Recent content by NittanyLAncer

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    Installing OS on ICH9 w/ RAID5

    Quick summary, hopefully quick answer.... (I did a forum search but couldn't find an answer, and figured the mobo folks could give input and setup ideas). My last few system builds (all nVidia chipset based) I slipstreamed the Raid drivers into an XP SP2 install, and gave installing the OS...
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    Network Storage Devices... have some questions...

    Giving this a bump for reasons of "I'm curious too". I was going to post something just like this until I saw a pre-existing thread. Recyle reduce reuse! I keep a lot of stuff on my local box....programming work, video editing (editing and re-encoding DV Camcorder stuff), image work (editing...
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    Tiger MPX FSB Problem

    I recently did an upgrade on my 2CPU box too reduce noise, I swapped out the HSF units and the Power Supply. I've run into some wierd issues with the second CPU and booting at 133FSB. I'm working with two 1600XPs (came from the factory with the bridge intact), and so long as I have two CPUs...
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    Anyone know when the IDE ram cards are coming?

    OS and ATA limitations have nothing to do with that 4GB limit (which is a HARDWARE limit). In order to be able to address the RAM as a Disk Drive you need a memory controller between the SATA interface and the RAM and some circuitry formatting call/response messages. My guess would be that...
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    ATI display question

    Making a projector from an old 13" IBM LCD (well, it's done actually) and I've run into a little snag....it's not really well suited for a projector setup and I'm stuck with about 1" of circuitry around the edges. I've tried to solder extensions to the connectors I'm dealing with, but it looks...
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    Poll on abortion in case of 12 year old girl

    Well, unless I missed something, no-one has mentioned a very important fact. NO WAY does a 12 year old girl have any shot at a normal pregnancy, and attempting to carry this pregnancy to term would put her in severe danger and would most likely not yeild a healthy child (not to debate that...
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    L5 mod XP2400+ => MP2600+

    OK folks, this is gonna sound newb, but this is a little confusing..... Is the Athlon XP 2400+ == Athlon MP 2600+ The skinny: I have two recently L5 modded XP2400+'s (one older T-Bred, one Thorton). Wasn't even sure they'd work together, but they do on one of my Tiger MPX's (and believe...
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    POLL: Do parents have the right to discipline their kids by spanking them?

    Children should be spanked. I feel when done right, it serves as a valuable re-enfocement tool. You positively reenforce bad behavior and punish bad bahavior. People who think of "spanking" as hurting a child are sadly mistaken. There is a LARGE difference between spanking a child and...
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    What should I rip out of a car?

    No more suggestions? 100 Posts....w00t!
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    What should I rip out of a car?

    Hoods are decidedly NOT flat. Although, a 80's Ford truck or an old GMC maybe, but most cars built after the mid 80's have a pretty marked curve in the hood. Although many undercarriage components are near prefectly plat on some surfaces (kick and smash plates that protect some of the underbody...
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    What should I rip out of a car?

    FIRST is fairly basic high-school stuff, but we work on a slightly different scale. Don't get me wrong, FIRST is a great program, it gets people interested in the right stuff...... I'm on the collegate level, and we mostly organize our own projects and internal competitions. A lot of it is...
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    What should I rip out of a car?

    OK Folks, hopefully there's some gear heads out there who can help me out. I'm involved in running a small robotics club here at school, and we're low on parts (and funding). SO, I'm planning a trip to the local auto-salvage yard to rip some parts out of forsaken automobiles. Now, some...
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    Can someone check my logic here please

    A screwed up power could cause problems.......I like the bios flash suggestion..... If you can get the 300W to reboot, try shutting down and swapping in the 400W. If it gives you problems you know where the problem is. If it doesn't......try putting the 300W back in and working on the RAM...
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    Er, virus? Spyware? Aliens?

    Well.......quick things to look at...... Run the standard error checks on your drives. Be sure to check for bad sectors. Next, get some sort of CPU Temperature monitoring software. Mother Board Monitor is what I've always used, but I don't believe it's still under development. The reason...
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    AMD vs Intel

    I might be a little off here, but I was under the impression that AMD's engineers were working with slightly better branch predicition. Not that much attention is paid to such things, and you can't really attribute a CHUNK of extra "speed" to good branch prediction, but on a design like...