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    Adaptec 3200s and RAID 5 -- How do I rebuild?

    We have a linux box with hardware adaptec 3200s raid with 3 SCSI drives. The other day, one of the drives failed. We, for some reason, did not have a spare to place in there, so we went to our backup server and ordered a new drive. It came in, we put it in the server, and went into the...
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    Troubleshooting Advice Needed

    Trying to rule out everything. The machine does not currently take keyboard input so booting off a CD is not currently possible. I do not know if a USB keyboard would work because we don't have one/can't find one. The two 512 sticks are being mem tested in another machine. I have tried...
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    Mups.sys Error -- From a New Image

    Made a new image to put on machines. The image is fine as far as I know. We put it on a very similar machine where the only problem with the images made on other machines is the display. We usually have to go into safe mode, remove the driver and reboot and then install the correct driver (at...
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    Cheapest Machine Possible?

    Looking for a barebones machine here. Looking to have at least 1 gig of ram and 60 gig HDD, P4 CPU or higher. Decent other specs. All it will be used for is web surfing and some Office 2007. With these kind of low specs, are we better off just buying from a retailer? Looking to get 6...
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    SSL Questions

    I know that OU Organizational Unit doesn't mater with regards to the functionality of a SSL certificate. However, I need to know if Server Type makes a difference on whether or not that a cert works like it should aside from the way it's installed for that specific platform, like apache etc...
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    Wireless > Ethernet?

    The guys above us at my school are having us put all of our ethernet desktops over to wireless. :eek: The wireless network over the last year or so hasnt' been reliable at all (I once calculated a 93% uptime or so). But we've been promised it will be. I was told the reason is because...
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    Why is Symantec Endpoint Such Fail? :(

    Where I work we are forced to use Symantec Endpoint Protection of all of our machines. And it suuuucks. On a very regular basis, it seems to get instructions from the 'mothership' (the people that tell us to use it) and it crashes our poor P4 512 RAM machines. It makes a login that takes a...
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    MB only supports DDR2 667 but can I use DDR2 800

    or would I have to buy another MB to use http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231122 Thanks for any advice.
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    School Priced RAID Solution?

    We're looking to buy a RAID solution in the next couple days with a school tech budget. :) We would like at least RAID 5 or RAID 10 and about 1TB of space. Our server is a tad old, but we can't afford to replace it at the moment. It has 1 PCI slot open and TWO PCI ULTRA slots open...
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    Recommendation Needed: HDTV/Monitor

    Looking to spend about 400. I want to be able to use this TV as my monitor. I currently have a 20" 1680x1050. Would prefer not to downgrade when getting a TV in resolution. What options do I have? I am very new to this market.
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    Extreme Slowdown when on Domain -- Advice Needed

    Whenever we put our computers on the "school's" network as its domain and not our own, the computer, after having rebooted, it typically very slow and not nearly as responsive as before. When troubleshooting a problem like this, what things should we look out for? We have already deduced that...
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    Intel Server Board No Longer Boots Anything

    While we were setting up our new servers to roll out this december, we had no problems with this refurbished Intel 3.0 xeon server. The other one, the backup one, did have some big problems. Here's the issue. While we're running on another real backup server right now, my boss yesterday moved...
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    Hell With Domains and Admin Accounts

    I work for a part of campus that's usually been runnnig its own domain and all its computers were connected only with that domain. Since then we've hooked up with the main network, bad things have happened. Instance 1: Take this new computer we got in last week. It's a refurb of a kind of old...
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    Networking Problems with Hostname

    We are having tons of trouble with psshutdown and hostnames lately. Here's a couple fyi's. :D Any machine on the domain that is not a server but just a workstation cannot be pinged. The ip resolves but the pings timed out. The machines are able to be started up via Wake on Lan (from...
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    Need an App For Very Simple Editing

    I need an freeware app that will allow me to resave a video. I need to be able to select just a portion of the video to save, like from a certain time to another time. Like 2:30 to 20:30
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    Fun With Dvds

