Recent content by bigbrent88

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    No Health Care Vote Before August Break

    I think the problem with the bill, the reason it is so massive and vague, stems from the fact that it has to balance public and private concerns of insurance. If it were reform in one or the other it would still be large, but more focused. I don't know what the best current option is for this...
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    Verizon DSL slow

    Just to update the tech never found an exact problem. He just stated that everything at the junction box was correct, but once inside something was draining the speed. Since we had vonage he disconnected the extra lines to the house and now it works!? Nothing was connected to any other phone...
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    server room AC is maxed out but it's still getting way to hot (socal)

    Let me state that I am not in IT or have any knowlege about servers, but I do know about aerodynamics. I can see humidity affecting cooling a couple ways. First off let me compare a coolng fan in a server to the prop of an airplane. Airplanes are rated for speed and climb at sea level at a...
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    Verizon DSL slow

    First let me offer apologies if this story starts to drag. The beginning of my problems started about one month ago when I switched the home phone over to Vonage.Originally my phone service came from Verizon along with DSL in a package. Everything went smoothly on Vonages side, they sent my...
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    Display problems

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    Display problems

    I have the monitor running through a DVI converter, so thats one thought I had and I am running at 60hz reccommended. Its only something that I really noticed several months back but thought it was a MB problem. PS is an OCZ Gamextreme 600w, which should be plenty. Besides that everything is the...
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    Display problems

    Hey there, this is a problem I've posted on before, but now I have pics. Setup: AMD 3800 X2 AM2 Abit KN9-SLI 2GB OCZ Gold DDR2-800 EVGA 7900GT KO 512mb Maxtor 80GBGB SATA I WD 160 SATA II Samsung Syncmaster 152N Basically I can summarize that the problem only occurs during gaming now...
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    Will a mobo boot without ram? / How to test a mobo?

    I dont know what setup you are using to test but also try unplugging all peripherals from the motherboard and see where that gets you. Also if you have a USB keyboard/mouse run through an adaptor for PS/2, just run it on USB. Took me forever to find this problem on my computer. But otherwise the...
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    Rigging a Raid Setup

    Sounds like a good plan. I always assumed that windows was running on the inside edge when you look at the defrag graphic with the left being the inside, but I guess its just a stacking graphic. Well, time to start backing up for the install, thanks.
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    Rigging a Raid Setup

    Ive got 2GB of USB flash so backups arent a big problem, not something I'd like to deal with though. The 80GB is a few years old, thats why I was hoping for that extra partition space on the newer drive for keeping non-striped data on a newer drive. But if that space wouldnt show up as usable...
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    Rigging a Raid Setup

    Setup: AMD 3800=X2 AM2 running 2.2Ghz Abit Kn9 SLI 2gb OCZ GOld DDR2-800 EVGA 7900 GT KO 512MB Hey all, I am trying to setup a RAID 0 on my current setup. Currently I have two drives; 1-120GB SATAII WD 16mbcache and 1-80GB SATAI Maxtor 8mb cache. These drives are out of sync in every...
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    Display corruption in certain games

    Setup: AMD 3800 X2 AM2 Abit KN9-SLI EVGA 7900GTO KO 512mb 2 HD's in non-RAID 2GB OCZ DDR2-800 Gold In certain games like BF2142 and a couple steam games I get a screen corruption. Everything appears to load fine, but after a few mins I get a glurry screen that seems to to zoom into a...
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    Computer wont POST again!!!!!! Freezes

    Alright, guess I'm slowly figuring it out. Had to raise the DDR voltage(forgot this for AM2) so now I can use the computer basics. But now Im back to where I started, getting BSoD's during multitasking or gaming. Getting stop errors 0x000000f4 and 0x00000077 Kernel stack error. Ran a memtest...
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    Computer wont POST again!!!!!! Freezes

    Well I reset the BIOS and unplugged a bunch of things, it booted to POST and did so after reconnecting all drives and USB ports. Found out something with my keyboard or the PS2 adaptor the keyboard was using was stalling the boot!! Dont know why. But now the computer is freezing on the...