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    Upgrading -- will my 480w thermaltake suffice?

    Hi guys, I'm upgrading everything I have besides sound card, chassis, and cd-roms. I want to see if I can keep my PSU, but I don't want to push it... cause I know running a stressed psu can damage hardware. You think my thermaltake 480w silent purepower will be able to power my new...
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    Setting up a RAID1 and using another SATA drive alone

    Hey guys, I have a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. It has 2 sata controllers: a VIA southbridge controller and a Promise controller. Both have 2 sata150 connections (so 4 total). I currently have a 74gig (sata150) Raptor, and I am purchasing 2 sata300 500g drives to put in a RAID1. So I...
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    I actually haven't picked out a motherboard yet -- looking at these boards now, I'm sorta reluctant to pick one and be rendered not be able to use my agp geforce 6800... but I guess I'm going to have to switch completely to pci express since all of these sata3.0 boards are pci express only...
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    awesome. thanks guys!
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    Mixing a SATA150 with 2 SATA3.0s in a RAID1

    Hey guys, I have an existing 74gig raptor (sata150) that I want to put in a desktop I'll be building (for my OS), but I also want to have a RAID1 consisting of 2 new 500gig SATA3.0 drives I'm planning on purchasing. I'm choosing SATA3.0 so I can get drives down the line when I have a failure...
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    After process of elimination it turned out to be the Wireless G network adapter w/ speed booster exe. Thanks for your help
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    will try that Ethereal. thanks
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    I have a USB mouse, but I stopped using it and removed it as the problem. The touchpad doesn't work as well. both mouse and touch pad work until all of the applications load. could it be a service or another device?
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    System freeze after boot-up - laptop

    I have an Dell laptop ( 4 yrs old). When I boot up, applications are loaded fine(in systray). While this is happening I am able to move the mouse. At some point the system freezes and I have no control over anything ( mouse, function keys, etc). It happens towards the end of loading all of the...
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    Question about filling up RAM slots

    Thanks for the response. So if I wanted to keep dual channel mode, would I be able to do this by scraping the 256 stick and sticking a 1gig stick in, in its place? Sorry if I'm being redundant but I want to make sure I'm sane before I spend $100+. Thanks :D Brian
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    Question about filling up RAM slots

    Hey guys, I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 board and I currently have 2 out of the 3 RAM slots occupied -- with a 512 stick and a 256 stick. I want to give the machine a major RAM boost. Can I just buy a 1GB stick and just throw it on the board, having 3 full slots, or do/should I toss...
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    Wireless card problem?

    I have a Dlink air plus G510 on my win2K machine. all of sudden it stopped working. I can seem to get the card to connect to my router. I tried the card in a different machine and still NG. I have re-seated the card, re-installed the drivers. I have also tried disabling and re-enabling the...
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    MAC Address - find it

    thanks
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    MAC Address - find it

    I can't seem to remember how to get the MAC address for my W2000 machine. On an XP machine its "getmac". any clues out there?
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    DNS problems with linux

    Good news! I blindly ignored the fact that debian doesn't have a /etc/modprobe.conf and I executed the command mentioned above. I also added alias ipv6 off And firefox is working as it should -- very quick lookups. One problem still, though: for some reason, lynx, apt-get, irssi are...
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    DNS problems with linux

    ifconfig output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5B:04:0C:9D inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fe04:c9d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX...
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    DNS problems with linux

    Cool idea. Thanks. Here's the tcpdump output. I ran 'lynx google.com' in another terminal. tcpdump output at pastebin.com edit: my IP is 192.168.1.104 and as I've listed earlier, the router is 192.168.1.254
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    DNS problems with linux

    Nope-- still having the same problems. trying to do 'lynx google.com' takes upwards of 20 seconds but doing 'nslookup google.com' is instantaneous and then doing 'lynx [google's ip address]' is also instantaneous. I tried installing a dns server cache on my machine (dnsmasq) and pointing...
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    DNS problems with linux

    Interesting idea. But i've never dealt with this file before, and even after reading man pages, I don't really know what to make of the contents of this file. Anyhow, both linux machines have identical entries: knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # #...
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    DNS problems with linux

    This problem is occuring on two different linux machines in a house with 30 computers -- all of the rest are windows and not experiencing this problem. 192.168.1.254 is our gateway (netopia 3000 router) and it has a dns. on every machine in the house (linux or windows), all pcs have...
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    I want to setup up 2 36gb raptors on raid 0.....

