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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM Socket AM2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $74.99 Asus GeForce EN6200TC512/TD 256M DDR2 PCI-E $48.00 FSP Group (Fortron Source) Green PS FSP300-60GLN ATX2.0 300W Power Supply - OEM $31.99 A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin...
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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    Dell adds a premium for XP machines, and I would still have to add a video card for which they charge too much, and upgrade the ram. Looking at this now - MB - ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM Socket AM2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131072 CPU - AMD...
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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    How does this motherboard look - ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM Socket AM2 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131072 Would the Quadro be a capable solution or should I still be looking for separate. The low end cards seem overpriced for performance.
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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    Any recommendations then for a top tier manufacturer mb, mATX and graphics card?
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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    I am able to get the Antec ps for $47 shipped. It also comes with the antec 3 year warranty and I thought I had read that the Earth Watts were made by Seasonic, so of good quality. If I am mistaken I apologize. I also forgot to specify that a requirement of the reused cases was mATX for the...
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    Help building 3 desktop pcs for small dental office

    I am trying to finalize a decision for 3 computers. All I need some guts of the pc (mb, ram, cpu, ps, graphics), as the other items are being re-tasked from previous pcs (case, monitors, input devices, hds, disk drives). Trying to keep cost as low as possible, shooting for about $300 each...
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    Need MB w/ good onboard video

    jraddatz, check out this amd page, http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/extension/MotherboardFilter.aspx, just select chipset 690G. The same is true for a newegg.com search, use 690G. Zipzoomfly.com has several boards listed but most are pre-order. The nvidia integrated options coming out are the...
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    Best Setup for Small Office

    What is the best setup for a small office with a dedicated server running Windows SBS2003 and 5 clients all wired, no wireless planned? Options I have seen are: internet -> hardware firewall -> gigabit switch, internet -> router with built in switch with software firewall, or internet -> router...
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    Server for small office

    redbeard1, first off thanks for the huge reply, secondly, you too have mentioned getting a professional to do it, so can one be safely chosen by the Microsoft Small Business Specialists search on the Microsoft page? Do more partners listed i.e. Dell, Microsoft, HP, Cisco.... mean a better...
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    Server for small office

    elcamino74ss, I am ashamed to say but you completely lost me with "install MS WSUS to download and push out MS updates (Free). Set up AD, GPO, lock down the desktops as much as you can." RebateMonger, or anyone else, the link for "Search for Microsoft Small Business Specialists - Upper...
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    Server for small office

    Thanks for the responses so far, they are all extremely helpful. RebateMonger, I know what the doctor "paid" for the current setup and to me he was totally taken. In regards to you itemized post: a) How low cost a server would be advisable, or more so what are the minimum requirements for...
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    Server for small office

    Let me start with an apology for this soon to be lengthy post. My relative works as an office manger for a small dental office and has been having tremendous problems with the computers performance. The dentist hired a "computer guy" to set up the office for them, but needless to say his...
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    New motherboard and no drivers found!

    Sorry i should have typed AN35N-ultra. I did try to point the device manger to the cd drive but to no avail. When using windows explorer I do see that there are many compressed files on the disk. Is there any way to uncompress them or should I do a system recovery? Thanks for the cable...
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    New motherboard and no drivers found!

    Sorry for the second post but driversand files it says that are missing are: wdmaud.drv sysaudio.sys ntkern.vxd icmp.dll inetmibl.dll and others that it looks for when running the nvdia update
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    New motherboard and no drivers found!

    Just finished rebuilding system with Shuttle An35-ultra motherboard and most of it went ok but when it attempts to install drivers for the onboard sound, ethernet and PCI bus they cannot be located on the win 98 cd where it says they should be. I downloaded all windows updates got the most...