Re: [H] P9X79_WS with i7-4930K has failed me

[Beave]

Ooh! Hello!

Tim Lider
1st Degree Black Belt at Cardenas School of Modern Arnis and Arnis de Mano

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023, 4:20 PM Christopher Fisk 
wrote:

> Should we do a sound off? lol
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 2:26 PM lopaka polena  wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone was still using the list. Hey Thane :)
> >
> > My recommendation would be all new everything and check your components
> > once you have a running system. New cpu/mobo at least. If you know
> anybody
> > with spare parts you could try to figure out what is still working but it
> > will take more time
> >
> > lopaka
> >
> > <
> >
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail
> > >
> > Virus-free.www.avast.com
> > <
> >
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail
> > >
> > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 3:15 AM Thane K. Sherrington <
> > th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You are showing your age.  They are DIMMS now. :)
> > >
> > > I'd try a single DIMM in each socket.  Does this motherboard have a RAM
> > > config button (some do).  If so, try that.
> > >
> > > Have you tried a different power supply?  I've had power supplies which
> > > will power up the motherboard but not allow it to boot.
> > >
> > > T
> > >
> > > On 03-Dec-2023 3:54 p.m., _ Winterlight wrote:
> > > > After 10 years my E6896_P9X79_WS with i7-4930K has failed me.   My
> > > original setup was running fine but one day it wouldn’t boot and the
> > board
> > > reported a CPU error. I cleaned the dust off the board and did a major
> > > cleaning of the CPU fan and heat sink and it seemed to run just fine. I
> > had
> > > a couple extra RAM SIMMS so I decided to install them. What I had
> > installed
> > > was 4 CRUCIAL DDR 3 4GB SIMM running at 1866. What I added into bank
> two
> > > was two 8GB CRUCIAL DDR3 running at 1600. It didn’t seem to recognize
> all
> > > the RAM so I went into the BIOS to try different settings. I enabled
> Auto
> > > Memory frequency settings saved and exited out. This is when my
> troubles
> > > began.
> > > >
> > > > The PC hung at post. I saw nothing on the screen just a black screen.
> > > At first I thought something must of got corrupt so I tried auto
> flashing
> > > the BIOS but it wasn’t working normally so I tried clearing the bios
> with
> > > the on board pin, and finally I pulled everything off the board,
> removed
> > it
> > > from the case and let it sit in it’s box for a month. Then I cleaned
> > > everything and put it back together but same problem.
> > > >
> > > > It occurred to me that maybe the CPU burned out when the fan slowed
> > down
> > > and then my memory bios adjustment finished it off. So I purchased a
> used
> > > but tested CPU on Ebay and tried again. Same issue. I hate to just
> throw
> > > this board away but I am out of ideas. Anybody have any ideas to jump
> > start
> > > the board? Thanks 
> > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: [H] USB C Port

[Beave]

USB C is backward compatible. In fact, I use a USB 3 A to USB C cable for
charging and Data Transferring from the Phone as well with no issues.

I hope this helps you out,

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast




On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 9:29 AM _ Winterlight 
wrote:

> I bought a new Google Pixel with a C port. It is my first contact with a C
> port and I have some questions.  I know it charges and transfers data very
> much faster then USB 2 or 3 but everything else I own is 2 or 3. Is C
> completely backward compatible?  Can I still use USB with a micro connector
> to charge it. What do I need to know that I am not asking? Thanks!
>

Re: [H] Still alive?

[Beave]

My Condolences as well.

Thinking about the time at ComDEX (Year has been forgotten) in Las Vegas
when a lot of us met together. It was a great meeting and had fun as well.

I wish his family well and hope to see the email list still going forward.

Best regards,

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast




On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:40 PM DSinc  wrote:

> To all,
>
> I can't send just a singular message to youse guys [his Thunderbird says
> the following message is too large for his program to handle.] so I'm
> responding to a recent email.
>
> To let you know of the passing of Duncan 8/9/21 in the a.m.  He was in
> the hospital since Friday and had a massive heart attack this morning.
> The group is in Lopaka's capable hands and continued success is wished
> for the group.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bonny Sinclair (Duncan's sister)
>
>
>
>
> On 8/9/2021 5:15 PM, Scott Sipe wrote:
> > What kind of AMD servers are you getting? I'd love to get an EPYC tower
> for
> > work. Our current small office server is a Dell PowerEdge Xeon from 2017.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 12:39 AM Greg Sevart  wrote:
> >
> >> My vote would be 5800X.
> >>
> >> I've got a 5600X, 5800X, and 5950X all in use. Zen 3 is a beast. I've
> got
> >> Intel Coffee Lake, Comet Lake, and Rocket Lake cores in use too (and of
> >> course older iterations of both AMD and Intel cores), but the machines I
> >> really care most about are running AMD cores right now. Even the latest
> >> bulk order of servers I placed at work are based on EPYC Zen 3 silicon.
> >>
> >> My general stance has always been "tie goes to Intel" - so this is
> pretty
> >> telling for me. Not since K8/Hammer have I been this far on the AMD
> side of
> >> the fence.
> >>
> >> Greg
> >>
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: Hardware  On Behalf Of
> >> Steve Tomporowski
> >> Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2021 7:38 PM
> >> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
> >> Subject: Re: [H] Still alive?
> >>
> >> Still here.  Thinking finally of building a Ryzen system.  Which Ryzen
> >> processor is the sweet spot these days?  Building a new system is fine,
> but
> >> I don't know when I could ever afford a video card again.  Luckily I
> never
> >> sold my GTX 750.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >> On 8/7/2021 8:31 PM, Al A wrote:
> >>> Still Alive?
> >>>
> >>> al
> >>
>

Re: [H] Create/Is there a Discord for HWG?

[Beave]

Thanks!

Logged in as Beave

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis
<https://www.facebook.com/CardenasArnis/>
Anime Enthusiast




On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 6:19 PM Bino Gopal  wrote:

> Oh forgot that it only lasts a day; created a new link that never expires!
>
> https://discord.gg/9ScQsu29VM
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Hardware  On Behalf Of
> Beave
> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 5:48 PM
> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] Create/Is there a Discord for HWG?
>
> I get an expired Link invite as well.
>
> Tim Lider
>
> Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis
> <
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCardenasArnis%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C157a71972fa94bcc3d6108d8b11c00b1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637454081117271419%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3XTaVCYXfh8tpuHo2xqV2VEjDt0Y4tag4wYeqROGlkQ%3D&reserved=0
> >
> Anime Enthusiast
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:40 PM Steve Tomporowski 
> wrote:
>
> > Tried to join today, apparently the invite expired.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On 12/31/2020 4:59 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
> > > An overwhelmingly positive response!  I mean, I can create a channel
> > > in
> > my own Discord server for the HWG for now and then go from there...
> > >
> > > Which is what I guess I just did! 😝
> > >
> > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdis
> > > cord.gg%2FQEv4eczH&data=04%7C01%7C%7C157a71972fa94bcc3d6108d8b11
> > > c00b1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C63745408111727141
> > > 9%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTi
> > > I6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=uQAcUyr8uZHIqOtUpIErQd4sPD
> > > T2rUfxuHfrzwwTg1U%3D&reserved=0
> > >
> > > There's a voice channel too...let me know if you can't get to/see
> > > that
> > one...
> > >
> > >   BINO
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Hardware  On Behalf
> > > Of
> > Al A
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 6:03 PM
> > > To: Hardware Group 
> > > Subject: Re: [H] Create/Is there a Discord for HWG?
> > >
> > > Count me in, if someone set's it up.
> > >
> > > Al
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:18 AM Bino Gopal 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hey so how many folks here use/have Discord and would be interested
> > >> in setting up a HWG Discord server?  Or is there already one out
> > >> there and I just don't know about it?
> > >>
> > >> Or I could just create a chat and voice channel on my personal
> > >> Discord server...?  Let me know!
> > >>
> > >>  BINO
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>

Re: [H] Create/Is there a Discord for HWG?

[Beave]

I get an expired Link invite as well.

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast




On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:40 PM Steve Tomporowski  wrote:

> Tried to join today, apparently the invite expired.
>
> Steve
>
> On 12/31/2020 4:59 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
> > An overwhelmingly positive response!  I mean, I can create a channel in
> my own Discord server for the HWG for now and then go from there...
> >
> > Which is what I guess I just did! 😝
> >
> > https://discord.gg/QEv4eczH
> >
> > There's a voice channel too...let me know if you can't get to/see that
> one...
> >
> >   BINO
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Hardware  On Behalf Of
> Al A
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 6:03 PM
> > To: Hardware Group 
> > Subject: Re: [H] Create/Is there a Discord for HWG?
> >
> > Count me in, if someone set's it up.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:18 AM Bino Gopal 
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey so how many folks here use/have Discord and would be interested in
> >> setting up a HWG Discord server?  Or is there already one out there
> >> and I just don't know about it?
> >>
> >> Or I could just create a chat and voice channel on my personal Discord
> >> server...?  Let me know!
> >>
> >>  BINO
> >>
> >>
> >>
>

Re: [H] Weird PC issue

[Beave]

Try chkdsk on the drive the recording is going to. Could be an issue there.

Good luck,

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 1:12 PM Bobby Heid  wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have had some issues going on with my pc for several months now.
>
>
>
> There are two issues.
>
> 1.  Once every several weeks or so, I get a bluescreen -
> IPI_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT.  I can live with this one.  Things that I have tried
> to fix this do not seem to have helped.
> 2.  The big issue is that my PC keeps locking up.  This happens from
> 0-5
> times per day.  I may go 3 days without it happening and then have it
> happen
> 3 times in one day.  Here are some details:
>
> a.  When it locks up, the HD activity light is doing a very fast,
> steady
> flash.
> b.  There is no warning when it will happen.
> c.  It happens whether I am using the PC or not.
> d.  Seems to happen more often overnight than during the day. But not
> always.
> e.  When it locks up, I can still move the mouse cursor and move
> windows.  I cannot close a window or start another program.
> f.  When it locks up when not using PC, sometimes the login screen
> image
> will show, sometimes not.
> g.  CTL-Alt-Delete does nothing when locked.
> h.  PC stays up 24/7.  No sleep or hibernation.
> i.  When it locks up, if the system is recording a show (from a
> networked TV Tuner), the recording stops, so I assume that most apps are
> not
> still running when it locks up.
> j.  If a recording was scheduled while it is locked up, nothing is
> created.
> k.  To reset, I have to press and hold the power button until the
> system
> turns off.
> l.  Through trial and error, it seems that turning off letting the
> monitors going to sleep seems to have lessened the frequency of the lock
> ups.  I am not sure if this was not just a coincidence.
>
>
>
> Here are my system specs:
>
> *   Asus X99 Deluxe-II MB
> *   Intel i7-6850k CPU (not overclocked)
> *   Asus GeForce GTX 1070
> *   Corsair water cooler
> *   Corsair 32GB RAM
> *   Samsung 960 Pro SSD (512GB) - OS
> *   Samsung 860 EVO SSD 1TB
> *   WD 5TB Black
> *   Pioneer Blu Ray drive
> *   Dual monitors
> *   Corsair HX-850 PSU
> *   Corsair K70 LUX keyboard
> *   Logitech MX Master mouse
> *   Windows 10 Pro - 2004 - 19041.508
>
>
>
> I am not too keen on a nuke and install.  It would take me forever to get
> everything back the way it was.  But I am not ruling that out.
>
>
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bobby
>
>
>
>

Re: [H] closed loop water coolers

[Beave]

Hello all,

I hope all is doing well and staying healthy,

If you're going to cool a CPU only, I recommend not going Liquid Cooling
using an AIO Cooler. Why? Heatsinks with Fans work much better and require
less maintenance.

I suggest trying out the Noctua NH-D15, Premium CPU Cooler with 2x NF-A15
PWM 140mm Fans.  This CPU cooler runs about $60.00 on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-D15-heatpipe-NF-A15-140mm/dp/B00L7UZMAK/ref=sxin_3_ac_d_rm?ac_md=0-0-bm9jdHVyYQ%3D%3D-ac_d_rm&cv_ct_cx=Noctura&dchild=1&keywords=Noctura&pd_rd_i=B00L7UZMAK&pd_rd_r=d4237e58-f40e-48e3-bd1b-a1cd0e51ae8c&pd_rd_w=k1RVg&pd_rd_wg=WsU2W&pf_rd_p=96e196e3-02fe-420a-8e27-9285fc9434dd&pf_rd_r=4M46G8G34DFDZFAQ9PXB&psc=1&qid=1588016896&sr=1-1-12d4272d-8adb-4121-8624-135149aa9081

I have this same cooler cooling my i7-9700k and it is running overclocked
at 5.08GHz. The temperatures are 99 degrees F to 148 degrees F, depending
on the load.

Just thought, I'd put some info into the mix here.

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast




On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:39 AM Winterlight 
wrote:

>
> I have had a Thermaltake 120 dual fan on my
> current workstation since 2013 ..no problems.
> Howerver, that one and all those you mention are
> plus $70 and I am looking for something good at half that price point.
>
>
> At 12:24 PM 4/27/2020, you wrote:
> >I've had decent luck with the cooler master MasterLiquid line.
> >
> >Should fit the bill, even a 120mm one.
> >
> >But I highly suggest a beQuiet or Noctua cooler instead.  It will last
> >longer and give similar performance.
> >
> >On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:16 PM Winterlight 
> >wrote:
> >
> > > I am putting a media server together using parts
> > > I have around my office.I have everything except
> > > for the  Intel® Core™ i7-4930K 130TP cooler. This
> > > computer will never be over clocked in any way
> > > and will always be run at default speeds. I will
> > > handle my media and security camera needs.  I
> > > would like to use a closed loop liquid CPU cooler
> > > to keep things quiet. The cheapest one would be
> > > fine. Do they all start at around  $70 or does
> > > anybody  know of a good one for around $40? thanks
> > >
> > >
> >
> >--
> >Best Regards,
> >
> >
> >Zulfiqar Naushad
>
>

[H] Download Speeds slow, but Speed Test is good

[Beave]

I have an interesting problem.