    /agree. dude you're gonna cry when one of those drives dies for some dumb reason and both drives are rendered completely useless. i've never done either but i've read plenty and one day when i'm rich i'll go either raid 1 or 5. raid 5 is sick if you got the money. great speed increase...
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    GRUB not booting

    Hi, I had a P3 compaq 'deskpro' with a shot hard drive sitting around so i figured I would get a new WD 120gb ide hdd and stick it in there to make a (debian) server. i took out the old drive, put the new one in, the hard disk errors in BIOS went away and it said 120gb drive on ide0 (...
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    SATA Harddrive question

    Well i just ordered the 2 300gb hard drives just something just occured to me -- the server that I'm putting the 300gb sata into might not support drives that large. I have an ECS K7VZA in that machine. I've googled to no end but I can't seem to get a definitive answer on whether the board...
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    Wifi-friendly linux

    Hey guys, I've been searching left and right online for a wireless PCI card that WILL work for linux (debian/ubuntu, if it matters) without hassle but I keep hearing "this card, only this revision, but you might not be able to tell the revision, blah blah" -- so I was wondering if anyone who...
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    SATA Harddrive question

    Thanks a lot guys. Appreciate the help.
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    SATA Harddrive question

    Hi. Right now I'm using an MSI K8T NEO-FIS2R Socket 754 VIA K8T800 ATX AMD motherboard. I have a 74 gigabyte 10k rpm wd raptor hard drive. This is currently the only hard drive in this system. Now, I want to start ripping DVDs. I currently have a server that has like 2 40 gig drives and...
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    Can't find XP install disk

    I am tring to re-install XP Home on a Dell for a friend. The PC is really infected and I want a fresh(boot) install. the only problem is that they could not find the install Cd. however, they have the XP sticker on the side of the box. any suggestions on how to make a CD and then allow...
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    Problem with turning on my comp.

    Ok, here's the scenario. i have a dell dimension 2400 I have my computer at college, i always left it on, never had any problems until i came back from thanksgiving. for the weekend, we had to turn off all electronics and unplug everything. So when i came back from thanksgiving, i tried to...
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    driver problems

    i was installing drivers for my mouse and when i restarted, it lost info for the .lnk extension. as a result all the shortcuts on the desktop and start menu were lost. anybody know what i should do to the registery or win configurations to get these working again? thanks in advance. mark
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    XP and display monitor

    I recently re-formatted my hard drive with XP and all went well. However, as I try to change the display properties, it appears that I can't move off of 480x640. I downloaded the latest drivers. I then went to the setting/advanced tab to select the monitor type and it is grayed out, not...
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    Picking a new laptop

    If you have any other suggestions that would be great too, thanks.
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    Picking a new laptop

    I'm looking for a laptop for a 3d design and graphics studio that I'll have to traveling to and from often. I'll be needing to do a lot of rendering but I'd like to avoid a ridiculously huge notebook. My budget is about $3,000-$3,500. I've more or less come down to four different choices; 1)...
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    after shipping and tax with the price of the machine going up to $1800 i dont think i'm going to get any ram above the 2x512 crucial; i'm not going to be gaming that much anyway. thanks for the help everyone.
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    well, i guess to step back for a second, here are my choices now: (crucial pc4000 wasn't on newegg) a) 2x512mb crucial pc3200 = $176 b) 2x512mb corsair extreme pc3200 = $234 c) 1x1gb crucial pc3200 = $343 d) 1x1gb corsair extreme pc3200 = $345 So the big question is whether double the RAM...
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    I think I'm going to stray away from the mushkin; I hear they're not as stable as crucial and saving a few bucks isnt that important to me. Plus i'm not sure if mushkin has a lifetime warranty but crucial and corsair both do.
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    edit: nevermind, i'm an idiot
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    Need opinion on RAM for new AMD64 PC

    Actually just found this on newegg and this appears to be a really good deal... http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=20-145-450&DEPA=1 So that's 1gb of corsair's "extreme" pc3200 for $234. Do you guys think that 234 for 1gig (2x512) of corsair xtreme is worth the...
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    SEAGATE! AARRRRRAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

    yeap, as others have said over and over in here, it really is a crap-shoot. i've found the best insurance against drive failures is just a solid psu and back-ups every few weeks or so.