bathroom, but those to establish common standards), 2009 to date we have not yet provided the convenience and the ease of access to the world of computers we are trying to achieve.
This is an extremely important task, because it allows you to permanently replace the concept of TV, and push the world towards electronics that counts more, the programmable one. I see a great future where programmable TV are always connected to the internet, as well as various PC from home ....

My happening should be one the most common: PC bought over the internet to obtain a decent price, email assistance, relationship with the seller, by definition, narrow and limited to the purchase.

PC obtained and what to do now? I Use it ... and here the problems begin.
After some weeks of use the PC resets by itself.
No specific information from within Windows Vista Ultimate 64 (just too many words, eh ...), only a think that in internet it's called "Hardware instability ".

A normal person would desperatly call a PC expert... I called myself, and then lonely and desperate, I started sending emails to all my "technicians" friends , including the PC seller, trying to understand the problem.
Well, if a PC and is unstable whe it's just purchased, the way is pretty simple: blame the motherboard.


There are several components in a PC, but the main ones are:

• The CPU (or processor)
• The RAM (o memory)
• The Hard Disks (or mass storage)
• The Video Card
  
• The Motherboard
  

Who does all the components talk to each other? Obviously, the motherboard.
Now think that the CPUs manufacturers are in 2: Intel and AMD, video cards are in the 2: RADEON and GeForce, Hard Disk are build by many, but they have a fairly simple standard. Missing someone? Yes, the RAM. Here, the RAM is build by 50, and every company with its versions, and every version with its technical specifications and restrictions.

If something doesn't go, assured that in 70% of cases its a problem between the motherboard and the RAM. The rest of cases I leave to the Video Cards.
Today, the frequencies of the electronic components are carried to the limit. Frequencies, latencies, Watt and overheating are factors to manage properly. Here the PC show their technological Achilles Heel ... if everything is not perfectly calibrated, there is a risk ... the "Hardware instability".

In my case, I managed through diagnosis of the machine (CPU-Z especially) to understand that if the motherboard does not know the components that are mounted above, can not even feed them properly (.. excuse me, but I would like to be a "silly user" for a while!).
In fact, motherboards are responsible for Volts, frequency and other parameters that the components require to work.
It's also logical to think that given that the processors are not so many, and given that the standard of hard disk are easy, or it's the video card or the RAM, when something doesn't work. Mixing all this concepts with tight physical limits to which it's submitted the electronic today, it's necessary that a motherboard perfectly supports (I prefer to say "knows") every particular component.

The only advice before returning back a new PC (which in the case of Internet shopping is even demoralizing) is trying to update the BIOS taking it from the homepage of the of the motherboard constructor. The BIOS is the brain of the motherboard, and contains tables that provide definitions of voltage, freqences and parameters of all the most used electrical components (the list is usually declared).
If the BIOS does not recognize your last bought supersonic RAM, you should update it or hope that the defaults values works properly.
Note: Updating the bios is a expert task, and the failure of this operation could in 70% of cases make unusable your motherboard! Be careful!! Prepare psychologically yourself little desperate one of the world :) !

In my case I managed to trace the differences between my PC with an old BIOS and a new one , upon my ASUS P5Q motherboard, and taking the automatic settings:
(Use eg Windows Windiff.exe comparing 2 LOG TXT format extractable from CPU-Z)
Old BIOS (1104 - 31/7/2008)

• Memory Frequency 438.1 MHz (3:4)
• Voltage sensor 0 0.92 Volts [0x73] (CPU VCORE)
• Voltage sensor 6 1.35 Volts [0xA9] (DRAM)
• DMI Memory Device / type DDR
  

New BIOS (2002 - 4/3/2009)

• Memory Frequency 400.7 MHz (5:6)
• Voltage sensor 0 1.08 Volts [0x87] (CPU VCORE)
• Voltage sensor 6 1.46 Volts [0xB6] (DRAM)
• DMI Memory Device / type unknown

Knowing that now I have a stable PC (crossing fingers ... : O), one can see from this analysis, two things:

1. my system was unstable for both the voltage and the frequency and taking all the rest in AUTO mode (auto means with standard settings) and verifying that the differences were simply these.
2. The new BIOS still does not know well my RAMs ( unknown), but knows better than the previous Bios.

In my case the standard settings gave to me stability; there are 4 banks of 2Gb Kingmax DDR2 to 1066 MHz of RAM.
What do uou say about ? Should I hope that the next BIOS version knows my RAM or sould I live with low default values?

