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    Sound card issues

    bump. This is getting really annoying.
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    Firewire drives dropping out?

    thanks for the reply. That kinda makes sense, although everything but the iPod is self powered, and I have a 480 watt power supply in the computer, so I should have ample power. But I have all of my self powered devices on one channel, and only have the iPod hooked up to one firewire port...
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    Sound card issues

    What the **** is wrong with my computer? I was just listening to iTunes, and I changed some ID3 tags, and halfway through the change, all I hear is a loud buzz. I can pause the track and the buzz stops, so it is definately trying to play the track, and somehow EVERY sound from my computer is...
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    Firewire drives dropping out?

    bump yet again, am I the only person with intermittent firewire issues?
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    Firewire drives dropping out?

    Bump again. Anyone know why my firewire card intermittently drops my devices? I have had no problems hooking up to my audigy 2. What gives?
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    Firewire drives dropping out?

    Bump. I daisy chained all of them to my Audigy, and it seems to be working, but my regular Firewire card doesn't work, It won't show my iPod or my DVD burner. Do I need new drivers or a new firewire card?
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    Firewire drives dropping out?

    I've got a bunch of firewire drives, all in 2 4 bay cases, each drive has its own FW interface, I have 4 drives in a RAID stripe, as well as a stripe of 3 more, with the 8th being the only non raid disk. The RAID works fine, plenty fast, etc etc etc. Now sometimes, even when in the middle of...
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    Clock counting too slowly?

    My clock is counting too slowly. I have set it via time.windows.com repeatedly, to the correct time. I can come back an hour later, and it is a couple minutes slow. The computer has not been turned off at all, and has had an active connection to the internet the whole time. My mobo is an...
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    XP dynamic RAID firewire

    anybody? Again, I have 4 250GB drives in a firewire case, soon they will be all master, when i get my shipment of firewire bridge boards. I want to make them into one big disk, so JBOD may work, but why not make them striped? My question is will a stripe created by one XP machine be visible...
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    XP dynamic RAID firewire

    I have a 4 drive firewire case, which I would like to convert via windows to a dynamic RAID 0. I have 2 xp machines, is the RAID tied to the exact OS that created it? Or can I move it to my other computer to move files around? My main reason for the RAID is i'm tired of having 4 separate...
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    Windows crashing during installation? (and other issues)

    Ok, my first system, it was the hard drive. Weird tho, but with my luck with hard drives (had to replace 6 so far, but I am using 13 drives in the system...) The second one, clearing the CMOS worked, it's a bitch on my shuttle XPC, but it worked, but the second boot I got no video, swapped...
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    Which power supply

    Thanks. I plan on getting an Antec 550w True Power. Antec is a reliable brand correct? I have an Antec currently.
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    Windows crashing during installation? (and other issues)

    I have a system that I have had for a year or so, and some video card issues caused it to crash shortly after boot. I decided to start fresh, with a brand new HD, which worked fine, unfortunately the brand new drive failed a day after installation (S.M.A.R.T. warned me but I figured the smart...
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    Which power supply

    I have an antec Sonata case, with the 380watt power supply that is just barely cutting it. I have a grand total of 9 hard drives in this system, 5 WD 200GB 3 maxtor 300GB and a 40GB boot drive. This is a file server for video files, so it needs to be on 24/7. I saw an Antec 550w at ecost for...
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    Raid 5 woes

    I figure my drives fail because I am storing large files on them, and often moving large anounts of data on and off the drives. But that is why I bought the damn raid in the first place. Another thing that bugs me, I have my MP3 library stored on the same array with all of my video files...
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    Raid 5 woes

    Turns out at least one drive got corrupted, and it is rebuilding. But still, I seem to be having more problems with this RAID than I have with my external firewire drives, all maxtors which are not in a raid, but are used about the same amount. Am I working with flakey drives or maybe a...
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    Raid 5 woes

    Ok, I have a RAID 5 on a highpoint rocketraid 454 with 4 WD2000JBs, and so far have had 2 drives fail separately, so I simply swapped out the bad drive and rebuilt the array, that's the point of pairity in raid correct? Well, not even a month after replacing one drive, 2 drives simultaneously...
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    Oxford 911 firewire problems

    I bought this 4 bay firewire case, came with 4 hotswap trays pre mounted. It connects and reads/writes just fine, but it makes the computer extremely slow during a transfer, does not maintain steady data rates, and if I try to access more than one drive at a time, windows reports that the drive...
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    SB Audigy 2 1394 port and DVD-RW?

    It's just a standard, OEM Audigy 2 from newegg, the cheapest one they had.
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    SB Audigy 2 1394 port and DVD-RW?

    Yeah, I tried updating the mobo drivers, at your suggestion (though since the card works I doubted it would do anything) Still no luck. I know the port has power, cause it charged my iPod, and powered my bus powered HD. Any other suggestions?
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    SB Audigy 2 1394 port and DVD-RW?

    I just bought an Audigy 2, and love it, but the firewire port won't let me see my DVD or CD drive. I also have a firewire hard drive case on order to add more space. How do I get my 1394 port on the audigy to see drives? My system Albatron KT600 Athlon XP 2700 1GB ram Radeon...
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    Dual channel DDR speed boost?

    Thanks, thats what I wanted to know. The RAM I have is 512MB of kingston Valueram PC2700. I can't get a stable windows boot at anything higher than 182FSB which runs the CPU at 2004MHz. I am pretty sure the ram is holding me back. When I got it, I figured why bother overclocking, but i got...
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    Dual channel DDR speed boost?

    I have a shuttle SN41G2, with an Athlon XP2500+ OC'd to 2GHz (I think thats like a 2800 right?) and a Radeon 9500 with the softmod to a 9700 pro (I think it worked, as I got 14400 on 3dmark 2001 SE) Would I see any gain from getting another stick of Valueram to run it in dual channel? Or...
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    is it worth it? sm9500np or 9700p

    ok, thanks for the link. And yes, I did get the one thats supposed to be the red pcb one. the other on newegg specifically said black pcb, and all the newegg reviews for the softmoddable card are from the one I got.
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    is it worth it? sm9500np or 9700p

    BTW, how do you do the softmod anyway? A quick google search finds mostly forum threads about it working or not, not of the actual procedure. Also, I am a newbie when it comes to PCs (been a Mac user, only PC has been a Laptop, which is a closed system save for ram and HD) Do I have to...
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    is it worth it? sm9500np or 9700p

    I was thinking the same thing, and went ahead and bought a 9500 from newegg. Its only $150, and even without modding anything its still a great card, i figured if it doesn't softmod, ill still have better than my onboard geforce 4mx. And if I decide I want more, ill just send it back for a...
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    SN41G2 12volt too low?

    First off, im very happy with my shuttle. Everything runs fine, and I even OC'd my 2500+ from 1.83GHz to 2GHz, and it runs fine. I downloaded a utility that shows temps and voltages, and it shows my 12volt rail is only 10.5, and my fan speed is too low. I am coming from a Mac Desktop and a PC...
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    Mobility Radeon upgrade

    sounds good. From what I can tell with my limited windows knowledge snooping around, The auctioneer said that I take out the 8 meg chip and replace it with the 32 meg chip. And in windows, i think it has 8 megs internal, and 8 megs on the upgradable chip? Am I correct here? Im new to video...
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    Mobility Radeon upgrade

    I have a Laptop with a Mobility radeon 8MB DDR. It is a Compaq Presario 1720US with 512 mb ram and xp pro. The games I play (jedi outcast) work just fine, I just want a bit smoother graphics (im not that picky with graphics, I think my friends GeForce 2 MX 200 is good enough). His is a bit...