The download speeds of the computer go to a crawl overnight.  A Speed Test
is done and it maxs out at 212Mbs by 21Mbs.  On the downloads goes 51kbs to
105kbs.

A simple reset of the computer fixes the problem. I have tried the
computer's firewall, no go. The Router, no go.

Any Ideas?

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast

Re: [H] 870 EVO SSD vrs 920 PRO V-NAND

[Beave]

I myself have gone from 860 Pro to a 970 Pro and the 970 Pro is much faster.

Something you might want to keep in mind. The 970 Pro is not a SATA HD.

Do you mean from 970 EVO to 970 Pro?

Tim Lider

Red Belt at Cardenas School of Arnis

Anime Enthusiast




On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:25 PM Winterlight 
wrote:

> My OS drive is a Samsung 870 EVO  250GB. I have six core I7 running
> at 4.2 GHz with 64GB of Crucial Ballistic DDR3  and a Nvidia
> 1070.  I'm not a gamer  but I do video and media editing. When
> working with media I use my RAM = a 32 GB RAM DRIVE to work from so
> no drive should be as fast as that. However,  I see a deal on a 512
> GB V-Nand SSD 970 PRO. and I know this is  one of the fastest drives
> available.  If I install it, and use it as my OS drive instead of the
> existing 870 EVO will I even notice a difference?  Thanks w
>
>

Re: [H] Duncan

[Beave]

I also written him well. It's been a long good side knowing him.

Beat wishes,

Tim Lider
On Nov 22, 2014 6:58 AM, "Chris Reeves"  wrote:

> All my best thoughts. Over the years I've had some great long talks with
> Duncan.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: "James Edwards" 
> Sent: ‎11/‎22/‎2014 7:51 AM
> To: "hardware@hardwaregroup.com" 
> Cc: "addy4st...@yahoo.com" 
> Subject: [H] Duncan
>
> Yo everyone, pay attention! From his sister Bonny at addy4st...@yahoo.com
>
> To all,
>
> My brother, Duncan, (do not know how he's identified in your group other
> than the owner of this site) was admitted to the hospital on 11-11 after
> suffering multiple strokes. He was in ccu for 3 days, the hospital for 3
> and
> is now in re-hab. He is mobile, somewhat, and coherent, but memory, vision,
> and balance are impaired. Thought you would like to know. He's optimistic,
> accepting, and going with the flow. He's himself in conversation, just
> trapped in a not too responsive body.
>
> Bonny
>
> Bonny, please send me a good address to send well wishes. I will forward it
> to the list.
>
>
>
> Jim Edwards
>
>

Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??

[Beave]

If you have the pro version key you can just enter it in.
On May 20, 2014 1:43 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:

> Tim,
> I will look at your link. But, if there is any $$$ involved I am not
> really interested.
>
> BTW, I just tried your suggestion to update the product key from the System
> page. This FAILED with the msg:
> "This key can't be used to activate this edition of Windows. Please try
> another."
> The key I used was packed with my new Windows 8.1 PRO sw. DOH!
>
> Am I allowed to De-Activate a previous install of Windows 8.1 and still
> retain
> ownership or re-activation of the 'old' 8.1 OS sw at a later date?
> Otherwise, I will drop the 'old 8.1' OS DVD's in my shredder and just move
> on
> into the future. M$ truly has this 'activation' business truly locked
> down. I don't
> mind. I just to get to where I choose to be.
>
> As I wrote, I don't have trouble doing a format of the SSD again and
> starting all over.
> I sorta expected this hoop-jumping anyway. :)
> Duncan
>
> On 05/20/2014 16:15, Tim Lider wrote:
>
>> Duncan,
>>
>> Give this a try:
>>
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/feature-packs
>>
>> You can upgrade on the fly.  It's like Windows 7's Anytime Upgrade.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim Lider
>>
>> Sent from:
>> Intel i7-2600K Running at 4.35GHz with 16GB of PC3 RAM running at 1,620MHz
>> Boot HD WD3000HLHX 300GB VelociRaptor 10k rpm HD.
>>
>>
>>  -Original Message-
>>> From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On
>>> Behalf Of DSinc
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:31 AM
>>> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
>>> Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??
>>>
>>> Tim,
>>> OK, but I'll wait for other impressions. Ultimately, I figure I can
>>> just format the SSD and start from scratch. No real data to worry about
>>> atm!
>>> Duncan
>>>
>>> On 05/20/2014 12:31, Tim Lider wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Duncan,
>>>>
>>>> I think you can change the product key and it should work. Not sure
>>>>
>>> though.
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tim Lider
>>>>
>>>>  -Original Message-
>>>>> From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On
>>>>> Behalf Of DSinc
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:25 AM
>>>>> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim,
>>>>> Thank you for the share! Yes, I have seen this view. OK. Now, I get
>>>>> my confusion. I have loaded/activated plain old Win8.1-64bit.
>>>>> The large blue font in the upper-right must refer to the 'Windows 8'
>>>>> series (Win8.0-Win 8.9). At least that is how I read this.
>>>>> Two days ago the postman delivered my replacement OS box.
>>>>> It is labeled Windows 8.1 PRO (full version).
>>>>>
>>>>> So, now the question is: Can I use the 64-bit DVD to 'upgrade' to
>>>>> Win8.1 PRO, or, should I just hope that the DVD asks to format the
>>>>> SSD
>>>>> (C:\) and just start over again fresh. I will only loose my FF
>>>>> browser and my Eset AV install (fully backed up to NAS!
>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>> Duncan
>>>>> On 05/19/2014 11:11, Tim Lider wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> OK. Try this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.adv-data.com/beave/sswin81.png
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tim Lider
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from:
>>>>>> Intel i7-2600K Running at 4.35GHz with 16GB of PC3 RAM running at
>>>>>> 1,620MHz Boot HD WD3000HLHX 300GB VelociRaptor 10k rpm HD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  -Original Message-
>>>>>>> From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> On
>>>
>>>> Behalf Of DSinc
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:15 AM
>>>>>>> To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [H] Win 8.1pro??
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tim,
>>>>>>> I get a 404 error from your link. Hmmm.
>>>>>>> Duncan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 05/18/2014 10:10, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/clfz8qsfwb1vzyf/Screenshot%202014-05-
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 17%2021.23.13
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> .png
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>
>

Re: [H] Question

[Beave]

You can update if you like. Although, I recommend a fresh install.
On Apr 15, 2014 2:56 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:

> Do I truly have to erase/format my entire HD just to install W7 of W8.1?
> Thanks,
> Duncan
>
>

Re: [H] Win7 question#2

[Beave]

When I went from Vista to Windows 7 I did not have much of a problem. Going
from Windows 7 to Windows 8 I complaining like nuts. Now, I'm used to
Windows 8 and I like it. At work we use Windows 7 and I still think Windows
7 is better.

Regards,
On Mar 20, 2014 12:57 PM, "DSinc"  wrote:

> I'll read the recent past again. Yes, I did get that impression.
> Win7 is nowhere near XP here. It is very confusing.
> Yes, I will continue peek/poke.
> Duncan
>
> On 03/20/2014 15:50, Thane Sherrington wrote:
>
>> At 04:43 PM 20/03/2014, DSinc wrote:
>>
>>> Thane/Bryan/Winterlight,
>>> Dang! All youare telling me is to ditch W7 and just use w8.1.
>>>
>>
>> Ditch Windows 7?  Dear God I hope it didn't sound like I said that.  Like
>> XP, 7 is a keeper.  I can't recommend 8.x at all (well, maybe for a tablet
>> or phone, the Surface I used seemed decent).
>>
>> Frankly, I don't even see big changes between XP and 7.
>>
>> T
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

[H] SoundBlaster XFI Extreme Audio Problems

[Beave]

Hello all,

I have a problem that is actually frustrating me.  The problem is with the 
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E I have.

The Problem is that every once in awhile while watching videos or playing Video 
Games the Sound Driver crashes and no sound comes out of the sound card. 
Sometimes I am able to switch the sound device to the USB headphones I have and 
it works, sometimes it does not and need to reboot the computer. Either way in 
order to get the X-Fi to work I need to reboot the computer.

System setup:
Asus P5N-T nForce 580i motherboard
Intel 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme Edition
Asus branded nVidia 8800 GTX Video Card
Creative Soundblaster X-FI PCI-E ExtremeAudio
4GB of Dominator 1066 DDR2 memory

I have removed the device and removed the drivers and it sill happens.  I’m 
getting close to wits end.

Regards,

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Re: [H] Best mouse with charging base?

[Beave]

I myself use the MX Revolution. As my Wireless mouse. More Info:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/130&cl=us,en

My personal feelings about the mouse are good.  I have really no bad things to 
say about it.

Regards, 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:41 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Best mouse with charging base?

I can't seem to find a review of a good mouse with a charging base. I 
currently have a Logitech MX700. It's old and seems to be getting 
flakely in tracking. I'd like to replace it with another mouse that has 
a recharging base.  Any recommendations?  Thanks.

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Re: [H] Shutdown instead of reboot?

[The Beave]

This happens to me as well. But, it only happens after an update.

You can set vista to download the updates and then you can install them when
you want.

Regards,

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 4:03 PM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Shutdown instead of reboot?

My HTPC recently started shutting down when I tell it to reboot.  It's
running Vista.  The reboot command goes in, everything closes nice and
cleanly and then it simply shuts off instead of rebooting.  Pressing the
power button brings it right back up.

It's annoying because if I'm away from home and it does an auto reboot after
a windows update or I need to remotely reboot it, the server is down until I
can get back home.

Any thoughts?  BIOS setting maybe?


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Re: [H] RAM question

[Beave]

Hello Heyes,

Although, you maybe correct but I actually use PC3500 DDR2 memory in my current 
system.  The memory is actually clocked at 1066MHz on my 780i Motherboard. Let 
me tell you it is sweet running at that speed compared to 800MHz memory.

Here's the memory I use 
http://www.corsair.com/products/go.aspx?pn=QUAD2X4096-8500C5DF

Regards,

--- Original Message ---
PC3200 - probably. 3500? There is no such thing. That's gimmicky ram for the OC 
genre, and a wild card if it will move forward.

> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:24:29 -0400
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [H] RAM question
>
> Thank you for your shares about SATA.
>
> Question now about RAM.
> I have current DDR RAM rated PC3200 and PC3500.
> Can this 3200/3500 DDR RAM move forward?
>
> I will give that all my PC133, PC100, and PC66 DIMMS get sold, or, 
> held as spares for older machines 'not yet ready' for upgrade. The 
> plan anyway :) Thank you, Duncan
>

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Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance

[Beave]

Brian,

You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel 
and see if that helps.

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance

Okay this is just frustrating.  I used "net user administrator
/active:yes" to enable the hidden real admin account at a command
prompt and got a success message.  So I logged off and logged back in
as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL
says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes.

WTF?  This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago.


Brian

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority
> may be able to right click/run as/administrator  to get there. not in front 
> of the vista box at the moment.
>
> lame
> fp
>
> At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with:
>>I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part
>>of the system config panel and it won't let me.  Says I need to be an
>>administrator.  But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators.
>>
>>What gives?
>>
>>
>>Brian
>
> --
> Tallyho ! ]:8)
> Taglines below !
> --
> You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust.
>
>

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Re: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

[Beave]

First did you look at the drive with a disk editor like Winhex?  If not give it 
a look. 

Inspect sector 0.  Use the MBR template in the Template manager to view 
available partitions, if there is any. If there are partitions listed, check to 
see if the large one is 07h (NTFS).  If there are no partitions listed, then 
the Partition/MBR Sector has been rewritten.

I almost went though rewriting the partition table.  Since its a long process 
and takes some math, I will not go into it. If your clients wants the data 
recovered use RStudio R-Tools to recover the data. If you want a professional 
to work on it let me know.

Tim Lider
Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:14 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] No recovery discs or partitions

Hello,

Have a guy that brought in his Wal-Mart sold HP/Crapaq laptop.
He tells me he was surfing pr0n and got a message that his system was
infected and he just shut down his system and called me. I asked him
if this was possibly a pop up ad and he doesn't think it was. However,
he doesn't know if the AV was working or even current. The system is
around 6 - 7 months old. It has Vista Home Premium OEM on the COA.
   I took the drive out and tried to access it and as soon as
Windows explorer tries to access it asks me to format it. I am using
Win2K Pro to do this but last I knew Vista had WinFS left out so I
assume it uses NTFS or at least FAT32. So I should be able to read it.
I can only assume the drive got wiped out. The problem now is he
didn't get any discs with it and since the drive is wiped out the
recovery partition is also gone. I would try to recover the file
system but I am thinking maybe it would be better to start from
scratch. I had never seen this kind of damage from a infection though
but he denies any other issues with the unit, no grinding noises to
make me suspect HDD issues.
 Since I only have a copy of Vista Business upgrade (ala MAPS) I
guess all I can do is ask for a recovery disc from HP/Crapaq?

-- 
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 joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

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[H] EPROM Reader/Writer Wanted

[Beave]

Hello all,

Wow!  It has been quiet the past 2 days on the list.  Hope everyone is doing 
well.

Now for my message...  :)

Advanced Data Solutions, LLC is looking for a EPROM programmer.  We have a 
contract we are working on and need to get a person capable of reading/writing 
EPROM.  Also, will need to De-compile the and re-compile the EPROM.

You can reply or send a message to me privately if you like.  Also, if you know 
of a company that is capable of doing this that will be fine as well.

Regards,
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[H] EPROM Reader/Writer Wanted

[Beave]

Hello all,

Wow!  It has been quiet the past 2 days on the list.  Hope everyone is doing 
well.

Now for my message...  :)

Advanced Data Solutions, LLC is looking for a EPROM programmer.  We have a 
contract we are working on and need to get a person capable of reading/writing 
EPROM.  Also, will need to De-compile the and re-compile the EPROM.

you can reply or send a message to me privately if you like.  Also, if you know 
of a company that is capable of doing this that will be fine as well.