    I burned a dvd with tracks such as that. In both of my dvd players it played. But when I gave the dvd to a friend, his player wouldn't play it. The audio was .mp2 form. What tools should I use to correct this?
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    Active Desktop = Weird Now

    Whenever I log onto the local admin machine, a I get a message saying "Internet Explorer could not find the Active Desktop HTML file. To turn off Active Desktop Click OK". We have active desktop on all of our machines so that users are not able to change their background and so they use the...
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    Advice About Multimedia Wanted

    I am pretty new to the world of looking into Windows Software for XP. I've used it for years at school but just recently have I seriously used it at home. I've discovered that there's tons of crap when you're looking for software, especially freeware/shareware. I need some of these kinds...
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    Werid Video Abnormailty In Playback

    A couple days ago I switched over from using a dvi-to-vga adapter on the dvi port of my video card to just using the dvi cable. I didn't notice a picture quality difference after all. But starting last night, I am getting weird lines in video playback. Especially in full screen. Last night I...
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    Outlook 2007 Not Playing Nicely With 2003

    A user of 2007 Outlook is unable to look at the calendars of a 2003 user. The 2003 user has sent a "allow this user" email and everything to the 2007 user. Unfortunately the 2007 user has trouble when she tries to open the 2003 user's calendar. Outlook keeps saying "This user does not have a...
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    C2D E3400 and Temparture

    While playing WoW, after hours, my CPU is around 54C. Just web surfing it's around 43C. It idles about at 41C. Is this normal/safe? Search is working now --this topic has come up too many times to be repeated and the 2nd post's link to the same topic is good and is still current. CPU...
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    New 20" Acer Monitor = No Video in VLC or Quicktime

    I just setup my new 20" widescreen LCD monitor from ACER. Awesome picture quality so far and no dead pixels! hooray! :D But when I tried to open several different video files in both QT and VLC, and several differnet formats, there was no video. Just audio and a black screen where the video...
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    Drastic Speed Differences Between Identical Machines

    We have two IBM ThinkCentre pcs where I work. After doing some routine maintenance, I discovered that one of the computers is ungodly slow. I thought maybe it had some weird virus, so I did a clean XP install. Was still just as unusably slow. I even doubled the ram. Barely any effect...
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    Running a Shutdown Script ONLY on Friday

    I went to Microsoft's website and learned how to specify a shutdown script. However, the script I made deletes roaming profiles that are on the machine, minus a few administrative related ones. How can I specify that this script is only to run on shutdown on friday's?
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    What's a good DVD Burner

    Most of the ones I can find on newegg, the the top rated and most bought ones, seem to have severe problems when you read the reviews. Are those problems rare? What do you guys recommend?
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    SCSI Scanners and Hell on Earth!

    The topic is indeed correct my friends. I have now spent a total of 6.5 hours trying to install a scanner. I am not kidding. But first, a few disclaimers. While I am not a Windows expert (do those exist?), I know the general troubleshooting steps. I've pulled things out of my *** before, but...
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    No output -- What does it mean?

    What does it mean when your video card graphics drivers install ok, but when you reboot to use them and xp has finished booting up and is about to go to the desktop, your screen goes idle?
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    Help Needed -- PSU Isn't Letting Video Card Drivers Install

    Here's my rig. http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16813121046 (mobo) http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16814130062 (video card) http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16822144416 (HD) The rest obviously is RAM that I bought from a friend (works awesome, had it...
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    USB or PCI Wireless Adapter -- What do You Recommend

    Hmm? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833338012 I like that one!
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    Packets Only Sent During A Ping

    I fear my other topic has died. :) When I set up my computers for a LAN, the only time I get any packets received is when I send a ping command to the other. That's it. Why is that? What should I set my ip on each computer to ensure successful connection (and LAN gaming). Thanks.
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    Severe Lan Problems -- Packets are ONLY being Sent

    Weird LAN problems. Here's what I desperately want to learn how to do. My brother and I want to play WC III together. I have two pcs in my room hooked together with a ethernet cable. What steps should I follow to guarantee a positive result when trying to play a LAN game together? My...