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    Connection-specific DNS suffix I didn't assign?

    Yesterday, after doing nothing different than normal I tried to get on the internet and none of my machines would connect to the internet, but all had internal connectivity. When trying to get on the web, Chrome had a "Resolving Hosts" message in the lower left and then would direct me to the...
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    Program for batch encoding mp3's to different bitrate?

    I have about 9k mp3s and I generally wanted to keep them at a high bitrate for good quality playback. Now I'd like to compress those songs down to have another set of my collection that is all at 96 kbps or so for putting on my mp3 player to take on long bike rides, etc. Is there a program...
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    Major Raid 0 Problem

    Hey. I do some tech work on the side, but I'm not formally educated. I know regular stuff, but this problem is beyond my knowledge and I'm hoping to get some help from you all. Here's the scenario. Guy brings me computer. It won't boot to WinXP. He has a laundry list of other stuff, but...
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    Easy Gig-E Questions

    I'm thinking of making the jump to 1000Mbps at home and just have a few basic questions. I have searched some other threads and got some good information, but I need a little more specific to my situation. As I understand it, using a 10/100 router as my internet access would not be a...
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    Having a problem with SATA

    Well gang I need a hand with this one. I have an A8R-MVP and a 3000+ Winnie 2x256 Megs of Corsair ram and 3x WD800JB Hard drives as well as two Hitachi Sata drives. I had been using this machine solely as a server, and had a PCI Cirrus Logic video card in it. I found a good deal on a x700...
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    Upgrade Video Card, but kill SATA (Help)

    Well gang I need a hand with this one. I have an A8R-MVP and a 3000+ Winnie 2x256 Megs of Corsair ram and 3x WD800JB Hard drives as well as two Hitachi Sata drives. I had been using this machine solely as a server, and had a PCI Cirrus Logic video card in it. I found a good deal on a x700...
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    Replaced Video Card, Killed SATA

    Well gang I need a hand with this one. I have an A8R-MVP and a 3000+ Winnie 2x256 Megs of Corsair ram and 3x WD800JB Hard drives as well as two Hitachi Sata drives. I had been using this machine solely as a server, and had a PCI Cirrus Logic video card in it. I found a good deal on a x700...
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    [U]Extremely[/U] slow boot times even during install (XP Pro)

    I am trying to fix a computer for a local small business and running into a massive problem. It boots so slow that I know there's something really wrong with it. By slow, I mean like about 45 minutes! It takes about 15 minutes from the splash screen to the login for XP Pro and at least another...
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    New XBox games after XBox360 Release

    I remember when PS2 first came out, there were still games made for both PS consoles. I am now wondering if the Xbox will still be the beneficiary of continuing new games or if developers will only be writing for the 360. Or, to give you more info on my dilemma: My PS2 is broken-dead. I'm...
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    Forcing voltages on TBred B

    I recently got a 2000+ TBred-b given to me and I want to overclock it. Normally this would be no problem, however the only mobo I have for it is the crappy Biostar NF2 that doesn't allow vCore adjustments and only has 133/166/200 available for FSB speeds. Does anybody remember how to force...
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    Double Genius Points for this one....BIOS won't detect hard drive, but strange behavior

    I am fixing a rig that belongs to my wife's aunt and it's got a very unusual problem. When it starts up the BIOS would not detect the hard drive (an older WD200 as in 20 GB) and actually would not even let you into the CMOS settings if the drive was connected. It just hangs at the Detectig...
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    XBox360 Hard Drive

    Like the title says, I think I'm getting XBox360, but I don't know if I want the hard drive or not since it's like $100 more. I pretty much play only sports games (Madden, College Football, Baseball) so I don't know if it even matters in those games. Also, is it possible to install your own...
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    I'm Baaaacckkkk!

    Hey Guys, I've been out for a while getting some stuff squared away with the house (ever remodeled a bathroom?) and been out of the loop for while. I see the stats posts are still coming up daily, but it seems that the Seti website is switched over to Boinc stuff. Does the Seti Driver and the...
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    What's the fastest Winchester OC on stock cooling?

