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    How do I tell a program to use a particular sound card?

    Ok Ive run into this issue once where I have needed 2 sound cards and it was very hard to get X application to run on Y sound card. I have since solved that issue by removing 1 sound card and just dealing with it, but now I have a 2nd system where i need to force certain programs to use certain...
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    Looking for a s771 + SLI mainboard

    A while back I did some research on if there were any dual S771 mainboards that supported SLI and i found a few, mainly from supermicro, but remember doing this research was hard because none of these mainboards specifically said they supported SLI. I found that I had to find a forum post with...
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    advice - 1gb 9600gt sli VS 1gb 9800gtx+ (single and sli) VS 55nm gtx 260

    Alright, what im looking for is a respectable setup that performs well at high resolutions and high quality. I love AA when avail. 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 (when I get around to blowing up this 22' crt) Also after a year (or 3) I will be planning on throwing these cards into pcs for CUDA stuff...
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    Looking for server/workstation/network device monitoring software (with a twist)

    Ok, ill try to keep this short and simple, my company's MSP dept remotely monitors and fixes issues for a number of clients, from customers without an AD structure to companies with multiple sites, vpns, etc... and we are currently looking for another hosted (or host it yourself) monitoring...
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    Abit AB9 Quad GT and Xeon???!

    Well, to make a long story short, I need to know if an Abit AB9 Quad GT with latest bios will work with a Xeon 3070 or X3220 Kentsfield. I personally have tested it with a 3040 and it works, so no reason why it wouldn't work with a 3070, but id love to see if i could stick a X3220 in the sucker...
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    Where did Hitachi's 1 TB drive go?

    I havent tried to find any of the Hitachi 1 TB drives anywhere but newegg, and i find it rather odd that i cant find it on Anandtech's real time pricing engine either.... I know its been a long night, but dang. am I totally missing it or is Hitachi having supply issues? I was able to order...
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    Suggestions on cost effective PCI-X sata raid card (not pci-e)

    After searching around and not finding any useful reviews or threads, here i am. System: poweredge 600sc mainboard (acer altos g301), it has 4 pci-x 64 bit 33mhz slots, and all of the regular goodies you would normally see on a lower end server. purpose of server: file server, AD, Exchange...
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    Remote Web Workspace for 03 Enterprise??? need product name

    Ok, SBS is fine and dandy if you are running 1 server, but as it stands we are doing away with SBS and going with 03 Enterprise. my problem is i need the Remote Web Workspace addon for 03 ent (if it exists). More specifically i need the ability to "Connect to Server Desktops" and it shows a...
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    DNS A records keep pointing to nonexistant IP

    Ok, i have had this problem for about a month now, and everything i do to fix it fails. company's server, only server platform on the network at the moment, and im having a bunch of dns errors, and also some A record errors. ip scheme: 10.1.1.3, static, 1 nic. this server has had 2 nics...
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    ventrilo servers, comparison of services, price, etc...

    im in the market for renting a few vent servers and was wondering which companies to stay away from, who has the best reliability, and features. 1 would be for clan related stuff, needs to have reliability, and tolerance for idle users.. the others would be general lite use. so far i have...
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    MSTSC (rdc) connection errors, only locally

    ok i have server 03 with SP1 loaded, and exchange 03, everything works fine, except for one thing (so far) i can remote in from work, school, anywhere, except i CANT remote into the server from my inside my own network. i get the error where the encryption is screwed up, or its not accepting...
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    server 2003 STD and SBS problems; RPC and network

    I dont build as many highend servers as i do desktop systems, but i am fairly competent with install and config. That being said, i have been working on this same problem for about 6 months or so, and i cant find a way around it. situation: Client orders a server, i build and load it, and...
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    windows server 2k3 ent, boot drive is F: wtf?

    ok heres the setup, intel board with no sata raid (enough said there)... so i have 2 200gb satas for OS software mirrored. and a 750 for data. i have installed windows twice on this thing, (srv 2k3 ent), first it had SBS on it as a trial, software mirrored dynamic boot volumes, custom...
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    Is there a registry hack for xp 32 bit to to enable 4gb of memory addressing?

    back around xp x64 release i heard a lot of people saying there were registry hacks for xp 32 bit to be able to address all 4gbs of memory instead of just 3gb if you had 4... ive never seen this hack in action and wanted to see if it existed... i do some Altiris image creating and i keep...
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    Blackberry Pearl, to buy or not to buy.

