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Offline deadly7

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nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« on: July 13, 2005, 03:24:06 pm »
I uninstalled my old nVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 drivers (v5.8.4.2 or something) I installed drivers 3.0.8.2, then uninstalled them because I had accidentally broked something in them and deleted a file or something, so I reinstalled them. When I glance at my C:\ drive I'm missing over 150mb of disk space. And 150mb of 3.99gb is a LOT for C:\ drive considering that my comp runs much faster with 1.09GB of free space as opposed to 919MB of free space.

And I can't even e-mail them because "Since we do not sell directly to the user, we cannot provide support." Bullshit, as far as I care, I downloaded the drivers from YOUR site. My video card is an nvidia geforce3 ti200.

Whatev, can I possibly get some help finding out where all my harddrive space went?
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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2005, 04:27:28 pm »
They have great support.  Email them at nvidia@mailca.custhelp.com my issue was on thier drivers too (a bug) and they fixed it.
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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2005, 04:50:51 pm »
If you have 1GB of HD space left, you need a new HD. :P

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2005, 06:18:58 pm »
If you have 1GB of HD space left, you need a new HD. :P
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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2005, 06:35:17 pm »
You can tell the difference between a gb and 150mb less space?

I might be interested in purchasing that harddrive off of you. Who knows, maybe you can buy a bigger one with the profits.
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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2005, 07:03:36 pm »
You can tell the difference between a gb and 150mb less space?

I might be interested in purchasing that harddrive off of you. Who knows, maybe you can buy a bigger one with the profits.

You could put it in the Smithsonian. :P

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2005, 07:11:42 pm »
Or I could put it in Spyglass.

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Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              2841292   1322736   1371896  50% /
/dev/hda5               944608    890588      5260 100% /home
/dev/hda6              3156180    130260   2863004   5% /usr/local
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[20:21:13] xar: i was just thinking about the time iago came over here and we made this huge bomb and light up the sky for 6 min
[20:21:15] xar: that was funny

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2005, 07:50:54 pm »
They have great support. Email them at nvidia@mailca.custhelp.com my issue was on thier drivers too (a bug) and they fixed it.

They don't have that on their website!

@Quik: It's not for sale, sorry. Though I would love to get rid of it, that would cause more hassles. (Second new install of Windows in 3 weeks!) Also yeah, it runs a tad bit slower. It's not immediately noticable, but when you start up Gaim, Firefox, 3 bots, and Winamp at the same time you can it's slowing down.

@Sidoh/R.a.B.B.i.T: Are you willing to pay for one for me? Exactly.
[17:42:21.609] <Ergot> Kutsuju you're girlfrieds pussy must be a 403 error for you
 [17:42:25.585] <Ergot> FORBIDDEN

on IRC playing T&T++
<iago> He is unarmed
<Hitmen> he has no arms?!

on AIM with a drunk mythix:
(00:50:05) Mythix: Deadly
(00:50:11) Mythix: I'm going to fuck that red dot out of your head.
(00:50:15) Mythix: with my nine

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2005, 10:21:30 pm »
Second in three weeks?

I've done 10+ in under a week.
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2005, 12:17:41 am »
Yeah but your harddrives hate you. Mine just... dislove me.
[17:42:21.609] <Ergot> Kutsuju you're girlfrieds pussy must be a 403 error for you
 [17:42:25.585] <Ergot> FORBIDDEN

on IRC playing T&T++
<iago> He is unarmed
<Hitmen> he has no arms?!

on AIM with a drunk mythix:
(00:50:05) Mythix: Deadly
(00:50:11) Mythix: I'm going to fuck that red dot out of your head.
(00:50:15) Mythix: with my nine

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Re: nVIDIA ate my HD space!
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2005, 12:27:26 am »
I think the most I've ever done is two in a month or so. I think Newby's experiences involved a very faulty harddrive or something, haha. Just assuming... :)

That happened about half a year ago right before my 200GB Seagate bombed on me.

Here's the news post, lmao: http://sidoh.dark-wire.net/?fuseaction=news.full&id=12