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    Replacing an Asus P5n-e SLI

    I just built a system and I am just having a terrible time with this motherboard. It hard-locks when I run two sticks of ram (even with the timings set manually), even with one stick it doesnt feel like its running well...the 4th ram slot legitimately does not even work...I am having wierd...
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    Looking for a new Video Card

    I am trying to pick a video card for my new build but I am not quite satisfied with my options. The card will be going into an Asus P5N with an e6550 and I am looking to spend at or less than $200. There seems to be nothing at the $200 price point and while I would love to buy cheaper and...
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    Short-term Michigan dailup

    I am going on vacation in a little over a week and will be gone for 2 weeks or so. Usually I like to leave the tech behind but I will have a need for access to internet (primarily email) since I will not have a lot of time home before I return to school. The area I am in is heavily wooded and...
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    Alcohol Prices in Canada

    I'll be in canada next week (Whistler, BC) and I was wondering if with the exchange rate (and probobly less taxes on it than here in chicago) the price of alcohol would be lower in liquor stores? is it low enough that I should buy a couple of bottles to stock up?
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    n440bx (phoenixbios?) beep codes

    I have a motherboard that seems to be having trouble. It is an intel n440bx dual slot-1 server board that worked fine for me before. Now when I turn it on, I get no video at all from the integrated video (tried a PCI video card but it was a questionable card, and I dont know how to get...
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    Dual PIII 550mhz...dead?

    I have a computer running dual PIII 550mhz chips. It was in working condition when the CPUs were installed but about a week ago or so I swapped the heatsinks on the chips and put them back in. I dont recall if I turned it on at that time or not since it's not connected to anything but today I...
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    CD's by the pound

    On Ebay, you can bid on 8lbs. of Misc Music CD's. There is so me interesting stuff there (there should be...there is a lot of it). I'm the current high bidder but I dont really expect to win with my max bid, it was more just because I thought it was an interesting concept so bid away.
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    n440bx Fan connectors

    I've got an Intel n440bx server board and it has two fan connectors. They look like the normal 3-pin fan headers except they have two tabs that get in the way of normal fan plugs. I cut out the little tabs so that my fans could plug in (92mm Delta Sensflows) but they wont spin up. I didnt...
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    I just soldered my first Motherboard today

    I was doing some work on the case of a fileserver I am building and being the lazy person that I am, I didnt take the motherboard out of the case. Somewhere in there, I managed to pop a little orange component off of the lower right hand corner of the board (not quite sure what it...
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    New Harddrive Woes

    I picked up a 160gb seagate HDD to replace the almost full 27gb (and yes...its an IBM deathstar that has managed to keep chugging) in an aging machine. I hook up the drive, run it through the quick format with the seagate disk utilities and then use Ghost 9 to clone the old drive to the new...
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    Windows NFS Shares

    I am looking to w ork with some NFS shares on windows. Primarily I will be running linux so the NFS server would be linux based and I dont have a problem with that (though I might also be interested in a way to make new NFS shares with windows). What I am looking for is the best/easiest to...
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    HDD Cage mods

    In the process of modifying a case to accomodate a large server mobo, I have to remove the original HDD cage. Could someone point me to some mods out there where people built new cages (both creative designs and simple/practical designs woudl be appreciated) for their HDDs. I know I have...
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    440bx 133mhz bus mod

    I have often read about how the 440BX chipset was able to run a 133mhz bus PIII even though it didnt technically support it and I am sure that there is someone here who has done this before. My problem is that I have a new intel server board (n440bx) and two 733mhz PIIIs but I cant get it...
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    Via SATA/PATA Raid card

    I am in need of an SATA card for a computer that is becoming a light duty fileserver. I saw this card on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/produc...5Fencoding=UTF8&n=172282&s=electronics and I see no reason why it wouldnt work with a single SATA drive. My real question is could I...
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    Search for 1905FP

    I was hoping that someone here could help me out. I am looking to buy a Dell 1905FP (and hopefully get the AUO panel). I realize that I wont get the kind of deal that they had in july but I know that there is stuff out there that will make the price decent. Does anyone have a combination of...