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Can you clean, reformat, and reinstall? Go through and Nlite em. I'm not real convinced 2000 can't run on 256 mb of ram, with a decent hard drive.

You should be able to scrounge around and find some used ram on ebay for not too much money. What about a hard drive upgrade? Seems to me if you don't have enough ram, it's going to be hitting the hard drive constantly in VM. If so, I suspect one could easily double or triple both access time...

Install 2000, install VMware Player, Install 2000 again? Download Service Pack 4, install..??? Wonder which would suck more cpu cycles, VMware Player on old hardware, or, anti-virus software????

"I do wonder if you might run VMware Player on these machines, and use the OS in VM? Then you wouldn't have to worry about spyware. I'm using less then 2% of the beast using it right now" I wonder about how vulnerable you are running in VMWARE????? Besides, Windows update doesn't seem to work...

Is there anyway to pull the ram out of one, and put it in the other, for a total of 512 MB? That would give you one useable machine, and the guy would have to come up with something else for the other. Explain RAM is no longer avaliable, or too expensive.? As for the browsers: why not just go...

I really wonder if we actually need anti-virus software, at least in it's current status, for most people? I remember one kid at school managing to totally screw up his machine, and, mine by going to music sites and downloading all kinds of spyware. If' I'd cranked up the security settings to...

Well, I've got 4 boxes in this house sort of fit in that category. I try and find a deal on Vertex Turbos, and put a 32 gig in each one I care about. If it's IDE, I ordered, but haven't got, one of those SSD's Stinker suggested. I then use the old drive as a D drive, and data backup. On the...

David: Is there room on the Gigabyte motherboard you are using for two of those cards? Or, are they talking about the Crossfire stuff being on the one, dual cpu card?

Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI RAID Ultra160 SCSI RAID i.e. 2100S, 2110S, 3200S, 3210S, 3400S, 3410S, 2000S, 2005S, 2010S, 2015S (EOL) No No -- Looks like no planned support for either 7 or 2008 Server.

http://www.howtodrivers.com/model38087.html ??? http://ask.adaptec.com/scripts/adaptec_tic.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=15256&p_created=1199921508&p_topview=1 What products have Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 drivers/software available and if there are no drivers/software available...

Might be an easy fit in a case designed for the extended ATX, or server class motherboards???

I'm using the Granite Digital Hotswap for drives. The caddies are pretty good heat sinks, and have little fans that help. However, I have a bunch of drives that are end of life, and, need to come out of the caddies, due to being good backups, but full, and or too small for much work. The toaster...

I copied this address into the window, \\192.168.1.110\\Downloads along with the suggested regedit progam list,... Enabling that feature, low risk, did not require a restart, either. Just double checked, no warning...and, the window opened much faster...

PERFECT. Entered Local Group Policy Editor, and fixed it. It was really annoying, since when I started the file transfer, they would not start until I got rid of the stupid warning. It was really annoying, since when I do the file transfers the main screen is being used by the Server, and the...

OK: How do you turn the stupid warning off?????

So I would use the last remaining SATA port?;-(

DD: Where on your motherboard do you hook that connector up to? Which port? I don't have many that aren't filled... Thanks Greg

Odd. Now it triggers a warning message that these files may threaten the computer. Looks like it's a standard warning that has to be turned pretty much off by lowering the local security standard in of all places, Internet Explorer 8? Well, now it's good for two things: first doing windows...

That's what I've been looking for. Going to give it a try in the Panasonic CF-51. I just checked, and I can get my install probably down around 20 MB, with programs. I suspect that will be enough of a jump to let me wait until they really get the bugs sorted out on the i7 laptops, or, even...

Must be this keyboard, but, entering it into the search in the search didn't work.

That's one of the reasons I want another keyboard: It doesn't have a Windows key. It's the Logitech with the Bluetooth,for about 80 bucks. Not to mention the shift key is starting to stick... I hate to say it, but the el cheapo MSFT keyboards for OEM builds I get from Buck are just fine for...

That's one of the reasons I want another keyboard: It doesn't have a Windows key. It's the Logitech with the Bluetooth,for about 80 bucks.

I entered the following: \\192.168.1.110\\Downloads the window popped up, and, the file transfer was at 90 MB/sec, then went down a bit, but, THANK YOU. IT WORKED..!!! Plus, you solved in another way one of the things that really frustrates me about 7: finding Run. I pinned it to the taskbar...

I have a shared folder from the Server on The Beast's desktop. I have a holding folder on The Beast. I transfer files from one folder to the other on the Beast's desktop. I've been checking the IP addresses, and, everything seems correct. I've even tried merging the two networks that show up...

