Recent content by RiverDog

So I think I blew my motherboard last night. I was going to install another 4 GB stick and didn’t notice it wasn’t the whole way in at the top. When I turned the system on all I can hear is the DVD clicking periodically. It won’t even go into the BIOS. All the fans are working but I haven’t had...

That's exactly what I did. I had an old 100GB sitting on a shelf, installed Windows to it, and then set up the other drives as spanned. Since this is a secondary backup, I can replace any failed drive and redo the backup. I have everything backed up on external drives as well.

I'm not too concerned about reliability, this is a secondary backup device and if there is a failure i have replacement disks to use. I might have a raid controller on that motherboard, I'll need to check when I get home.

I have a Win 7 system that is strictly used as a back system. It has a 1TB, with the OS installed, and two 500GB drives that I set up as a spanned volume. What I would like to do this weekend is a complete reinstall but convert all the disks into a single spanned volume. This would allow me to...

I tried the nomodeset change and the system still didn't load. This is the first I tried Linux in many years. I really thought the new versions would be almost Plug and Play by now and it seemed it with the DVD. Everything worked as it should. A thought just hit me. Would it possibly be a...

I burnt it to a DVD. I think I will download it and try again. I was a network admin at one time and switched the company from Novell to SUSE and run into the same problem. It had a perfect display during the install and couldn't start the graphic interface until I redid some video config files...

What I can't understand, it works perfectly if I'm using the DVD live version.

It sat over night and never changed.

I’m having a problem installing Mint 13 Cinnamon 64bit and haven’t found a solution either on the Mint Forum or on Google. I can use the live CD with no problem but if I install it I just get a black screen with a small white line at the top left of the screen. I have done two installs...

I'll check that tonight. If it is something on board it should be covered under warranty. I contacted Gigabyte but they havent replied yet.

It's using onboard video, I can't get into the BIOS at all, just a black screen.

I have a Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H(rev. 3.1) thats a little over a year old. The problem started with the post screen not being displayed. It would be blank until Windows 7 started. I could not enter the CMOS at all. I have tried resetting the CMOS and removing the battery and there was no...

I'll check that this weekend. Both systems have static IP's and I did try streaming a movie from one to the other before the switch was in place and there was no problem there. If I take the switch out of the mix they reconnect without any problem. There is plenty of disk space and both systems...

I have two computers both running Windows 7 Ultimate. They were communicating with each other flawlessly and I could transfer files between them with no problems. I use one for a backup of the other. Suddenly without any changes to them, the transfer rate dropped drastically. It would have taken...

No need, with the grammar Nazis on here. I don't need to come back.