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    Dual boot to single boot problems

    Is there anyway I can just secure erase the hard drive from this point? I just want to be able to give it to someone else without worrying about them getting information.
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    Dual boot to single boot problems

    Are there any suggestions?
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    Dual boot to single boot problems

    I had a dual boot system with linux on one hard drive and windows on the other. I was being careless and I deleted the linux harddrive which had the information about choosing the os upon bootup. So even though windows is still there even if i tell it to boot from the windows harddrive it...
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    connecting to a vpn but still print locally

    I have a laser printer at my house that is shared via an ethernet cable to the other computers in my house. I have this one for work though that connects to a vpn network outside my house. Not surprisingly, it doesn't see the printer when it is connected to the vpn but I was curious if there...
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    Is it possible to change drive letters before the windows xp install?

    Yeah the same thing happened to me! I would love to be able to change it back.
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Well I installed it and my immediate reaction isn't too good. When I stress it out it will hop between 52-53 C which is about 1C hotter than it did before. How long does it take for this pad to break in? Should i ditch it and go back to the arctic silver and live with it? Or is there...
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    Downloading newest version of Mandrake

    Well I think that that version is different from the 2005 one. I was curious though. If i update mandrake through system preferences will that always be the most up to date version or how do I know when they come out with a version so revolutionary that I need to download isos and copy over...
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    Downloading newest version of Mandrake

    I currently have mandrake installed and I'm interested in downloading a new version to update it. When I go to the mirrors to get the most recent one though i get something like this: http://ftp.ale.org/pub/mirrors/mandrake/devel/2005/x86_64/ It clearly isn't set up in a format to burn to a...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Will this thermal pad work with mine since it is amd? Should i consider a different heatsink besides the stock?
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Sorry to keep bringing this back but I tried your suggestion. I cleaned off everything with isopropanol and put some on the heatsink and then wiped it off and then applied it to the heat spreader. When I do a burn in with my computer now it stays between 51-52 C. I know the temperature is...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    So I should first clean it off with isopropanol or something similar? On the website it says that you only need to prime the heat sink for earlier versions of arctice silver but it seems like it still would help.
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Should it be spread over the whole heat spreader or just the center?
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Is this just a consequence of using arctic 5 instead of the pad that came with it or should arctic 5 cool the cpu just as much? If it is that I screwed up putting it on are there any tips for doing it correctly this time? When I put on the thermal compound i put a very very small amount (maybe...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Well I have two sensors in the case: one gets up to like 40 under load and the other gets to like 31 under load. The cpu got up to 50ish after running a benchmarking tool for about 5 minutes.
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    How much should my case temp deviate from my cpu?
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    I just have the cpu and the psu fan. Before I had to rip apart my computer because the motherboard blew it ran much cooler using a thermal pad that came with the processor. Is this typical or did i not put enough arctic silver on? My cables are bound together using the dr. cable thing and the...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Sorry to bring this thread back but I just got this today and it is soo quiet but it makes my cpu kind of hot. Underload it ranges around 49 to 53 C and off load it is like 41-45 C. Is there a way to speed up the fan or something to cool this guy down?
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    setting internet preferences in mandrake

    its an aopen...i'm not sure of the chipset but it is one of the options under manage connections and it seems to be connecting to my router.
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    setting internet preferences in mandrake

    I use mandrake and I was curious how I can set it so that it connects via my wireless internet? Everytime it says that i'm disconnected it's because it tries to connect via the ethernet. I set it in the control center as wlan (in manage connections) but it doesn't seem to stick. Any...
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    Mandrake Woes

    Update: Now it lets me asociate it with something but I don't know what to associate it with. Thanks again
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    Mandrake Woes

    I recently installed Mandrake and I was trying to install mathematica for linux 64 and it is a .sh file. When i try to open it, linux asks me to associate it with an application but when i click on the button to do that nothing happens. Does anyone know what a .sh file is and how I can extract...
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    Well I don't know what changed but it works now. Thank you so much for your help!
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    Yes. I do have cd room before hard drive on that list in the bios...
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    well if i insert any bootable cd it will load fine but that is kind of a pain in the ass.
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    After I distroyed the raid it now is always asking for me to insert a system every time i boot up. This is even after I installed windows and it doesn't even do anything with the system disk. Why is this and how can I fix it?
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    Okay....Is there a way to save the stuff I have on my hard drives now to convert it to non raid or do I have to wipe everything? (eg is there a way to save an image of my drive?)
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    The issue is that I have windows installed already on this raid and windows found it fine but mandrake and redhat have problems and see it as two separate drives. Is there any other action right now than to reformat everything and rebuild it as software or can I let it be hardware in windows...
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    So what you're suggesting is that trying to figure out hardware raid is too difficult? I thought that software raid was slower than hardware though (would this mean that it is slower to run software than just the two drives by themselves or do i still get a performace increase). If I already...
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    Fedora or Mandrake for nVIDIA RAID?

    I want to install a 64 bit version of linux to run mathematica and I am really torn between Fedora Yarrow and Mandrake 10.1. I would also like to do all the other basic things that will allow me to delete my windows partition but I was wondering how I can set up nvidia raid (0) for my dfi nf3...
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    boot off cd with dfi lanparty nf3 250gb

    Is there another button I should try. That didn't work. Thanks!
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    boot off cd with dfi lanparty nf3 250gb

    This is probably a dumb question but i have my cd rom as my first boot place. When have a madrake install cd in though it doesn't load from it at all and instead goes to windows. How can I force it to load off the cd so I can install this? Thanks, Stephen
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Well you convinced me! I'll order it tomorrow. Thanks again!
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Thanks! Oh man it looks so nice but I have a hard time justifying the $60 price point especially when enermax and antec both make power supplies of similar builds for like $45-$50. Would those made by those companies cool as well even though they had smaller fans or would it mean that they were...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    The issue is that since i bought the original power supply from directron and i'm now trying to return it since it is only a month old i want to apply the money i spent on that toward a new one and they aren't giving me cash back.
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Any other suggestions? how is fortran, enermax or antec? should i get superflower again?
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    Actually they do sell seasonic but the $50 one the sell is out and there is no estimated time they will sell it again...
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    One last hitch....I bought it from directron and they are being a pain in the butt about refunding money so I was curious if there were any they sold so I could exchange it. Thanks
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    Suggestion for replacement for superflower psu

    I'm looking at getting a power supply around 350 watts with preferably 18 amps (amd 3000+, 512mb ram, two 80gb hard drives (raid), dvd burner and maybe a few usb things) on the 12 volt rail but I want one that can suck lots of air past a power supply to keep my processor cool. I had a super...
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    Do i need washers to mount motherboards?

    When mounting a motherboard how crucial is it to use cork washers? Can I just use spacers and screws to mount it or will that short out the motherboard? Thanks, Stephen
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    Which motherboard to replace a ga-k8ns pro

    What about the DFI lanparty ut nf3 250gb? It seems like a really stable motherboard that I won't be running into problems like this. Thanks for your help!