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    System Shutting Down After a Few Seconds

    Thanks, I'll have his dad take a look at the caps to see if he notices anything. I think they have the system's original PSU laying around and I told him to try and swap that out to see if the problem is resolved. The timing might be pretty good. I started to put together a new box for...
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    System Shutting Down After a Few Seconds

    My nephew's system is intermittently shutting down a few seconds after he tries to power it up. It first happened about a week ago, then powered up okay and ran until he shut it down. Sounds like it is happening more frequently. This is happening without any POST errors. The problem is he...
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    Best place to get XP?

    Mwave had it for $130 for the OEM edition last time I checked. Sometimes DirectDeals has the OEM/Academic version for $100
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    USB or Parallel

    OK, got the USB Printer Server. The printer doesn't seem to care one way or another (the printer arrived first and was used as a parallel printer attached directly to her computer for the first 2 days). The setup software for both the printer and server were easy enough. Transferring the...
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    USB or Parallel

    Thanks Madthumbs. After reading the manuals on the 2 printer servers, the USB version has more memory, too. So the slight bottleneck coming from a network connection of 100Mbs to the USB speed which they claim is 12Mbs will get overcome. Most of her print jobs are probably smaller than...
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    surge protector

    I've bounced around, seem to be using Belkins right now. They have some models that will take a pretty serious jolt. Although we have an APC UPS on my wife's business computer that has been very good. Have the PC, LCD display, router and cable modem plugged into it.
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    USB or Parallel

    I finally talked my wife into switching to a laser for her business printing (almost all of it is black). The weapon of choice is the HP 2420D that will be hooked up to the network via a printer server. The printer is both USB and parallel capable. I'm looking at a Netgear mini server to do...
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    Will SATA always be so complicated to install?

    The biggest headache that I had was when a makedisk utility misnamed the files Windows needed. Even that was just a momentary WTF, followed by me slapping myself in the forehead. If the issue is people not installing floppies, I can understand that. But if it is difficulty, I'm sorry, they...
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    *** Official ASUS A7N8X/Deluxe (nForce2) Thread ***

    My guess is your current BSOD problems are the CPU, not the board version. The 1700+ is a 266/133 clock, so getting 333/166 out of it isn't half bad. Most of what I see on the Asus site indicates what you have should be okay with a 3200+/200 or 3000+/166, so that means the 13x multiplier is...
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    setting up raptor

    Good luck. By the way, since you are fairly new on here, if mechBgon says the next step is to throw the system out the window, then gather up and reassemble the pieces, believe him. He knows his stuff.
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    setting up raptor

    I'm going to be of limited help since I have not set up an A8V. But here are the basics. The A8V has four SATA ports driven by two different controllers. The specifics of what you will need to do depends on where it is connected. I have set up and used SATA drives in various setups on...
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    2 IDE devices, 1 or 2 IDE cables?

    What Algere said.
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    Question about a RAID 1 Array

    Both mauiblue and loki are right. You can buy any drive you want, equal to or larger than the current drive. It will become the same size as the current drive, though, when you mirror it. With the Promise controller, I think you can simply select "Rebuild Array", it will display the...
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    What was your first computer?

    Some other blasts from the past, computers or peripherals: SuperBrain (Don't remember the manufacturer) Commodore PET and SuperPET Apple Lisa NorthStar computers NEC Spinwriters Diablo 630s Epson MX-80s and 100s TecMar (Makers of external hard drive units and 8" floppies for IBM PCs)...
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    Looking for ram for an old IBM think pad 2001

    You can also try www.coastmemory.com. They also have a memory selector. They have a ton of thinkpad options under IBM. Even if you don't buy it from them, it is worth the look.