Recent content by TheDaishi

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    Will an eMac take plain old DDR DIMMS?

    Use the RAM configurator at www.crucial.com, guaranteed compatability parts available.
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    ASRock board will not post (Code 2B)

    I've run memtest on the machine, it passes OK, BUT it cannot test the System RAM reserved for the video card. I'll have to find some other RAM to test it with. One thing it *might* have been is the floppy drive (which is broken). We've disconnected that now, I've not heard whether this made...
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    ASRock board will not post (Code 2B)

    I hope not, we use the onboard controller. I wonder if this has anything to do with the boot PCI/AGP first option in the BIOS? J.
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    ASRock board will not post (Code 2B)

    Hi, Wondering if anybody can help me with this problem. Put together a very (VERY!) budget PC for a friend and we're having some problems with it. The board is the ASRock K7S41. Sometime the machine will refuse to POST, with the code 2B The PC will immediately power on after powering...
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Oh, it's a fileserver :P Just mass storage for a network spread across two houses with 3 or 4 PCs and a PDA. May spread to 3 or 4 houses one day. The worst bit is trying to balence traffic across the ADSL lines. Cheers, Jim.
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    jose: Uptime and speed of no importance, data security and capacity are. If, within 5 years time, one of those drives goes bang, being able to get the data back by getting it replaced on warranty is what this is for. Matt: GBP600 = USD1142 (and 15 cents) And the 600 is all in cost, not a...
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Cheers Matt, In summary of what was lost. Everything you said is right. But here's the game (if there wasn't one, why would I be playing?) The Buffalo Terastation is £600 4x250Gb WD drives w/ 1KBaseT I have not yet found any performance benchmarks. The PC equivalent must of course...
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Dammit, I hate it when you write a long detailed reply and it all gets lost...
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Hmmm, NF4 boards appear to be s939 only? Which means expensive board, RAM and CPU. Are there any budget s939 CPUs yet? Why would RAID5 be a waste of time on PCI? 33Mhz/32bit PCI slots should be able to push ~130MB/s and there won't be anything else on the PCI bus. Ta, J.
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Requirements: Space and reliability, but without backups. Speed not really much of an issue, will be running over 100BaseT and 54G. I didn't know NF4 boards had RAID5 (I've still got i845) The RAID5 controller on NF4, any good? What's the driver support like in regards to drive failure...
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    OK, so pretty much any of the budget CPUs out there (Sempron, Duron, Celeron) will do then, even if we're running XP Pro on there? Does he have any benchmarks? Ta, Jim.
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    Dedicated RAID5 PC

    Hi, A friend of mine wants to build his own NAS box using 250Gb SATA drives. If he were to use a software RAID5 card (no XOR chip) , what sort of CPU speed would be required to do the number crunching for 4 drives? Also, is there any point is going above 4 drives if you don't have PCI-X...
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    i845 based BD7 and s478 Celeron Ds

    Hi, God, I wish I had got an i845-xx, anything... Would save me this trouble. I'm runnnig an ABit BD7 based on the original i845 w/ P4 1.6A@2.13 My FSB is rock solid at 533MHz, but of course this board was only built for the original 400MHz parts. so... Does anybody know if...