Regards,
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Re: [H] 2 hard drives into one.

[Beave]

I suggest that you clone those 2 drives as soon as possible.  As John said Use 
ghost or another software to clone the C drive.  But, there is also a way to 
partition the 500GB drive and clone the volumes to the first and second on the 
500gd drive as well.  I am unsure of the name of the software though.

Good luck

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mark.dodge
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 5:19 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] 2 hard drives into one.

I have two 80 gig drives that are quite old and are starting to click and
every once in awhile they computer will restart right after one of these
clicks. I want to get a SATA 500 and make the two drives with their
partitions all to the one drive. Is this possible and will I be able to save
the order of the partitions and the ability to boot from the C: boot
partition?

 

Mark

MD Computers, Houston, TX

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Re: [H] Vista 64

[The Beave]

I have Vista 64 with my Retail copy of Vista.  It came with both versions.

Regards,

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:17 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Vista 64

Is Vista 64 on all Retail DVDs, or is a separate purchase? If it is 
on the same DVD does it give you a choice when you start to install?

Re: [H] cpu coolers ? Az in the summer :{(

[Beave]

Hello, 

-==-
Big issue with new mobo's IMHO is despite a plethora of fan & temp probe 
headers there's a lack of good, free software to control/monitor since MBM is a 
dead project.
 
As sweet as the Asus Rampage is, Q-Fan2 & Asus Probe2 software suck. So an 
otherwise killer 2 or 3 IC package that comprises an extensive monitoring & fan 
control setup sits useless without proper software. Tried Everest to at least 
monitor but it it's polling seems to frakk the HDD controller causing all HDD's 
to suddenly disappear from time to time & no explanation why. Sure wish there 
was a GOOD software project for Windows like Linux has providing better generic 
SMB/I2C drivers & controls!
-==-

Look into nVidia and or the motherboard manufacturer for those utilities.  I 
currently had to replace  my nForce 680i due to a cmos error that could not be 
recovered with a nForce 780i.  Yes I know, but I did not have any DDR3 memory 
or the money to spend on DDR3 for the 790i chipset.

So, we all need to look to our motherboard manaufacturers and Chipset makers 
for that software utility now. Luckily, Asus and nVidia makes a the utilities 
there.

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Re: [H] cpu coolers ? Az in the summer :{(

[Beave]

That Fan has a 3 pin connector.  Also, it comes with a little fan controller as 
well you can set it to were you want.  I have the 3 pin connected directly to 
the Motherboard in the CPU FAN connector.  THe fan does speed up and slow down 
when needed.

To put the CPU fan on you will need to remove te mother board to put on the 
Bottom Plate part so the the Fan is supported.  It is the only drawback of the 
setup.

I have been using Zalman fans since I got my AMD FX-60.  I use an intel Core 2 
Extreme now that I got like 1 year 8 months ago and the computer is still going 
strong. Although, I did need to replace the motherboard just recently and 1 of 
the RAM chips went bad and now running on 2GB of RAM.

I have not changed the CPU fan yet since the computer was built.

Good luck in your search.

-- Begin Previous message Reply ---
what is the box labeled fan control, what I mean is this needed if the mb 
already has a 4 pin connector.

Picked up a silenx 120x38 ixtrema. 90cfm+ 18 dba. replaced the rear case fan ( 
vantec stealth 120x25 63 cfm @ 28dba. I have never seen a fan this quiet move 
this much air. 
need to find a 92 x 25 to replace the front enermax, not sure of cfm but it is 
NOISY. 

Giving the zalmans a good look, first look seems like I need to remove the mb. 
am I wrong ?

with cool and quiet enabled temps are under control but have not PUSHED the cpu 
yet and the side cover is back on.
--- End Previous Message reply ---
thanks
Fred

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Re: [H] cpu coolers ? Az in the summer :{(

[Beave]

>thanks Tim, this one is cool but looks like socket 775 only, I'm am2 :{( fp

They also make an AM2 model which is very nice as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118020

I use this one in my AMD FX-60 system.

At 07:23 AM 6/25/2008, Beave Poked the stick with:
>If your looking for a good cooler and it quiet and is nice at cooling try:
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118003
>
>This is an excellent cooler if you are using a motherboard that can control 
>the Fan speed. If you looking for CPU coolers Zalman is a good place to start.
>
>Regards,
>
>--- Begin original message ---
>Running a coolermaster tx2 with cool and quiet enabled. CPU temp is 
>great unless I try to play a game. red lines every time. IN the winter 
>was not a problem. Running with side cover off ( helps )
>
>looking at
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106080
>
>this is the only hs/fan I can find rated for the wattage involved, 130 
>watts, my 6400 is a 125 watt cpu ( shame on me for not doing my 
>homework ) it's either the monster fan ( clip looks to light for the 
>weight ) do not wish to remove mb to mount but is a option OR buy a 65 
>watt core 5600. errr
>
>shame on me
>suggestions appreciated. water may be a option but not one I really want to 
>do, have no real room for the hardware in my supermicro case.
>complete rebuild possible this winter.
>--- End of Original Message ---
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Re: [H] cpu coolers ? Az in the summer :{(

[Beave]

If your looking for a good cooler and it quiet and is nice at cooling try:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118003

This is an excellent cooler if you are using a motherboard that can control the 
Fan speed. If you looking for CPU coolers Zalman is a good place to start.

Regards,

--- Begin original message ---
Running a coolermaster tx2 with cool and quiet enabled. CPU temp is great 
unless I try to play a game. red lines every time. IN the winter was not a 
problem. Running with side cover off ( helps )

looking at 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106080

this is the only hs/fan I can find rated for the wattage involved, 130 watts, 
my 6400 is a 125 watt cpu ( shame on me for not doing my homework ) it's either 
the monster fan ( clip looks to light for the weight ) do not wish to remove mb 
to mount but is a option OR buy a 65 watt core 5600. errr

shame on me
suggestions appreciated. water may be a option but not one I really want to do, 
have no real room for the hardware in my supermicro case.
complete rebuild possible this winter.
--- End of Original Message ---
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Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot

[The Beave]

With the correct codec they will.

Regards,

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:49 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in
hardware, woot


OK, but they won't support HD at 1080p?
  This file is Top.Gear.Polar.Special.2007.BBC-HD.1080p.H.264.AC3.2.0.mkv

At 11:32 AM 6/15/2008, you wrote:
>I myself use Simple Media Player or Media Player Classic. I also use
FFDSHOW
>Codex as well.
>
>Simple Media Player and Codex at http://smplayer.sf.net
>
>Media Player Classic can be found at
>http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
>
>FFDShow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/
>
>Good luck,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
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Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in hardware, woot

[The Beave]

I myself use Simple Media Player or Media Player Classic. I also use FFDSHOW
Codex as well.

Simple Media Player and Codex at http://smplayer.sf.net

Media Player Classic can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303

FFDShow can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:25 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Radeon HD 3870 playing H264 videos in MKV containers in
hardware, woot

I decided to give this a try with the same video. VLC does choke, 
although I am only using less then 20 percent CPU when it chokes.

How did you get PowerDVD 8 to play the mkv file? It won't play if for 
me. I have the same codecs installed, and I have plenty of hardware 
muscle to do this. PowerDVD ignores  the file.




At 06:49 AM 5/24/2008, you wrote:
>Just a little success story here, I sourced a cheap Dell for a client
>(seriously good deal IMO, £291 for a Vostro 400 w/ 2.4Ghz Allendale,
>3GB of ram, Terabyte of disk, wireless, Vista Home Premium, set of
>speakers with a sub, a wireless router, a surge protected plugboard.)
>and dropped a 3870 into it, as it's going to be used in a sort of
>media center'ish sort of way plugged into a 32" high def TV
>
>Installed the CCCP codec pack (unchecking use ffmpeg for x264),
>installed PowerDVD 8, turned on hardware acceleration within
>PowerDVD... fired up a 7GB/hr h264 video (It's the Top Gear Polar
>Special in 1080P), which historically completely slaughters machines,
>VLC on the 4Ghz Wolfdale sits at 67% cpu utilisation with it (which
>means a 2.4Ghz chip with 1/3rd the cache has no chance in hell of
>playing it smoothly)
>
>on the 2.4Ghz Allendale...
>
>13% cpu utilization
>
>THIRTEEN PERCENT, good grief, that's probably just the storm of
>interrupts from shuffling the data over the network and to the GPU, wow.
>
>the ease at which this was accomplished is making a Sempron or low end
>A64 X2 on a 780G (which has the same video decoder core of course)
>really really tempting for a media center box to replace the
>makeshift E6600/i680/7800GT box I've got performing those duties now
>(with CoreAVC on decoding duty, which is much faster for h264 decode
>than VLC just for the record.)
>
>
>I'm mainly amazed at how easy it was to get it to work :)
>
>So, yeah, grvy :)
>
>-JB
>

[H] Linux's....

[Beave]

I'm looking to find  a decent Linux to do recoveries on EXT 3 FS file system.  
I would like the lists idea on this.

We got an Iomega NAS system in and the damn this is so messed up I can't seem 
to use any of the normal utilities I usually use.

Please help...

Also, the list is rather quiet lately too :(

Tim "The Beave" Lider

Re: [H] PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W EPS12V Power Supply $149 free shipping

[The Beave]

According to PC Power and Cooling, no.

http://www.pcpower.com/technology/myths/#m8

- Begin of copy from PC Power and Cooling -
8. ARE MULTIPLE 12-VOLT RAILS BETTER THAN A SINGLE 12-VOLT RAIL?

With all the hype about multiple 12-volt rails (ads claim that two rails is
better than one, five is better than four, etc.), you'd think it was a
better design. Unfortunately, it's not!

Here are the facts: A large, single 12-volt rail (without a 240VA limit) can
transfer 100% of the 12-volt output from the PSU to the computer, while a
multi-rail 12-volt design has distribution losses of up to 30% of the power
supply's rating. Those losses occur because power literally gets "trapped"
on under-utilized rails. For example, if the 12-volt rail that powers the
CPU is rated for 17 amps and the CPU only uses 7A, the remaining 10A is
unusable, since it is isolated from the rest of the system.

Since the maximum current from any one 12-volt rail of a multiple-rail PSU
is limited to 20 amps (240VA / 12 volts = 20 amps), PCs with
high-performance components that draw over 20 amps from the same rail are
subject to over-current shutdowns. With power requirements for multiple
processors and graphics cards continuing to grow, the multiple-rail design,
with its 240VA limit per rail, is basically obsolete.
- End of copy from PC Power and Cooling -

On the same page there is info on other myths on Power Supply.

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:26 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W EPS12V Power Supply $149 free
shipping

Is a single 60A 12V rail better than multiple 12V
rails totaling ~60A? Too bad the 
Red version is not on sale also!

Who makes the Silencer Quad for PCP&C?


Al wrote:
>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009

> $149 free shipping
> 
>
http://promotions.newegg.com/PS/041508/index.html?cm_sp=SubCat_PowerSupplies
-_-PS041508-_-
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> 


 


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Re: [H] PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W EPS12V Power Supply $149 free shipping

[The Beave]

That is a nice power supply.  In fact I have one, but got it over one and a
half years ago for a lot more than that. The only problem you will find is
that the power supply is a lot longer from front to back than standard power
supplies, you will probably need to get a new case or modify existing case.

Good lcuk with the awesome power supply,

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Re: [H] click of death

[The Beave]

Look into Toshiba or Hitachi.  When you do look for the Fall Detection or
something. This way if you laptop takes a header into the floor or whatever
the hd will be ok.

Regards and good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] click of death

Have a laptop here with a Hitachi drive with the click of death.

What would be a good replacement ? Looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm.
Not sure if the controller supports this speed pr not

thanks
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Re: [H] Water-cooling

[The Beave]

Looks good.  7 Degrees C is something that helps out. Make it so that the
power supply blows air out to the rear of the case.  Also try to make it so
there is no or hardly any interruption in the air flow from the front of the
case thru the power supply.

My next case is going to be either TJ09 or TJ10 from Silverstone. If I get
the TJ10. I'll get he ESA version of it.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:54 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

Hi,

Well I didn't get much time to play but the temps have dropped by about
7degrees C just by moving turning some fans around. Here is what I have
now, I hope it makes sense.

Side 1

--O--
|  FD   |
ox2   I  HD i
|  HD i
|  HD   i
|  CD   |
|   |
|PSU|
|   |
|  OCpu |
V   |
V  II   i
|   i
-


Other side

--O--
|FD |
i HD  O |  
i HD  |
i HD|
|DVD|
|   |
|---PSU |
|   |
| Cpu   |
|   V
i   V
i   |
-

Key:
HD = Hard disc
FD = Floppy disc
V  = Video

i/o = 80mm fans except in front of HD which are 30mm
I/O = 120mm fans

One point to note and I hadn't really paid any attention to this before
but the new PSU is so long it separates the bottom of the case from the
top. The 120mm exhaust fan above the CPU seems to be doing the job for
the bottom of the case now that I have proper air flow.


No crashes so far, but I still may look at getting a different case
eventually to allow for full case airflow.

Thanks for all the help,

Gary


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Beave
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:00 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

I would have air going towards the inside of the case to put the air on
the
components.  Have air move out of the case can lead a void spot where
there
is no air flow.

Here's an example of my case:

--O--
|   |
|   I   |
|   Video   |
|   |
|   CPU O
|   |
I HD's PSO
-

So air goes thru the hard drives to the power supply and out the bottom.
Air
comes in from the front of the case over to the CPU FAN then out the
back.
Air is pushed into the case at the Video Card area and is pulled out in
a
Blow Hole on the top of the case. This works very well in my case.

