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I had to pay AU$132 (excluding tax), and that was the best deal I could find at the time. :(

The PC at the other end uses ECC RAM, but mine could be flaky. However, it's worth pointing out that low level error detection schemes often don't stop corruption occurring at some higher level. If they did, no data would ever be corrupted ...

At least it was yours and not some whining customer's. I can't point at anything right now, but my impression is that specific motherboard has more problems than usual. Of course, USB 2 plus network points directly at the Intel south bridge ... which is a big worry.

Thanks Merc, I was almost starting to be sold on the idea. Does that mean Avast is still your preference?

FWIW, I wasn't especially impressed by Z68. I noticed that the drivers are all pretty much the same as for H67. A cynic might suggest that in fact there is no hardware difference between H61, H67 and Z68, just software limiting for marketing purposes. Frankly, if you're not going to use a 3rd...

The fact that you've used quite a few Asus boards does not negate the fact that Ddrueding had a problem. It just means you haven't had the same scenario. Lunar, I'm afraid I didn't have the energy to try it on the GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 I had here; I figured you could just try it yourself. I expect...

Someone reported that Asus (?) said they only tested with a graphics card in the 16x slot - was it ddrueding?

Here's a handy tip I forgot to mention. My successful install occurred in a motel room without internet access (except for a WiFi laptop). Windows was very unhappy about this and refused to continue dcpromo without a network connection. Fortunately, there was an unused network connection in...

Same here, I was using it as a fallback.

No idea. Based on what others here have experienced, I'd only rely on trying it yourself. I can't try it on the one I've got here because the Samsung HDD turned out to be defective, so the PC is inoperable.

Just a heads up. I transferred a 1.3GB file via RDP drive sharing and discovered it was corrupted about 2/3 of the way through. Unfortunately my DSL-VPN upload speed appears to be limited to 40kB/s, so it took all night and I then had to throw it away. I then chopped it into 7 parts (with...

I read all that before I set it up. Having read it again, there's nothing I need to change. However, I did notice this hint at the bottom of the second link: Before a computer running Windows XP can be detected and appear on the network map, you might need to install the Link-Layer Topology...

Bozo, surely you're old enough to remember that graphics cards also have text modes? The motherboard BIOS just sends a stream of characters with attributes. Your problem could even lie with the monitor (different modes again), but I think most of us are prepared to lay money on the GT460.

It's already set to Work rather than Public (Home or whatever they call their 'simple' networking these days is unavailable with Pro editions - although I'm sure you could get around it with a few hundred hacks). The plan has always been to setup a domain, it's just been deferred because of the...

To finish up, I needed to tweak the firewall to allow Netlogon Service, and then created a custom rule to respond to ping requests, as per this page. So presumably I need to patch every workstation just so I can ping the f*ckers.

Uh, no. :oops: I can ping it from other PCs on the LAN, you see ... So I turned off the firewall and now I can ping the box through the VPN. It doesn't solve my problem, but the timeouts seem shorter now. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to which cryptic firewall option would allow pings from a...

Trust you to have an 'ultimate' setup even in a lesser PC. ;) I'll reduce my estimate from triple the power to 2.5x, bearing in mind that most of that is from doubling the number of cores.

Good pickup, I assumed without looking that it had onboard video. Try another monitor (and cable), then change the graphics card.

Here's some cold water. 4.5GHz represents a just noticeable 22% overclock over the default 3.7GHz 'turbo boost'. To achieve that you have to spend money on a bulky aftermarket cooler. Alternatively, an extra $100 will get you into the equivalent i7 with a marginally higher clock and...

I expect it's some piece of Microsoft joke security but I can't guess which part of the process it's afflicting. I had looked through the logs but couldn't see anything - 18 million other things, including cheerful stuff like an integrity audit failure on some Windows file that started up...

Trying to map a drive letter on an XP box through a VPN to a share on a Windows 7 box, eg \\192.168.1.2\share. Thanks for the link, but that seems to be about reduced access rights rather than failing to get the connection at all. I dunno, they've broken something. I can't see the sort of...

That appears to be the pick of the µATX motherboards right now. I have one here that was going to be built today, but I've been too busy and too tired - should have a report for you by your tomorrow. I assume you want the 2500K for the HD3000 IGP? Otherwise I'm sticking to the 2400 as the best...

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work either. I'm just using the default admin user that was set up at installation, eg "user1", "password1". That being the settings in Chewy's previous post. Is there any point in adding a dummy user to the userlist of the host PC, eg HostPC\Dummy ?

