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    RAID corrupted. Now what????

    you can also try "Testdisk" . it has helped me in rebuilding the partition table of a lot of hard drives. Go for RAID 5... RAID mirror doesn't sound like a good choice to me...if one drive crashes or gets corrupt ... it is most likely that the second drive will also go bad. Regards Guru
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    Query for building a server

    Thanks Pitz... Sorry i could not reply earlier ... Anandtech keeps on banning my IP address . thanks a lot for sending in the details. I have a small idea what kind of resources it requires.
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    Query for building a server

    Thinking about running something like Zynga Poker
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    Query for building a server

    I have been thinking about this for sometime . I play a lot of online Poker and i am wondering what kind of Server (Hardware and Software) is required for such an operation. Let me know what might be required. Guru
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    Windows 7 is basically Vista renamed

    Looks like nobody understands the difference between the Servicing Stack of Vista and 7. Some people will always have hard luck with computers and keep on crying ..... Guru
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    sony dsc h9b or Fuji finepix s8000fd

    Is it really difficult to take pictures with a D SLR camera??? i can buy an olympus E-510 provided that its easy to use. why aren't the optical zoom specs not mentioned for a D SLR ? Is it because it comes along with multiple lenses with variable zoom or what ...
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    sony dsc h9b or Fuji finepix s8000fd

    Help me decide which camera should i go for??? My budget is around the price of anyone of these cameras.I am a home user who doesnt know much about photography . This is going to be my first camera so help me decide which one is going to be a better buy. Guru
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    Recommendation for SATA Raid card

    Hi , Can you guys recommend me a SATA RAID card which i can install on a PCI slot . I have an 865 gbf mobo which doesnt have any pci-1x cards so i need a PCI based . Guru
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    driver detector

    Hi , i have been looking for a software that can help me to find the drivers required for a computer with freshly installed windows . You can assume that i am a novice and cant open the box and check what cards/chipset is in there ...
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    Data retention capacity

    Don't mean to offend you or something like that but if i am not wrong then almost all the servers in the world take backup on tape drives . However its a good idea to store the data on some common media such as IDE drives and after a few years copy the data to a new standard storage device ...
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    Data retention capacity

    Hi , i have been looking for this answer for quite a long time : for a tape drive its said that it can hold the data stored on it for 30 yrs but what about a SATA , IDE or a SCSI drive ?? What if I store data on a hard drive and then take it off...
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    querry about hard drive storage

    Well , i have noticed slow back of movies , sudden vanishing of volumes on a hard drive( i have 80 gb hdd as master and 160 gb as slave ) and suffered to play games in "slow motion" and these are some of the things that have got me worried . Ohh yes i forgot to say that my pc takes around 4-5...
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    querry about hard drive storage

    Hi there , i have been trying to find a reliable hard drive and so far i have been unsuccessful . i am currently using western digitals ws800js and 1600js and both of them are not performing up to the level i expect . i download a lot of stuff...
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    Weird querry

    i had read somewhere that we can do subnetting to increase the no of nodes or computers on a network and if that is true then the no of nodes that we can have for such a network should be more than 254 . Am i right ?? Guru
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    Weird querry

    Hello everybody Somebody asked me this question a few days back and i still dont have the answer , whats is the maximum no of computers that can be on a network ? whats is the maximum no of computers that can be on a domain ? Is there any limit on the bo of computers on a...
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    IE not working on Vista

    Hey try these steps : safe mode with networking . browse yahoo through its IP address ( in the address bar type in the IP address of yahoo instead of yahoo.com ) Try to stop and start the "dhcp client " and "dns client" service on the pc and try power cycling and then try to...
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    IE not working on Vista

    Hey try these steps : safe mode with networking . browse yahoo through its IP address ( in the address bar type in the IP address of yahoo instead of yahoo.com ) Try to stop and start the "dhcp client " and "dns client" service on the pc and try power cycling and then try to...
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    Can't see vista laptop on network, please help!

    Try to enable the Guest user account on the xp pc and check out the properties of folders that you are trying to share ( if sharing is enabled or not) and also turn off simple file sharing ( from folder options) I hope by this time you have already...
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    Why are Indian people very competative and get jealous easily?

