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

    69 gig total. (three 35 gig drives). Days or Weeks?! 0.o And there's no status report on the progress. It comes up with two drives at 0,1,2 with being not formatted. The raid however says its using 1,2,4 with 4 being "missing"/
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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

    reimaged the machine. now it's worse off. won't boot windows. When it gets to the "want to do safe mode" prompt or when I try to boot a rescue CD, the keyboard stops working and the scroll lock, caps lock and num lock lights flash one to another. Like a christmas tree.
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    Troubleshooting Advice Needed

    Clearing the CMOS did the trick with regards to the keyboard not working! :) Awesome. However, when I try to log in as administrator, and later I noticed after windows start to boot, the CPU fan stops spinning... :(
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    Troubleshooting Advice Needed

    Done. I'll go to lunch and report back if it made any difference.
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    Troubleshooting Advice Needed

    A P4, it's a IBM ThinkCentre 8189 with what I think is the original power supply (probably sort of old now) and 1 gig of ram. a 40 gig WD HDD.
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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?

    But what about the hardware itself? Are we going to be able to find drivers?
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    Cheapest Machine Possible?

    We've got all the windows copies we need. But they're XP copies. Which brings up an important point. We *do not* want to use the Vista install that comes on the outlet machines. At all. Is the hardware in new dells compatible and/or stable with XP?
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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

    Thanks. :) What does it matter for? Verification as a trusted source?
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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 users need to be able to log onto the domain X. two reasons that can't currently happen. 1) Wireless is not connected to a network when the machine is not logged onto a user. 2) It needs the credentials stored in the user's profile to be able to log onto the network at all. This is...
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    Wireless > Ethernet?

    We have cheapers ones already that aren't managed. They don't seem to think that's enough. :(
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    Wireless > Ethernet?

    I guess I should clarify. By login screen, I mean the screen that you see when *Windows* boots up.
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    Wireless > Ethernet?

    Would you mind posting a link that explains this maybe with pictures?
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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? :(

    Knowing that it can be fixed is enough information. :) We assumed that it just sucked and it was destined to be that way. Could you provide any more specific details of your setup perhaps?
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    Why is Symantec Endpoint Such Fail? :(

    So asking the mothership to fix their policies as to not nuke our machines is a reasonable request?
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    Why is Symantec Endpoint Such Fail? :(

    Lol. Yeah. ;) Any other advice? Is what I described unusual?
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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

    Oh man... I wish you hadn't said that. Now I am about to spend 85 dollars! Thanks alot!!! ;) (just kidding, thanks for the info) Do I have to have 64 bit windows to get the full use of the memory?
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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

    It's Windows XP. Logging on is almost always slow, logging off is usually ok speed. I'll have to get back to you on the HD and processes.
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    Extreme Slowdown when on Domain -- Advice Needed

    If I post the processes from one of those machines, do you think you could spot it? This has happened from a new machine that we just put windows on. As soon as it was on the domain, much slower. Should, in an ideal situation, being on a network affect a computer's performance in a daily task...
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    Extreme Slowdown when on Domain -- Advice Needed

    Indeed they are. I will try taking it out and see if that makes a difference (worse or better).
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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

    It seems it was the USB mouse that prevented it from booting.... 0.o
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    Intel Server Board No Longer Boots Anything

    edit button isnt' working btw. So I have to reply. I tried resetting the BIOS settings to default and now I get a "Select Boot Device" screen but selecting either the HD or cdrom gives me a blank screen.
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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

    We have no idea wth they're running when they're logging in on the domain. I do know there's a printer setup script that sometimes takes awhile. I don't think the app is properly exiting as the computer is sometimes painfully slow even 20 minutes after having logged in. I double and triple...
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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

    Turned off the firewall and boo it worked! Thanks! :)
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    Networking Problems with Hostname

    Windows firewall is not enabled but Symantec's is.
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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?