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  1. Stormblade

    Trying to find a good Monitor

    Hey all, Ok, I'm going to be replacing my monitors very soon. I had a couple of 27" but misfortune befell them and I actually wasn't happy with their text clarity as they were the same resolution as the 23/24" monitors. So I decided to get a couple of good but smaller ones. After doing some...
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    Permission Issues

    Ok in the hopes that someone can help me out here without me having to reinstall yet again. Here's the synopsis and symptoms. I had to reinstall Windows because a system restore deleted my ntuser.dat from my profile which exists on a different partition and is accessed through a junction...
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    Annoying Lock Ups

    Hey all, This is getting really annoying. Built a new system and it seems like as soon as I solve one issue that I think is causing me lockups I develop another. My current issue is that my machine will lock up but it's a slow process. Give you an example. I have WoW opened and playing in one...
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    Computer Reboots and SSD is not Found

    Hey all, Well I just fixed one issue but it seems I have another. So far my machine has rebooted itself twice. I was not there for either time and was not using the computer. Each time it has happened it can not restart because it doesn't see the SSD which is my primary drive. Powering off for...
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    Java Causing System Freeze / Lockup

    Hey guys, Ok after days of having my system seem to lock up for no reason I think I've tracked down the culprit. It seems that any time the JRE is accessed on my machine it causes a lockup. I've tried the following and each results in a system lockup. Trying to uninstall using the...
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    Trying to OC my i5-2500K

    Hey all, Newbie OC'r here. I just put a new system together. Everything is looking good. I wanted to try and OC. I have the Hyper 212+ in there right now. My MB is the Asrock z68 Pro 3. So I went into the bios and tried the Turbo 4.0 Ghz preset. It booted into Windows just fine but I saw...
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    New System - Looking for Critique

    Hey all, I'm selling (practically giving away) my old system to a friend who needs one badly. So I did some research, looked up some reviews and came up with some parts. I then read the forums here and realized that I can probably save quite a bit (i.e. I'm spending more money for little or...
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    Weird Video System Issue with 750i ftw MB

    Hey all, At first I thought what I was suffering from was the video corruption issue everyone was talking about but now I'm not so sure. What happens to me seems almost like the video subsystem gets unstable or something. Give you an example of what happens. I run a dual monitor setup so I...
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    My First SLI System

    Hey all, I'm about to upgrade to my first SLI system. I don't have the money to get everything all at once but I'm focusing right now on getting the motherboard, CPU and a new Case. My Current PSU is: 750 W Silencer Quad Power Supply - Black Proposed New Motherboard: EVGA 790i SLI...
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    Weird problem with dual monitors on Vista

    Hey all, I bought two samsung LCD monitors. I am using an Nvidia 8600 GT. Things will be going fine but every so often my system will drop into sleep mode. Just before it does the UPS I have attached indicates some sort of power loss or something. After reading some things on the web I...
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    Spec'ing out a new system

    Hey all, It's been quite a while since I built my current system: http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=1683 My goals for that system are/were different as it filled a different role. I plan to keep that system as my server/dev/testing box. What I'm looking to do now is build...
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    Cool Case Recommendations

    Here's my computer specs: http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=1683 As you can see, I don't have your average workstation system. The case I'm using has quite a few fans. It was modified for me. Some of the fans are failing and since the case is very old I'm thinking of upgrading...
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    Burning a CD from a text file list? Possible?

    Here's the deal. I have a bunch of files say over 400. I did a directory listing and created a file list of them. Then I loaded this list up and created a sub list so now I have a text list of around 100 files. What I want to do is put these on a CD. I don't want to manually have to select them...
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    Looking for Good Fax Software

    Running Windows XP. I've searched a bit for some. Used to use Winfax Pro but I often have problems with it. What I'd llike to find is fax software that: 1. Supports distinctive ring. I want it to answer ONLY if it detects my alternate ring. 2. Supports Windows XP. 3. Uses Printer Drivers so...
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    AIW 9800 Pro and 3DMark03 330

    Just got this card and I tried running the benchmark. Goes for a bit. Gets past the nature tests then later it crashes. I get no error message, no nothing. Anyone have this problem or know of any known issues or fixes? I'm not overclocking anything and my system config should be in my sig.
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    Which DVD Drive

    Hey all, Thinking about purchasing a DVD burner. The first and only one I ever bought was years ago and it was a DVD-RAM. Now there's more formats and drives available. I know the functionality I want but which drive/brand to go with that has all that is another story. Basically I want a...
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    Custom Made Icon

    I have a small icon I'd like to use instead of the built-in listed ones. Is this possible?
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    Windows XP continually reboots

    Hey all, Quick summary of the problem. Can't install Windows XP straight due to an incompatibility with my ATTO RAID SCSI Controller so I have to install 2000 first then upgrade it to XP if I want to get XP on there. I did this and it upgraded but when I went to boot for the first time it got...
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    To Hyperthread or not to Hyperthread

    Hey all, I just upgraded my system (See signature link of system specs). I have dual Xeons and currently I have hyperthreading enabled. The novelty of it has worn off and now I'm noticing pros and cons. Some programs and such run faster but I've noticed a speed decrease in some apps like Winrar...
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    Are PC Power and Cooling PSUs good?

