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Bought an EVGA 850W G3 which solved the problem. The computer also boots much faster interestingly enough.

I ordered a replacement PSU to see if that might fix it. I haven't been able to solve it so far.

Sorry for the delay guys, and thanks for your thoughts! Intel's RST hasn't reported anything, and it usually does support any unusual SMART stuff, but there may be something going on that it hasn't picked up. It doesn't give details --at least not in its BIOS interface just a warning if...

I have a 4-drive RAID 0 for working data on my main home computer. Occasionally in the past, if the power went out or for no reason at all that I could tell, 2 of the disks would drop out and show up as "non-RAID" on the boot screen. Deleting the array, putting it back together with identical...

Ya, definitely should have thought firewall as soon as I realized it wasn't talking back but had network connectivity...

Sorry for posting before doing as thorough a Google as I should've! Basically I was able to change the Network Location from Public to Private by: 1. Lowering UAC from "Always Notify" (highest) to the 2nd highest setting. 2. Going to Homegroups, and clicking "Change network location" (this...

Bah. It thinks it's on a Public network in network locations. I guess Windows 10 firewall rejects ICMP packets and even authenticated RDP connections when it thinks it's on a Public network. I'm Googling on how to change the Network Location setting from Public to Private, but it looks like...

Hmmm. The plot thickens. I booted up another computer, HOMEOFFICE2, and tried to ping BIKEDESK. HOMEOFFCE2 couldn't get a response from BIKEDESK either. But, again, BIKEDESK could ping HOMEOFFICE2. So, in both cases BIKEDESK can ping out, but other machines can't ping in. Obviously RDP was a...

I've got an odd networking problem that's driving me batty this Sunday afternoon. I tried to RDP into one of my home computers from another one this afternoon and RDP failed to connect. So pinged the computer, and 100% timeouts. I walked over to the computer and verified it was on. Checked the...

What are you doing / using if you don't mind me asking? I'm looking at receivers right now, and my primary requirement is that I can control it from my cell phone, because I hate remotes. The Pioneer VSX-1121-K is the current front runner.

Anyone used a Sony NEX-7? Thinking about selling my 5D MkII and all my Canon stuff, and carrying a pair of smaller more comfortable cameras around. Usually I'm taking photos in one of two ways: 1) Documentary style with family or friends - in which case I shoot with a Canon 35mm or 100mm...

I hope Western Digital's purchase of Hitachi doesn't cause the reliability to go to shit. Hitachi's have been by far the most reliable in my experience (and others' for that matter). It would be a shame to see the best hard drive manufacturer disappear. (It's worth mentioning that Backblaze...

Well, I definitely need to sort out these stability issues before I start blaming sync software --seeing as how no one else has problems... Mercutio: The machines at issue have 16GB of RAM, so I don't think that's the problem. Hard freezes using Teracopy or Windows' native file copier...

I just can't disable it. There's an exploit in the wild for WPS that allows WPA networks to be cracked. I was trying to disable WPS as a workaround to protect my wireless networks.

I can't disable WPS on the my WNDR3700's :( . For people who make their own routers, what are you doing? Linux boxes with a wireless NIC? What wireless NICs do you recommend for Linux? Are there compatible 5.4 Ghz ones yet? I looked into this about 3 years ago and came up empty.

I still haven't found something that seems to work well, but I haven't checked all the recommendations yet. I'm definitely going to post a summary but it's probably a month away at least as I have two weeks of computer-less vacation coming up. The big problem is that these large file...

It's worth mentioning that the photography in that book is gorgeous.

++ They're the bomb. Only problem is they take up a lot of desk space and don't work as well for people with medium or small hands. I wish there was a smaller version.

Thanks guys. I'm testing a couple different options, and both those look like pretty credible products that I'm going to try out. I'm definitely going to post back when I find an option that works.

I think DFS on Windows Server may be the way to go. Will I be able run Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. on Windows Server? Or will I have to build separate boxes?

Oh, and this is for 2 Windows 7 Professional computers, so I can't use the Windows Server option you mentioned Merc... Will Photoshop and things like that run well on Windows Server 2008 R2? I could get a Technet Sub if I had to...

Unison doesn't work with Windows 7 :( . (Also it's PITA to setup...) Ya different networks. I want to sync over the internet. Even though it's a large amount of data, the data doesn't change that much. At most about 30 GB / month. It's just that Live Mesh can't seem to do the initial...

Rsync isn't really what I need. It's a 1-way solution, that has to be scheduled. I need a 2-way (or n-way) solution like Windows Live Mesh, that works in real time, so when I go home or go to the office or open my laptop all my files are on each computer, and are up to date. In this day and...

Hey guys, I've spent the last 3 months trying to get two computers to sync a large directory of photos (about 1.8 TB). I just can't make it work. There have been BSOD errors and mysterious reboots, and it seems like Live Mesh just can't handle comparing that amount of data. I can never get...

Are there any other file syncing services that allow unlimited sync for data that is only stored on your computers (i.e. not uploaded to the cloud)? Windows Live Mesh allows this but it's buggy as hell for me. Fills up my computer with massive temp files while syncing and basically doesn't...