I have a 2.5" Samsung 7200rpm 1TB USB 3.0 drive here. Apart from it's plastic case, it's enclosed in a pseudo-leather sleeve for extra protection. SMART says it's operating at 5°C above ambient when idling. To the touch, the vinyl is not as cold as the desktop it's sitting on, but it's not...

Do I really need to use Guest without a password, or can I just use a real or arbitrary username and password like every other version of Windows? I'm wondering if turning off password protection in Advanced Settings could actually be working against me? That is, I think that hands control to...

Yeah, that was offensive without being funny, Coug. :( But don't give up, because you're normally a shining wit. :) (time runs for the hills ... )

Yes, I'm sharing with Everyone. This is an exercise in getting things working - security is way off the agenda until everything else is in place. I'm pretty sure I tried enabling 'Guest'. I assume you're supposed to log in as Guest (no password) in this case? Or is it just another Microsoft...

Nope, already done that. How about 128-bit encryption and Let Windows manage things? I'm getting this error after it times out: "A device attached to the system is not functioning." There's no domain at this stage, just a workgroup: "Workgroup".

I'm trying to do this through a VPN without success. I've set the workgroup the same and turned off everything I can see in the Win 7 security Advanced Settings. I can connect with RDP using the local (admin) user. I can't browse the Windows 7 PC in my workgroup, but more importantly I can't...

Well, I bottled out. Supplier was only prepared to offer refund if Corsair offered refund, and no-questions-asked swap (DOA) is limited to 7 days. Post-recall stock, and sales guy said he personally had confidence, but after 5 seconds reflection I realized I was being stupid by trying to make my...

It's a Sandforce 3 drive, what do you expect? That it should work as advertised? Sheesh! Actually, I've been stranded again by my local supplier regarding disappearing stock of the M4, so I'm about to go out and be incredibly bloody stupid and buy a Corsair Force 3 - you know, the one that was...

If there's no contract, how does the $110 credit (and free modem) work? Look, I'd probably crack and do the same in your position, but I wouldn't be under any illusions about "cutting out the middle man". BigPond CSRs don't have any more influence with or get any better information from Telstra...

No sign of the M4 yet?

Exactly. Kudos for clear thinking, it's in short supply when people start talking about cooling.

You committed to a 2-year contract with Arstel? Are you insane? :smack:

After going to the trouble of creating a thread to complain about your Samsung phones, you ended up getting another one anyway? :scratch:

Yeah, something sounds wrong. Even the slowest drive should be able to stream a single large file at a decent rate. Do you have any other USB 3.0 PCs you can try?

Firstly, 35MB/s is above what can be achieved with USB 2. High 20's is about the limit for USB 2, with 15-25 more typically realistic. Secondly, and this is key, how are you measuring 35MB/s? Small files or large files, read or write? Thirdly, a $130 RRP translates into at least $100 for the...

I haven't noticed any M4 freezing on either AMD, Intel H61 or Marvell controllers.

See my PS, you may well see similar behavior - I did. The difference is you haven't got an OS hellbent on continuing to try regardless.

When it came time to connect the workstations to this Windows 2008 R2 server, I ran dcpromo. Four to five hours later, I conceded that the installation had been destroyed and formatted the boot drive (a new installation wanted to backup the wreckage). I chatted with Chewy about this last night...

Antec isn't a manufacturer, so it's not surprising that their products from various OEMs use various fittings. Eventually, this all changes anyway. Drive rails? Now that takes me back.

This blog compares telco roaming rape in this part of the world with Verizon in the US: $5000 for 69MB. :pale:

Weirdly, the 128GB versions of the M4 proved to be significantly slower in my testing, at least for reads. Slightly disturbing, but too late to change now. Writes in RAID 5 still top out at about 50 MB/s unless you use enormous (>=1MB) blocks. Less than 7 MB/s in AS SSD 4kB writes, so only...

I'd like to give some insight into the sort of financial rape that phone companies in Australia like to do. My base plan includes 200-300MB of data (too many plans, can't remember which one). If I exceed that I get charged 15c per megabyte. This is actually extremely good - when compared to...

Sure, just use HDDScan, SpeedFan or any other tool that can issue SMART self-test commands.

I'm inclined to agree with the spirit of what Tannin said, although I don't agree with abusing people in advance in case they disagree with you. :) Hackers don't need to break through firewalls while there's Internet Explorer, Adobe, etc. Cable users would be less than 10% of the...

+1 for my money. Are you sure the TV hasn't been refurbished at some stage?

I don't believe that there is still any difference in quality or reliability between server and workstation boards. Core construction is now the same. And although polymer capacitors are now nearly universal, there's a lot more energy (higher frequencies) being managed by modern boards, so I'll...

Duh! Sorry, I posted for relief from really bad stress. Brain is gibbering, I'm trying to ignore it.