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    Wierd Network Issue

    already tried that as an option - no difference. I popped a PCI NIC in the wifes machine and it's working now, which kinda implies I have a hardware failure I think? times two
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    Wierd Network Issue

    Yesterday morning my main machine dropped its network and totally refused to get an DHCP lease, even after resetting the router (dhcp server). I booted into my gaming OS install and got the same issue - unlikely to be a software issue then. I should point out that my motherboard is an ASUS...
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    A8N-SLI DX

    I had two boards - 1 for me, and 1 for a friend. 1 was almost silent, the other had a noisy-ish fan. I swapped the fan assemblys over and the noise went away! Swapped back, and still silent. I believe the 'noisy' fan must have just been rattling a little bit - the screws holding down the...
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    *** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

    Hi all, I bought an A8n SLI in Jan and aside from needing to upgrade power supply its been fine. However, I just bought a DNTV Live digital TV decoder and after the drivers install ok, reboot, I start the application and get a BSOD. I tried a parallel install too, same issue. I tried the...
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    PCI-Express cards

    All, I'm planning to build a new system in the new year and will probably go socket 939. An e-mail from Asus indicates a plan to release their SLI mobo in December which is great. Trouble is, I kinda decided I wanted a 6800GT after posting here a littel while ago. But here in Australia...
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    ** Unoffical Nforce4 S939 Thread **

    Does anyone have any clue when we might start seeing mobo's? In particular I'm wondering about the Asus board. I want to build a new PC after the Christmas holidays and nforce 4, socket 939 would be my choice at the moment......possible?
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    Barton 3200+ to Athlon 3000+ 939 socket

    30,000 files in one folder is a lot. I don't think explorer has ever been particularly great with such big numbers. If right clicking a file is also abit slow, it could be that you have registry entries assigning file extensions to apps which no longer exist. Run regclean (if you can still...
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    Asus K8V Hard Drives

    G'day tmamayek, I'm a bit confused....you say this is for a business but you mention 'raid'ing the OS and programs and leaving the other drives for storage. Me? I can live with the OS and program giving up the ghost - I have copies of them on CD. What isn't so easy to retrieve (unless...
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    Video Card upgrade

    Thanks all. yes AUD means Australian Dollar. I looked up 9800pro and they hover around $350-$400 mark. The X800pro which Cawchy87 mentions is way expensive - $700-$850 and mostly around the high 7s. Can't justify spending that much I'm afraid. So it looks like the 6800 is the way to go...
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    Video Card upgrade

    Thanks. It would appear the pendulum has swung back to NVidia then? One thing I forgot to mention and which may make a difference - I don't want a vacuum cleaner in my PC! Things are loud enough as it is and I'm busy fitting fan speed regulators etc to reduce the overall noise (I have 3...
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    Video Card upgrade

    I've kinda lost touch with the grpahics card world since the Radeon 9700 ushered in a new era, and would like some opinions please. I am looking to upgrade my own system and also build a new one for father in-law. My current machine is a 2800+ Barton and an ATI 9500. I'm looking to get an...
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    Wireless/Cableless KVM

    I hear what you're saying re: the desks. Believe it or not, we already have those! The training room is multipurpose and only used for internal employees - stuff going walkabout isn't an issue. The guts of the problem that a) insufficient power sockets in the floor, which leads to a spaghetti...
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    Wireless/Cableless KVM

    Thanks, looks a bit disappointing :( I've had another idea though..... Wireless Tablet PC mounted on a stand. By 'hiding' the fact it's a laptop, and providing a proper k/b mouse, the tablet becomes the display. It means replacing perfectly good PC's, but they can be re-used elsewhere. But...
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    Wireless/Cableless KVM

    Hi, I have been tasked with cleaning up our training room at work. We have 9 PC's and desks, and a bad jumble of cables. The gosl is to eliminate as many cables as possible for 2 purposes: 1) Looks neater, 2) easier to re-organise room into 3 different configurations depending on the vent...
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    unstable system

    you've checked for virus's too right? Go with Monzie's suggestion and strip the thing to bare minimum - it might just be one component is causing you headaches. If the Mobo has CPU temps in the BIOS, check they are acceptable
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    Is this system dead?

    Maybe you've inadvertently knocked the video card. Get back to basics-remove everything except the cpu, power up to see if it beeps at you (assuming speaker is plugged in) - without RAM you should get a series of long beeps. Add RAM and switch on - you should get a 'no video' sequence (usually...
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    Win2k loading very slowly

    Since you confirmed it's a domain member, check DNS! 1st, drop a command prompt and type nslookup. if the result does not resolve to a name then the DNS servers you configured in TCP properties (be it manually or DHCP) aren't working And make sure the DNS server isn't your ISP's! I did that...
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    Windows XP home- did tweaks and....

    Just curious...Do you have Nortons AV? There's a thread here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=33&threadid=1222039 which suggests a similar problem to what you have. maybe the timing of your tweaking was coincidental?
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    Win2k loading very slowly

    I thought bootvis was an XP only thing?? sysedit will bring up the system.ini etc for you to look at but it probably won't help much. Is this machine standalone or part of a domain? Domain machines will have really bad logon experiences if DNS is not working properly, so look there. Try safe...
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    installing win 2000 ?

    2000 should install to the slave ok and add the option to boot it on your boot.ini file. The actual 'boot' files (ntldr etc) will be located on the 'master' whilst you'll be able to place the windows directory on 'E'. Problem here is that if you then unplug the master, the slave won't be...
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    Two DHCP servers

    As a machine boots up and initialises it's network card it broadcasts for a DHCP server and if one replies it'll request an IP address (assuming configured as DHCP client). This happens way before any domain authentication etc start ocurring. Your hub or switch won't care how many networks you...
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    Where does WinXP store images to use as icons?

    Lots of places!! Loads of files have icons 'in' them. Simple way to create one for yourself is to save a bitmap with an extension of .ico Not sure what the official 'rule' is, but it works ok for shortcuts anyway
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    Where does WinXP store images to use as icons?

    Lots of places!! Loads of files have icons 'in' them. Simple way to create one for yourself is to save a bitmap with an extension of .ico Not sure what the official 'rule' is, but it works ok for shortcuts anyway
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    Abit & nVidia split up

    Have to admit I think Abit's quality went South over the years. My first experience of them was an LX based board and the brand spanking PII 266! Pretty reliable as I recall except for the habit of the then infant AGP cards unseating themselves in transit. I later bought the BP6 dual socket...