The blackened ends on a fluorescent lamp is the sign of use and age. When a lamp is off the ballast needs to pump a high starting voltage into the lamp to ignite the gasses. Once the lamp is started and is lighted the ballast automatically switches to a normal operating voltage. Most of the new...
I totally agree with josephv
I have been using SolidWorks for over four years and I have found that you must stick with non-gaming video cards. At work I work on a P3 750 with 375 ram and a 32mb Oxygen VX-1. Just before recieving the new video card I was pulling my hair out waiting for the...