Here I give to you 4 more advises that I also consider basic rules:

1. Do not update your BIOS if everything run correctly. The ones that periodically bios update is a sado-masochistic sicked one.
2. Do not "overclock" anything never (ie, lead to physical limit the component). It's more useful a PC that lasts 20 years at 100 Km/h (use your fantasy...) than a PC that lasts 5 years at 130 km/h. The overclock beyond the limits of the components, after all,is a symptom of deeper ills within, considering that every PC, after a month, is already outdated. Do not care about this!!
3. It's more important to have a stable PC that you can also use in summertime with 40° without having any fear, than a PC with open case, 30 fans that consume and create noise and the big fear that everything could burn, sending to smoke also important documents or breaking the deserved videogame enterntainment.
   
4. It's very important a multimedia PC, interactive and enjoyable even if this costs a longer start-up time. Heavly uses these machines, and the world finally will understand what a PC is used for, and maybe, in a day far far away... I also understand this.
   

Hoping to have been more than helpful, I greet you all

PS: And update this f**ed bios if you are under warranty and you have the seller at a few steps from home... you will learn something more for your future! Will you not use that slow catorce for a lifetime : D !?!

Lord Hol Napult

Lord's Theory: Pigeon are Superior Creatures.

Pigeon is a superior creature.

Our day starts in the cold, when about all the working population goes inside a plate car and the micro-dust. A non return travel to the working place.

Between columns and car accidents, we reach the destination point, and the pigeon is already there. It looks to us with his friends, from the top of a street lamp. Everyone in line to observe the monotony of the workers path.

When they notice us, they carry out their primary biological function.

The man in column is a man later. The impetuosity, the tension, he must run, run!
The pigeon look us and starts as follow: "thruuu thruuu, thruuu thruuu”.

At working lunch time we can see them again. They are there, eating from at least one hour before us. They love to eat one another. They must not reserve a place or come to blows, the birdseed stand below a pine or between the grass.

They also haven't true predators. Maybe some little cats, but hardly they escape away.

We could think that they didn't eat a good lunch, but I personally haven't seen yet slim pigeons .
Also here it's a superior one.

During the day the tiredness starts to hit us. Looking outside a window pigeons are disappeared. Where could they be gone ? Obvious, the more lucky are coddling the female, while the others, those UNLUCKY ones, are having a middle-day nap.

Some sleepless pigeons fly in front of us, sometimes, and they remember us that they haven't any kind of commit we have.

The evening arrives... we escape in full hurry. The traffic is waiting for us but if we run a bit we escape from our psichological half-hour column. The pigeon already stands into the grass, better in small groups, looking for food but without any hurry. Then, he starts a tired fly and finishes upon a top place.

It could pass also a pontiff below, but if the need calls.... PLAF!

Let's run to the dry cleaner, but all together we must admit that the pigeon is perfectly integrated into the society and it's also environment respectful.

Ah, maybe someone understood this before you...

...the Pigeon is a Superior Creature!

Lord Hol Napult

Silly AntiPiracy Systems: Mass Effect - Intelligent Systems: (look down)

Recently I've bought inside a shop a last generation videogame: Mass Effect.
The game sector is enthusiastic about this game and positive comments raise the quality of the product.
But, there is a small difference between the ones that develop a game and the ones that protect it, in fact , thanks to my small experience, the protection systems are implemented at the end, and often they are bought from Third parts.

In that case the EA protection politics can be resumed as follow: Complicate the life of the honest buyers and lose your money for piracy as before.

I've bought the original game both for good reviews , both for the cheap costs: about 20 euro.
The price is the first way to fight piracy.
Think that look for a pirated version, download it, mount the iso, install the product and then again , crak the program and test it... with just about 20 euro I save my mind from everything and I can get all the optional!

Anyway, someone has decided instead that probably 20 euro wasn't sufficient to let me play in peace, probably they need more to ask:
In fact EA writes in small small char:"The game require the internet connection to be activated". First this kind of writings must be well noticed, but this cut off in Italy at least the 40% of the population because we live into a telematic degrade at wich we are condemned.

Me, living in Italy, I've not upon my play computer the internet connection! It's so, ok?

Connection require a contract , a telephone, a good line, and all this connected to the Pc where the game is installed... why?!?!? You could at least let me provide the key on a second pc, porting that key on the play pc with an usb pen!

The funny is that pirates quickly identify the transferred files that enable the game, while the common users suffer the connection with EA, the registration with sensitive data, a praying moment to hope that everything should work, and then a Download of the activation and, as incoming last news said, a periodic reactivation every 15 days... to instil more confidence, in short.

