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Firefox 3 – Not so good

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Im using Firefox 3 at the moment and 2 things really annoy me about it.

1) Realplayer Recorder Plugin
Not Compatable with Firefox 3 yet. Not being able to say youtube vidoes anymore really really sucks.

2) Videos dont play somes times
Dont know why this keeps happening maybe its a Flash Player problem with again its annoying. Only Fix is to restart the browser.

Im trying to find an old up-to-date version of Firefox 2 cant seem to find one. Im going back to firefox 2 i cant do with those 2 features really.

Im back to firefox 2.0.17 at the moment by only because of the “Realplayer Video Recorder Plugin”. I hope they make it compatable with Firefox 3 ASAP.

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PC Upgrade Hell- Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 And AMD Phenom 9850 Black Editon

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Almost 2 weeks after getting a new motherboard and CPU which have left me in the red money wise, i still havnt got the bloody motherboard to work with a “Proper” decent power supply.

I had thought for some strange unknown reason that when i build my new PC and nothing powered up when i turned it on that the motherboard was dead and the CPU dead too. Then i wracked my brains and took everything out and finnaly tried out to see if it was the power supply which i paid a small fortune for back in march the “Corsair HX 620watt”. Anyway i put in an old “dodgy” Jeantech 420 watt PSU to see if was the power supply. By some unknown miracle the bloody thing decided to boot up.

And its been running for about 2 weeks now although its not as stable as the previous set up i had.

So today i went back to basics and took the whole fracking lot apart again and put in the PSU “Corsair Hx 620”. And nothing the PC wouldnt boot, took everything out the 4 ram DIMMs,graphics card discoonected fans etc. Tried the 4pin 12V slot on the motherboard, tried the 8 pin slot and nothing. The motherboard just wont power up with the 2 600watt powersupplies i have. For some unknown reason it will with the oldish 420 watt power supply i have.

Ive no idea what to do, to make matters worse i paid a lot for the motherboard and it doesnt list the CPU “AMD Phenom 9850 Black Editon” as a support CPU even though the mother board supports AM2+ CPU’s. Ive the latest BIOS installed and nothing.

I had the expensive Power Supply ready to return as an RMA but the after trying out the PSU on a old PC it works so ive no idea what to do now.

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Computer Upgrade From Hell-Corsair Hx620 PSU Failure

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I normally enjoy upgrading my PC when its time to do so but yesterday just about everything seemed to go wrong. After getting all the parts sorted out and connected up to the power supply and turning it on nothing happened. I thought i had the Front panel power switch connected wrong but it i totaly forgot and missed the fact that the Power Supply fan wasnt spinning.

Anway i continued in a state of complete frustration and failed to realised that the PSU fan not running was a big fucking “Neon SIGN” saying “Hey its the PSU”. I took out each part one by one and eventually after everything was out the bloody thing still would start.

So almost in complete agony after 5 hours on my feet wrecked tired and sweating like a fat geek i thought “Fuck, it must be the PSU”. So i tried out one the old “PSU”‘s i had from “PC World” that was the second one form the same manufacturer that “fracked Up”. When is say “Fracked up” i mean that it was plugged in it just went into a kinda “on-state” that you needed to press the “On Button” for it to work and wouldnt shut down properly.

Anyways i knew then it was the Expensive PSU that was the problem.  Today i just went about getting an RMA on the PSU and well it turns out payed a lot for the PSU, way more than i would normally only due to the fact that the last previous 2 ones i had failed. The PSU as i write is 110 Euro but back in march it was 130-160 Euro.  You would think after spending that kinda money that you get better lifespan than that.

Anyway after 5 hours of complete shitness and sweating and having my nextdoor neighbours throw a party while im trying to fix the bastard thing i got the Motherboard and CPU to work. Bloody Ironic how an PC World PSU could help.