Recent content by imported_Brutus1234

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    Need Guidance with PXE Booting

    one more thing... neither the laptop nor the desktop clients have a physical floppy installed. I realized the desktop had a floppy enabled in the bios so I turned it off. Now it boots to an A> prompt and asks me to specify the command.com file. Obviously without the command.com, I can't...
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    Need Guidance with PXE Booting

    In Wireshark I see about 3000 lines related to TFTP 1679 207.007190 192.168.3.3 192.168.3.69 TFTP Read Request, File: mba.pxe\000, Transfer type: octet\000, tsize\000=0\000 followed by 10 lines, ending in this one 1703 207.269571 192.168.3.3 192.168.3.69 TFTP Acknowledgement, Block: 10...
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    Need Guidance with PXE Booting

    I've been playing around with PXE booting following a guide I found in these forums but I've reached an impass and I'm hoping someone can help me. I've got TFTP32 working. I used the 3COM PXE utility noted in the guide here to create a PXE boot menu. I've taken 2 different bootable floppy...
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    Fastest SETI machine ever?

    You can pick one of these up for 10 bucks. Then your power switch will turn both power supplies on. I've got an ancient server case about the size of a small car collecting dust in the basement that I modified years ago to fit an ATX motherboard. I can rig it up to hold up to 4 power supplies...
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    Fastest SETI machine ever?

    I was having some issues when I added my 2nd GTX 260 so to rule out insufficient power I did the following. - took an extra 500 watt power supply and bridged the 3V to ground on the M/B connector to force it on. - used the extra power supply to power the 2, 6-pin power inputs on the 2nd GTX...