I do use a 680i Asus motherboard, A Zalman CPN9600 CPU fan, an Asus
8800GTX
video card.  There is no cabling in the way of the components. Even the
power supply is kept neatly.  BTW, the power Supply is a PC Power
Cooling
Silencer 750.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:56 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

All the fans are pushing the air away from the case. Should I have some
pulling air in and some pushing it out to create more of a flow across
the components? 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Beave
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:59 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

The fans on the side door of the case can be a problem. You have the air
going out or going in there? If the air is going outward try making the
air
move inward. This way the air is being pushed from the back of the case.

I would also make sure the fans on the rear of the case is moving air to
the
back of the case. If you have to, make those move at a higher RPM.


Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:32 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

My case is very well ventilated using Scythe 12cm fans It's a full tower
case and has the fans in this configuration on the side of the case:



|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   X   |
|   |
-

The back of the case has two 8CM fans at the top sucking out air 
___
|   |
| X X   |
|   |
|   |
|   |
| |
|   |
---

The Case isn't too load because the fans are all Scythe

Inside the case the cables are relatively tidy, but I would have thought
the fans on the side of the case should be moving enough hot air out.

The power supply may well be an issue. I may try to take some 

Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

[The Beave]

The ones I get off of Torrent are Naruto Shippuuden. Other than that the
rest of the Anime comes from Cartoon-world.org.  Naruto Shippuuden is from
Dattebayo. 

Other than that I watch:
Trinity Blood
Eureka Seven
Naruto
Death note
Avatar (got new ones)
Blood +

Yes most of them are completed, but still fun to watch.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 5:27 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

 


Which ones do you watch?

I'm an avid fan of them!!!


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Beave
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:01 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

I recommend uTorrent as well. I use it all the time download Japanese Anime.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lane
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:29 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

Utorrent has those features and more. Very easy to use.

http://www.utorrent.com

Jeff



Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows


Greetings,

I use ktorrent on Linux because I like the feature that shows "parts of
the file which are available" for download as you can see in this
screenshot...

http://ktorrent.org/images/screenshots/mwnd.png

...Is there a windows Bit Torrent client that has this feature. I figured
I would ask the group instead of downloading a whole bunch of clients to
see which has this feature.

Thanks

Jay

Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

[The Beave]

I recommend uTorrent as well. I use it all the time download Japanese Anime.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lane
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:29 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows

Utorrent has those features and more. Very easy to use.

http://www.utorrent.com

Jeff



Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: [H] Which Bit Torrent client for Windows


Greetings,

I use ktorrent on Linux because I like the feature that shows "parts of
the file which are available" for download as you can see in this
screenshot...

http://ktorrent.org/images/screenshots/mwnd.png

...Is there a windows Bit Torrent client that has this feature. I figured
I would ask the group instead of downloading a whole bunch of clients to
see which has this feature.

Thanks

Jay

Re: [H] Water-cooling

[The Beave]

I would have air going towards the inside of the case to put the air on the
components.  Have air move out of the case can lead a void spot where there
is no air flow.

Here's an example of my case:

--O--
|   |
|   I   |
|   Video   |
|   |
|   CPU O
|   |
I HD's PSO
-

So air goes thru the hard drives to the power supply and out the bottom. Air
comes in from the front of the case over to the CPU FAN then out the back.
Air is pushed into the case at the Video Card area and is pulled out in a
Blow Hole on the top of the case. This works very well in my case.

I do use a 680i Asus motherboard, A Zalman CPN9600 CPU fan, an Asus 8800GTX
video card.  There is no cabling in the way of the components. Even the
power supply is kept neatly.  BTW, the power Supply is a PC Power Cooling
Silencer 750.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:56 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

All the fans are pushing the air away from the case. Should I have some
pulling air in and some pushing it out to create more of a flow across
the components? 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Beave
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:59 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

The fans on the side door of the case can be a problem. You have the air
going out or going in there? If the air is going outward try making the
air
move inward. This way the air is being pushed from the back of the case.

I would also make sure the fans on the rear of the case is moving air to
the
back of the case. If you have to, make those move at a higher RPM.


Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:32 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

My case is very well ventilated using Scythe 12cm fans It's a full tower
case and has the fans in this configuration on the side of the case:



|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   X   |
|   |
-

The back of the case has two 8CM fans at the top sucking out air 
___
|   |
| X X   |
|   |
|   |
|   |
| |
|   |
---

The Case isn't too load because the fans are all Scythe

Inside the case the cables are relatively tidy, but I would have thought
the fans on the side of the case should be moving enough hot air out.

The power supply may well be an issue. I may try to take some photo's at
the weekend if I have time to help show you the actual configuration.



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Re: [H] Water-cooling

[The Beave]

The fans on the side door of the case can be a problem. You have the air
going out or going in there? If the air is going outward try making the air
move inward. This way the air is being pushed from the back of the case.

I would also make sure the fans on the rear of the case is moving air to the
back of the case. If you have to, make those move at a higher RPM.


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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:32 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

My case is very well ventilated using Scythe 12cm fans It's a full tower
case and has the fans in this configuration on the side of the case:



|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   |
|   |
|   X   X   |
|   |
-

The back of the case has two 8CM fans at the top sucking out air 
___
|   |
| X X   |
|   |
|   |
|   |
| |
|   |
---

The Case isn't too load because the fans are all Scythe

Inside the case the cables are relatively tidy, but I would have thought
the fans on the side of the case should be moving enough hot air out.

The power supply may well be an issue. I may try to take some photo's at
the weekend if I have time to help show you the actual configuration.

Re: [H] Water-cooling

[The Beave]

Look into your case and make sure your airflow is working well.  This means
get the power supply cables and mother board cables out of the middle of the
case and try to hide them. Also, put some quality fans in the case, may make
it loud once the fans turn on full, but at least it will keep the components
cool.

Another thing you may want to look at is the power supply.  Make sure it is
moving air thru it and keeping cool. Why?  The hotter the power supply the
less power the power supply will give to your computer components.

Good example of computer wiring:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=1157
08980&albumID=1538791&imageID=18943098
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=1157
08980&albumID=1538791&imageID=18943150

My current computer is not photographed.  Those above are not my current
computer. On the next computer rebuild I'll take photos and post them.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:20 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling

I agree 100% and I was trying to get that across in my note. The X38 is
head and shoulders better than the 780i. It's just that I had a burning
desire to play with SLI.

I think the crashes are certainly heat related as they will only happen
whilst I have been playing games for a while.

I am considering swapping out the 9600GT for a 9800GT2 but the NB temp
is still very concerning, the StrikerII motherboard is the big issue
here. It's a piece of crap. 

So with all that said. I would like to get the 780 running stable just
because I'm not going to let it get the better of me. (I still have the
X38 so will probably switch it back eventually)



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Subject: Re: [H] Water-cooling


No offense, but I would call going from an x38 to a 780i a downgrade,
not an upgrade, unless you must have SLI - and even then I'm not sure of
the value/performance ratio of two 9600GTs vs a single 9800GTX.

Water cooling should not be required in a non-overclocked system these
days, even an SLI rig. You have much deeper problems than heat if you
are experiencing crashes like that. I wouldn't suspect power either.


> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:37:33 -0600
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: [H] Water-cooling
>
> Hi,
>
> Since swapping out my Asus Maximus Formula (X38) for an Asus Striker
II
> Formula (780i) my system temperature has jumped a whopping 10 degrees
> and crashes frequently. I know the Maximus is a far superior board and
> chipset but I wanted to play with SLI so I had to go nForce even just
> temporarily until I give up with the whole SLI thing :-(
>
> So I was thinking if I really want this to work I should go for a
liquid
> cooling solution. I am currently looking at the Zalman Reserator XT
and
> will certainly use it to cool both my CPU and Northbridge. I was
> wondering could I also plug the GFX card inline or would it reduce the
> effectiveness too much (2 x G9600 GT SSC)? Some WWW sites say it would
> be OK but I trust this list more than random WWW sites. If anyone else
> has gone this way yet do you have an practical advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Re: [H] VELOCIRAPTOR

[The Beave]

Harry,

IN the Storagereview article they said WDC was going to make a version of the 
drive with the SATA connectors in the correct placement. Also, WDC could just 
replace the Icepak 3.5" Part and use something different.  WDC will lose a 
large part of the community with the current build of the Velociraptor.  

I myself think the drive will work great for the gaming machines.  It's fast, 
quiet, cool and low of power.  I am also thinking if any notebooks will get 
this drive, but most of those are going for SSDD hard drives.

Regards,
Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:47 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] VELOCIRAPTOR

Greg Sevart wrote:
> Indeed. StorageReview's piece specifically made it look damn impressive. Most 
> interesting, however, is that they were able to dramatically improve 
> multi-user performance (and hence enterprise appeal) without dropping 
> single-user performance (enthusiast appeal). You usually have to optimize for 
> one or the other. True enterprise-like multi-user performance of the previous 
> generation Raptors wasn't that great compared to SCSI/SAS 10k drives. Gen IV 
> makes them at least competitive.
>
> I'm hoping we see a single-platter 150GB model shortly after the 300GB 
> becomes available mid May--and hopefully at a good price point. I don't care 
> about the space--I have a 6TB RAID6 array for capacity. With the 300GB model 
> carrying an MSRP of $299, a ~$200 150GB drive would be about ideal.
>
>   
Western Digital made a fatal mistake, which will keep me from using many 
of these drives.

The drive is a 2.5" drive in a heatsink.  Instead of putting the drive 
in the middle, and using an extension cable set to put the SATA and SATA 
power connectors in the "correct" location, they put the drive at the 
back.  This means that I can't use the drive in a sata/sas hot swap unit.

 Harry

> Greg
>
>   
>> -Original Message-
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
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>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00 AM
>> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>> Subject: [H] VELOCIRAPTOR
>>
>> Pretty intense!!!
>>
>> Performance is fantastic in some cases.
>>
>> 
>
>
>
>   

[H] Safari web browser from Apple

[The Beave]

Hey all,

I downloaded this web browser from Apples update program.  OMG! It beats
Firefox in speed.  Should give it a try.

Regards,

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Re: [H] Why is multiplayer so addictive?

[The Beave]

There are other games, if your into futuristic gaming try out Tabula Rasa.
It has questing and instances in it and is an MMO. If want serious content
and don't really care about graphics much there is always World of Warcraft
(Warcrack I like to call it). 

There are others, those are the ones I recommend.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raul Limos
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:59 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Why is multiplayer so addictive?

On 3/21/08, Hunter, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unreal Tournament has an Invasion mode which my family play regularly.
>  We all join one team and kill the bad guys. We just got Unreal
>  Tournament 3 and that scenario is missing :-(
>
>  Anyone know of other games where we can all join together and kill the
>  bad guys. We find it more enjoyable than killing each other :-)

Try Gears of War for Windows:  http://gearsofwar.com/GearsPC/

Re: [H] Vista SP1 released to Windows update...

[The Beave]

Installed both release SP1's on my Gaming computer and the Laptop I am
using.  I had to remove the PR beta version on the gaming computer though to
install it. There is a definite network speed increase and drive access
speed increase.

Only bad thing it took like 4 reboots, maybe more to install in the two
computers.  I for see much business coming my due to people being inpatient.


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:45 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Vista SP1 released to Windows update...

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/18/windows-vi
sta-sp1-released-to-windows-update.aspx

Bobby

Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

[The Beave]

Antec has recently gone downhill a bit on the quality of their power
supplies. Right now I recommend Silverstone and PC Power and Cooling for
gaming rigs.  For base or normal use computers Antec will do fine.

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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 12:14 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] probably a really dumb question

At 05:06 PM 01/03/2008, j maccraw wrote:

>Still waiting for reply from Antec as to if they will
>stand behind this junk
>unit w/ 1year of use on it even though it's past
>warranty. Not holding my breath
>& likely never buying another Antec.

I missed the beginning of this thread.  Are the Antec power supplies 
junk then?  I thought they were touted as a good PS within the last year?

T 

Re: [H] Vista class action

[The Beave]

Brian,

I know the pain about lowering graphics requirements for Vista, I have a MPC
that is almost unusable with Vista Premium.  Although, plays videos and
songs very nicely. Too bad no video games though. My laptop is a XPS Gen 2
and it is still going strong with Vista Ultimate installed (Installed it
because of work requirements). 

The total opposite can be said for my gaming computer. It has Windows Vista
Ultimate and it runs just as fast as it did with XP MCD. Of course this
computer has upper end gear though. Only thing I am pissed about is
Directsound and the inability to decode 5.1 on SD-PIF. But, alas I live with
it.

I have a question though, were did the e-mails come from? Did Microsoft give
them freely or was there a court order for them?  I did not remember
anything of mentioning that.  If they have not been given freely by
Microsoft or a court order was used the person that handed them can be
charged for theft of the e-mails, since the e-mail belong to Microsoft.

I have personally seen cases of people brought to court for illegally using
company e-mail for personal and/or illegal use. My job gets me into those
situations sometimes :(

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:11 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Vista class action

The plot thickens.  158 pages of internal Microsoft emails on the
matter have turned up as part of the court discovery process.  This
page has a good overview as well as links to the whole pdf:

http://apcmag.com/8344/has_vista_lost_all_credibility

Some gems:

"In the end, however, the need to placate other hardware vendors
became a major factor -- particularly Intel, which was keen to keep
selling its 915 graphics chipset, which couldn't handle Aero at that
point. 'In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make
their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards
with 915 graphics embedded," general manager John Kalkman wrote. "It
was a mistake on our part to change the original graphics
requirements.'"

"In an email to Ballmer, Steven Sinofsky wrote, 'No one really
believed we would ever ship, so they didn't start the work until late
2006. This led to lack of availability. For example, my home
multi-function printer did not have drivers until 2/2 and even pulled
their drivers and re-released them [Brother].'"

"Sinofsky continued, 'Massive changes in the underpinning for video
and audio led to a really poor experience at RTM, especially with
respect to Windows Media Center. This change led to incompatibilities.
For example, you don't get Aero with an XP [graphics] driver, but your
card might not (ever) have a Vista driver.'"

That last one many of us saw coming a mile away, as Microsoft was
forced to re-write the entire audio/video subsystem at the last minute
to placate the Hollywood crowd and allow for HD playback.