But, who provide support in long time ? I often play old games many years later they come out. There will still be EA after many years ? Will also support this game ?

In true words, we bought the 90% of the game, the remaining 10% can only be downloaded from them, and only if they want. This mania to gain total control, to know everything, to manipulate marketing informations and to suppress their customers, I cannot approve, but wost, I cannot undestand!
Time ago I renounced to Half Life 2 for all this motivations, and Mass Effect escaped my attention. If I should have known that, I should haven't bought it.
But all of this is unuseful at last, because....
...What an honest player does, after this huge requests, to play a videgame?

Simple, he cracks it! And so I had , against one's will, to look for a "No-CD" executable, overwrite the original and play.... oooooh finally I've playied! I buy a game and , incredibly, when I return home I want to play it! I'm abnorm ?

Mass Effect is very beauty, I've finished it in a couple of days (secondary mission included), and I reproach EA for the small longevity of a game where they should put a mai plot of at least 10 missions, instead of the 5 they did. After all it also has been called RPG!
Anyway is a good game, damaged by protection systems, damaged by sensitive data registration and from the distribution online politics of the additional contents.

But , what about add-on ? Yes, yes:
I've downloaded the free add-on for PC of Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky, but I haven't reached to play it because the installation requires a serial code. I gave my original code written on the back of the M.E. manual but without success. Now we got also the "genious" installer anti-piracy, so genious that they trust anyone

At the end I uninstalled everything and renounced to the expansion.
In short, EA, a true DISASTER! Fix your Head Quickly!!!
Probably "Oblivion (tm)" haven't teached anything! That game said: "Do a good game and you will sell, do it scarce and you will loose; damage your honest customer and this will remember about you for a good period (and you will loose also in this case)".

I would like to give some general advice to fight videogames piracy , and to set all this major whith drunk step about this discussion :

1. Do a good game, for collection, to keep on the desk and good to show to the friends.

2. Keep Installation easy and complete, even if wast gigabytes, and possibly quick!

3. Insert a Coloured Manual (always in gray it is!), readable, enjoyable, that identifies the game as a unique piece, and make it good to read before someone is going to bed.

4. Do not force users to do things that they cannot do or they don't want to do. Starting from registrations, passing through activations and unuseful forced advertising.

5. Keep the costs down, now more than before cause we suffer the financial crisis.
6. Level the price with the publish time, keeping the product on the marketing for at least 2/3 years (es: start with 60 euro, then fall to 40 euro after 3 months, then fall to 20 euro after 6 months, then give the game to the 7/8 euro magazines).
   

Moreover, do you want to undestand the "pirates" that make you lose the Budget, and broke your Businness ?
Pirates at the end are people that use the game for an half, they didn't play it truly, they didn't pay big attention to it and they will never buy it. Pirates are half-hearted inside their extreme mode to try games, while they never finish anything at all.
As they pirate your game today, they will do with the next 10 days after...

The Spontaneous question is: "Do you think that you can get some money from this persons? "
The Second question is: "Do You really think that penalizing honest customers will return to you the money of the pirates? "

The conclusion is that software, all the software, can be DUPLICATED with very cheap costs, and that characteristic is unique, absent in all the others economic sectors, but, conversely, it always have some piracy that follows. Is unuseful to obtain the advantages and regret the disadvantages. It's like to consider incoming and forget the outgoings! What a logic is this?

Ciao Ciao ! And... Good Year 2009!

Lord Hol Napult

Primo Colore (First Colour)

Primo Colore
Inserito originariamente da Lord Hol Napult

"First Colour" is my first paint using tempera upon canvas.

This is really my first experience in this sector. The Brush that exit from the canvas is not a photomontage, but it's a real brush that comes out from the canvas, and release its colours.... I remind to you the comprehension of the rest.

Just a last think to remember.... keep some water in you mouth!!! ; )

Best Regards.

Lord Hol Napult

POLL Results - "What you'd like to find most in a videogame ?"

Poll result:
"What you'd like to find most in a videogame ?"

No-CD Executables : 4
Free Play (ex:GTA4) : 3
Erotism : 3
Heavy Metal : 2
Humor Spots : 1
Easter Egg (secrets) : 1
Minigames : 0
Reality : 0

Considerations:
This Poll was very curious... we conclude that we hate the cd-rom required inside the drive to play a videogame. I don't open the piracy discuss down here but I think that people, also the ones that buy originals, quickly start the non-cd crack research after installing a game. I hope that some Majors hear us....

