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:thumbup :thumbup ^ Eureka!

Does this help?

White spots are in vogue , a possible polar ice cap on Pluto courtesy of New Horizons:

Nonsensical Clueless Idiocracy?

^ What a joke. Flat (encephalogram) design in all its horror. It really looks like the GPU or the monitor are defective. 30 years after Windows 1.0 this piece of crap is "the way to the future"? What a prank.

@ Formfiller: :thumbup :thumbup ___________ Windows 10 slated to be out “as-a-service”

KB3045999 breaks VirtualBox, among other things, and can screw up a system royally. https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14051 http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/910689-kb3045999-debacle http://kb.thinlaunch.com/article/AA-00225/0/ThinDesktop-2-Fails-to-Load-Unable-to-load-required-virtual-machine-component.html http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/367319-bsod-application-error-2.html http://support.romaxtech.com/entries/93019397-Windows-Update-KB3045999-Incompatability-With-All-Romax-Software

Attention to this paragraph from Ed Bott :

I'm quarantining windows update for the time being.

Malventano, the author of the PcPer article, which has tested the yet to be released new 840 EVO firmware and Magician 4.6, has posted this in the whistleblower thread: We'll see.

In fact if what PcPer says is true this new band-aid sounds as good as could be reasonably expected, given the nature of the problem: Unreliable 19nm TLC needing periodical refresh to keep reading speeds up, which means sacrificing extra P/E cycles for the refreshes goes with the territory. But come to this point I don't trust Samsung at all. I'll only believe it if and when I see it work as advertised after some months of use.

(Off-topic: For those interested, the latest news on the 840 EVO bug affair.)

^ As a matter of fact it's a huge pile of hogwash, I'm also getting this 'update' even though I've NEVER downloaded any Tiles 10 related crap. No trojan is going to attack my beloved Se7en and infect it with Tiles 10.

Just sprayed my monitor with coffee reading this epic comment :

There is an official Atom/XP version of Pale Moon that works fine in XP (and on any CPU, not only Atom processors). Binary Outcast (aka Matt A Tobin) offers an up to date (25.3.1 as of today) 3rd party contributed Pale Moon for XP. There is even a contributed Pale Moon for SSE that runs on venerable SSE-only processors (Pentium III / Athlon XP).

At best it's pester-ware, like in the months preceding XP being EOLed. At worst many innocent padawans may wake up one day to find that their perfectly fine W7 systems have been irreversibly turned to the tiled side of the force ...

That's the spirit! If you decide to try the commando way, this is what I did to make a Tualatin work on a MSI MS-6905 v2.0 slotket on a 440BX board: Pins AN3, AK4 and AJ3 need to be isolated from the slotket. Also the isolated pin AK4 needs to be bridged to live pin AN11. More info and pics.

Happy Se7en users check your six: Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader

Some slotkets for Coppermine can run a Tualatin straightforward, provided some CPU pins are modified. My DIY pin-modified Tualatin 1400S on a MSI-6905 v2.0 slotket works like a charm. But modding the CPU is a hairy job. There's a Korean guy who sells already modified Tualatins, ready for plug & play on said slotkets: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tualatin-P-IIIs-1-4GHz-512K-include-Socket-Adapter-/281238323137 Not really worth the trouble nowadays, except for some crazy retrocomp enthusiasts.

Don't worry that was just an aesthetic change, they dropped the Intel logo and switched to more discrete markings around 2001: ····· No real significance, except it tells us if the CPU was manufactured prior to or from 2001 onwards.

Wait a minute ... so all that crap can be succesfully expunged?

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Processors are very complex things, they aren't just black or white as in 'go' or 'no-go', there can be a lot of grey shades in between. Moreover, reliability of high-mileage specimens like venerable PIIIs can be affected by 'diseases' like electromigration. Might be that particular SL52R is just unreliable by now.