---
Brian

Re: [H] CHKDSK problem in XP

[The Beave]

You can get FAR at http://farmanager.com/?l=en It's a good utility for doing
that sort of stuff.  Also, It could be just the name of the file with path
is too long and it is messed up a bit.

Regards, 

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:53 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] CHKDSK problem in XP

At 05:08 PM 21/02/2008, The Beave wrote:
>Have you tried looking at the root in XP explorer? There might be a file
>with some naming error in it.  Try to delete the file if it is not of any
>value. If that does not work try using a folder utility like FAR to delete
>it or rename it.

It's a folder in the \windows\temp folder that won't delete.  Where 
can I get FAR?

T 

Re: [H] CHKDSK problem in XP

[The Beave]

Have you tried looking at the root in XP explorer? There might be a file
with some naming error in it.  Try to delete the file if it is not of any
value. If that does not work try using a folder utility like FAR to delete
it or rename it.

Also, this could mean the command dir is damaged somehow and you will need
to fix the OS itself. This is rather rare, but I have seen it in the past.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:47 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] CHKDSK problem in XP

I'm having an odd problem with an XP computer.  If I go to the root 
directory and type dir /s after awhile I get a bubble message telling 
me that a file is corrupt (no name is given) and I should run 
chkdsk.  If I run chkdsk (on reboot or from PE) it shows no 
problems.  Any ideas what I could try?

T

Re: [H] Notebook hard drives

[The Beave]

You need to figure out if the notebook hard drive is SATA or PATA.  Once you
figured that out, try to find a drive with fall protection. Toshiba makes
some good drives for this, but are a bit slow in speed.  If your looking for
performance, Samsung has some good ones out right now.  Unfortunately the
Western Digital Notebook drives run hot and use a lot of voltage. 

Also, my back up is like 3 fold. Laptop is backup'd to main computer at home
over network. Home computer is backed up to External FireWare drive.
Firewire drive is backup'd at work and stored on servers there.  Right now
it's about 350GB of data.

Good luck on your search,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:56 AM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Notebook hard drives

I've only had a laptop for about 18 months now and just experienced my first
HD failure.  I actually got a heads-up from SMART a few days prior that
failure was imminent so no data was lost.  But I've never dealt with
notebook HDs before so I was wondering if there was anything I should be
looking for in a replacement.

I have heard that just recently they came out with drives with on-board
encryption. I would love to have that but I'm guessing that the BIOS needs
to support it.  The laptop is an HP NC600 series that I bought refurbished
so it's a few years old.  Centrino-based and works just fine for what I
need.

Are there any incompatibility things that I should be on the look out for?
Or are most notebook drives pretty much interchangeable?

-
Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Secure World Foundation

Re: [H] Toshiba to give up on HD DVD

[The Beave]

Sigh...  I did not think Sony would win the battle early on, remembers the
Betamax and vhs war.  It seems Toshiba will give up on HD DVD. 

I did buy a HD DVD, now I feel left out a bit.  It's ok I'll buy regular
DVD's for awhile until I can afford a Blue Ray player.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:12 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Toshiba to give up on HD DVD

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/bs_nm/toshiba_hd_dvd_dc_1

Re: [H] Video Card Problems: Just "Going Bad"?

[The Beave]

I'm also thinking it could be video ram as well.  Also, if you play games
does it have a lot of tears in the graphics?  If so, it is definitely the
video card.

Regards and good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:04 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Video Card Problems: Just "Going Bad"?

At 12:51 PM 06/02/2008, Richard Kim wrote:

>Does this sound like a video card just "going bad"? Anything else I should
>be looking for to pinpoint the problem better? Any suggested actions I
>should try before dropping come $$$ on a new card? Please help. Thanks.

Sounds like bad video RAM to me.

T 

Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

[The Beave]

I'm using the modem driver that Microsoft has for the modem in my Dell XPS.
Hmmm...

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:20 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

At 04:12 PM 23/01/2008, The Beave wrote:
>I just tried my Dail up and it worked out ok.  I was able to access the
>local Netscape number.

I'm thinking it's the Toshiba modem driver.  They haven't updated it 
since last June.

T 

Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

[The Beave]

I just tried my Dail up and it worked out ok.  I was able to access the
local Netscape number.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:54 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

At 03:49 PM 23/01/2008, The Beave wrote:
>Yes.  Also, have you tried running the DUN in Administrator mode?  Try that
>to see if it works.  Also, make sure the user your logged in as is an
>administrator of the computer as well.

The user is an administrator.  I don't see how to run the DUN as 
administrator (when I right-click I don't get the Run as Administrator
option.)

T 

Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

[The Beave]

Yes.  Also, have you tried running the DUN in Administrator mode?  Try that
to see if it works.  Also, make sure the user your logged in as is an
administrator of the computer as well.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:45 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

At 03:35 PM 23/01/2008, The Beave wrote:
>Is the Remote Access Manager turned on? Check to see if it is on.  A lot of
>ous like to turn it off.

Remote Access Connection Manager is running.  Is that the one you're 
talking about?

T 

Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

[The Beave]

Is the Remote Access Manager turned on? Check to see if it is on.  A lot of
ous like to turn it off.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:29 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, The Beave wrote:

> I think I found it for you.   Try this:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811142/en-us
>
> It looks like the error you are having.

Not really.  That KB article refers to windows XP, and he's having 
problems on Windows Vista.


Christopher Fisk
-- 
"I do not believe we've put a guilty --- I mean innocent --- person to death
in the state of Texas."
George W. Bush, June 16, 2000
>From National Public Radio's "All Things Considered".

Re: [H] Vista DUN won't work

[The Beave]

I think I found it for you.   Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811142/en-us

It looks like the error you are having.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:56 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Vista DUN won't work

I have a brand new Toshiba with Vista in the shop, and I'm trying to 
setup dial up networking.  It dials fine, the modems handshake, it 
starts the username authentication, and then it disconnects.  It 
gives the message "Error 1717: the interface is unknown."  I can't 
find a resolution.  Anyone see this and have a suggestion?  The 
username/password works with XP.

T

Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

[The Beave]

With progress things change. Think about all the stuff the Manufactures like
to stuff into the servo tracks.  Man, sometimes there 32 tracks large.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:57 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

Tim,
Thanks for your explanation. Your explanation is truly scary, but, does 
explain many of the subtle hd errors we now see.  Suspect there is logic to 
the madness, though I do not see it yet.  I suppose I need to go back to 
school again. Modern hd's are just so much PFM any more!
Thanks.  It was so easy with the BK8-A2A, 5-platter removable, 80MB drive!
LOL!
Best,
Duncan

At 12:02 01/17/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>Servo tracks are not red only.  Parts of them are changed on a constant
>basis, such as the growing bad sector list, etc. The servo tracks are
>written normally like regular data on the media surface. The permanent
>components of the servo are sometimes written to the Processor or CMOS of
>the hard drive.
>
>Servo tracks are spread across all sides of the hard drive so the sides can
>sync with each other for optimum performance. Hard Drives are quite
>complicated when you look at the actual components and whats actually
>written to the media surface.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:25 AM
>To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>Subject: Re: [H] I'm losin' it...
>
>Tim,
>I agree with your experience. But, I am confused a bit.  You mention
>"...Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being destroyed for some reason or
>another"  Sounds appropriate.
>
>But, I always thought that a drive's Servo Tracks are recorded at Mfg. AND
>that the head used to process the Servo Track was always READ Only. The
>Servo head can never, ever Write (erase) the Servo tracks. I always thought
>that the servo tracks were laser burned/encoded to make them as permanent
>as possible. Perhaps I am still a bit too old-school!
>
>Do you mean that the Servo Read head could be getting flakey?  I do recall
>that if the Servo Read head ever crashed, the whole drive was
>toast!  Really do like your 3 rules! LOL!
>Just wondering.. :)
>Best,
>Duncan
>
>At 10:53 01/17/2008 -0800, you wrote:
> >Most SMART errors are letting you know the drive will fail.  There is an
> >ANSI standard for the Errors you receive.  I forget where I used to get
the
> >codes.  Now a days I just get the drive duplicated as soon as possible.
> >
> >IMO, most SMART problems are due to the Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being
> >destroyed for some reason or another. You are unable to repair those
> >sectors, it has valuable servo information about your unique hard drive.
>On
> >the other hand it could be a CC error in the Upper area as well that's
> >creating the error. I would still duplicate it and get it replaced.
> >
> >Rule 1:  Back the data up
> >Rule 2:  See rule one
> >Rule 3:  No Backup, cry and look for ways to get it back.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Tim "The Beave" Lider
> >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >-Original Message-
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
> >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:31 AM
> >To: The Hardware List
> >Subject: [H] I'm losin' it...
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I think I am losing it. I have a Maxtor drive that *may* be going out
> >on me. I came in to see my WinXP Pro SP2 machine with a powered
> >monitor but all black screen (It should have been on power save).
> >System was (i think) not responding. So I reboot and then come back
> >later to the same thing. So I go through the event viewer and see
> >this:
> >
> >
> >
> >Event Type: Warning
> >Event Source:   Disk
> >Event Category: None
> >Event ID:   52
> >Date:   1/17/2008
> >Time:   2:24:02 AM
> >User:   N/A
> >Computer:   VENUS
> >Description:
> >The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted
>that
> >it will fail.
> >Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure
> >may be imminent.
> >
> >For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> >http://go.micros

Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

[The Beave]

Servo tracks are not red only.  Parts of them are changed on a constant
basis, such as the growing bad sector list, etc. The servo tracks are
written normally like regular data on the media surface. The permanent
components of the servo are sometimes written to the Processor or CMOS of
the hard drive.

Servo tracks are spread across all sides of the hard drive so the sides can
sync with each other for optimum performance. Hard Drives are quite
complicated when you look at the actual components and whats actually
written to the media surface.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:25 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

Tim,
I agree with your experience. But, I am confused a bit.  You mention 
"...Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being destroyed for some reason or 
another"  Sounds appropriate.

But, I always thought that a drive's Servo Tracks are recorded at Mfg. AND 
that the head used to process the Servo Track was always READ Only. The 
Servo head can never, ever Write (erase) the Servo tracks. I always thought 
that the servo tracks were laser burned/encoded to make them as permanent 
as possible. Perhaps I am still a bit too old-school!

Do you mean that the Servo Read head could be getting flakey?  I do recall 
that if the Servo Read head ever crashed, the whole drive was 
toast!  Really do like your 3 rules! LOL!
Just wondering.. :)
Best,
Duncan

At 10:53 01/17/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>Most SMART errors are letting you know the drive will fail.  There is an
>ANSI standard for the Errors you receive.  I forget where I used to get the
>codes.  Now a days I just get the drive duplicated as soon as possible.
>
>IMO, most SMART problems are due to the Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being
>destroyed for some reason or another. You are unable to repair those
>sectors, it has valuable servo information about your unique hard drive.
On
>the other hand it could be a CC error in the Upper area as well that's
>creating the error. I would still duplicate it and get it replaced.
>
>Rule 1:  Back the data up
>Rule 2:  See rule one
>Rule 3:  No Backup, cry and look for ways to get it back.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:31 AM
>To: The Hardware List
>Subject: [H] I'm losin' it...
>
>Hello,
>
>I think I am losing it. I have a Maxtor drive that *may* be going out
>on me. I came in to see my WinXP Pro SP2 machine with a powered
>monitor but all black screen (It should have been on power save).
>System was (i think) not responding. So I reboot and then come back
>later to the same thing. So I go through the event viewer and see
>this:
>
>
>
>Event Type: Warning
>Event Source:   Disk
>Event Category: None
>Event ID:   52
>Date:   1/17/2008
>Time:   2:24:02 AM
>User:   N/A
>Computer:   VENUS
>Description:
>The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted
that
>it will fail.
>Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure
>may be imminent.
>
>For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>Data:
>: 0e 00 03 00 01 00 5e 00   ..^.
>0008: 00 00 00 00 34 00 04 80   4..?
>0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
>0018: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2d 00   ..-.
>0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
>0028: 00 00 00  ...
>
>
>So I already know that SMART isn't *always* smart but I start
>xcopy'ing everything nonetheless. I grab my famous PROGRAMS DISCS and
>start loading Partition Magic and Drive Image. I pick another drive in
>this same system (there are 4 physical drives - 2 on Promise 100
>card) and xcopy both partition on the drive over to this new(ish) one.
>I have to do this because the original and possibly failing drive is a
>30gb split in half with a FAT32 Win98 install on C: (First half of
>drive) and a NTFS WinXP Pro install on E: (Second half of the drive)
>AND the new one is a 20GB. Size isn't the same so Drive Image won't do
>a copy disk to disk for me. No worries, I think, I partition the 20GB
>in FAT32 the first 40% and NTFS the last 60%. I copy the data over
>(again). I make sure boot.ini (on first partition) and ntdetect.com
>and all that are there on that 98 partition and all that. They are
>exactly the same. So I pull the system swpa the drive 

Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

[The Beave]

Hello,

What program you use to duplicate it?  Also, make sure you have a copy of
sector 0 to get the dual booting working.

Regards and good luck, 

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:08 AM
To: The Beave
Subject: Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

Hello Tim,

Thursday, January 17, 2008, 12:53:33 PM, you wrote:

> Most SMART errors are letting you know the drive will fail.  There is an
> ANSI standard for the Errors you receive.  I forget where I used to get
the
> codes.  Now a days I just get the drive duplicated as soon as possible.

> IMO, most SMART problems are due to the Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being
> destroyed for some reason or another. You are unable to repair those
> sectors, it has valuable servo information about your unique hard drive.
On
> the other hand it could be a CC error in the Upper area as well that's
> creating the error. I would still duplicate it and get it replaced.

> Rule 1:  Back the data up
> Rule 2:  See rule one
> Rule 3:  No Backup, cry and look for ways to get it back.

Yeah, I didn't mess around. I backed up - twice actually. Now if I can
just get the replacement drive to boot properly.
It's the dual boot thing that's giving me grief.