I have disconnection issues with my USB 3.0 connected dives as well. It may not be the Seagate. Long copies via Teracopy cause the drive to drop out. Teracopy reports "device not ready" or some such. I've given up on USB 3.0 as unreliable. I just open cases and plug directly into SATA now...

The reason Hitachi claims for sticking with older, less-dense platters is actually to reduce error rates. They claim that higher density platters are developing higher error rates.

Are the socket 2011 chips going to be quad-channel? The Xeon E-5's might be, and they share a 2011-pin socket (probably tilted at 90 degrees from the consumer version like the current generation). Intel's demoing with 8 GB of RAM, which isn't a triple channel number...

I bought two of these on special from NCIX for $180. I like the fact they're 7200 rpm drives. I've always found 5400 rpm drives to be noticeably (dramatically) slower. I guess it's those worst case seeks.

It's always that way though. You have to find the 5-10% who know what they're talking about, remember their names, and listen to them. I've noticed their displays forum is pretty shockingly anal for example. I couldn't trust most of those guys opinions because they're freaking out about...

Also, I need the Windows key now. The CTRL+WIN+# shortcuts to start and switch between the 1st 10 pinned taskbar items are in my muscle memory now, and they're the most useful keyboard shortcuts for me period. Whenever I'm on a non-Windows 7 computer it drives me crazy not having that.

Lenovo still has the desktop version of its Thinkpad keyboards. I liked these back when I only used Thinkpad's because it's very convenient to always be using the exact same key layout and spacing. Nowadays I switch between a Sony AW190 chiclet keyboard (18.4" laptop), a cramped but pretty...

Me too. If there was emulation going on, they would have noted it in there.

A poster on the HardOCP Forums thinks native 512-byte sectors are confirmed in the OEM specifications. This may be one of the only recent, high-capacity drive series with native 512 byte sectors.

In the end, I think it was just DNS propagation issues and some type of SPAM protection on the receiving servers.

Well, it's a bit of a pain to check if the manufacturer doesn't advertise it. The only way I know of is to test random writes with a 4K aligned partition and then test again without. If the latter has lower performance, you know the drive was lying about where its sector boundaries are...

It seems to be mostly resolved. I still have email issues with one email user, but their account was created after the others and it may just be a delay thing. I have to get the straight canril.com address pointing back to www.canril.com.

I was wondering if anyone knew whether the Hitachi 7K3000 drives are emulating 512 byte sectors (and are native 4K), or are actually 512 byte sectors. I've seen conflicting reports in my research. The website says 512 bytes, but that could easily be through emulation. On the other hand, over...

Well it looks like other Google Apps domains are immune from whatever is affecting our particular domain. We seem to be able to send & receive with no problem. I don't like the looks of this. It's starting to look more like some sort of odd bug. I don't think deleting that A record is going...

I'm probably going to delete that A record and see what happens. Worst case is people have to type www.canril.com in lieu of canril.com to get to our website.

Sorry for the endless string of posts. On the subject of A records (the end of the last post): Maybe Google doesn't check SPF, but does Google check A records? eg. Like Sonic.net in this help thread. That's why it fails if Google sends it. (Although it doesn't fail for GMail, but maybe...

Hey Dave, No need for a test address, you can just use my address, which is jonathan DOT guilbault AT canril.com. We had no SPF configured. I don't think it's required, and not having it shouldn't have broken anything but I've set that up. I think it may be a more subtle DNS issue. I...

Well a message to our ISP (who used to manage the email) has bounced with "554 recursive", which is new: An email sent just before it to my personal address went through. The email to domain2 is still MIA. I'm guessing it will probably fail in a bit :( .

Hmmm. Even though the MX records were changed there were aliases on the ISPs management portal. I've deleted all these and I'm not getting an error. Email is just not getting delivered silently, which is different at least... I'm hoping the emails get delivered in a few hours, and...

Yep. Domain1 & domain2 can both send and receive to other domains. I've verified this using my personal email address. It's possible it might not work with other Google hosted domains, and/or other domains on our old ISP. I think there's something fishy going on with my old ISP which still...

DNS records: domain1 (gets bounces when sending to domain2) domain2 (everything's okay --I think) P.S. At the moment I think it's some sort of odd spam check where they check the existence of the sending email account, if they can. Maybe something about my current configuration is...

Hey guys, I moved a domain's email servers over to Google Apps today, and I have an odd issue. Users on 1 domain of our company, can't send email to those on the other. Everything is hosted on Google Apps for your Domain. The transition of both domains DNS happened about 6 hours ago today...

Dave, While I do techsupport at my company because I'm good at it, and have a background in it, I'm actually a project manager for a developer. I can understand even guys who do small projects wanting to go paperless. Part of it is the simple fact you're working on different sites, in...

I've got nothing on the tagging system. If anyone knows of anything, I'd be extremely interested. Construction sites generate an obscene amount of paper and I've been trying to dig myself out for a while. As for scanners, I use 2 Fujitsu Scansnap S1500's, one at work and one at home. They...

Exactly, I just want a pool I can continuously add to as I need space - no mucking about with which file is where.