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I'm assisting a family member with either an upgrade of his current machine, or the purchase of a new one. He purchased a desktop a few years ago with two 2TB hard disks in RAID 1 running off of the Intel DH77KC motherboard, using both SATA 6.0 GB/s slots. This is the boot disk. Windows 7 is on...

So, long story short, I dual-boot Windows 7 and Linux Mint 13 (LTS) w/ KDE, and I was able to connect just fine using the same wireless adapter I run currently to my old roommate's router in both operating systems. I think it was an old G router, he didn't give me details on it other than how to...

If you're not absolutely sure of what it does . . . don't do it. ;)

One more to try.

Grep, cut, find. And for loops. Those make my day significantly more productive. http://linux.die.net/ ^ Awesome. Just type any command into the search box, and you are blessed with a man page.

Mint is basically Ubuntu without Unity. It ships with plenty of different desktop environments, I like KDE myself. The beauty of free operating systems is that you get to try them out, see if you like them, no loss. Using them in VirtualBox makes it super-easy if you have the RAM and the disk space.

The system is crashing, as evidenced by its automatic hard shutdown 20 minutes (maybe less in some cases) after the freeze. Yes, both the keyboard and mouse are USB - it doesn't have any PS/2 ports.

I've had a problem come up in the past month on a build I put together this summer. Intel i7 3770, stock cooler Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H Antec Earthwatts 650W PSU (old) 8 GB RAM - G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL WD Black 2 TB (WD2002FAEX) PNY Geforce 9800 GT Cooler Master CM690 case, standard 3x120mm...

Is this the sign of a bad mobo? Would that be long enough to brick the CPU?

Putting together my new system: Intel i7 3770, stock cooler Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H mobo Antec Earthwatts 650W PSU (old, but I'm not going to use a high-powered graphics card for now) G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL RAM kit, only 1 4 GB stick in the system now Anyway, the CPU fan tries to spin up a...

WiFi can be a sticky spot for Linux hardware support, at least for the 2.6 kernel (which is on its way out). This is part of why live CDs are so beneficial, you can see if the distro you are trying will support your hardware out of the box. Additional drivers can generally be found in the...

Windows and Linux can be installed either in UEFI mode (GPT formatted) or in BIOS mode (MBR formatted), from my understanding. If I install them to a 2 TB drive in BIOS mode, will I be able to add a larger hard drive down the road and have partitions of greater than 2 TB on that larger drive?

Just got the parts in today, among them a GA-Z77X-UD5H and a 2 TB WD Caviar Black HD. My intention is to boot from the 2 TB drive, and dual-boot using Windows 7 64-bit and Linux - maybe triple boot Windows XP if I have bad luck with the guest additions in Virtualbox. Anyway, will I need to set...

On the original system, everything POSTed but it ran into a GRUB Error 21, which is the MBR on the IDE drive. Not sure if GRUB there would depend on what's on the other physical drive, since everything else Linux-y is on the SATA. On the other computer, it failed to initialize the BIOS. It was...

That's what I tried to do. The other computer wouldn't boot at all with it hooked up as a secondary. That's why I'm concerned that the drive might have gone bad all of a sudden.