-- 
Regards,
 joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] I'm losin' it...

[The Beave]

Most SMART errors are letting you know the drive will fail.  There is an
ANSI standard for the Errors you receive.  I forget where I used to get the
codes.  Now a days I just get the drive duplicated as soon as possible.  

IMO, most SMART problems are due to the Track 0 (Servo Tracks) are being
destroyed for some reason or another. You are unable to repair those
sectors, it has valuable servo information about your unique hard drive.  On
the other hand it could be a CC error in the Upper area as well that's
creating the error. I would still duplicate it and get it replaced.

Rule 1:  Back the data up
Rule 2:  See rule one
Rule 3:  No Backup, cry and look for ways to get it back.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:31 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] I'm losin' it...

Hello,

I think I am losing it. I have a Maxtor drive that *may* be going out
on me. I came in to see my WinXP Pro SP2 machine with a powered
monitor but all black screen (It should have been on power save).
System was (i think) not responding. So I reboot and then come back
later to the same thing. So I go through the event viewer and see
this:



Event Type: Warning
Event Source:   Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID:   52
Date:   1/17/2008
Time:   2:24:02 AM
User:   N/A
Computer:   VENUS
Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that
it will fail.
Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure
may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
: 0e 00 03 00 01 00 5e 00   ..^.
0008: 00 00 00 00 34 00 04 80   4..?
0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2d 00   ..-.
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   
0028: 00 00 00  ... 


So I already know that SMART isn't *always* smart but I start
xcopy'ing everything nonetheless. I grab my famous PROGRAMS DISCS and
start loading Partition Magic and Drive Image. I pick another drive in
this same system (there are 4 physical drives - 2 on Promise 100
card) and xcopy both partition on the drive over to this new(ish) one.
I have to do this because the original and possibly failing drive is a
30gb split in half with a FAT32 Win98 install on C: (First half of
drive) and a NTFS WinXP Pro install on E: (Second half of the drive)
AND the new one is a 20GB. Size isn't the same so Drive Image won't do
a copy disk to disk for me. No worries, I think, I partition the 20GB
in FAT32 the first 40% and NTFS the last 60%. I copy the data over
(again). I make sure boot.ini (on first partition) and ntdetect.com
and all that are there on that 98 partition and all that. They are
exactly the same. So I pull the system swpa the drive and put the 20GB
in the (failing?) 30gb spot and jumper them etc. I mark the 20GB drive
active with 98 disk AND do a fixmbr and fixboot with XP and still the
drive will only boot to 98. If I mark the NTFS/XP partition it just
sits blinking cursor - no boot menu - no nothing. WTF am I missing
here?


Is there a program that can query SMART error messages? I would really
like to know what is wrong with the drive because it's still just chugging
along here. Thank god the bios allows me to boot from scsi devices.


-- 
Regards,
 joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] Save XP!

[The Beave]

The Dell Switches we got are awesome.  Very nice...

The XPS Laptop I got very nice next day service on it and everything. Only
the video card broke down, replaced next day.

The Dell Inspiron I got for a friend not so good.  It broke down numerous
times.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 5:37 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Save XP!

OK, really waiting for round 3.
And, was getting ready to order a pair of 2716 switches from Dell.
Hmm. Perhaps so more thought.
Best,
Duncan

At 21:28 01/15/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:23 PM 15/01/2008, Joe User wrote:
>>OK... so we've had XP/Vista, 'The AV argument', next is Dell vs.
>>Custom Built/White boxes...
>>
>>
>>DELL SUCKS.
>>DING!!! - Round ONE
>
>ROTFL!
>
>Here's another Dell story:  Customer brings in a Dell laptop that won't 
>boot.  She's already talked to Dell who has told her that her Windows is 
>damaged and needs to be reinstalled.  The Dell geniuses have tested the 
>hard drive and there's nothing wrong with it.  Of course, the hard drive 
>is showing bad sectors and failing its internal SMART 
>self-test.  Hopefully it isn't under warranty so I don't have to spend 45 
>minutes convincing Dell not to screw their customer by waiting until the 
>drive dies completely before replacing it.
>
>T

Re: [H] Save XP!

[The Beave]

It was, but remember its Retail not OEM.  Right now Vista Ultimate goes for
$189.99 for 64-bit and $169.99 for 32-bit.  Also, the Retail version has
both 64-bit and 32-bit version in it.

Regards, 

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:43 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Save XP!

Wow! Still pretty expensive. Whatever. I still plan to wait or avoid.
Thanks Tim.
Best,
Duncan

At 15:31 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>Let me look at my receipt. Yes it was $399 for retail full version.  But, I
>got $200 off from Dell getting Office Pro 2007 combo. The OEM version was a
>lot less expensive.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
>Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:33 PM
>To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>Subject: Re: [H] Save XP!
>
>OOps! I routed my reply to the wrong person. Please excuse me Tim.
>I suppose I may still be learning Email also. :)_
>Best,
>Duncan
>
>At 13:24 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
> >snip
> >I have bought the complete DVD version of Vista Ultimate, includes 32-bit
> >and 64-bit versions of the OS for my XPS Laptop.  The Cost was like $399
I
> >think. I also, purchased an OEM version of the OS in 32-bit version and
it
> >cost like $135, I think.
>snip

Re: [H] Save XP!

[The Beave]

Let me look at my receipt. Yes it was $399 for retail full version.  But, I
got $200 off from Dell getting Office Pro 2007 combo. The OEM version was a
lot less expensive.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:33 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Save XP!

OOps! I routed my reply to the wrong person. Please excuse me Tim.
I suppose I may still be learning Email also. :)_
Best,
Duncan

At 13:24 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>snip
>I have bought the complete DVD version of Vista Ultimate, includes 32-bit
>and 64-bit versions of the OS for my XPS Laptop.  The Cost was like $399 I
>think. I also, purchased an OEM version of the OS in 32-bit version and it
>cost like $135, I think.
snip

Re: [H] Save XP!

[The Beave]

> I do understand your position. Really, but, let us agree to disagree.
> This is my personal rant. I really do mean no disrespect, really.
> Let's consider this my personal spew

No problem...  I personally and use it in business apps as well.

> And, I still use Win2KProSP4 as my basic OS. Why? It just flat works.
24/7.
> Yes, I am testing WinXP.  I do know I may have to move there.  Still
searching
> for vendors willing to sell it w/o having to buy ~$1500 worth of "new" 
> computer
> stuff just to be able to buy a stinking MS CD of WinXP. Sheesh!
> Yes, OK. I do have limited contacts and search criteria. My bad... Am 
> working with my older Brother on this ATM :)

I still use Windows XP SP2 on my work computer main machine.  Why?  Well,
the Data Recovery software I use only supports Windows XP.

> I do know that you need to stay on the bleeding edge of OS technology
because
> of the service and experience you have.  How many personal versions of 
> Vista have
> you actually bought for personal use?  If you got your personal use copies

> via your
> work-20, all bets are off.  From everything I have read, Vista is very 
> expensive.
> And, not just the base OS. It demands additional expense in hardware also 
> for some
> of us.  Are we just supposed to toss out our own old personal computers?
> Do you honestly think this will happen?  ... :)

I have bought the complete DVD version of Vista Ultimate, includes 32-bit
and 64-bit versions of the OS for my XPS Laptop.  The Cost was like $399 I
think. I also, purchased an OEM version of the OS in 32-bit version and it
cost like $135, I think.

> OK. You like Vista. Fine.  Many on planet Earth do not.  If MS wants to 
> push this,
> I suspect Apple and *nix will most likely get many, many more converts.
> And, this is JMHO too. And, /rant. :)

I do have issues with Vista as well.  Many people do as well. Once SP1 of
Vista comes out it should address some issues with Vista.

At 09:52 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>This is getting to be ridiculous. Yes, Vista is different.  A lot of PC
>users do not grasp on how to use Vista. There are ways to turn off certain
>warnings and what not. In fact, if you have the hardware for it why not go
>vista? You'll miss out...
>
>The one thing I do not like about vista is the Audio control.  No more
>Directsound to hardware. It's all done in HAL (Not the 2001 Computer
>either). This makes a lot of gamers pissed off, especially when they use
>SDPIF to connect to their speaker system.
>
>I remember not so far back that XP was getting the same, if not more of the
>same treatment.  BTW, I've been told Mac's new OS is faster than Vista. Who
>knows.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
>Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:19 AM
>To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>Subject: [H] Save XP!
>
>Go to this page and sign the Save XP petition.  Friends don't let
>friends get stuck with Vista.
>
>http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
>
>T

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

Re: [H] Save XP!

[The Beave]

This is getting to be ridiculous. Yes, Vista is different.  A lot of PC
users do not grasp on how to use Vista. There are ways to turn off certain
warnings and what not. In fact, if you have the hardware for it why not go
vista? You'll miss out...

The one thing I do not like about vista is the Audio control.  No more
Directsound to hardware. It's all done in HAL (Not the 2001 Computer
either). This makes a lot of gamers pissed off, especially when they use
SDPIF to connect to their speaker system.

I remember not so far back that XP was getting the same, if not more of the
same treatment.  BTW, I've been told Mac's new OS is faster than Vista. Who
knows.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:19 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Save XP!

Go to this page and sign the Save XP petition.  Friends don't let 
friends get stuck with Vista.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

T

[H] AMD's Odd Phenom

[The Beave]

Soon after AMD announced its new triple-core Phenom processor, the jokes
began. Some people think a multicore processor with an odd number of cores
is...well, odd. Others ridiculed AMD for making triple-core chips by
disabling one core on a defective quad-core die. Intel CEO Paul Otellini
cracked, "We see a distinct advantage in having all the cores on our dies
work."
Actually, there's nothing odd about an odd number of processors. For 30
years we've had PCs with only one processor, and that's an odd number.

More at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/fast_forward_amds_odd_phenom

Hmm... 

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

Re: [H] Logitech Bluetooth trouble

[The Beave]

You need to remove all mouse and keyboard drivers, reset computer and then
Install new drivers. This happens a lot with adding new types of input
devices.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:36 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Logitech Bluetooth trouble

My primary three year old computer has been using Logitech cordless 
mouse/keyboad combinations since I built it. I started with a optical 
mouse set, and then moved on to a Laser mouse set (which I love), and 
just recently attempted to upgrade to a MX5000 which is a newer laser 
mouse with bluetooth, a LCD display on the keyboard and a bluetooth hub.

I have been unable to get it installed. The bluetooth stuff just 
chokes, plus the mouse/keyboard keeps disconnecting... of course, I 
can't get pass the bluetooth part of the install. I am doing a clean 
install, and I disable anti virus, firewall everything thing I can 
stop from loading at boot up. And I boot up clean, and then attempt 
a  install.

But I can't get it installed. First time I have ever had a problem 
with Logitech. I see lots of older complaints about the MX5000 but it 
has been around for over a year and you think they would of corrected 
them by now? Anybody have any personal experience with this product 
or Logitech bluetooh. I am just about to give up trying.

Re: [H] Really good hard drive recovery presentation

[The Beave]

I went over it is very informative. BTW, I think I met this guy up in the
Data Recovery Seminars in Ottawa Canada like 3 years ago. Go Figure...

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:47 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Really good hard drive recovery presentation

There was a 22-page white paper that went along with it I have not
seen but I'm assuming he went into more detail there.

On 12/19/07, The Beave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pretty much most of what he went over is true.  But, I would not try a lot
> of this at home.  If your data is important I would suggest not taking it
> apart.
>
> Although, The SA Area Position he explained is not 100% as he said.
Hitachi
> Global Storage Tech has it in the Mid area on the platter. Also, on a live
> PCB Board swap, if you have been working with the hard drive, the bad
> sectors from the new hd are bad on the old.  So you will never get an
exact
> match.
>
> So there is a lot of holes in the presentation, but it's a very well put
> together and informative presentation.
>
> Tim "The Beave" Lider
> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:09 AM
> To: hwg
> Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [H] Really good hard drive recovery
presentation
>
> http://www.myharddrivedied.com/advanceddatarecovery.html
>
> >From this year's DEFCON.  Scott caused quite a stir with his talk last
> year and does pretty awesome work.  His website is full of a lot of
> good info about hard drives.
>
> --
> Brian Weeden
>
>
>


-- 
Brian Weeden

Re: [H] Really good hard drive recovery presentation

[The Beave]

Pretty much most of what he went over is true.  But, I would not try a lot
of this at home.  If your data is important I would suggest not taking it
apart.

Although, The SA Area Position he explained is not 100% as he said.  Hitachi
Global Storage Tech has it in the Mid area on the platter. Also, on a live
PCB Board swap, if you have been working with the hard drive, the bad
sectors from the new hd are bad on the old.  So you will never get an exact
match.

So there is a lot of holes in the presentation, but it's a very well put
together and informative presentation.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:09 AM
To: hwg
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [H] Really good hard drive recovery presentation

http://www.myharddrivedied.com/advanceddatarecovery.html

>From this year's DEFCON.  Scott caused quite a stir with his talk last
year and does pretty awesome work.  His website is full of a lot of
good info about hard drives.

-- 
Brian Weeden

Re: [H] gigabyte MB's ?

[The Beave]

I have had nothing but good Experiences and Customers as well with 680i
Chipset boards.  Although, none from Gigabyte. The 680i boards I get are
from either Asus or eVGA. If you are going to do SLI 680i is the only way to
go.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:26 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] gigabyte MB's ?

I think the advice is to stay away from Nvidia's 680i chipset completely,
regardless of the board maker. I could not agree more. Awful chipset.

Greg

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: Re: [H] gigabyte MB's ?
> 
> At 09:31 12-17-2007, Anthony Q. Martin typed:
> >I've had very good experience with Gigabyte boards...don't use an
> >n-force, though.
> 
> Why as I've had great experience with nforce based Gigabyte boards?
> I'm typing this on one now.
> 
> 
>   ---+--
> I'm a geek that loves to tweak.

Re: [H] Ideas - new server case?

