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    HDD Vibration

    I did a bit of a combo - the elastic bands didn't do quite enough as the only ones I had were a couple of mm's wide. Couldn't find those big rubbery thick ones anywhere. So I did the foam layer underneath which did seem to have a small improvement. I also redistributed the drives in the cages...
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    HDD Vibration

    Karma is a bitch!
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    HDD Vibration

    Thanks guys - will give the rubber bands and/or foam a try tomorrow night and let you know the results. A picture may be in order too as I feel like the cabling of the sata power is "wrong" somehow having it stick out from the drives so much...
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    HDD Vibration

    I built out my new rig in a Corsair Graphite 600T case (which is a dream to build in, very spacious). However, I'm getting a lot of vibration in the right side panel coming from my HDDs. I have 4 4 drives (1 SSD, 1 3T and 2x1T). The SATA power cable off my my Corsair HX 650 is hooked into...
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    Attention Mid-Range System Builders - Updated 08/01/2015

    Has AMD got the "bang for your buck" locked up with respect to video cards currently? Is there an nVidia offering in the same ballpark (comparable price / performance) to either the 7970 or 7950?
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    Mfenn specs optimized for video encoding

    What else separates the Xeon and the i7? Is it more cores? Any negatives aside from no integrated graphics and no overclocking? This is perfect info guys, much appreciated!
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    Mfenn specs optimized for video encoding

    Don't think I'll be overclocking.
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    Mfenn specs optimized for video encoding

    Appreciate it. If I go with an i7, which chip would you recommend - and does the motherboard recommendation change to match the i7 or that AsRock Z77 Pro3 is still the way to go?
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    Mfenn specs optimized for video encoding

    Mfenn, love your updated mid-range build specs. My budget I can stretch up a few hundred more, maybe $1300. How would you optimize or enhance your build specs for a primarily video encoding rig? I will do some gaming still. Worth considering an i7 over the i5? Thanks, Seismik
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    Best way to re-add an XP machine to AD after Win2003 Server Failure

    Hi all, I am just recovering from a major server crash - system RAID array failed completely, 2 bad drives, and I had to restore my C: partition from a drive image that is about 2 weeks old. In those two weeks I have added about 6 laptops to the domain - but obviously these accounts won't be...
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    Resize SATA RAID System Partition, Server 2003

    Hi, I've got a Dell server (just a little guy, PowerEdge SC1420) and it has a 12GB (1 GB Free) system partition (C:) with 130GB D: drive (119 GB Free). Running Windows 2003. C: is filling up, I'm not sure why it was ever made so small to begin, but it also holds all program files. Keep in...
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    Optimal HDD Setup Help

    Cool, I will give that a shot. Is a static pagefile the way to go? I read somewhere that letting XP manage the pagefile was still the best thing to do, but it's been a long time since I've heard anything about that and in this era of abundant storage space maybe just creating a big page file...
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    Optimal HDD Setup Help

    Pretty basic, I'm running XP, C2D 2.66, 2 GB Ram, a GeForce 8800 GTS video card and 2 Seagate 500GB 7200RPM 32MB SATA II drives on an Asus P5B Deluxe mobo. Right now I just have the drives setup as a single partition on each, C: is the first, D: is the second. I want to improve performance as...
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    Image single SATA drive onto a RAID array?

    Ok, thanks for the info guys. Maybe I will just forget about it... my system is pretty quick and I figured I could get a little more speed from what I figure is the biggest bottleneck, my harddrive. But sounds like it's just not worth it.
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    Image single SATA drive onto a RAID array?

    Sorry, I wasn't totally clear. I'm thinking I will buy 2 distinct drives to setup a RAID-0 array, but I wondered if it would be possible to restore my existing single drive image to the new RAID-0 drive... that should dramatically improve my disk I/0 no?
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    Image single SATA drive onto a RAID array?

    Hi, I've currently got XP installed on single, massive C: partition which takes up my entire drive - it's 500GB. I have an Asus P5B Deluxe mobo, which can support SATA RAID, so I want to try going to RAID-0. Not sure how to best do it... can I image my existing installation and then build...
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    Harddrive Silencer

    Wow, I will give that a shot. Definitely the most cost effective option.
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    Harddrive Silencer

    What does that mean?
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    Harddrive Silencer

    Hi, I've got a new rig built with the specs in my sig, and a Seagate 500GB SATA HDD. This is all built in my Coolermaster Praetorian, so the drive sits front right with only a mesh grill in front of it. The rest of my rig is very quiet, but the drive is pretty loud and I'm thinking about...
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    Home Theatre PC

