Recent content by trasko

just go to promise's site. i did this exact thing myself. when you're installing windows you have the option to "press F6 to load 3rd party RAID / controller devices" (or something like that). you'll just need to find the proper drivers for your card (which exist). you'll need the file...

If the Gigabyte doesn't work I'm gonna look at the Asus board for the 648 again -- I doubt I'll go with it just cause I've had the taste of PC3200 DDR in my mouth and an extra $40 in my pocket in savings that this Gigabyte would give me. Since I'm not real excited about taking a drop in...

Not to burst your bubble, but it seems hardware RAID isn't all that great (IDE) compared to software RAID and no RAID at all... Anandtech did a article You should prolly be getting faster than a single 5400 though... My feelings are that RAID is something better to play with than to actually...

Dag... I can't bring myself to invest in something I'm not sure about yet. Good point about the dropping of 648DX. My guess is that Gigabyte will stand by their claim. They're probably mostly done with the BIOS by now anyways. I just hope they do this soon!

Scary. I was about to buy that and I know some others here did as well. I think I'll go with Gigabyte's recommend on which to buy now. Good luck to those who got Corsair...

looks like you're on top of things. know what tax software? i'm curious to know what the deal is with the high CPU usage...

Man I want this thing, but I'm not getting it until SOMEONE sees the clock adjustments (and memory settings)... Not to mention newegg still doesn't carry it.

Yeah all that sounds good. Just be careful with the linux setup -- I'd go with ext3 for the file system since it can handle the inevitable chunking by someone much better than ext2. Windows will be much easier but I hadn't thought about the cost factor :) (and the UPS is a good idea as well)...

IIRC your long bootup problem has to do with the system disk being the WD and the jumper settings on the drive itself. They have to be set just right for the thing to work. As for your IDE setup the best is always 1 device per channel if you can manage it. Also only the first channel may have...

just so you guys don't think i'm a complete wanker i'll say that i'm currently in IT and i've dealt with the pentium 133MHz'ers we only recently retired serving home directories/profiles to 300+ workstations up to a dual 2.53GHz Xeon, 2GB RAMBUS nVidia Quadra900XL w/ dual 20" flat panel...

Well, I'll tell you from the start I don't like it when people spend money for stuff that isn't really used/needed/appreciated/etc. Below I'm gonna tell you a lot of stuff you don't want to here prolly... I wouldn't want to hear it given your task - I like making fancy stuff for people using...

Yeah, as I said they took exactly 1 month to get mine back (from when I shipped). This was pretty early in the fiasco. They did, however, replace my 45GB 75GXP with a 60GB 60GXP which effectively took the rage out of me. Can't argue with free 15GB, but yes, I'd never buy another HD from them...

seems like that board can only get better right? as long as they don't screw anythign up, you'll be able to keep that memory crankin way up there and maybe get an FSB above 150MHz... Not that i'm one to talk -- i'm waiting to see what happens as well. I might go ahead and do the deed this...

Its been too long since I did Java or any real OO stuff, but... When you're dealing with objects, you can have the overall "class" which is a sort of blueprint for the object and you can also have "instances" of an object. There is only one "class" but there can many instances of a class. So...

And.... if you wait about 2-3-4 weeks there should be an Intel chipset out for Granite Bay (Dual channel DDR). Its only gonna be for 266MHz DDR but IIRC that will outperform 400MHz DDR (266MHz X 2 > 400MHz?). Any case, the RAM will be a lot cheaper (who knows you might be able to use 333MHz...