[The Beave]

Yes its SATA based. But, if I remember correctly you can get the SCA 80
Backplane.  

If you want performance you might want to upgrade to WDC 150G 10k rpm SATA
Drives. You will be impressed with the performance. I made one filled with
WDC 150GB 10k pm drives and it the speed was very nice. A bit expensive per
drive, but well worth the price.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:51 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Ideas - new server case?

Beave,
This looks nice, but it seems to be SATA based. Am I correct?
My RAID case is 3x U160 18.4GB Hitachi hd's.
I am using an Adaptec ~3200S RAID card.
Sadly, the server is still scsi :)
And my server work very well. :)
Best,
Duncan
At 14:01 12/14/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I myself use and recommend the Chenbro RM31212B #U Raid/Server Rack mount
>case.
>
>http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=33
>
>Right now I have 2 Dual core Xeons in the system with 12 500GB Hard drives
>in Raid 5+1 with spare configuration.
>
>The only con I can say is get a powerful Power supply if you want to put in
>more than 12 HD's.  I use a 550w atm and it does not want to power up all
>the HDs on power up sometimes, so I have to reset the computer to get it to
>see all the hard drives.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:51 AM
>To: Hardware Group
>Subject: [H] Ideas - new server case?
>
>So, I have this server contained in a 'getting old' Chenbro 4U case.
>And, I'd like to freshen it up with a new case, if possible.
>
>I really do like the RAID cage, the internal air space, and, do not wish to
>give it up;
>well, unless you can convince me that it is not really needed!
>
>What do you think?
>
>The server is w2k server, Intel STL2 m/b, 2x p3-1G and 2x 256MB RAM.
>(already searching for another pair of 256MB ram dimms.)
>Thanks,
>Duncan

Re: [H] Ideas - new server case?

[The Beave]

Hello,

I myself use and recommend the Chenbro RM31212B #U Raid/Server Rack mount
case.  

http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=33

Right now I have 2 Dual core Xeons in the system with 12 500GB Hard drives
in Raid 5+1 with spare configuration.

The only con I can say is get a powerful Power supply if you want to put in
more than 12 HD's.  I use a 550w atm and it does not want to power up all
the HDs on power up sometimes, so I have to reset the computer to get it to
see all the hard drives.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:51 AM
To: Hardware Group
Subject: [H] Ideas - new server case?

So, I have this server contained in a 'getting old' Chenbro 4U case.
And, I'd like to freshen it up with a new case, if possible.

I really do like the RAID cage, the internal air space, and, do not wish to 
give it up;
well, unless you can convince me that it is not really needed!

What do you think?

The server is w2k server, Intel STL2 m/b, 2x p3-1G and 2x 256MB RAM.
(already searching for another pair of 256MB ram dimms.)
Thanks,
Duncan

Re: [H] MMORPGs

[The Beave]

I noticed after I replied.  Too bad you cant run after the mailman to get
the mail back :/

I'm a little subpar from 1 or 2 of the pallys in the guild.  But, I am there
every night earning the DKP to get the gear.

Well I'm off the gryphon, need to ride my slow ass ground mount to the
portal.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:39 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] MMORPGs

Already apologized Beave! My bad. My stupid browser use.
No harm, no foul.
I did get there and viewed in full glory. Impressive!
Best,
Duncan
At 15:17 12/12/2007 -0800, Beave wrote:
>Just go to http://wowarmory.com sand look up Beave if your interested.
>
>Also, I did not fix the link Outlook did :/
>
>That's kind of weird that's happening I've tested it on Firefox here and
>works fine.  Also, IE 7 as well.
>
>Try this direct Link:
>
>http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel'Thuzad&n=Beave
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
>MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
>Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:54 AM
>To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
>Subject: Re: [H] MMORPGs
>
>Beave,
>Ignore, please.  Somehow, IE6 is pulling up/re-using a fixed window in use
>for a radio program I am listening to.
>Duh!  One day... :)
>Best,
>Duncan
>At 14:21 12/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hey Beave,
> >Send us links we can resize, not fixed! Intesting.
> >Best,
> >Duncan
> >At 11:08 12/12/2007 -0800, you wrote:
> >>I've been Playing WoW for almost 3 years now as well.  I went from a Orc
> >>Hunter to a Dwarf Paladin. Right now the guild I am in is in SSC and
>working
> >>on downing Vashj.
> >>
> >>snip
> >>http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel%27Thuzad&n=Beave
> >snip

Re: [H] MMORPGs

[The Beave]

Just go to http://wowarmory.com sand look up Beave if your interested.

Also, I did not fix the link Outlook did :/

That's kind of weird that's happening I've tested it on Firefox here and
works fine.  Also, IE 7 as well.

Try this direct Link:

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel'Thuzad&n=Beave

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:54 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] MMORPGs

Beave,
Ignore, please.  Somehow, IE6 is pulling up/re-using a fixed window in use 
for a radio program I am listening to.
Duh!  One day... :)
Best,
Duncan
At 14:21 12/12/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey Beave,
>Send us links we can resize, not fixed! Intesting.
>Best,
>Duncan
>At 11:08 12/12/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>>I've been Playing WoW for almost 3 years now as well.  I went from a Orc
>>Hunter to a Dwarf Paladin. Right now the guild I am in is in SSC and
working
>>on downing Vashj.
>>
>>snip
>>http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel%27Thuzad&n=Beave
>snip

Re: [H] MMORPGs

[The Beave]

Nice gear. We had that problem with the T3 set too with people saying BC
coming who cares. The thing is a lot of that kept playing that did not want
to do it complained that some of the gear would have made things a lot
easier in BC at the start. 

If your looking to transfer there are only two servers I recommend atm.
Kel'Thuzad, believe it or not KT gets queues at prime time, and Malganis
(lots of RsF guildies have gone there.)

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:18 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] MMORPGs

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, The Beave wrote:

> http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel%27Thuzad&n=Beave

I probably should have linked my Profile.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Dragonblight&n=Vllargh


I had 7/8 T1 (The robe didn't drop until I already had 5/5 T2.5), 7/8 T2 
(Shoulders never dropped), 5/5 T2.5, 0/8 T3 (Got there 2 months before 
expansion, and lost a lot of people to the "Doesn't matter, the expansion 
loot is all better anyways" syndrome).  Then got 5/5 T4, 5/5 T5 and I'm 
currently 1/5 T6, but that will go up soon.



Christopher Fisk
-- 
Leela: Hey, you know what might be a hoot?
Professor: No. Why would I know that?

Re: [H] MMORPGs

[The Beave]

I've been Playing WoW for almost 3 years now as well.  I went from a Orc
Hunter to a Dwarf Paladin. Right now the guild I am in is in SSC and working
on downing Vashj.

I tried out Tabula Rasa and I really do not care for it. Not enough
Interaction like WoW has.

As for the WotLK Expansion it is looking like a fun time.  I am set for
Closed beta :) I just hope my guild gets to Black Temple before hand.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel%27Thuzad&n=Beave

Just starting on my T5 :(  I am 8/8 T1, 5/8 T2, 5/5 T4 and 1/5 T5. I have to
agree I spend too much time farming now a days.  Got over 5k gold and have
my Epic Flyer, Netherwing Drake, My Bat mount from Shatari Skyguard and even
the CE Epic Flyer the Hyppogryph.

Regards, 

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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http://www.myspace.com/dowbeave

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe User
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:47 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: [H] MMORPGs

Hello,

So I've been doing WoW (because of this list mind you) for 3 years. It
was better (and worse - mostly better) then EQ. My guild is nearly
thru the end game content. I'm not excited about WotLK expansion. I'm
pretty disgusted with the lack of work done by the artists in this
game. I think overall, my WoW days are drawing to an end. However,
once again, the list did well by me in getting me into this game.

So, now my question are these.
What are you playing now and what do you plan to play?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
 joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] Which TV would you choose...

[The Beave]

To tell you the truth, you should look into Gateway - 24" Widescreen
Flat-Panel TFT-LCD HD Monitor 
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8550588&type=product&id=118856
0797577

Just connect your Cable box via Component connection or S-Video and your
set. Also, you want to get at least 1080i for your TV. 

Regards,


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 3:02 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Which TV would you choose...

Hey,

Looking to get a small TV for the kitchen.  I went up to Best Buy to look at
their TVs ( I have a gift card there) and narrowed it down to these two:

LG - 20" 720p Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8259449&st=LG+20LS7D+&lp=1&typ
e=product&cp=1&id=1169858021075

and

Sharp - 19" 720p Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HDTV/DVD Combo
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=830&st=sharp+lc19ad22u&lp=
1&type=product&cp=1&id=1174091786466

I only have a 17" clearance and the 19"-20" TVs look about the right size.

Any comments?

Thanks,
Bobby

RE: [H] Vista

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

All I got to say is ROFLcopter.  I was laughing my ass off.

BTW, I have had not one crash on my gaming machine with Vista Ultimate on it
since I installed it.  Go figure eh?  Also, only one Crash on my Laptop.  

Now for using other Virus software you can.  But you need to know how turn
off the Windows stuff.  I use Norton 360, I know it is kind of lame, but it
was free and got it running on 3 computers which is in the license
agreement.

I agree the computer asking me if I am sure if I want to run this in admin
mode.  I have a lot of Gaming stuff t hat needs to have it running in admin
mode in order to work. Gets annoying every time I turn the computer on or
reset the computer.

If you have a computer that was updated within a year or so of release of
Vista you should be ok. I do not recommend using it as an upgrade OS, but if
you buy a new computer you'll love it.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:06 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Vista

http://blip.tv/file/340692

RE: [H] Asus bad

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

All these Caps being damaged messages reminds to let you guys know that you
can drastically reduce the problem by actually buying high end Power
Supplies.  If you spent $50.00 or less on a power supply, well may I say you
get what you paid for.

The power supply is the most important part of the whole computer, not the
CPU or RAM. If you get a power supply that sends bad voltage to the
motherboard and other components in the computer, you're going to have a
crappy computer. As you can see I am a big proponent of Quality Power
Supplies.

The current Tower I made uses a PC Power and Cooling power Supply
http://www.pcpower.com/products/viewproduct.php?show=S75QB

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:16 AM
To: Joe User; The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Asus bad

bought this brand new, was not puffed.
Just got another RMA.

Meanwhile here I sit broken hearted >:-}

I should put Asus in my speed dial
fp

At 07:09 AM 10/30/2007, Joe User Poked the stick with:
>Hello FORC5,
>
>Monday, October 29, 2007, 6:41:36 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Sent back a MB with a blown cap on rma. mb was not giving me any
>> grief. They sent back a different one
>> with the same cap puffed.
>
>> May have to find another default MB vendor. :'(
>
>> Be on the phone in the AM to do this again.
>> fp
>
>
>Maybe they used puffy looking caps?
>
>-- 
>Regards,
> joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

-- 
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
--
Be sure to use DEVICE=EXXON to screw up your environment.

RE: [H] research questions

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

> OK Tim,
> Believe the router is a "gateway" router. Maybe not.  How would I know?
> From my LAN's perspective, I am treating it as my "gateway."  All my 
> clients have
> the router's IP addy as their "gateway" on the tcp/ip tab.

It more than likely is a gateway router.  Most are.

> Q1: I use Eudora. BellSouth seems to be dead to Eudora. A faq lists these 
> "email clients":
> Netscape 4.0, 4.5 to 4.77, 6 or 7
> Outlook Express
> Outlook 97/98/2K/2K2
> Hmm. But, later on (more faqs) I find a setup procedure for
Mozilla 
> Thunderbird.
> So, all you TBird users, please advise.  I do like/own Eudora (v5.1.1) and

> would like to
> continue unless it really is dead. Current plan is to use the Mozy setup 
> once the channel
> goes hot and see what happens.

Easy to fix.  Just use the Pop and SMPT information they use on Outlook to
the other programs. I use Outlook now because I put client/friends info and
make appointments within Outlook.

> Q2: Seems the Bellsouth blocks/filters port 25.  Believe this is PoPmail 
> port. Can I switch
> Eudora to IMAP and truck on with Bellsouth?

Most Internet providers do this.  I have problems sending mail via my work
address.  I just use my home address to send it with a reply-to my Work
Address.

> Q3: Bellsouth uses the same server (mail.bellsouth.net) for both inbound 
> and outbound mail.
> Is this normal?  I do know that they seem to have extensive spam, junk, 
> etc, filtering. Perhaps
> this is a good thing. :)

In most cases it's the norm.  I have seen it like a lot.

> So I check out the "news" server for Bellsouth and find that it is:
> (should I choose to do Opera or Agent!)
> nxdomain.guide.opendns.com  208.69.32.130
> and the server is in San Francisco, CA.
> Q4: What's up with this?  Are the "news" channels still as polluted as
they 
> were in 1999?

Oh!  Ya they are polluted with spam and pron like in those days.

> So far, so good.  Believe my due diligence is as complete as possible. For
now.
> I'm off to check out Mozilla TBird..

t-Bird is pretty good.  I did not stick with it due to the fact the usage of
Outlook in my work place.

RE: [H] research

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

Well it is quite simple.  After you select your DSL modem and Gate Router.
I myself use Linksys Cable Modem, Linksys 4 Port/Wireless-N Router and a 8
port 1GB Switch. The 1GB switch is for the high speed transferring and
streaming data off of itunes server.

Good luck in the setup,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:49 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: [H] research

Thanks Tim,
Was hoping this was the case, but needed to ask the collective anyway.
73 faqs later I have some good and some notsogood info to ponder.
More q's to come... LOL!
Amazing how complex this stuff has gotten! Or, maybe it is just my AAADD
(age-affected-attention-deficit-disorder)!!
Best,
Duncan

At 14:59 10/11/2007 -0400, you wrote:

>If you use a gateway router you only need one address. Also, Network will
be
>semi secured :)
>
>But if you decide to go the way your thinking, they give you a list of
>addresses you can use. You can use those addresses anyway you like.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim "The Beave" Lider
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RE: [H] research

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

If you use a gateway router you only need one address. Also, Network will be
semi secured :)  

But if you decide to go the way your thinking, they give you a list of
addresses you can use. You can use those addresses anyway you like.

