Recent content by btsdev

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    Upgrading -- will my 480w thermaltake suffice?

    Hi guys, I'm upgrading everything I have besides sound card, chassis, and cd-roms. I want to see if I can keep my PSU, but I don't want to push it... cause I know running a stressed psu can damage hardware. You think my thermaltake 480w silent purepower will be able to power my new...
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    Setting up a RAID1 and using another SATA drive alone

    Hey guys, I have a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. It has 2 sata controllers: a VIA southbridge controller and a Promise controller. Both have 2 sata150 connections (so 4 total). I currently have a 74gig (sata150) Raptor, and I am purchasing 2 sata300 500g drives to put in a RAID1. So I...
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    I actually haven't picked out a motherboard yet -- looking at these boards now, I'm sorta reluctant to pick one and be rendered not be able to use my agp geforce 6800... but I guess I'm going to have to switch completely to pci express since all of these sata3.0 boards are pci express only...
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    awesome. thanks guys!
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    Hey guys, I have an existing 74gig raptor (sata150) that I want to put in a desktop I'll be building (for my OS), but I also want to have a RAID1 consisting of 2 new 500gig SATA3.0 drives I'm planning on purchasing. I'm choosing SATA3.0 so I can get drives down the line when I have a failure...
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    After process of elimination it turned out to be the Wireless G network adapter w/ speed booster exe. Thanks for your help
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    will try that Ethereal. thanks
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    I have a USB mouse, but I stopped using it and removed it as the problem. The touchpad doesn't work as well. both mouse and touch pad work until all of the applications load. could it be a service or another device?
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    I have an Dell laptop ( 4 yrs old). When I boot up, applications are loaded fine(in systray). While this is happening I am able to move the mouse. At some point the system freezes and I have no control over anything ( mouse, function keys, etc). It happens towards the end of loading all of the...
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    Question about filling up RAM slots

    Thanks for the response. So if I wanted to keep dual channel mode, would I be able to do this by scraping the 256 stick and sticking a 1gig stick in, in its place? Sorry if I'm being redundant but I want to make sure I'm sane before I spend $100+. Thanks :D Brian
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    Question about filling up RAM slots

    Hey guys, I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 board and I currently have 2 out of the 3 RAM slots occupied -- with a 512 stick and a 256 stick. I want to give the machine a major RAM boost. Can I just buy a 1GB stick and just throw it on the board, having 3 full slots, or do/should I toss...
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    Wireless card problem?

    I have a Dlink air plus G510 on my win2K machine. all of sudden it stopped working. I can seem to get the card to connect to my router. I tried the card in a different machine and still NG. I have re-seated the card, re-installed the drivers. I have also tried disabling and re-enabling the...
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    MAC Address - find it

    thanks