Free Play and Erotism run on the same frequency: freedom in fact require to be able to do everything in a videogame, not just drive and shoot :)

Secondarily come Heavy Metal and humor Spots... probably the today-games are too much dark and bloody.

The only think that a videogamer hates is the harsh Reality. This should be a knife for the simulatos, because some are so technical that they make you lose the will to play. In fact the videogames are and will remain a way to escape the routine of the days. It must give a dream, a hope, or simply an adventure.


I thanks everyone partecipated to my Polls. A few but Good.
I recommend you, tag the future polls !!!!

Lord Hol Napult

I've Reformatted Again! Now I've ME and XP togheter (they kill one another!) !

Long long time ago there was Windows Me, who didn't want to know to run an entire year;
Its primary task was to corrupt itself. Too much altruist this ME, a true gentleman to say at all. It demanded very little, but it often burned from the world.

Thus I decided to restore my PC, now reduced to continuous swaps, blocked applications, and folder turned into random bits, with the risk to lose many many important files.... if they were , at the end, not so important someone can discover just after the fright.

Just one years ago I failed trying to install Me and XP on the same hard disk, but it was a challenge that didn't convinced to me... I was wrong about something. I swore to myself that I tryied every possibility, but my error was systemic: bad confidence with formatting parameters.

This year 2008 the challenge repeated itself, but , probably, I was more fierced.
I've used an Open Source partition program well done that I suggest to you:
Gnome Partition
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

With this Open Source utility (freeware) you can fragmenting an hard disk in many parts, so you will obtain many drive letters as result (ex. C: D: E: F:...)


For example Windows ME can read just FAT32 formatting method, but it cannot view more than 130 Gb.
If you partition the hard disk of 150 Gb you can reach all the area in storage without unuseful loss.

I've decided like follow:

• 20 Gb FAT32 (for Windows Me)
• 50 Gb FAT32 (for Windows XP)
• Resto FAT32 (for shared data, such as Mp3, Movies or other).
  

But, what I need more to be able to use an Hard Disk as an Operative System from starting ?
It's here that I've got wrong on year ago... Every formatting unit have some Flags that complete the unit for the usage.
Gnome Partition divided correctly the hard drive, but forgot to say to me that I should have to set the following flag to put my units on working:

• Bootable (At least for the unit C:)
• LBA (for every partition - I manage addressing to more than 500 Mb )
  

I must admit that at the end the results return many rewards... Windows XP is perfect for network operations and internet, while upon ME I've practically a bag full of programs that I don't want to lose.

In confidence, we are just speaking about a Pentium3 800Mhz with 500Mb di RAM...
but everything works fine and when this happen a machine awake again.

But now... it's time to look for a new computer. It's coming "Mass Effect" ;)

Hail to the Smanettons!

Lord Hol Napult

Free Blogger

There are people in power in Italy that envy the charisma of the youngs, envy their passion, envy the dexterity they have with new technologies.

There are people in power in Italy that has no ideals, hopes, even True friends.
People, that are impregnated by the "stench of compromise, without having never tasted the fresh oxygen of the honesty. "

There are people in power that instead of creating roads for the future, sews Gags for the present. Gags for the Information, for the freedom of thought, or for the single after they isolated him.

There are people in power who believes to be something higher than any human being, a "more" with "more power" and then, they expect to find someone that respects "more" their choices .... (yeah-okkay..).

These people should understand that they have a mandate of "hard work" to respect, a kind of strong start in a long uphill march ...
None of the above. These people think they have reached the end, and they're trying to convince us all.

The law against Blog is yet another demonstration, inapplicable, of how between reality and these people, lies an abyss.

I agree to Free Blogger initiative. Do you too.


Lord Hol Napult

(Gocce Nere sul Progresso) Black Rain on Progress

Fall down the rain upon urban traffic,
Scende la pioggia sul traffico urbano,
as tears upon a dirty children face,
come lacrime sul volto sporco di bambino,
and trace paths of a heavy color
e traccia sentieri d'un greve colore
leaving to see a gray nerve inside.
lasciando scorgere un grigio nervino.

Black the night falls upon crazy machines,
Nera la notte sovvien, su macchine folli,
emblem of a schizophrenic Age now dark,
schizofrenico emblema d'un Era ormai buia,
and rain and wind seem striving hands
e pioggia e vento sembran mani protese
that beg the man to stop that Inferno.
che supplican l'uomo di fermare la bolgia.

Neon shimmering on wet roads,
Neon luccicanti su strade bagnate,
between filthy geometries spitted out on the green,
tra sporche geometrie sputate sul verde,
these are the benefits of a virtual world
son questi i vantaggi d'un mondo virtuale
which kills with ardor what is pure reality.
che uccide con foga ciò che è pura realtà.

