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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

    Yeah, I suppose it could be a keyboard error. I'll try that tonight. It's a USB keyboard. I'm assuming if there was no recognized keyboard, I would at least get a beep code, or something would appear on the screen. The fans do stop completely. They don't suddenly halt, but they go from...
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    Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 won't post

    Thanks, guys. Magnus, the lights that stay lit are one of the red lights next to the memory that says S3, and two (orange and green) lights labeled MD1 and MD2 (I think -- not in front of it right now). None of the LEDs are blinking, just solid. Soulkeeper, I bought this motherboard in...
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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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    i7 2600k CPU $229.99 + tax with Facebook deal Coupon at Micro Center - instore only

    Signed up... got my coupon instantaneously. Good 'till the 31st.
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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

    Somehow was able to do it all within OSX disk utility. Using the "Master Boot Record" setting (I think), I created a first Fat32 Partition and a 2nd partition that was HFS+ -- somehow, the 5th or 6th time I did it, it didn't create little 32kb partitions at the beginning and end of the disk.
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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?

    They're back up again. No explanation for the outing -- but they're hiring!
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    On-board ALC889 SPDIF input won't accept 32kHz audio signal

    I ended up getting an external USB interface (Edirol UA1D), which seems to work ok, but mayhaps is dropping a few samples every so often. I haven't had time to look into it in detail, but that's my feeling. Works fine for capturing small clips from the tape, though.
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    EFiX site down?

    Yeah, I put $189.99 on "gonna be around long enough to keep their firmware updated." It's been a good 9-month run so far. Hoping the fun continues so I don't have to become Captain Kext. Site is back up today, but the forum continues to be down. Those guys are kind of crazy about their forum...
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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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    Lamborghini interior YUCK!

    Oh no! Someone scribbled "Lambroghini" in silver pen on my CRX's dash!
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    On-board ALC889 SPDIF input won't accept 32kHz audio signal

    Ha! Actually had a tech support email in to Realtek, and they responded last night... said that it was Dolby-designed, and that it only handles 48kHz input. So... let me get this straight: Realtek builds the chip, Dolby builds the 5.1 and digital stuff using the Realtek chip, Realtek writes...
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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?

    Yeah, Seems to be back up for me now. And right, Apple doesn't have any legal control over the site, but I was thinking they might try to swamp it with requests to reduce it accessability.
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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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    Installing new gigabyte mb but have no video output

    Took my computer back to the local shop where I got the mobo and memory. Turns out it was a bad stick of DDR RAM. Their bad. They replaced it. My ATI AGP card works fine with this mobo.
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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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    External HDD, help me choose

    I have a 'prolific' enclosure chipset. it works ok. you can find some support for it, although I'm not sure how solid the flashes are.
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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

    Actually, I have noticed a speed difference with the SATA boot. Also file xfers, etc. The biggest thing I think is how applications load much faster now. Anyone who's ever sat in front of photoshop loading more than once knows the value of this. Especially if you close out, and then realize...
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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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    Installing new gigabyte mb but have no video output

    I'm having the same issue. Athlon 950. Gigabyte 7vt600p-rz. Processor is on the compatibility list. Perhaps my cpu is a 133 FSB flavor, could this be possible? if so, would this be a problem? also, what list of mystery CPUs? Lights come on, CD drive moves in/out. No video, so I thought my...
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    Where's the virus?

    The one thing I would say about ZoneAlarm, though... you can't disable it! Seems like you have to completely uninstall to get it to not run on startup... am I missing something? I just have computers that are periodically connected, then not connected to the internet. Pretty heavy video...
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    Where's the virus?

    Can you tell me why having two antivirus softwares simultaneously installed is bad?
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    Grub syntax?

    I just have a few basic questions now... 1) do I need to have GRUB Stage2 loading or is Stage1.5 OK? (Stage2 had pretty graphics) 2) how do i fix linux? 3) why did it think linux was on (hd0,5) ? 4) how can I edit grub.conf?
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    Grub syntax?

    yes yes, like magic! now when I boot it says "GRUB loading stage 1.5" (not Stage2 anymore?) I get a menu: Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) Windows XP think you were right about the partitions. 0x7 must be NTFS ande 0xC must be fat32. the XP menu option was set up as "rootnoverify (hd0,0)"...
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    Grub syntax?

    ok ok, now I got XP to boot manually in the command-line by typing the following: rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot but how do I edit the GRUB menu without getting to the menu itslef!?
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    Grub syntax?

    More info: I typed in "root (hd0," then hit tab and it gave me the following list: partition num: 0, filesystem type fat, 0xC partition num: 4, filesystem type unknown, 0x7 partition num: 5, filesystem type unknown, 0x7 partition num: 6, filesystem type ext2fs, 0x83 partition num: 7...
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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

    OK, I installed the latest firmware... pl3507b d110904 Still have the 'My Computer' problem. ("Incorrect Function") When, in DVD Architect, I click on 'make DVD,' it just hangs there forever. Hard to 'end program' of DVD architect, but finally it closes out. Don't know if I have chip...
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    Laptop + external DVD+RW = no fun

    OK. I'm posting this for someone doing this in the future, because it seems pretty undocumented. All downloads I got from this site: http://member.newsguy.com/~siccos/PL3507%20Firmware.htm I downloaded RomWriter v2.2.0, but it didn't work. So then I read somewhere that it has to be used...
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    Laptop + external DVD+RW = no fun

    OK, here's the error I got on the desktop over firewire burning a DVD with DVD architect: [start] The command failed due to an IOCTL error. Your interface or drive may be configure incorrectly. 'USB/1394 DEVICES'-(3) -'PHILIPS DVD+RW-D28 1.29'-(0) module sfmmcx.cpp Line 1685 status...
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    Laptop + external DVD+RW = no fun

    Yeah... I already had the BIOS updated with the latest version... here's another piece to the puzzle, though: I tried plugging the combo w/DVD to my desktop (by firewire), which for sure has the proper DVD+RW drivers, since the philips was in there before. Same response, when I click on it...
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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...