    Well... I have a 36" Grand Wega Sony that can do HD. And a cheap Sony Surround Sound system with a receiver. But my thought was more to hook up a computer that I would use to play DVDs, surf the web and other easy stuff via a wireless keyboard/mouse, and if possible integrate a HDTV receiver...
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    Home Theatre PC

    I'm gonna hafta do some heavy research I think on everything -- like depending on the motherboard I get, will the integrated sound be good enough for home theatre!! When I said not a traditional system I meant traditional sound system - go PC instead of receiver. My current rig would still...
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    Home Theatre PC

    I am thinking of building a home theatre system instead of buying a traditional system. But I'm wondering what the best video option is for it... something like an ATI All In Wonder x600 Pro? Ideally it would be nice to have the sytem with a video card that offers an HDTV tuner to it's 3D...
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    After isolating every part I could I just bought a new motherboard and swapped it in. System fixed completely and running better than ever. I ended up getting a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro-G for about $100 CDN. Sweet board so far, and for the price I'm really happy with it. Thanks to everyone...
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    PS meaning power supply? Yeah, it should be ok -- it's the rig in my sig, so an Antec Truepower 380w. I'd consider re-installing the OS, but I get freezing WAY before the harddrive is even cycled up. Basically right after the RAM test it could freeze at any time. If it were an OS problem...
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    Yeah, it's virus free -- what makes it so confusing is that as I mentioned, once it does finally boot up ok it is totally fine. Prime95 runs with no errors, games, video, everything is all good... just getting it to that point takes numerous attempts.
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    Thanks! I have no idea what is wrong with the Soltek, but when I try to boot up every morning I get freezing during the boot process. First it'll freeze after checking the memory, then I'll reset and it'll make it a little further, maybe to harddrive detection, then I'll try again and it'll...
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    I was fishing for some specific models to consider...
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    Soltek 86SP3-L dead, what to replace it with?

    It's been awhile (like 2 years!) since I did my homework on motherboards... I've got a P4 2.66GHz 533 FSB proc, 2x512 sticks of Corsair PC3200 RAM, an Audigy soundcard and an All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro graphics card. Oh, and a malfunctioning Soltek motherboard I need to replace. What can ya'll...
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    System booting problems

    stevty2889: Ok, good to know about the power situation... I do have onboard sound, you're suggesting pulling out the Audigy and checking to see if that helps? I've got the onboard sound disabled in the BIOS right now, but easy enough to turn that on. Big Lar: I don't totally follow on the...
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    System booting problems

    I'll give it a shot booting up in safe mode a few times -- good idea. As my sig link wasn't working I just copied it over here. My 380W power supply could be a little low huh... probably time for something bigger there regardless of it's the culprit.
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    System booting problems

    Well, I'm pretty sure it's not spyware or viruses -- I'm pretty careful with what goes on there and I've got an arsenal of antispyware programs that I run from time to time to clean things up. Which leaves the overheating... I highly doubt that as once it's up it's pretty rock solid, even in...
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    System booting problems

    Hey, having some worrisome problems with my system. I shut it down every night, and lately when I boot it up in the morning it usually freezes part way through the boot, usually when it's about to put up the XP user sign in page. Just a total freeze, no blue screen or anything. I hit reset...
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    XP Failing On Boot

    No BSODs, but I will update all my drivers.
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    XP Failing On Boot

    In the last two or three days -- no hardware changes or software updates, my system is hanging on booting up XP. No errors, it just freezes and sits there... usually on a black screen or right after the screen goes blue before the user logon. When it happens I just hit the reset button and...
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    Automate Defrag with XP Pro SP2

    Got it, got my tasks scheduled and all tested out great -- thanks.
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    Automate Defrag with XP Pro SP2

    I've got no special software, I generally just use the defragger built into XP. I would like to be able to schedule it to run and defrag my drives once a week or so -- is there any way I can do it? Do I need special software? seis
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    Missing channels on All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro

    Used to have cable Internet off the same cable that is plugged into my PC, now I've got DSL. So it should be good you'd think. There is a splitter, right where it comes into the house. Any idea what the frequency rates should be? mwmorph, got the latest MMC already. seis
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    Missing channels on All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro

    Hi, My cable connectino comes into my place in my living room, from there I have a splitter than sends one cable to the TV and the other to my computer in the den. All of my channels come in on the TV, but on the All-In-Wonder in my computer I'm missing a number of them. When I manually...
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    IIS After SP2?

    For the record I got it to work by downloading a copy of the SP2 network install, then uncompressed it all into a folder using WinRAR. Then I added IIS via the control panel, when it needed XP SP2 I pointed it at the new location -- needed some manual help to find one file adsutil.vbs I think...
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    IIS After SP2?

    Thanks Mike -- how do I extract the version of SP2? Is that something I can do from my current installation?