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    eSata issues - just plain won't work

    Ha, I guess because I just got everything finally running solid as far as my PC goes and scared to upgrade....especially because I'd be going about it the bit torrent way...no way I'm paying hundreds of dollars for Windows.
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    eSata issues - just plain won't work

    Hmm, Well my motherboard is an MSI K9A2 Platinum and I've used both its on-board eSata ports to no avail (not add-on card), tried a different cable (although it's the same brand/type as the first one), there's no setting in BIOS for the eSata ports, period (much less a place to change it to...
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    eSata issues - just plain won't work

    Ok, so it has to be me. I can't find anyone else that's had trouble with eSata like this. This sounds dumb, but I've been trying to use it off and on for the past 6 months, first with XP, now with 7, and it just plain doesn't work. Is it supposed to be like USB - plug it in, Windows makes a...
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    Need help making web.config file please!!

    Is anyone familiar with making a web.config file? Specifically, I need to register COM DLLs on our Windows server and also set the permissions for the DLLs once they're registered. I'm not extremely familiar with .NET or web.config files so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ian
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    PC Overheating

    Soooo, it ran perfectly for like a week then froze. So basically I've been pulling sticks of RAM one at a time in all kinds of different combinations and noting which works and which doesn't...hoping to narrow it down to one stick or one slot. So far...it's confusing....but I'm getting...
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    PC Overheating

    Welllll about an hour and a half went by and....freeeeze. So I'm trying to remove one stick of RAM at a time to see if maybe that's the issue. I pulled one stick and have been running solid for almost two hours. I'll keep you posted.
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    PC Overheating

    Well I'm back at work and booted up and it froze....then I looked inside and saw that one of the memory sticks wasn't pushed in all the way (blush face). So I pushed it in, booted up and it's been good to go for a little over an hour. I REALLY hope that's all it was. When I get home will be...
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    PC Overheating

    Gooosh, I'm so stumped. I was thinking that about the HD too.... But I took the PC back to work and turned it on, couldn't find boot device, so I switched to a different SATA port on the mobo and it booted up. Ran it for two freakin days, itunes jamming melodies the whole time (I...
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    PC Overheating

    Well I went home and first just unplugged my keyboard and plugged in the same one i used at work (just trying to remove one thing at a time). Then it froze. So I rebooted and then it couldn't find a boot device. Great. So that's where I am right now....fucked. I've had to reload this thing...
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    PC Overheating

    Zap - Damn, that's twice what mine's ever gotten to be. Next thing I'm going to try is using a plain jane Dell USB keyboard and mouse with one monitor and no peripherals. That sounds like it could be the culprit more so than the power source because I have a UPS/AVR between the wall outlet and...
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    PC Overheating

    So I think I've finally figured out the cause for my PC always freezing....has to be overheating. Although, I didn't think the temps were all that high, but that's where you guys come in. Check my sig (BigBlack link) for my hardware (only difference is I'm running one hard drive now, not...
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    Maximized windows hide behind Start bar..??

    I've tried all that too. Unchecked all options, applied and closed. Then pulled properties back up and checked the ones I wanted again and it still is messed up. Thanks for posting though.
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    Maximized windows hide behind Start bar..??

    I don't know what the heck causes this, but I found a fix once when I googled it a few weeks ago, but it's only temporary I guess, and now I can't find it again. I simply maximize any window and the bottom won't stop at the Start bar, it'll go to the bottom of the screen, behind the bar...
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    Wireless problems

    How do you change channels? There's no physical switch...I'm guessing it's a software thing?
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    Wireless problems

    So a few of my friends are having some problems with their wireless internet at their apartment. There's four girls and they all have laptops, all running wireless. They set it up a few days ago and it hasn't ever worked correctly. They have the modem connected to the wireless router properly...
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    Problems with Private Messages

    Yup, I think you're right. Thanks for the help guys!
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    Problems with Private Messages

    replied back at 1:22, my time (sorry I didn't specify the time zone previously)...
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    Problems with Private Messages

    I sent you a PM at 1:11, bsobel.
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    Problems with Private Messages

    I think I'm having some issues with my private messages not being sent out or not being received by me. I replied to a few people and only one has gotten back to me after multiple attempts of my messages being sent and they said that they didn't receive any of my previous messages. This may...
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    PC keeps effing up...