    Its starting to get to the point where a simple cellphone with just voice (not even text messaging) is becoming more of a hinderance than a help, so ive been seaching around for a phone that would be great for work, and also useful when im not working. a coworker of mine turned me on to the...
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    umm wtf?!?! POST says pentium 5

    some1 tell me if im loosing my mind, but i just built a pc that says it has a pentium 5 cpu in it.... im sitting here at work, this is the 6th or so pc ive built today, the first one with a p4d 2.66 (805)... msi board, sis chipset, phoenix bios. i boot it up to mirror the drives as thats...
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    Tampa Bay cable ISP's, who to choose? (st. petersburg FL)

    this is for st. petersburg FL, near tyrone square mall I have been using internet Junction for over 6 years now and have loved their service, but as brighthouse wont renew their contract for the use of their cable, IJ cant offer cable internet to customers anymore. so i am looking for a good...
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    Diff flavors of 7900GTX and others, which to choose?

    what card would be an ideal card that can hold its own against my current x1900xt? im currently looking at the eVGA 7900GTX, and maybe other brands. essentially this is a computer thaat has to perform, its not quite a server like all of my others, but i dont want to spend an arm and a leg. i...
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    Advanced: Tape loader library, PowerVault 122T

    Hi, one of my clients have a PV 122T tape library that has had multiple problems, the most recent being whenever I try to clean the drive it says invalad tape, spits it back out, and the cycle continues. (same thing happens with a PV 110T standalone drive I have) From reading I would assume...
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    Crossfire problems, a $400 nightmare

    ok, im not new to computers, but to crossfire i am, and im having one heck of a time getting a msi x1900xt and a msi x1900 crossfire edition to mate. well, when i first installed the cards, there was no way to get video on any of the ports, eventually after digging around on the net for a while...
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    P5W or DQ6 for x6800 gaming build in a professional environment

    first, please forgive me, i am very long winded Ok, my company just picked up a few C2Ds for resale, so i gobbled one up, now i need to figure out a board and other components that would hopefully last me 4 years. my current system is an A64 3200+ and 6600gt agp that i have been using for...
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    Avioding inaccessabel boot volume when changing computers, help

    Ok, withough throwing money at the problem, i am looking for a way to load ide raid drivers into an existing windows 2000 pro install, and get it to not bluescreen. my sole goal in this is to take the os drive off of the standard ide channels and put it on a raid card for mirroring. (sofware...
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    onboard raid, windows does not see drives to install to

    Ok, my problem is installing windows to a mirrored volume (hardware) on a Promise FastTrak100 "Lite" controller. this controller is imbedded into a SOYO K7V Dragon Plus! Bios revision 2BA7 this setup is for data integrity, without having to run backups, and prefer hardware raid over software...
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    Data Recovery (advanced) (solved)

    EDIT: problem solved, thanks guys ok, first of all, i do data recovery all the time, its what occupies half my time at work. but for the life of me i cant think of any ideas on how to recover data off of 2 200gb drives in a broken array, and what i mean by broken, is that when the drives...
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    $2.5k budget gaming rig, first idea for parts (longwinded)

    Ok, ive done some searching around, and now that i have the base of what my system would be, i need to know what i would change to make it better. My main concern is brands, who is reliable, who has performance, and who to stay away from. oh, and this is very longwinded, go grab...
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    intel mobo unresponsive after slight OC, cant reset bios

    Ok, everything was working perfectly untill i upgraded my intel D915GVWB mobo /w 3.0 p4's ram... was running generic 512mb ddr400 memory in bankA slot0... added some kingston 512mb ddr333 to bankB slot0, everything fine and dandy untill i started poking around in the bios. when i started...
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    DEC OSF1 on an AlphaServer 2000 (4/200)

    I have an EXTREMELY old DEC AlphaServer 2000(4/200)... running DEC OSF/1... after i login to it and do uname -a it shows OSF1 then the user(or computer)name and version..... i know it is a flavor of unix, other than that its all french to me does any1 know about these servers of this OS? i...
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    copying files over network problems (advanced)

    heres the problem: while copying files over the network from my pc to my server, the server hangs big time. network: gigabit lan, intel gigabit adapter in the server, onboard marvell adapter in my machine. using a netgear 5port switch. all ips are set up static by me becasue my server refuses...
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    JetWay A200GDMS Socket 754... is it worth it?

    ok, at the moment i have an asus k8v-x with an a64 3200+ newcastle. with a pitiful ATI Radeon 9200se as a video card, oh and 2x512 of corsair pc3200 value ram. since im scrimping on money, i dont plan on buying any more agp video cards untill i go socket 939 with pci express video cards, why...
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