Joseph W. bourke
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Glad to see things are getting there. My shakedown cruise lasted for the better part of week. I had even made an Excel spreadsheet of all the software, plugins, scripts, etc. that I needed from my old workstation, and I was still playing catchup for a while.
I don’t know what the deal is with pasting the links. I generally just copy it off the URL display at the top of the browser and it works. The HP links are very long and complex, so I think they are part of the problem with them not always working. But as David says, sometimes it’s good to go fishing on your own :>)
Did you have any luck with the USB settings in BIOS?
Joe Bourke
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Bingo Zingo! I think I found it:
https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-259.57-whql-driver.html
Joe Bourke
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Not having the spec for the card, or the full name, I’m not sure. But I think you said way back in the discussion that it was an Nvidia Quadro FX4800 card. On the HP site, here’s the driver:
https://h20564.https://www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=3794263
That said, you probably want to get it directly from Nvidia, so a search with the full correct name should get it.
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I would certainly consider billing for the amount of time you have in to the project, since it seems you aren’t going to gain any future work by not doing that. From the sound of the boss’s response, I’d count myself lucky that the job went south when it did.
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Is your graphics card on the list of Adobe certified CUDA cards?
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html
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Here’s more on that possibility:
https://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/fix-slow-file-transfer-to-flash-drive/84479.html
Joe Bourke
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The Z800 is USB 2.0 – maybe your baby PC is USB 3.0? Another thought, mentioned in this link:
https://superuser.com/questions/493295/extremely-slow-usb-transfer-speed
is that the BIOS settings may be set to “legacy” mode, which would be USB 1.0. You can change that, from what they say above. I did not see that problem on my Z800, so I’m not familiar with it, but it sounds like that may be the case. As you can see, there’s going to be a shakedown cruise to get everything optimized.
Joe Bourke
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Woohooooo!!! Have fun. One thing to bear in mind is that there are settings (I think they’re in BIOS – the HP docs will tell you) which can allow you to have the fans all kick on – a self test I assume – on startup. When I first fired up my Z800, it sounded like a B-17 taking off. I managed to change that later on, as I learned about all the settings you can customize…
Joe Bourke
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Ben –
You may want to take a look at this little (well, not so little) guy:
https://www.moveyourcamera.com/
What’s wonderful about is its’ flexibility: you can run it along existing railings (bridge, porch, walkway) by simply adjusting the width of it. I use 1″ PVC which I buy at HDepot, and with fittings I can make anything from a short 2 footer, 2 an 8 footer for next to nothing, and quickly. The trick is to use the heavy duty PVC (I think it’s Schedule 1, so it doesn’t flex much). I can also roll on the square PVC sold at HD for fence posts, and just about anything else. The builder JG Pasterjac (sp?) is a really nice guy who you can contact directly, and who responds to questions and issues. I notice he has also built a motor kit for the Cinemover, and it looks pretty good:
https://blog.planet5d.com/2012/03/moveyourcamera-coms-cinemover-a-review/
The chain concerns me because of noise possibilities, but he addresses that in the video pretty well. You could probably also substitue nylon timing chain, or ask JG about it and solve that potential problem. The Cinemover is a tank, but a very flexible, adaptable tank…
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Most definitely stick it to FedEx – it’s just the right thing to do. As far as email notifications, it may be that they just get turned off for some random reason. I notice that my location, which is NH, has been NH, and will be NH, changes randomly – sometimes I show up in Maine, sometimes in Idaho – just random stuff. Maybe try resetting the switch to notify.
As far as the new hard drive, physically adding it is a walk in the park with the Z800 – just pull out one of the sleds, pop the drive in (no tools necessary), and fire up the computer. If it’s a brand new drive, you’ll have to go to Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage, and you’ll see your drives. You’ll need to format the drive, see this:
https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/install-remove-hard-disk-drive#1TC=windows-7
I have bought 2 Seagate 2TB drives, one brand new, and one an open box return from B&H, for under 50 bucks. Both work just fine, one in my Drobo (8TB backup system), and one waiting in queue in case a drive goes south. I’ve had very good luck with Seagate drives, of course bearing in mind that a lot of it is luck. Sometimes you get a lemon – sometimes you don’t, but the failure rate for Seagate drives is not bad at all. Seagate and Western Digital seem to be the reliable leaders right now. No reason at all for suggesting the 500GB drive – it was just a good price when I searched for it.
If you really want to geek out, here’s a link to drive failure rates by drive size for Q3, 2015. It will drive you nuts, but it’s interesting. The 2TB drives seem to have a higher rate of failure, but I haven’t experienced that personally. My Drobo has been cooking right along for several years, with 2TB drives, and only 1 has failed recently – and that purchase was a used system, so I don’t know how long the drives have been cooking away. The Seagate Barracuda’s seemed to have a higher failure rate, if I’m reading the chart correctly:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com