    As many have seen, I was lucky enought to get my Winnie to 2.7 on stock vcore.....on a Via chipset! Well, I finally broke down and got a Neo 2 Nforce3 mobo to see what this chip really has. I hope this board is stable to 330 or so, because I see 2.9-3.0 on stock cooling in my crystal ball...
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    Major Boot Problem

    Here's the problem: Rig was working fine for months. At one point I had a dual-boot with Debian linux, which is why grub was the boot loader, but I've been using only win2000 for a long time. Today, I rebooted and right after the "Verifiying DMI Pool" or what ever it says---just when the grub...
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    The Be-All & End-All A64 RAM Article

    Read XBitlabs Shows what the informed knew: Timings are important, but basically dividers have minimal effect due to the IMC. Even @ 300 MHz synchronous the memory only holds a couple of percent advantage over 200 MHz asynch with decent timings. Sorry to anybody who bought ram for $300+...
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    Somebody Help Me Out with ntbackup???

    Hey, I have a Sony Vaio that belongs to a friend. The HDD is going out, but still works some of the time. I used Win2000's backup util. to create a backup of everything that was on both the partitions of the dying drive. To do this, I put it in an external enclosure and backed it up via USB...
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    The REAL reason behind X2 pricing

    I submit to you that the driving force of the cost of X2 is that it is a drop-in dual core solution that is already compatible with most every A64 user's current system. This is opposed to the cost of the "inexpensive" PD's, + DDR2, + mobo, + PCI-E (not an option to stay with AGP). When...
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    Mac Firmware on Hard Drive?

    I just grabbed a couple of HDD's off of ebay for cheap. Two 80 GB SATA Hitachi's for $22 each and 10 more to ship. Pretty decent deal for new drives. The catch is that they say they have Apple firmware installed on them. I'm assuming that they are overstock from Steve Jobs' sock drawer or...
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    Is it possible to recover a HDD from the Click of Death?

    I have an 80 GB WD JB drive that started clicking and would either cause the system to respond really slowly or completely kill it and cause a reboot. This was happenning earlier this week. I obviously recognized it was dying, so I installed the OS on another disk I had laying around and...
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    What hardware is involved in locking AGP frequency on Via A64?

    I have a pretty good OC of 2.7 on my Winchester, but it's not stable for 3d apps at that speed. Everything else is fine-DC apps, superpi, all non-3d benchmarks, prime95, etc. Anything 3d kills it in less than 5 seconds. So I am sure that the AGP lock is broken and I'm wondering if more cooling...
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    PSU for dual-cores

    With the current power needed by modern CPU's, won't putting two of them on the same motherboard mean much more power needed? I realize that with lower clockspeeds the requirements come down a little, and that official specs are a bit sketchy at the moment. Do people here think that going to...
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    Making your own CPU waterblock the ghetto/hick way.

    CPU blocks cost too much for my blood so I decided to make my own. Well, copper blocks aren't readily available in the middle of nowhere, but guess what are....old heatsinks and plumber's putty epoxy. So I removed parts of some fins strategically to create a channel so the water stays in the...
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    AMD/Intel, Nvida/ATI

    As soon as ATI had a marginally better product (9700-9800) their market share was growing rapidly. Many of us educated readers consider the A64 a better CPU for performance, even though the P4 has retained the lead in certain benchmarks. Even those whose prefer the Pentium 4 have to admit...
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    Thanks AT for Part II-Now the AMD Multicore may see the desktop not just S/W market

    With that article showing that multiple threads create a huge performance disadvantage, AMD finally has a reason to press the DC A64 into the desktop space right away instead of just server/workstation and gently introduce to desktops. AMD should realize that a great many of their users are...
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    Why hasn't W. been asked to talk about steroids?

    This steroid investigation is so freakin' crazy! Congress is saying that everybody in baseball knew about it and that they looked away for the profit of the game as it recovered from the strike. They are right, of course. However, if you're gonna say that the commisioner and the GM's and the...
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    64 bit client recompiles..

