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    Are larger SATA 2.5" drives going through growing pains?

    I've been look to replace the 120gb drive in my McBook and was aiming for 250gb. However, when looking at reviews from customers I've seen a disturbing trend that most drives seemed to have surprisingly high numbers of complaints - people on their second and third failed drive, etc. Is this a...
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    Games jumpy??

    Given that the games are all old ones (diablo 1??) shouldn't it be ATI's responsibility to ensure that these popular games are fully compatible? I've submitted a trouble-ticket with ATI about this, its a little silly IMHO.
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    Games jumpy??

    I've got an Athlon64/3000+ with an ATI x1600 and several old games we've tried playing are incredibly jump on it! Both Diablo 1 and Bricks of Atlantis (a relatively recent shareware title) both should play smooth as a baby's bottom but instead are jumpy like a geek on caffeine. I had the 5.13...
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    Best boot manager?

    kamper, that's what I'd love to do, but if I can get a free or even $30-ish utility to work for me then I can save $300 in the deal. Good idea though.
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    Best boot manager?

    sourceninja: that's awesome, I didn't know Grub could do that!
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    Best boot manager?

    Partitions have changed, specifically Windows XP's NTFS 5.1 came out after many of common partition managers were released. Also, some of them seem to be less flexible in how they work, they'll only accept partitions that they recognize, which kinda sucks if it doesn't recognize e.g. XFS on...
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    Best boot manager?

    cleverhandle: I want to be able to use Ghost to manage the partition images, I can't do that if each one is configured differently. Xosl looks interesting but I'm concerned about using software that hasn't been updated in 4+ years. Right now I'm going to try out MasterBooter, OSLoader and GAG.
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    Best boot manager?

    scottws, the problem with doing that is that each installation is not completely separated from the other one, e.g. if I set up C: and D:, install a second copy of Windows onto D: then the D: install still sees the C: drive - I want each one to be completely separate and believe it is the only...
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    Best boot manager?

    Anyone have recommendations on the best boot manager on the market these days? What I'm intending is setting up one PC with multiple copies of Windows XP on it to compare different web browsers, AOL, etc, all separate from each other. Each partition will be about 2-4gb and will need to be...
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    Internal DLT drive causing power problems?

    I've got an internal DLT7000 drive in my system and it has been causing power problems. The system has a Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI, Athlon64/3000+, 2x 512mb RAM strips, a few HDs, an LG DVD burner, and most recently an ATI Radeon X1600 video card (had an X700 before that and a Geforce 6200 before...
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    Thinkpad R50e Laptop $569.99 AC/AR w/free ship

    You could extend that further to say the entire Intel x86 processor line is a hunk of 10 year old junk that needs a serious ground-up redesign not the go-faster-stripes they keep adding. Look at AMD, they redesigned the K6 and made the K7/Athlon, they redesigned it and made the...
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    Hard Drive Deals for week of 12/04/05

    I finally got in on Outpost's deal on the Seagate drive, well worth it. Damien
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    WD Raptor 74G $121 shipped after MIR.

    There are two rebates on it, both of which say they need the original UPC code, so how should that be handled?
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    SLI using ATI cards on nForce mobo?

    I started wondering what it would take to make two ATI cards work on an nForce4 SLI motherboard? At that point, how about two Geforce cards on an ATI Crossfire mobo? Is it something that could be reverse engineered or would it simply cost each side too much to bother with? Its too bad there...
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    Hard Drive Deals for week of 10/02/05

    Not much on SATA this week, I'm kicking myself that I missed the CompUSA-Seagate deal the other week :-\ Thanks for continuing this, jeffs99, its appreciated.
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    Get $50 off $100 from Staples

    Excellent, I just ordered a catalog for work and one for home!
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    How to view data on DLT tape

    You need to know what software the data was written using and then use that exact same softare. If you don't know, try to guess where it came from and guess from there - most companies use Veritas BackupExec so you may have to find an evaluation version of it. There's always the 'tar'...
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    A simple request to those running Windows Vista beta 1

    They're going to be completely different, the Office developers always write their own file I/O dialogs.
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    Luxor horribly jerky on Athlon64+X700Pro?

