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Darn, that doesn't give me a warm fuzzy. Rambling on the memory issue: With the memory I have I have to set a BIOS option "ultra high" voltage to get it to run at its rated speed. In the motherboard documentation it explains what the voltages are for the given descriptions and the ultra high...

I explained that bad, I mean what happened when you try to turn it on was that the fans and the power LED jump on for a second and then turn back off. Fans don't stay running.

It does appear I smoked the Seasonic. I put everything back near as exactly the way it was with the Antec 480w and the computer runs fine again, although I have not tried very much 3D. I did run the first couple seconds of 3D mark 06 to confirm SLI was working (again don't get me started on...

Nope, not anymore. Got rid of my last one a year or so ago. Do have an AGP here, not that that helps. Well I pulled the power supply out of my AMD K62-450 system and found an Antec truepower 480w PS, my old PS that I used to run in this computer before the seasonic. Using the Antec on the...

I already pulled one video card, all optical and all hard drives. Even swapped the video cards. Same thing. I think I have an Antec 430w PS sitting around, will try that.

I can't believe I am back for help so soon. I swear I have more problems with this computer, if I wasn't fairly up on what is going on I would have trashed it long ago. You may recall I was having major stability problems long ago and finally found bad memory, I had that RMA'd and it was a sweet...

I use beyond compare to mirror my thumb drive between my laptop and the drive. I like it because you get to choose which is newer and what you don't want on the drive has all sorts of options too. May also be used to compare files. Not free though.

That doesn't sound right at all. Is this a $4 ebay special?

You the man, I don't know why it didn't even enter into my mind to check symantec's site. Maybe because I am used to them being useless, duno.

Might consider a decent surge protector for a laptop but a UPS is overkill. Avoid the $9 bargain ones. A laptop by nature of its power adapter would be easy to fix with another power adapter if it did get fried as well.

I seem to remember hard drive performance problems with nvidia chipsets, thought they had cleared all that up. Might want to remove drivers, reboot, and do a driver cleaner session in safe mode. Then reinstall the latest drivers...

Very interesting, but the first thing on my mind is how massive the speed penalty is.

You're right. I have used the boot floppies for years and occasionally in the OS on another drive, but only once and a while on the OS drive itself.

I don't think that would have worked, whatever this is was clearly part of windows and its partition. As it started up if it shows up right before the setup wizard on a repair install. Looks like its a good thing this didn't actually cause anything bad other than an annoying message. Due to...

Damnit, repair install didn't do it either. In this case the message comes up right before the setup screen where you get the thermometer and collecting info, installing windows, finalizing etc.

No, the action bomed out. The exact error message is xmnt2002 file not found skipping auto check. I went into msconfig and did a selective startup and unchecked everything and that didn't change it. I just tried logging some other changes in partition magic to see if those would do anything...

I kept an old college ID, whip it out sometimes for stuff like that. Check the manufacturer, sometimes the student editions are stripped down offerings.

I was trying to get it to delete and resize a partition, or was it resize and create? I can't remember which now. Anyway this works from windows by you installing partition magic, telling it what to do and then rebooting the computer. On the next boot it does what you wanted (or in this case...

Done, all that did though was blow away the boot loader that Vista put in there (that's what was on the second partition). I don't care about that though, I was about done playing with it.

fdisk/mbr - does this work on NTFS? I can remember trying this once long ago on NTFS drives and it made it unbootable. I didn't see anything in the boot.ini really. I wanted to shorten the partition and create a new partition, did that with the PM boot floppies no problem.

Hmm, I installed SP2 for Win X64 and it was rather uneventful. Nothing broken or even changed that I see really. I did notice that I can't turn off true type on IE7 now, what is up with that? Ah well, I will put firefox on it anyway I guess.

I tried using Partition Magic from windows on my XP X64 machine and that didn't work at all, gave me a file not found error just before you log into windows. What it was supposed to do was reboot, run the PM utility and then reboot again. I uninstalled the software and that error on every boot...

As another possible use: Lots of people do the Ebook thing and just download and read books on them for free. If it has a power cord that would be fine for most, otherwise batteries are likely cheap. Check usenet for tons of books to download. I am looking to do this myself so I am looking to...

YES, file level parity is great. I use the heck out of 7zip too because you don't have to worry about registering or using an unlicensed program and it just plain works.

Yes, I ran into the speed problem and you can search some of my posts from last year with the 64 3700+ and the Asrock 939SLI32 and another Gigabyte board. Basically if you populate all four banks of memory it will bump the speed down and if you force it up it will be unstable. My solution was to...

