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This works better than NTI, for me anyway. And its cheaper. http://www.liutilities.com/ Bozo

DX-9 installed and running fine on .Net Server and Win XP Pro (SP-1). Bozo :D

My Promise Ultra 100 works fine in a PC that also contains a 3Ware 6000. No conflicts. I use this setup for testing. It has run Win98 SE & ME, NT4.0, Win2k Pro and Server, Windows .NET Server and Enterprise Server, and various flavors of Linux. Lindows won't run on this hardware setup for some...

Where I work we still have about 400 PCs running PII-300s. I would guess thats what the average person is using at home. Whats the average of the people who post here? Most likely the next generation...PIIIs Bozo :D

Small update: The Santa Cruz drivers for Win XP work fine in .NET server. Bozo :D

Tech Report has an interesting article on RAID cards. http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002q4/ideraid/index.x?pg=1 In it the 3Ware 7500 doesn't do to well in ATTO test. I emailed 3Ware and got this response: I checked with our benchmark engineer and this is the reply I recieved: "I looked...

Your're not my type :eekers: Bozo :D

Have you tried www.motherboards.org Bozo ;D

For future endevers of helping someone, maybe a copy of Partition Magic should be used. At least you can make a positive ID of the drives. Bozo :D

Planning on installing a single X15 in a new computer. (only HD in system) What adaptor card would you get? Bozo :D

SAntilli, did you try for drivers at http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/kb_ftp/585ftp.asp There were a bunch there. Bozo :D

Thanks everyone :D Just installed the Santa Cruz card. So far sounds great. No more Snap-Crackle-Pop. Bozo :D

Thanks Groltz. Bookmark in place :D Bozo :D

I'm with Timwit and others. Dells cases suck green donkey......whatevers. Every vender that we buy equipment from drags those junkers in here. Usually after a year or so, we gut whatever is usefull and trash the case. I guess you never used an Antec or Enlight case???? As far as service goes...

Thanks for all the help :D I ordered a Sant Cruz. I just wanted a sound card that doesn't sound like a bowel of Rice Crispies.....Snap, Crackle, & Pop. I don't need anything fancy. Bozo :D

My experiance is with a corperate account. Their lack of support is one reason we decided to build in-house. Bozo :D

If you've ever dealt with Dells support, any extra you pay to a custom shop is well worth it. At least you have a live person to go to if there is a problem or you need help. I believe that Dells tech support are clinically brain dead. Bozo :D

Over the last 6 months I have bought 20 Seagate X15s for use in some small file servers. In the last two weeks I've had two fail. Both were in the same server, in the same slot (drive #1). This server is not on line yet and has less than 100 hours of running time on it. Am I missing something...

Finally got around to installing XP. So far so good. Does anyone know how to change the way IE keeps track of the pages you are at? It keeps all the windows in a tab on the task bar. You must expand the tab to see whats open. How can you get it to show individual tabs? Thanks, Bozo :D

Just installed Beta 7 on XP pro. Really is fast! I found that loading the Java upgrade from Sun seemed to fix a few of the page rendering problems. Bozo :D

Thanks :D Looks like Santa Cruz it is. Bozo :D

I'm tired of Creative and their lousy sound cards. Can anyone recommend a good sound card? Bozo :D

I was just wondering if one of the service packs might have broke and/or fixed the problem. I built two PCs with VIA chipsets and Intel CPUs and their IDE performace is terible. I went to VIAs site and checked in on their forums. Seems we are not alone. Bozo :D

Did you install Win2K SP-3? Bozo :D

Dumb question. Can you run this drive on a motherboard with an Intel chipset? Bozo :D

Over the past 4 months I have assembled 10 file servers using the Seagate X15. Each server has two, in RAID 1. I had one fail. This was the newest and least run server of the bunch. Maybe had 40-50 hours on it. It was still being setup so it was no big deal. Seagates RMA service is great. Now...