    My question is pretty much all in the subject. I have an A64 and I'm itching to use the extra registers that 64 bit operation would allow, but right now I have absolutely no reason to because I don't have any software that's 64 bit aware. DC software would be especially cool because using the...
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    Clone drive using Knoppix?

    My wife's hard drive is one of the older WD's that have the signature "Western Whine" and it's pretty loud. I have been looking into swapping her HDD, but all the free cloning utils suck (I found one that looked like it was working, but it said it would take 4 days to complete!) and I don't want...
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    Help!! Friend's Rig Broken Shuts Down w/o Warning

    I have a rig from a friend of mine. It's a Sony Vaio from BB with a 2.8 Northwood, 512 MB Ram, an 865/75 Intel Chipset and what appears to be an Asus 32 MB GF4MX video card. The machine started right up and was working just fine for about 1/2 hr. and I actually emailed her saying that it...
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    Would it be possible for DC to take advantage of GPU power too?

    DISCLAIMER Admittedly, I don't know a heck of a lot about what goes into developing a project and I know even less about programming. That being said, I was wondering since most of the DC projects have a graphical representation of what is being calculated, I was wondering if maybe those...
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    Billy G. just lost another zombie!

    I just wanted to share my joy as I have been considering learning Linux for some time and finally dove in. (OK, you got me-I have a dual boot:)). I wanted to have a new project, so I decided that I'd learn either Fedora or Debian and build a beowulf out of a few old rigs. Then I'll be using that...
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    Dual Core CPUs and Multi-Threaded Apps

    Since we know that the first dual core chips will not be able to run as fast as current top-of-the-line models, and we know that modern programs are almost always coded for single threads, how do we think the initial DC chips will perform? I'm guessing lackluster at first, until software...
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    Beowulf Cluster for DC?

    I'm thinking of trying something new and combining a few of my old rigs into a 3-4 machine Beowulf-style cluster. Being also a Linux n00b, this will be quite a challenge for me, but nothing ventured=nothing gained, right? Anyhow, my question is: Does anybody know if the overhead of splitting...
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    Help witha good stats page

    Anybody found one? I know about a couple of Boinc stats pages, but they update pretty infrequently. Anyhow--Please send links. Thanks~!
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    Gigabit over Cat5?

    I'm having a debate with my friend. One of us feels that running Cat5e cable for a gigabit network is just fine and would have minimal if any penalty versus Cat6 cable. The other is opposed and feels that Cat6 is the only way to go. The backbone of this network is run on fiber to various...
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    Which Rig for HTPC and Wife?

    I'm swapping some stuff around at my place and I am changing my HTPC a little too. I'm building my own wooden case for it so that it looks nice in my ent. ctr. Here's my dilemma: My wife's current office rig is a Celly-D that runs 3.6 @ default vCore on an SIS mATX board. I also have a TBred...
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    Want to Build a Wooden Computer Case

    I want to move my current ugly HTPC into a wooden case of my own design so that it can sit in the entertainment center and not be hideous. Has anybody out there done this or seen a good article on how to do it? I'll be starting from scratch and harvesting things like mobo tray and drive cages...
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    Overclocking Abit AV8

    Just wanted to provide a link to my post in the motherboards forum in case anybody's interested in how I got my AV8 to kick arse. I'd be happy to provide anybody who wants with all settings, but other than the ones that are listed I can tell you right now that all voltages are stock except vCore...
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    You might be addicted to DC if....

    You might be addicted to DC if... You know that a rig crashed at home because your WU aren't increasing fast enough. You think the Wu Tang Clan is a great bunch of crunchers from Asia. Your Seti WU outnumber your *paid* work output 2:1. You know how to spell B-e-r-k-e-l-e-y only...
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    Abit AV8 Overclocking

    After doing some heavy research today everywhere that I could find anything, I may know why the results that people get vary so wildly. It appears that the AGP/PCI lock fails at some point. My own situation backs that up. I could hardly break 270 FSB yesterday, but I'm currently typing this...