I got a US robotics 8 port switch that has been great. This does not have jumbo frames or fans. Does have an internal power supply so no brick, rack mount adapters too if you want that. What I have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833135203 I had a netgear before that...

Yeah, I suspect not all my customers are up to date or maybe even have the right drivers but there isn't anything I can do about it. My drives are all either Sandisk or PNY. You are right though, some of those systems were flawless.

I have had some weird issues with UPS thumb drives and windows 2000. I have one customer that the drive will mount, be shown in Device Manager and Disk Management with a drive letter but you are unable to get into the drive without a reboot of the system with no way around it that I could find...

Why can't you just get two of the above? Or one and a half for three...

Pretty much same results speed wise today. C:\Documents and Settings\ME>tracert www.handruin.com Tracing route to handruin.com [69.57.180.99] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.2.1.1 2 154 ms 29 ms 28 ms 10.20.1.1 3 60 ms 60 ms 88 ms...

This is the neutered (safe to run) version of my BAT file: http://scottjal.ath.cx:85/watches/BackupNOW.txt

It does end on the first line, the FOR statement outputs this on most computers with default environment variables = 2006.12.11 Basically I am trying to check the form of that result to make sure it doesn't somehow come out with something funky like a / that I can't use in a file name. Also I...

It started out real strong at 240KB/s and then dropped to the 120-180 range but was bouncing all over that range, not too steady. Verizon DSL at (Down/Up) 3360 KBits/Sec by 864 KBits/Sec says my modem.

First of all I am running this under XP or 2003 so I don't know if that changes much. I have a bat file that is sensitive to certain environment variables in the time and date and I want to find a way to check for that so I did something like this: For /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date...

Pron?

Happy to report technology is getting better all the time. Must have been four years sense the last scanner I had which was a basket case. The Epson 4490 software turned out to be fairly easy to use, didn't see the PDF option that I wanted right off the bat under the automatic mode or the home...

You have a point there if you are expecting to put this on your desk, which to me wouldn't be the purpose of this. I am thinking more along the lines of HTPC for gaming and lazy couch surfing, upconverting DVD player and cable box for the whole "digital convergence" marketing thing.

Well thats good to hear, thanks. I also checked and they have a twain driver for XPx64bit on their site. I am hoping I have no problem with all the software itself but I will check the box to see what that says, I bet it will be fine.

Yeah, and for a little more you can get 1920 x 1080 pixels on a 32" monitor: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-0O7c5wIsdwt/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=146350&tab=essential_info&i=647LVM37W3#Tab Doesn't that make you sick? I ALMOST got this but I'll hold out for something similar with a three year...

Pardon me for digging up this old thread but I think its right where I want to discuss. I also decided against a all in one device and I will suck some more life out of my Color Laserjet 5, the thing is literally a tank and seems to print OK for what I need (not much) but could use a drum (some...

Are you actually going to use the DVI or just use a VGA adapter? I guess full digital you can't go wrong but to me it looks as if the analog out isn't to bad at all.

last month I bought an XFX geforce 6200 (AGP) that looks damn similar to what you have pictured there and I am doing 1600x1200@60hz to a syncmaster 204b and it looks very good, this is on the VGA port. I am also using a 25ft VGA extension and a KVM switch on that line. I noticed a pretty good...

Thanks, I was looking way to deep in Administrative Tools, Security Policies.

I had this changed before but for the life of me I can't remember how I did it last time after I got my computer re imaged. What I want it to do is ask for the password normally after a shutdown/restart but not after a hibernate/resume. Anyone know how to do that?

So I am guessing that these aren't legit installs then or do you have a bunch of old stock?

My loose understanding is that nothing out at the moment will support DX10?

How about their trinitron TV's, for years I think they had the best picture and my family and I have owned more than a handful of these. Not recently though, Platform is right they are falling from favor fast in that core market. I think their ES home stuff is just a ripoff, but some of their...

In my vague opinion Sony has always covered the entire range of stuff you can buy all the way from really nice quality kit and all the way down to POS. I am not talking about any specific product range either, just basically anything with the name on it.

The Bios flash program even had a pretty GUI for the front end, no cryptic DOS work. I really wish matrox would release some competitive graphics cards, the Parhelia did not meet most peoples performance expectations, and with the real estate that is possible with triple head it really needs...

How cool is that, I flashed its BIOS and now it works fine in boot / dos. Unfortunately I already ordered the new video card but at $50 I won't complain, now have an extra matrox here.