What is the best drive to use with a 3Ware 7500-4? I've read there are issues with the WD, JB series drives. Is this true? Thanks, Bozo :D

Been installing ATI Radeon 7500s without any problems. Runs on everything from NT4 to .NET. Bozo :D

If you note, SR uses Intel motherboards. In my limited experiance with VIA chipsets, they suck when compared to Intel. No matter how many 4-n-1 drivers and upgrades I've tried, VIA cannot equal the the performance of an Intel chipset, especially the IDE buss. (nor the stability) The Promise...

Have you tried 'mapping' to the Linux box from XP? That works in NT and 2000. Then again, I believe MS purposely made it next to imposible to connect an XP box to anything Linux Bozo :D

Looks like Dell's tech support and sales support are run from the same office. Posibly the same person. :-? Bozo :D

I think I'll stick to Intel boards; maybe AOpen. I don't have any more hair to pull out after two disasters with Tyan and VIA chipsets. Bozo :D

Mercutio: I've tried those. Most times it trashes the install, or it makes a mess of the screen. Also (maybe I'm missing something here) running those utilities from a command prompt is not what I would call easy or intuitive. 'Right click on the desktop and select properties' change settings...

Have you ever tried to change screen resolution, color depth, or refresh rate?? :cry: I think it's imposible once the OS is installed. Bozo :D

One small suggestion. Unless you have a lot of help, don't order all 60 at once. Order the parts in small batches. But, let you vender know what you are doing so he can ship when you are ready. I just assembled 9 servers for our company and found getting 5 at once was more than enough. Bozo

My sugestions: Intel integrated MB(video,sound,lan) $104 Celeron 1.7GHz Boxed $72 WD200BB hard drive $64 Antec slk 1600 casew/300w $53 Aopen CD-ROM 52x...

I know you said you don't want a 'all-n-one' motherboard, but have you considered an Intel board? You can't argue about the quality, and for $104 you get Lan, Video, and Audio. In next years budget, consider upgrading the video. The peace of mind of having a proven motherboard without...

I was testing three new servers with a SOHO and 3C90x cards installed. I transfered two 650MB Drive Image files between the servers. It took three times longer on the SOHO cards as the 3C90x cards. Our vender told me that's because there is no 'cache' on the SOHO. (Therefore, cheap). Maybe...

Short note on cheap NICs. Just installed some 3COM SOHO cards (~$20) and found they really slow down when transfering large files. In fact, they are three times slower than 3c90x cards. This could be rather agonizing when rebuilding from your server. Bozo :D

Installed RH 8 on two machines with 256 meg ram. RH only recognizess 64 meg of RAM. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug? Any work-arounds? Thanks, Bozo :D

I already have SP-3 installed. The reason I ask: I was re-reading a MS 'fix' to enable UDMA66 in Win2k. It required making a new registry entry. When I checked for this entry after a clean install of Win2K and SP-3, the registry entry is not there. Even after installing all the Intel updates...

For what it's worth, an install of .NET server on a machine that previously had 2000 Server installed, .NET was noticably faster. Bozo :D

Is there an easy way to make sure UDMA100 is enabled in Win2K? Thanks, Bozo :D

Maybe the BIOS needs to be told that you have a Plug-N-Play OS. Most have a setting for it. Bozo :D

We have a number of small file servers running Adaptec 3200 RAID controllers with 2 Seagate X15s in RAID 1. The Adaptec cards have 32M of memory installed. Would the performance be better with more memory on the RAID card? Rest of system: Intel 1.8GHZ Northword, Intel D845 MB, 1GB Crucial ECC...

As one with heart desease, I did not think it was a bit funny........Even with my nickname! Bozo :D

Give our best to Grandma...... Bozo :mrgrn:

I've been using a 3Ware controller for almost 3 years now. Never had a problem with it. Even works fine with IBMs 75 GXPs :-? Bozo :D

Has anybody tried Lindows yet? What do you think? Bozo :D

A stable system that runs 24/7/365 is more interesting, and in some ways more challenging. Of course, you can't be running Windows........ :roll: Bozo :D