    Well i am an Indian , sitting here is New Delhi . i couldnt believe it that you guys sitting over there have got this much time to discuss things in such a huge thread . i tried to read the thread but got BOOOOOOOORED and Tired of the repetitive pattern...
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    Superfetch + Readyboost explained. *LONG*

    Thank you , for giving me this information . I needed to know this from a long time . I wasnt critical about the way Microsoft have built the new Operating system . Its becoz most of the reviews that i have come across accuse vista of one thing or another . bye and take care Guru
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    Superfetch + Readyboost explained. *LONG*

    Hi Mark, I loved the way you have explained the working of primary and secondary memory but it reminded me of a question which has been ringing at the back of my head for a looong time . I have heard that...
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    Intel D975XBX2 + 4GB Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2

    may be updating your bios might help . i was using 400 mhz RAM and it used to show up as 333 mhz in bios and when i updated bios then it started to show up as 400 mhz Guru
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    Vista Upgrade Hangs

    Hi there , Well first of all find that if all of your hardware is vista compatible or not , if yes then run the upgrade advisor and find which are the softwares that are not compatible and remove them .Finally open the device manager and disable your sound card , network cards ...
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    Windows XP won't boot.

    Go to the recovery console of windows xp and try this command bootcfg /rebuild i hope it works for you . Guru
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    Question for those who had to call Microsoft to reactivate Vista

    Actually its not a bug but Windows Vista activation fails whenever theres a change in hardware configuration and while OCing the clock speed of a CPU increases and hence Windows Vista detects it as a hardware change and thus asking u for reactivation . If this is...
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    Can Vista be run on older machines?

    hEY i have read somewhere that if a system has a memory less than 512 mb of then Vista will refuse to get installed on that system , did Vista giv you any kinds of warning or some disclaimer that you are instlling vista on a system that has low memory .Ofcourse theres no bar on the...
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    its urgent!!!!

    i dont even feel like replying coz my dream of shopping for some new things ended when my friend returned empty hands. he told me that his credit card didnt work in US and thts why he wasnt able to buy anything, but anyways thanks for the suggestions...
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    its urgent!!!!

    hey Homeyfoos, i checked some reviews abou these cards and found out what u r saying is true.the 7600gt card even though it has a memory interface of 128 bit is giving tough competetion to x1800gto. now to other members : everything has been decided about...
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    its urgent!!!!

    games : 1st person shooters, 3rd person shooters , adventure games like prince of persia, racing games nfs most wanted. MY ORDER OF PREFERENCE OF CARDS 1)SAPPHIRE 100154 Radeon X1800XT 256MB 2)XFX PV-T71G-UCF7 Geforce 7900GT 3)POWERCOLOR X1800GTO 256MB Radeon X1800GTO 256MB 4)eVGA...
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    its urgent!!!!

    i am satisfied with the mobo, but in the grafix cards section .i wanna know if i should buy a SAPPHIRE 100154 Radeon X1800XT 256MB or a XFX PV-T71G-UCF7 Geforce 7900GT 256MBcard ??? and are these cards worth the $$$ i m going to pay ??
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    its urgent!!!!

    its 4 am here , i m going to sleep now.hope to see some more interesting answers when i get up
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    its urgent!!!!

    right now i m thinking will they do this if i m in India?if my friend buys the card in US and if i will pay em the shipping cost , i dont think it will be as much cheap as it might be for someone living in US.so the only thing i can do is to buy the best my money can buy .i guess every card...
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    its urgent!!!!

    my friend is in US for a short while and thts y i m in hurry.i need to make the best out of this time and i am not buying the cpu since they are heavily priced for now. one thing more amd 64 3500 is compatible with am2 socket mobo.am i right?
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    its urgent!!!!

    i havent bought the cpu yet so its out of consideration , i will buy that later but for now i need a good am2 mobo which is non sli and a single grafix card. there are so many brands building grafix cards of same chip .this is making my decision more difficult since i dont know which...
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    its urgent!!!!

    i have researched a bit and found tht k9n neo-f is better since it has nvidia 550 chipset .do u guys recommend any other mobo which is NOT SLI enabled and is around $85 .and which grafix card is best around $220 ?? I HAVE GOT 10 HOURS TO DECIDE SO HURRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
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    its urgent!!!!

    i have found these two AM2 mobos , which is better and why (both of them are under $100). MSI K9NU Neo-V and MSI K9N Neo-F so far i havent recieved any proper suggestion for the grafix card :(
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    its urgent!!!!

    i need u to suggest me a combination of mobo and grafix card within $300 and i need amd platform . rest of the details are in the other posts
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    its urgent!!!!

    HomeyFoos rightly said that with s939 i will be able to use my kingston ram and as i am on budget, i dont think i will be able to buy a decent AM2 mobo and a grafix card with in $300. i dont need the sli technology coz i will never be investting in two identical cards instead i will sell out my...
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    its urgent!!!!

    hello everyone, my friend is in Georgia and i have a choice of buying one grafix card and a mobo.the mobo i have chosen is ASUS A8N-E and the grafix card i have chosen is bfg 7600 gt oc. but i m a bit confused about both these products , the specifications of A8N-E...