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    Thinkpad T61 vs. Gateway CX210S

    I?m hoping some of the guys in the brain trust here might be able to give me a little help in my predicament. I have a ~18 month old Gateway CX210S. I added a lot of options when I built in, and I got this particular one because I was looking for a convertible tablet with discrete graphics...
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    Problems after switching from RAID 1 to RAID 0

    I?m going to try and keep this as concise as possible. I added another HD to my system (500GB PATA Seagate). Since I couldn?t use it in RAID 0+1 I decided to backup my raid 1 array and convert it to RAID 0 (and regularly back that up with the new drive). Initially I couldn?t get the array to...
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    Asus A8V Raid Question

    I have an Asus A8V Deluxe; right now I have two (36.7GB) Raptors running in RAID 0 plugged into the promise RAID contoller on the mobo. I also have two Samsung 250GB SATAs running in RAID 1 plugged into VIA RAID controller. I just picked up a 500GB PATA Seagate from Fry?s and I was hoping to...
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    Trying to find cooler for X850

    I'm trying to find a decent cooler for my X850 XT. A friend of mine has the same card and bought the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer 5 (for ati), and really likes it a lot. Unfortunately, it isn't made any more and nobody online seems to have it in stock. The only place I have found it is on eBay...
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    Problems with RAID 1 array

    I left my PC on when I went away for Christmas break for about 3 weeks, and when I came back I was greeted by this screen. pic I told it to duplicate the array and then got this message pic Not sure what to do at this point. All the data appears to be OK, when I look at it in windows, but...
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    Netgear WGR614v5 problems

    Like the title says I am having problems with my Netgear WGR614v5. The router works fine after it has been power-cycled for maybe 2-3 days, then it starts having problems. The first thing to go, it appears, are HTTP packets. It seems to be dropping them like crazy. In netstat I just have a bunch...
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    Dead board? Hrm

    My computer was in storage over the summer and it has not worked since I have set it up. At first when I had everything all wired up I got the splash screen for the BIOS (which I thought I disabled) but I couldn?t bypass that and the system hung. After a few restarts (making sure everything was...
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    Replacing HD platters

    I figured this was the best place to put it, but if you want to move it, by all means. I have an HDD that had a major mechanical failure a few months back. I don't really have the money for data recovery (drive savers quoted be 1900-2900) So I figured I might try and swap out the platters. I...
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    Thinking of sending my K8N Neo2 Plat back

    This is the first MSI board I have ever owned and it isn't leaving the best taste in my mouth. I finally put my board in last week and it has been one problem after another trying to get this thing to work. Initially I tried using my old windows install, but because that used software RAID on...
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    Driver problems, bad board?

    I'm going to try and make a long story less long. A few days ago I swapped out my Asus A7N8X deluxe and whatnot for a Winchester 3500+ and a MSI K8N Neo2 Plat. Knowing that I probably woulndn't be able to plug n' play I backed up my raid 0 array to an external HD with drive image. I imaged it...
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    Drive Image doesn't like my RAID array

    I swapped my old mobo out today, I backed up my HD (RAID 0, 2x Raptors) using Drive Image to an external 1394 drive. Naturally windows wouldn't boot off the new array (MSI K8N Neo2 Plat) so I fired up my drive image bootable cd. Of course I need the drivers for RAID to work so I popped in the...
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    Will I need to reformat?

    Right now I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe that I am running RAID on (striping). I am ugrading to an Athlon 64 and a MSI K8N Neo2 Plat, which I am also planning on using RAID on. Will I need to reformat Windows (XP Pro SP1) or will the raid work once I set up the controller on the new board? I use...
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    shopping for a socket 939 board

    I'm shopping for a board to get with my winnie 3500+. I don't OC so that isn't a consideration, and the board has to be AGP, so I can use my video card and my PCI cards (don't want to jump to PCI-E just yet. I can spend up to around $175 or so and as such price isn't much of a concern.So far I...