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    Seagate Thunderbolt to SSD adapter - drive choice?

    I've seen a bunch of posts where people are using a Seagate GoFlex thunderbolt adapter to plug in SSDs in a Mac on OSX. Here are some: http://www.storagereview.com/thunderbolt_storage_with_any_hard_drive_or_ssd...
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    Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 won't post

    I used the computer all day, turned it off (proper shut-down) for about 2 hours, and when I came back, it won't post. When I press the power button, the fans spin up, and it clicks like it's going to turn on, but then it doesn't get off the ground. No beep, and the fans slow to a stop, and it...
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    How do I measure case fan size?

    I'm noob here, Can someone give me a straightforward answer on how to measure a fan size? I've found the following answers in various web places, which are all different on my fan: 1) measure the distance between the mounting holes 2) measure the outside of the case 3) measure the blades...
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    Dual-formatting a USB stick

    I have a USB drive that I want to format into two partitions - a FAT32 side for PC/MAC, and then a Mac-only side that is HFS+ Does anyone know any tools that will do this? I'm running WinXP Pro, which is quite limited in its formatting capabilities. On the OSX side, I can partition and...
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    EFiX site down?

    I have an efi-x PC that has been running 10.5 fairly well for about 9 months now. I ran into some problems a few days ago with the firmware. Was going to send back to expresshd.com for reflashing (there's no Windows-side utility to fix your own firmware if it goes corrupt - ugh!)...
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    On-board ALC889 SPDIF input won't accept 32kHz audio signal

    OK, I'm probably the only one in the world with this problem, but I didn't know where else to ask the question, so here goes: I built a computer for video and audio work with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 (rev. 1.0) motherboard. The onboard audio (Realtek ALC889) is actually pretty decent, and I was...
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    Mac Pro Memory type

    I've got a brand new Mac Pro with a minimal 2GB of RAM, here, and I'm looking to throw in some newegg magic... I've read everywhere that any memory I add should have a good heatsink, which is easy enough to spot, however I'm wondering whether things like timing and latency much matter? I'd...
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    recommend a good boot disk for WinXP install to FAT32

    Can anyone recommend a good boot disk to download? I need to install WinXP on a FAT32 SATA drive. I know there were issues with installing WinXP on a SATA drive a while ago (press F6 to load drivers or something?). I have a WinXP Pro SP2 CD that I can use, do I still need to have those SATA...
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    efi-x site down?

    Anyone else having trouble accessing the efi-x site or forums? I had been following the action pretty closely. Then today, the whole site seems to be slogged down. Wonder if Apple's striking back...?
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    Reach-a-mail

    Anyone know anything about this portable email client you carry around on a USB key? I'm a little worried about security, although I wouldn't be stupid enough to use it on a public computer. http://www.smartpctools.com/portable_email/index1.html Seems over-simplified, but useful.
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    XP Boot Menu config?

    Is there any way to re-configure the boot menu that windows XP manhandles over your computer? Even if I used system commander as an overhead or something, if I booted to 'WinXP', it would still go through this silly boot menu. I've been able to ADD elements to it, but not take any away using...
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    Adding IDE drives confuses SATA booter

    I do video editing, and have a different project on each of 4 ide drives. I have a prolific enclosure, which just died, but I used to swap the hard drives out of it (bad practice. anyone who's interested should buy a WiebeTech DriveDock) when I needed to work on a different project. Since I...
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    Sound Card Buzz

    So this is a fun one. I swapped all my parts onto my new gigabyte 7vt600p-rz, and have a SBLive (CT4760). This mobo also has onboard sound. I run my sound card output through a really nice old harmon kardon amplifier. I'm getting a horrible, horrible buzzing (lots of mid-high pitch elements...
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    New Mobo nightmare

    OK, I'll share my story here so that others may not fall into the same holes that I have. Old Machine: Abit KT7 board Athlon 950MHz ATI Radeon DDR 64MB AGP VIVO NTSC 2 - 80GB IDE ATA133 drives (one system, one 'other') handful of SDRAM Use this machine for graphic design and video...
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    Grub syntax?

    So.... I know someone out there is going to know the answer to all this, but I can't seem to find a simple documentation on grub to do it myself. So here goes: Someone installed a great Grub bootloader on my sony Vaio. It dual boots XP and linux. My only physical drive had a physical partiton...
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    Laptop + external DVD+RW = no fun

    I have a sony vaio laptop, which is really sweet. it's a PCG-GR370. Had it 3 years, been to japan and back, installed dual boot w/linux on it, no sweat. I'm currently running winXP SP2, and wanted to plug in an external DVD+RW drive, so I can burn my video editing reels on the go. The...
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    Where's the virus?

    OK, let's see if anyone can figure this one out. It's a long story, but the question is at the bottom. ABIT KT7 WD 80gb (boot) WD 120gb SB Live Drive II Radeon ATI (TV) Netgear System Commander boots to: XP(primarily), 98SE, DOS Use the system primarily for video editing. Just...