    I've got an Athlon64/3000 on a Gigabyte nForce4 SLI board. I originally had the Geforce 6200 128mb non-Turbocache PCI-E card but it crapped out so I replaced it with an ATI X700Pro. Everything seems fine, except for one thing: the game Luxor now runs like crap. It used to be really smooth but...
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    That x700pro looks very tasty indeed. Might have to do that.
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    Ah-ha! http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2297 covers the x700pro.
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    Baddog: how about x700 vs x700pro? There's an x700pro card for $109 at NewEgg, it doesn't have HDTV but otherwise it looks good.
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    baddog: ever hear of problems running one of these on an nForce 4 SLI board?
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    If you had up to $120 to get a PCI-Express card, and weren't that into games, would you get a 128mb Geforce 6200 for $80, a 128mb 6600 for $105 or a 256mb 6600 for $120? Does the extra memory make much of a difference? Is there really that much of a speed difference between the 6200 and 6600...
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    Why no nVidia Geforce 6x00 w/ VIVO on PCI-Express?

    I hadn't seen that card, MadHatter. Its a bit out of my price range though. I ended up deciding to just go with a plain 6600 card, I've got an Iomega Buz I'm going to use under Linux to do video capture which should be fine for me. Thanks everyone. Damien
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    Why no nVidia Geforce 6x00 w/ VIVO on PCI-Express?

    nVidia has always had a good name for their VIVO support so why do none of the PCI-Express versions of the Geforce 6x00 series support it? I'm in the market for such a card and would prefer not to have to make do with a less capable ATI card for the same money. Any thoughts? Damien
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    Backup software suggestions?

    Urk, I just remembered, Backup MyPC doesn't support DLT drives :-( Bummer.
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    Backup software suggestions?

    SyncBack doesn't support tape drives.
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    Backup software suggestions?

    After a HD crash last weekend (no really important data was lost, I think) and a DLT4000 drive in hand, I'm after some decent backup software. Any suggestions? I'm intending splitting up the backup schedule in two - one for regular data and one for pictures we take with our digital camera (I'm...
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    Backing up data to minidv cam?

    Has anyone tried Firestreamer-DV to backup files to their minidv cam? I've got a minidv cam and figured it'd be worth trying to use it for doing backups. Anyone?
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    I replaced my NF-9 with the NXP-SLI (nice board, though I'd have preferred the extra PCI slot but they were out). Anyway, an hour ago I was fiddling with the BIOS and turned on USB mouse support, figuring it'd give me access to the mouse in the BIOS pages or something silly like that. I...
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    Thinkpad A22m, need new HD

    The HD in one of our laptops at work has died. Its an IBM Thinkpad A22m that came with a 30gig HD. The machine is two 1/2 years out of warranty so no free fix. The question is whether it would be worth spending the extra money to get a part straight from IBM or should we just get any OEM...
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    New system causing I/O bottlenecks

    Nightcrawler - Maxtor 40, 80 and 160gig drives. I think DMA is enabled, but I'll check. Andres: OK, I'll try that too. Thanks. Damien
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    New system causing I/O bottlenecks

    After comining my dream machine :) with the above hardware I've started to notice bottlenecks regarding I/O. For example I've seen DVD-res xvid movie files skip around that were playing in the background while e.g. working with Mozilla or eclipse, something that never happened on my old 1.1ghz...
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Firewire Help

    I've got the same problem, first with the GA-K8NFP then with the GA-K8NXP-SLI I replaced the NFP with when the PS/2 problem reared its head. I'm going to talk to some friends about it, see if they can suggest something, might even be able to get one to make up a converter cable... Damien
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    ok. Using a PS2-to-USB adapter I've plugged in the keyboard and its working again. Go figure. I'll test it some more.
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    I think I see one possible problem. At least something I've not seen before. When the machine is on with some of the lights on (e.g. capslock) and you turn it off the lights stay on! Go figure. This suggests to me that there's something funny going on. Darned thingy.
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    I talked to Chig at Gigabyte USA's support line and he explained that it could be the front USB/Firewire ports that are shorting out the motherboard. He explained that this can cause apparently random problems with motherboards so suggested to remove these connectors and try again. Sounds like...
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    I got a GA-K8NF-9 yesterday and built what I consider to be a very nice machine - it isn't high end in the rest of the parts but it is a huge boost from my previous Duron & ECS mobo system. Anyway, within half an hour of having the machine on the PS/2 keyboard stopped working. I picked up a...
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    Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Nforce4 Bios version F2 out

    Anyone know what the "PVT Only" means on F2?