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate on both machines. It takes about 4 clicks to disable the NIC that is slowing the file transfers down. Transfer the files, then reenable the NIC. For the number of file transfers I do, it's worth it. Takes maybe 20 seconds to disable, less to enable the NIC. The...

This is the response I got from Nvidia: Note the bottom line about specific and driver: "Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer care. This is Sunil, assisting you with the query you have. I understand from your email that you would like to know if the Vizio XVT 120HZ 37" monitor will be...

David: I looked into this, and, it seems Nvidia may have to actually write a driver for the display. Also, the TV's have the 120/240 thing, where the screen is running at 60MHZ, but, they say it's 120, because of some backlight refresh rate. The Toshiba Raza(sp?) offered by...

Whenever the NIC with the cat 5 is enabled, the connection speed reverts to 10 mb/sec???

Shut the Beast off, and restarted, and was transfering files. Back to 10 MB/SEC? Disable the internet connected Realtek RT18168D/8111D PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC, and we are back to high speed file transfer on the other NIC. ?????

Awesome tip. I have about 40-50 gigs of files to transfer. It was crawling at 10mb/sec. Disabled both nic ports on the beast, and, checked their IP addresses to make sure they are properly configure: IE internal has no Gateway, only IP and DNS. The file transfer that was going to take an hour...

The router is an old Linksys, one of the few that has decent reliability, and, is also wireless for three other computers connected to the network. It is also doubling as the switch. I guess I could add a gig switch, prior to the router, and hopefully keep both the internet and wireless...

I have two G ports on the Beast. The server has none, and, therefore has the NIC G card, Intel Pro, in it. The Beast uses one port to connect to the router, net and other computers. I can connect using the router, to the server, and have in the past, but, at 10MB/sec or slower. I added the...

Taking the advice of a few folks here, I bought an Intel Pro gigabyte card, connected that to the Beast, Gigabyte only ports, with a Crossover Cat 6 cable, and was getting 10 mb/sec throughput on data transfers???? First I tried a straight cat5 cable. Same result. Connected the Cat6 crossover...

Currently taking similar advice. FarCry2 is installed, at all the highest setting, and, so far, it's pretty neat.

Pretty sure DD can budget for that. By the way, Stinker I started a thread: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8107 For the same reason. It is better to have both access time AND SDTR, so it doesn't make sense to get another laptop until they catch up with the speeds of the...

Gave up on the game and Dos.

HMMMM. Same disk, same computer using VirtualBox, the 2000 install worked, and is in progress??? Why can't I get the MsDos that is the first os in Sun Virtual box to work? Where can I find a MS Dos image?

Sorry to hear that. I had a similar experience with Apple, and never bought another. No excuse.

Sam, that's part of what is so weird. I have a copy of 2000, and, I have both the sticker, and the code from the original install, from my Server, what, 11 years ago? When I try and validate, they say the code is invalid. I've tried it with a different ISO, same result. Anyone have a working...

What drives do you use? Also, what removeable drive setup did you have that didn't require a caddy?

Hi D What was that toaster, and what drives are you using? gs

Chewy: Thanks but, I'm just learning this stuff, and, the great thing about it is I can try 4 OS on Vmware, and, find out what works, and doesn't. I just downloaded Virtualbox, and, I'll do the same with it... Thanks for the link

Finding out fun stuff. MSFT has a virtual machine on 7 to run XP. However, no GL support kills most of the reasons I would want to run XP on this box. VMWare does support GL in their drivers, but, not as well as might be possible, considering the sheer horsepower of this Beast. I'm finding my...

I ran 3 monitors, 21 and two 19 inch CRT's, using the Matrox 750. It did it, but, was so under powered the screen resolution was disappointing, in games only. Awesome for work clarity. Can the current screens display in billions of colors?

Wonder what 3 big TV's would look like??? 37-60", and, can that card drive them?

(if RAID 6 engine supported) I've been trying to figure out what this means, but, no joy...

Looks like 7 doesn't support that controller: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Search.aspx?type=Hardware&s=Areca%20ARC-1280ML

Perhaps 7 doesn't support Raid 6???

Sometimes the controller only wants to do one raid array per reboot. Try redoing the Raid array again, then reboot. Card isn't real clear on supporting Raid 6: "RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD"

Nlite was a no go. One of the ISO's was fine until I typed in my code, then it got mad... MSFT's VM looked pretty good, but, the games I wanted to run need GL support, and MSFT says that's a no no... Called MSFT, and, it was rather intresting that the person I talked to never mentioned running...