    I ran Memtest86 and let it test my RAM 5 times and all test passed. What's prime95?
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    PC keeps effing up...

    First off, I reposted this from the Motherboards section because it wasn't getting many replies...I probably should have put it here in the first place. Sorry for it being kind of long...but I'm really at a loss and would appreciate your time and any constructive commets...Thanks! So I built...
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    PC keeps effin up...

    Thanks. Yea I did a few in UBCD, they came out fine.
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    PC keeps effin up...

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    PC keeps effin up...

    Where do I find memtestx86 v1.7...or a memtest in general? And the PS isn't the problem I'm talking about...that was just a side note. It's the system board I'm talking about mainly. Does anybody else have any suggestions or agree with the memory thing or the system board thing?
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    PC keeps effin up...

    So I built my PC (Big Black) in April of 2005 and I've had sooo many problems with it. I've had to wipe the drive and start over at least a dozen times since I've built it. Probably the longest running time I've had it in normal working order is maybe five or six months...these are not...
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    Recovery Console problems

    I tell you what...unless this thing completely, literally explodes, I don't know what else can go wrong. I don't want to spend money on recovery...and I think it's beyond that anyway. So I disconnected the C: drive and started installing XP on the other hard drive. So I get to the setup...
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    Why can't I make a rig profile in myanandtech?

    Oh ok, didn't even see that. Thanks man. EDIT: FYI for anybody with the same problem...Simply not filling in the "Notes" field worked for me!
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    Why can't I make a rig profile in myanandtech?

    I was just wondering if anyone else has been having any problems with making a system rig profile in myanandtech. Every time I try, it spits an error at me. Just says something unknown has happened and it'll tell the site admin. But just to see if I was entering something in wrong, I loaded...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Fixboot says it cannot open the partition. Chkdsk (I tried again) doesn't even appear to scan just hangs a few minutes then says, "there seems to be one or more unrecoverable errors on the drive", BartPE works, I can boot to it no problem for some reason. But when I try UBCD or anything else...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Yea, it did seem like it did what it was supposed to at the fixmbr \device\harddisk0 command. But then I just got that error that I stated previously. I'll go ahead and boot into UBCD and start backing stuff up. But just now I tried to see if I could boot up to Vista with the Vista DVD in...
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    Recovery Console problems

    It warned me about making a new boot sector, asked if I really wanted and I said yes. Still no go. Now when booting without anything in the disk drive it seems like it always wants to boot to cd even though I have the first boot device in BIOS set to the hard disk, because I get "DISK BOOT...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Yea, probably This sucks. fixmbr The old master boot record cannot be read. Edit: So I guess just creating a new boot.ini file from the EasyBCD documentation won't help then? If not, what about running a repair install of XP? Or is there something else I can do?
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    Recovery Console problems

    On the C: chkdsk it got to 50% hung for about ten minutes and came back with, "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems." D's chkdsk went fine. At fixboot c: I got The target partition is C:. Are you sure you want to write a new bootsector to the partition C:? Y...
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    Recovery Console problems

    And I just got a BSOD :( IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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    Recovery Console problems

    Wow again. So I followed your instructions and EasyBCD's instructions: 1. Run EasyBCD, and go to the Add/Remove Entries screen. 2. From the drop-down menu, select Windows XP, 3. Press the "Add Entry" button. then I rebooted with nothing in my dvd drive and still got the 'bootmgr is missing'...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Wow, so I haven't done any of the above yet, but I just booted up and it booted right into Vista no problem. I don't know how, but that works now. But it didn't give me the option of which OS I wanted. So should I go ahead and do the afore mentioned commands, or is there something I can do in...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Windows Boot Manager --------------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: default {default} displayorder {default} timeout 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------------- identifier...
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    Recovery Console problems

    Oh yea, sorry. Well that didn't work either. I'm so lost. Any more ideas? I just don't understand how I can't do anything to the files in UBCD. It just won't let me move them, or copy, paste or anything.
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    Recovery Console problems

    I should be running these with UBCD (or BartsPE) though shouldn't I? Because all the boot stuff is on the C: drive, and the Vista Recovery Environment goes to the D: because that's where Vista is installed. BTW I did try those in the VRE and it didn't help.