The man has been lost running after the carousel,
L'uomo s'è perso al rincorrer la giostra,
spurred by false provincial joust-men,
sospinto dai falsi giostrai di provincia,
running or escaping, in the rush of Nothing
correndo o scappando, nella fretta del Nulla
sweeps the land without a flinch.
travolge la terra senza battere ciglia.

Among the many lost inside unclean turbines,
Tra i tanti che presi dal turbine immondo,
not even a man turns back to look,
neppur v'e nè uno che si volge a guardare,
if there is a true need for running in circle
se è vero bisogno lo correre in tondo
or it's just a joke of the beastly ignoring.
oppure uno scherzo del lordo ignorare.

There are not many words that describe the motion
Non vi son gran parole che descrivono il moto
if there isn't the strength to read just a row
se neppur v'è la forza di leggere un rigo
to lock what has never had an aim
per bloccare ciò che non ha mai avuto scopo
and to see a future within a flower colors.
e vedere un futuro entro un fior colorito.

Would you excuse just a row, just another more one,
Scusate la riga, un'altra soltanto,
that has no color, no dust or asbestos:
Non ha alcun colore, nè polvere o amianto:
"Although man knows that life is suffering,
"Benché l'uomo sappia che la vita è soffrire,
he does not understand yet how it's right to die".
ancor non comprende com'è giusto morire" .

Lord Hol Napult

Reality perception of a Videogamer

We live in a virtual world.
Reality doesn't exist, it's a trick obtained by chemical processes and electrical impulses.

Everything, every object, every person have the right connections that force our mind to believe to all that happens under our eyes, or created by our hands, but all of this doesn't exist. Reality is the new videgame of the moment.

We could be sitting or layed or in amorphis state into a parallel world while we "live" our reality, but plugged connections deceive us where we are, who we are and what we are doing. In brief, Matrix™ isn't a movie... it's a documentaire with a love story inside.

Perhaps this is the most fluid, immersive, and playable game ever created for us and for our "hardware", the human body, and suggested to our minds who knows how.
Surely a NPG (non playable gamer) didn't know of what he's done until some code answer this question:

Lawyers, road sweepers, politicians, managers and farmers, everyone connected, everyone in debugging mode upon their application area.
And who's playing with us, who's manouvering us, who is handling or simply commanding ?

Problaby God, with a pure light mouse that drawn the world, populated it and now is playing a Spore/GTA/Command&Conquer with us; or better, using us.

And wha about us when we joke of the funny creatures of Spore, without undestanding the irony below!

God himself created the man "as him was", and so many coders did, putting inside their videogames some elements that surrounded them... so when will we see a NPG that create his own videogame using the elements that surround him ?

The road, if you think, is this, a massive clonation that push itself where the madness can lie.
And what about this madness, let's define madness:"Short-circuit that join different elements and solve the value inside the internal code of a simple human, randomly taken from the application-world in execution".

And what about the Origins? The Reincarnation ? Probably we never disconnected from this irreal application. Simply the MainFrame gives us a new ID and we restart as new.

At the beginning we were monkeys, then barbarians, then vikings and now we are just evolved beings that interrogate themselves about what they are, and why some cicles infinitly repeat themselves during time pass.

Why war repeat themselves ? Why errors do the same ? The so-called systemic anomaly that flood around and break the common rules of the main subroutines. So there is no upgrades for us ?

My madness ends here, upon this blog. I don't know if this is sickness, ipervision or simply an introspective sistemic analysis. I leave to your applications but I renew to you the meaning of life.

Above us , it wins who uses less IDs in 1000 years of gameplay. Up for grabs of this Unreal Tournament of the Gods, there is a Fotonic MegaBlounter with electrostatic-impulses to irradiate infinite energy inside the instanced universes .

System Halted.

Lord Hol Napult

Here how Corruption Works in ITALY

Today I will show to you how corruption in Italy works, with a simple video. Just Look it now!

This POST supports the Beppe Grillo's Post about corruption in Italy, that reached a very repsectable (in negative) level thanks to the Parliament caste that autoelected itself deleting the "direct preference of the candidate" , using instead just a "political party preference".
Just 1 law and we are fucked .
But be carefull , the caste is so convincted that wants to expand this law to the European Parliament!

Ah, This means that Videogame Sector will never grow down here...

Ciao to Everyone.

Links:
Post di Beppe Grillo
Posizione dell'Italia a livello Mondiale per corruzione.

Lord Hol Napult