    Sorry if this is not the right section for this: I've had them recommended by someone over even the Antec Truepower. I was all set to get the Truepower EPS12V but can't seem to find that particular version for sale. Tried getting it directly but they are out of stock and won't get any in until...
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    9700 Pro Lockups and Freezes random

    Starting to get nervous here. I haven't had these types of problems for years. But I've been using this ATI Radeon 9700 Pro for a few days now and have experienced the following: 1 Crash 1 System Freeze (Needed a Reboot) 1 Weird case where I couldn't play any multi-media files...
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    ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Lockup Trouble

    Ok this scared me. This hasn't happened in many years. My computer just froze. I had to reboot. Now the only hardware change has been graphics card. I ran a Geforce4 TI for days and never had a lockup like this. Just yesterday I switched to the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and a few minutes ago my system...
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    Can't run 3d Mark 2003

    I've just installed it and when I try to run it I get an error window saying System info Error: System Error Anyone had this or know how to fix it?
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    Geforce4 vs ATI Radeon - My experiences

    Ok, I had a Geforce2 Pro. Decided it was time to upgrade. Checked things out and although I've been burned by ATI long ago decided to give em a try. Things went well. Loved the speed increase. Then I fired up Dark Age of Camelot which I play in windowed mode. It was now unplayable. I panicked...
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    Weird Audio Playback Trouble

    Hey all, Ok, I downloaded a Divx Video a long time ago. I remember playing this video and hearing the sound fine. Now, however, when playing the video back the sound is...stuttery..for lack of a better word. I tried the video under Windows media Player (Both the older 6.4 as well as version 8...
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    A Good News Reader Program!!! My Kingdom for a ....

    Hey All, I've been using Agent for years now (Mostly the same damn version) and it's good but lacks it a few areas that are causing me major problems and making it almost not worth using. It's not Agent's fault but my ISP but Agent's lack of a retry or resume is making it worse. So my...
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    IDE and SCSI RAID Benchmarks. What do you think?

    People asked me to do this and so using Ziff Davis benchmarks here are the marks for my IDE RAID and my SCSI RAID. My System specs are given as well. Let me know what you think: Here are the benchmarks: http://www.geocities.com/stormblade28/winbench.jpg Here's my system Specks...
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    Deleted and Re-created a RAID array. Data gone for good?

    Hey guys, Before I re-format this thing I just wanted to know if there was any hope of recovering my data. What happened was I disconnected my IDE drives (Ironically to prevent losing data as I was deleting some other disks) and had disabled my on board RAID. Later I re-enabled it but jumpered...
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    HELP. These damn RAID thingies

    Hey all, Still trying to get things working. I spent hours on the phone with ATTO tech support and they were baffled as to why my performance sucked. Since I spoke to them I turned off my ACPI and even took my cards out and added them back. I ended up just re-installing Windows. Just before I...
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    HELP. EMERGENCY

    Ok, I was fixing the IRQ sharing trouble in my bios and I noticed something I hadn't before. I had assumed that my attempts to unlock the CPU failed and that's why I couldn't change multipliers. However, I found out that I needed to change it to user defined to change that stuff and if the...
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    IRQ Woes

    Hey All, I may have found the problem to my poor system performance. Take a look at this: http://www.geocities.com/stormblade28/irq.jpg Can anyone tell me why in the hell Windows put every damn device they could onto one single IRQ? The devices you see there on IRQ 9. Sure everything works ok...
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    A7V133 has 33 mhz or 66 mhz PCI slots?

    Still trying to improve system performance and the tech support at ATTO asked me this question and I was unable to answer them and I can't seem to find the answer either. So any help would be appreciated.
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    Performance of SCSI RAID vs IDE RAID

    Ok. People were asking me to do this comparison since I have both IDE RAID and SCSI RAID on my system. The results from SiSandra are not what I expected. My SCSI RAID gets lower marks than the IDE RAID (I'm assuming higher is better). Also, my drives have a 3.9 ms seek time but Sandra reports...
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    RAID Problem Solved. Thanks All. Solution inside.

    I solved the problem. Guess I needed some sleep. Here's what happened. During setup Windows asks if I need to set up any additional devices. I hit F6 and then insert my driver diskette. All's well and good. This loads it in memory. Now, when it came time to copy the drivers to the hard drive I...
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    INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

    Ok. What gives. I'm trying to set up a RAID here. I go into the controller bios and create one. Then I install Windows. I hit F6 during setup and install the driver for the controller. All is well. I am able to install Windows onto the array no problem. It goes through everything just fine...
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    HELP. Trying to setup my RAID...

    Hey all, Well, the computer is up and running but I'm having some issues. I have created my SCSI RAID array and I've gone all the way through to installing Windows 2000. Everything goes well until it's time to boot up into Windows for the first time. When I try this I get a BSOD with...
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    Which SCSI cables do I need for the X15s

    Ok, my RAID controller came with only External cables. Really wish they'd have told me this before. Anyway, so I'm off tomorrow to buy some internal cables for em but I can't seem to figure out which cables I need. 50-pin? 68-pin? I wanna make sure I ask for the right stuff. It's Ultra3 SCSI...
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    Could this have fried my motherboard?

    Ok here's the deal. I put a 1.1 ghz cpu in it yesterday and it posted no problem. I returned that cpu and got a 1.2. Now, before I tried putting it in and testing it like an idiot I decided to try unlocking it first so I got a pencil and connected the L1 bridges like I've been shown. I put it...
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    New Computer troubles / Fried Motherboard?

    Hey All, Got them building new computer blues. I'm about to take the motherboard and cpu back but before I do I just wanted to ask you guys for advice. The computer posted yesterday. I took the cpu back today because it was 1.1 and I really wanted 1.2 and exchanged it. I secured the...
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    Need Advice with RAID setup

    Hey All, Ok the time is now. Well, tomorrow. I have all the parts for my computer. I have to return the 1.1 ghz Athlon I bought because it's not unlocked and I don't feel like messing with it. But anyway, tomorrow I'll be setting things up finally and I'd like your advice for best system...