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Hello all!
Yesterday I went to my inlaws house and I spent half the afternoon solving the GPU issue, after discovering the BIOS was already updated  I got a PSU and installed it into that computer, then the steps that were in the youtube video posted by @KornfeldEliyahuPeter and @Paul-S-Wilcox helped a lot, definitely it was the motherboard what was impeding the system to start as I was even able to start it with the original 300W PSU following the steps depicted on the video... after all I've changed the PSU for a brand new 600W one and everything is ready.
during this week they'll meditate if waiting two minutes to start the computer while pressing keys at specific moments will be ok or not... if it's ok I'm ready, if it's not I'll have to change the mobo... 
anyway, thank you guys and gals, you've really helped me, as always! 
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I somehow was expecting a report about a computer goes in flames...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, I was thinking that we would appear in the evening news... you know, building demolished caused by a PSU short circuit... 
Wait for the next week when they decide what to do regarding the mother board... if they decide to get a new one... dismounting the current one will work for sure, assembling the new one should not be a problem... the only thing is scary is the thermal paste thing... I've never done it in the past... So don't worry your report will come sooner or later...
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Thermal paste isn't a problem: a little goes a long way!
But...quality of the paste is important.
See here: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/geek_tested_17_thermal_pastes_face[^] - it's worth looking at the results summary on page two and the different in temperatures they got with the different pastes. Especially once dust starts to build up in the fans and the efficiency of the air flow drops.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Glad to be of some help. If it's possible, you may find that exchanging the nVidia card for an equivalent AMD card may cure the problem.
I have an nVidia GTX750Ti card and although I've had no hardware incompatibility problems on my rig, I've had plenty of problems with Linux either not installing or driver problems. It seems that something has radically altered on these newer cards compared to the older nvidia ones.
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Haven't had a haircut in ~5 yrs so even though the second one looks interesting the first one would be my choice.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Haha, oh well, just for your general knowledge! 
I don't live in America myself! so...
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I just noticed, Syncfusion is offering a community license of all their controls for free, http://www.syncfusion.com/products/communitylicense[^] The page says they liked what Microsoft did with Visual Studio Community, and decided they would do the same. It is crazy what has happened for individual and small teams of software developers in the last couple months.
modified 24-Jan-15 23:46pm.
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Thanks downloading now and going to kick the tires.
Need to add this to the Free Tools forum!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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... edit ...
What I did to be able to (finally, on the eighth attempt) try out the SF WinForm Grid:
1. create a new WinForm Project in Visual Studio 2013 targeting FrameWork 4.5.1.
2. drag the SF Grid onto the Form.
2. manually add a reference to:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\12.4.0.24\Assemblies\4.5\Syncfusion.Grid.Windows.XmlSerializers.dll ... end edit ...
I was curious to try out the current version of the SyncFusion Grid, so I downloaded this release, got a free key, and installed it on my Win 8.1/x64 machine.
Created a new project in Visual Studio 2013 targeting FrameWork 4.5.1, created a WinForm Project, dropped the SF Grid on a Form: will not build:
"Code generation for property 'SerializeCellsBehavior' failed. Error was: 'Type 'Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Grid.GridSerializeCellsBehavior' is not available in the target framework.' Tried changing the FrameWork to 4.5: that crashed Visual Studio.
Tried the same thing with FrameWork 4.0: same result. FrameWork 4.0 Client: some SF Controls show up in the ToolBox, but not Grid.
Below FrameWork 4.0, you get errors like:
Error 2 The type or namespace name 'Tasks' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Threading' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Error 3 The type or namespace name 'Tasks' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Threading' (are you missing an assembly reference?) After seven tries to get a basic Grid running, I'll stop at this point.
I note that in their install folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\12.4.0.24\precompiledassemblies\12.4.0.24 They show assemblies for .NET 2,3,3.5,4,4.5,4.5.1
Since they're gifting this whopper on "the rest of us," guess I'll give their support forum a jingle.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Thanks, that is nice to know.
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As a long-term Syncfusion user, this opens all sorts of opportunities for my articles.
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In the past (until 3 years ago) we tried to use Syncfusion for win forms - we had enormous problems (most of them memory related) with the controls, so slowly we replaced them with components from other company...As today we are Syncfusion free...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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May I ask which companies' components you're using now? I'm currently considering to purchase a DevExpress WinForms suite.
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A mix of Janus, DevEx, Telerik and home-made...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Disclaimer: I am not and have never been affiliated with any company that provides control suites. The following is just my personal experience.
I have used DevExpress Winforms exclusively for several years. I switched from a very bad experience with Component One and Syncfusion. DevExpress Winforms suite is very nice. Controls are consistent - that is, the way their properties are laid out and their property names. Controls are integrated. For example, you can put a DX combo box on the form surface, or you can put it in a DX grid. Same combo box control. Controls are very customizable. By this I mean that if you want to set a specific caption or custom total for group rows while grouping a grid by a column value, go ahead and do it. Top notch customer support. Very little waiting for support. I had an excellent experience. But please note that I have only used their WinForms controls -- not web, wpf, orm, etc. But I expect these other sets of controls would be equally good.
On the negative side, and these are probably true of most control suites.... It is pricey. The files you have to include with your project bulk it up quite a bit. The controls feel "heavy" sometimes, like the computer has to downshift in order to process the form. But greater functionality usually involves more computing needs and larger files to deploy. Hope this helps with your decision.
Mike
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Thanks Mike, much appreciated! I'm a bit intimidated by the amount of customization options you have there but I haven't encountered any strange misbehaviour/doesnt-compile/crashes so far in contrast to what I'm hearing about other suites so I think I'll go for it.
Sebastian
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What's the catch? Why would they give away their complete library? What are the legal restrictions regarding deployment of finished applications?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The catch is that it's only free for teams of 5 or less. You can distribute applications you write with this.
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I am most definitely a team of 5 or less...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There is one more thing - Annual gross revenue should be below $1 million USD.
Ranjan.D
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Ranjan.D wrote: revenue should be below $1 million USD
Darn it! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Look forward to an article Pete. Downloaded and looked around and it's a huge library, kind of intimidating. Tried a simple app this morning and there were a few problems building so would really help if someone that knew the lib could guide us mere mortals though it. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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