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  1. Severian

    Dishonored 2 for $20 from Dell Home

    http://www.dell.com/en-us/member/shop/accessories/apd/a8766277?awc=7204_1481728551_529cfc0bf587c00cc5afb291a4f6b186&awc=7204_1481728551_529cfc0bf587c00cc5afb291a4f6b186&CID=289229&LID=5548088&DGC=BA&DGSeg=BSD&ACD=2397228016616840 A steal at this price.
  2. Severian

    WHS installation hangs after first reboot!

    I'm doing a clean install of WHS on a machine that was also a WHS, so I know the hardware is good for WHS. However, after I boot off the DVD drive, and enter my key, WHS spends probably a half hour doing the first part of the GUI setup, then after it does the first reboot, the system just sits...
  3. Severian

    Recommend a PCI SATA controller card for WHS?

    My WHS box is old school: P4 2.8Ghz 2GB PC3200 DDR Gigabyte 8IK 1100 S478 mobo I have added as many drives to this machine as it is natively capable of (4 IDE and 2 SATA) and use it mostly for streaming 1080p to my HTPC's, and backing up the family computers. I need some...
  4. Severian

    WHS requires password logon for client computers?

    I'm playing around with WHS for the last few weeks. I use it mainly for media streaming to my HTPC, but I'm interested in utilizing its automatic backup feature my family's machines on the network. It seems like if I want to utilize this feature, each computer will need a password...
  5. Severian

    Should I upgrade my WHS machine?

    I really just began playing around with WHS a few weeks ago. I put together a machine with the following specs and installed WHS onto it: P4 2.8ghz 2gb DDR400 Gigabyte 8IK1100 Multiple hard drives of various sizes totalling about a terabyte of storage. I use this mostly to stream media...
  6. Severian

    Overclocking E2200 Allendale on Foxconn 45GMX MB

    I had built a machine a few months ago with the E2200 Allendale and a Gigabyte board, and it overclocked to 3 Ghz at stock voltage. However, I built an HTPC a short while ago with another E2200 on the Foxconn 45GMX board seen here: Foxconn 45GMX Now, however, I'm finding the cpu to be...
  7. Severian

    Off-site storage?

    As my photo collection grows in size, exponentially since the acquisition of my D50 last year, I'm giving more thought to backing up my digital files to off-site storage. I currently mirror my pictures on two separate hard drives, but don't want to just keep burning files to DVD only. I've...
  8. Severian

    Lens recommendations?

    I have a Nikon D50, along with the 18-55 kit lens, a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 prime, and a Nikkor 70-300mm VR. When comparing shots between the three lenses, it's quite clear to me that the 50mm prime and the 70-300mm lenses are considerably sharper than the 18-55 kit lens. I do tend to do a lot...
  9. Severian

    Recommendations for Zoom lens for D50?

    I picked up a brand new Nikon D50 with the 18-55mm kit lens. It's been twenty years since I had an SLR, so I'm slowly trying to re-learn everything I've forgotten since then. The wife is planning a family cruise to the Yucatan to see some Mayan ruins, and I'm planning on bringing the D50 as...
  10. Severian

    Warcraft 3 ROC over LAN

    My kids used to play Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos a few years ago over our home LAN with no trouble at all. Recently for whatever reason they have all decided to relive their glory days with this game, and have re-installed it. All three have a legitimate copy of the game, with their own cd-keys...
  11. Severian

    Vista video corruption

    I'm running Vista Business 32-bit with a Geforce 7900GT 256mb card. I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers. I'm aware of the Vista hibernation bug, and my machine is no exception. I get the green or blue "white noise" effect upon wakeup. Fine, I disabled hibernation, no problem...
  12. Severian

    Memtest errors in WinXP, but not DOS?

    Got a BSOD a couple times with the error code "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT", which a bit of Googling about led me to the notion that this was likely a RAM issue. I have the usual armament of testing utilities, including memtest for windows, which immediately detects errors and recommends replacing my RAM...
  13. Severian

    Best place to buy cabling and accessories online?

    I have a small (16 station> ) LAN in my cellar. Usually just a half dozen of my own machines or system builds running at any one time, but I do host private LAN parties up to the network limit. For the last several years I've just gotten by with routed patch cables and a switch, router, WAP...
  14. Severian

    Speedstep prevents software installation

    I have a friend who has a Sony Vaio laptop with a Pentium M processor, with enhanced SpeedStep technology. The cpu ranges in speed down to 600mhz up to 1 ghz. She has tried to install some Dragonsoft software, but the minimum system requirements are a 1ghz cpu. Due to the SpeedStep ramping...
  15. Severian

    laptop AC socket repair?

    I have a friend who has a Sony VAIO laptop, which has recently been suffering from a loose AC socket, along with the cocomitant problems of no battery charging, difficulty running on AC power. Has anyone here ever disassembled a laptop to replace or re-solder the AC socket on a mainboard...
  16. Severian

    DFI Ultra-D at Newegg $99.99 plus ship...

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152 I've been looking for a good deal on this mainboard, this is as low as I've seen it brand new.
  17. Severian

    HDTV capture to PC

    Here's my situation: I get Adelphia Digital Cable via a set top box (STB). I'd like to be able to record HDTV broadcasts to my PC. I have a second STB I could put in the cellar, near my cable splitter, and theoretically output the signal from the STB into some sort of capture card for the PC...
  18. Severian

    Need ideas on cause of PC freezing

    System specs: Athlon64 3000+ @2.43Ghz (9x270) 1gb (512x2) Gskill TCCD at 1:1 FSB, 3-4-4-8-1T MSI Neo2 Platinum NF3 mainboard, BIOS 1B C drive: Maxtor 120gb PATA D drive: Seagate 200gb PATA E drive: Seagate 250gb SATA F drive: NEC3500AG DVD-RW G drive: LiteOn DVD-ROM LTD163D H drive...
  19. Severian

    Who uses WinXP's unattended installation utility?

    I'm just curious. I've been using the winnt.sif file for years now, but I'm wondering how many others do this as well. For me it's been an enormous time saver. I've never been able to get it to work with RAID, though, and as near as I can tell neither has anyone else. I'd be interested in...
  20. Severian

    Spinrite 6.0 experience

    I have been running SpinRite 6.0 on a corrupted hard drive in my wife's laptop for three days now, and it's just crawling. Out of 40gb, it's pretty much staying at 4% complete. It's moving along, not frozen or anything, but at this rate it would be years before it finishes, and no guarantee...
  21. Severian

    Wife's laptop HD kicked the bucket.....

    long story short, my wife's laptop hard disk failed abruptly one evening. I replaced the dead Seagate ST94019A drive with a new one and got WinXP freshly installed and all is well on that front. However, she is despondent over the notion that the drive's data is likely irrecoverable. I...
  22. Severian

    K8N Neo2 Platinum SATA and overclocking...

    I've got a K8N Neo2 Platinum that I've been running in my main machine for over a year now. Flashed to the latest BIOS, never really had any problems with it. It's paired with a Winchester 3000+ at 9 x 270 FSB/HTT (x3) to 2.43ghz with rock solid stability, until today. I've got two IDE...
  23. Severian

    BFG 6800GT AGP and MSI Neo2 Platinum issues

    System specs: Winchester 3000+ @2.4ghz MSI Neo2 Platinum NF3 Ultra mainboard Audigy2 ZS 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives, 2 USB drives. Achieve 500w PSU - 25A on12v rail. I just today received a used BFG 6800GT AGP card. Cost a pretty penny, so this issue is quite aggravating. Anyway...