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Hardware Group
Subject: [H] research

Can I assume that part of the xdsl install kit will be a sheet that lists
the
various IP addys for the servers I will need to use?
Servers like POP, Mail, SMTP, Login(?), DNS, etc.
I'm checking through my old Verizon credentials to see what I have/rcvd.

If not, do I cause any trouble if I spend time with WhoIs and/or my Trace
Route proggy to try and find out what I think I need?
Alternately, I suppose I could call the provider's Help Desk, but I am not
multi-lingual! LOL!

Thanks,
Duncan


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RE: [H] A note to Microsoft...

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

Really, I did not know that.  I might not put the time into making a ready
boost setup then. 

Thanks

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:46 PM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] A note to Microsoft...

> Intel X6800 CPU Dual Core
> 4GB of PC1600 DDR Corsair Dominator RAM
***
> 
> I am going to experiment with Ready Boost soon. Just to see if there is
> a
> performance increase.

Not with 4GB of system memory. ReadyBoost makes a substantial impact with
1GB or less, a small impact at 2GB, and is completely negligible > 2GB.

Greg

RE: [H] A note to Microsoft...

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

What's you gaming Rig setup?  Here's mine:

Asus P5N32-E SLI
Intel X6800 CPU Dual Core
4GB of PC1600 DDR Corsair Dominator RAM
Asus 8800GTX Video Card (Used to be SLI of 2 Asus 7900GTX)
SoundBlaster Fata1ity Gaming Sound Card
WD 150GB SATA 10,00rpm C Drive
Seagate 300GB SATA D Drive (Holds Pictures and Downloads folders)
Seagate 750GB SATA E Drive (Holds Videos and Music)
2x Plextor 16X DVD-RW PATA

I am going to experiment with Ready Boost soon. Just to see if there is a
performance increase.


Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:23 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] A note to Microsoft...

I am running vista ultimate right now on my gaming rig.  It's slow
as shit, even copying files via network is slower, much slower.
I changed the UI to be like XP but games lag when they did not lag
before in XP.  I have a core2duo 2.4Ghz, 2G ram, 10K Raptor and 8800 GTX.
The box should scream like it does in XP but alas it does not.  The audio
subsystem in vista is an utter joke, thanks MSFT.  Plese make DX10 available
for XP, vista should never have been released.  UAC is a joke and to most
users annoying as hell. Aero is cool for about 5 minutes, thanks for
worthless
eye candy.  So what does Vista offer over XP besides DX10?  Headaches and
pain.

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:06:18AM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
> Why are there umpteen zillion versions? Why is it known to be slower on
the 
> same hardware than is XP? Most importantly, what does it do for me that XP

> doesn't?
> 
> Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> At 04:32 10-07-2007, Tim \"The Beave\" Lider typed:
>>> Learning Vista?  What the heck?  If you don't like the or have problems 
>>> With
>>> Windows Aero, you can set it to Windows XP look.
>> 
>> I had Vista's public beta or trial version for several months & while one

>> can even take it back to Windows Classic I still don't like it. Why
should 
>> some one pay money for an OS when it's little more than a GUI change as 
>> compared to XP ? It certainly not any faster. As for the improvement in 
>> the file manager they're no biggie as I've been using Total Commander as 
>> opposed to Windows Exploder for years. I certainly wouldn't upgrade XP to

>> Vista & recently even when I had the chance to get Vista Business instead

>> of XP Pro I said no thanks.
>> 
>> Sorry but no sale here.
>> 
>> 
>>  ---+--
>> I'm a geek that loves to tweak.
>> 
>> 

-- 
 
Bryan G. Seitz

RE: [H] A note to Microsoft...

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

That is one of the problems with Vista, there 's like 5 or 6 versions. This
is where people get discouraged and have a bad experience with Vista.

Slower?  It is a bit slower on my Laptop, but on my Gaming machine it
actually works faster, especially in games. I think it because of the multi
cores.

Actually, It does not do much more than XP does.  In fact I would not
recommend buying the OS to replace XP.  But if you get a new computer I
would recommend getting the OS.  When getting the OS, I recommend getting
Home Premium or Higher.  

Salutations,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:06 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] A note to Microsoft...

Why are there umpteen zillion versions? 
Why is it known to be slower on the same hardware than is XP? 
Most importantly, what does it do for me that XP doesn't?

Wayne Johnson wrote:
> At 04:32 10-07-2007, Tim \"The Beave\" Lider typed:
>> Learning Vista?  What the heck?  If you don't like the or have 
>> problems With
>> Windows Aero, you can set it to Windows XP look.
>
> I had Vista's public beta or trial version for several months & while 
> one can even take it back to Windows Classic I still don't like it. 
> Why should some one pay money for an OS when it's little more than a 
> GUI change as compared to XP ? It certainly not any faster. As for the 
> improvement in the file manager they're no biggie as I've been using 
> Total Commander as opposed to Windows Exploder for years. I certainly 
> wouldn't upgrade XP to Vista & recently even when I had the chance to 
> get Vista Business instead of XP Pro I said no thanks.
>
> Sorry but no sale here.
>
>
>  ---+--
> I'm a geek that loves to tweak.
>
>

RE: Re[2]: [H] A note to Microsoft...

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Learning Vista?  What the heck?  If you don't like the or have problems With
Windows Aero, you can set it to Windows XP look.  I for one think it is much
simpler to use. But then I am used to Linux, Mac and XP before hand and have
a decent understanding how OS's work.  

I suggest you take a look on a computer demo at Best Buy or Fry's
Electronics. Move around on the desktop and see how effortlessly it is to
move around.  The only thing I do not like it wants you to confirm to run
application in Admin mode, which can be a good thing.

Salutations,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:36 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [H] A note to Microsoft...

At 21:00 10-06-2007, Winterlight typed:
>I don't have much experience with Vista, other then running a vista 
>VM for a while, and reading a lot about it.
>I'm curiouswhy? What is you like about it over XP PRO?

I don't want to spend the time the new OS learning curve would 
require only to have something prettier only to have an OS that costs 
more, doesn't work any faster than the one I'm presently using. If 
you'll examine MSFT's history every other OS has been troublesome.

I agree with Joe User. If you have to learn everything over you may 
as well get an Apple. Remember the average end luser doesn't care 
about hardware like we do as they just want the darned thing to run. 
Vista has files & folders relocated via name space & extra links that 
it makes it almost impossible to find the real files just like a Mac.

A Vista or Mac system for me, NO THANKS.


  ---+--
I'm a geek that loves to tweak.

RE: Re[2]: [H] A note to Microsoft...

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

I use Vista Ultimate on my laptop and Gaming computer.  I have only minor
problems, but Vista has worked very well.

Vista only has an issue with SLI.  nVidia has been lagging on this problem.
Although, I have recently replaced my 2 nVidia 7900 GTX's with 1 8800 GTX
and I get more fps in World of Warcraft and other games.

The Peripheral manufacturers need to work on their drivers for Vista.  This
is the only problem.  If you don't use a Soundblaster sound card or
nvidia/ATI video cards you may have problems with Vista.  Also, Vista 32-bit
is the only one I would recommend for gaming atm. If you do get Vista for
gaming get Premium version or higher.

Salutaions.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:36 PM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [H] A note to Microsoft...

I for one like Vista.  I have Vista business on my machine.

Bobby

RE: [H] Strange partition issue

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

If you are trying to format it FAT-32 that is the GB limit.  IF you are
trying to format it NTFS, it maybe a Bios issue. 

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:14 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Strange partition issue

I have an ancient Tyan S1854 motherboard and I put a 320GB HD in 
it.  The BIOS recognizes it as being 132MB, and Windows Explorer says 
it's a 128GB partition, but diskpart says it's a 310GB partition.  Is 
Explorer simply showing me an incorrect lower number, or is diskpart wrong?

T

RE: [H] Motorola SB5101

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Too add what the others are giving out.  Make sure they have the correct
modem information.  A lot of times it gets messed up as well. I've had this
happen to me on 2 occasions. 

BTW, I use a Linksys cable modem and a Linksys Broadband router as separate
components. Never get the ones with cable modem and router as one unit,
nothing but headaches.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:36 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Motorola SB5101 

I have a customer who is getting disconnect problems with his SB5101 
(provided by his ISP.)  He surfs for 5 to 10 minutes, then it 
disconnects (he get's page not found) for about five minutes, then it 
comes back up for 5 to 10 minutes.  I looked at the modem log file, 
and the date keeps reverting back to 1970 in the log entries.  In my 
experience, that is due to a provisioning problem at the ISP (wrong 
modem in their configuration) but of course, they are blaming his 
router (which is from us, and I used it for twelve hours on my SB5101 
at home and it worked fine.)  I don't know enough about the log 
entries to be able to tell him, "see this error, this proves a modem 
problem" and I can't find anything useful googling the errors (except 
that it might be a firmware problem, but I don't see anywhere to 
download firmware.)  Does anyone have more information (or a place I 
can get more information) on the SB5101s?

T

RE: [H] restoring policy's ?

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Does the computer run in safe mode?  If so you can see if anything runs
there.  Also, Check the Task Manager and see if there is any software
running that looks fishy (Pun intended). 

There is a lot of Spyware that locks computers down and do not let you run
certain utilities.  I have seen this in the past.  The funny thing is the
person who owns the computer has no idea how they got in there.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:43 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] restoring policy's ?

Have a REALLY screwed up one. Spyware or something has basically locked out
everything. While I did get the control panel back none of the applets run.
gpedit.msc says file not found.

can not manage users. Was able to fix this a little and it is better but
some of this needs to be restored. I suspect a whole system restore is
needed to be honest but I always respect a challenge. :-D

Any suggestions will be helpful. ( or tools )
fp

-- 
Tallyho ! ]:8)
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Nobody home but the lights, and they're out too.

RE: [H] Supermicro cases and PSU's ?

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Hello,

I myslef only have used Supermicro Server Cases with Power Supply,
Motherboard, etc.  The power supplies seem to run well and one I received
where UL listed.  

Regards,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:46 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Supermicro cases and PSU's ?

anyone have any experience with Supermicro cases and PSU's ?

Going to be buying two of their cases and wonder if I should just get their
PSU or put in my own. AFAIK cases not available without power supply.
This is the case but can not find any info on the PSU
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/tower/733/SC733i-645.cfm

thanks

-- 
Tallyho ! ]:8)
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RE: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Chirping means the spindle motor is damaged or the Heads had landed on the
platter and have been Affixed to the media surface.  I don't think Freezing
it will work.  Freezing only works if there is an issue with heat and
Thermal Recalibration.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of j maccraw
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:22 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Dead hdd--freezer!

hmm, I have a lappy drive that died mysteriously &
only chirps without spinning. 
Will have to try this!

 

RE: [H] FAT32 under WinXPSP2

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

You need to remember that Windows XP does not support FAT32 drives over
132GB natively.  In fact I have found drives formatted in FAT32 over 132GB
do have a tendency to corrupt.

BTW, hello all... :)


Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:03 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] FAT32 under WinXPSP2

At 02:59 PM 04/07/2007, Winterlight wrote:
>At 10:47 AM 7/4/2007, you wrote:
>>Is there a way to create a FAT32 partition under XPSP2?
>
>any of the partition utilities will do this. But if you mean 
>natively, ...then probably. But you could always create a NTFS 
>partition, and format it as FAT32 later.

Format x: /fs:FAT32 ?

T 

RE: [H] Recovering data from bad CD

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

I have not used those as of yet.  But Have received CD's and DVD's that have
had that done.  It just makes it harder to recover.

Regards,

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Anger
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:46 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Recovering data from bad CD


"Tim \"The Beave\" Lider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It may sometimes, but usually no.  There is some cheap CD/DVD recovery
> software you might want to try, but the stuff I use is very expensive. ISO
> Buster is pretty good for the cost.

What about the surface polishers that say they can remove scratches? How
well do they work?

best,
al

RE: [H] Recovering data from bad CD

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

It may sometimes, but usually no.  There is some cheap CD/DVD recovery
software you might want to try, but the stuff I use is very expensive. ISO
Buster is pretty good for the cost.

Good luck,

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:00 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Recovering data from bad CD

Does anyone know if R-Studio will recover data from bad CDs?  If not, 
is there a good data recovery program that will read from bad CDs?

T

RE: [H] PC Picture Links

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

I got the case from Performance-PC.com.  They modify cases for you so you do
not have to do it yourself.  I had my case fitted with a new power button
and Blue neon sleeving, also a Blow Hole on top as well.  

Gaming computer is being cleaned right now.  As the dust gets cleared I'll
take photos.

Gear is:
Case - Lian Li PC-V1000B PLUS II Black Aluminum Mid-Tower Case with Window
Power Supply - PC Power & Cooling Ultra-Quiet Silencer® 750 Quad Power
Supply - Black
CPU - Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe 2.93GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775
Processor
CPU Cooler - ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink
Motherboard - ASUS P5N32-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel
Motherboard
Video Cards - 2x ASUS EN7900GTX/2PHT/512M Geforce 7900GTX 256-bit GDDR3 PCI
Express x16 Video Card
Sound Card - Creative 70SB046A0 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series
DVD-R's 2x PLEXTOR 18X DVD±R DVD Burner included Replaceable beige front
bezel Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model PX-760A/SW-BL
HD1 - Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard
Drive
HD2 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640A 750GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100
Hard Drive

This is the box itself.  I built the computer myself. I've added some
ThermalTake Fans to keep it quiet when it's not running hot.

Tim "The Beave" Lider 
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:57 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: RE: [H] PC Picture Links

OK. Nice info.  Now, who is the maker/vendor for this beast?
Best,
Duncan

At 18:50 02/19/2007 -0500, CW wrote:

>The way that fan mounts down is actually really solid.  It's a four point 
>bolt mount to the motherboard.  And the fan itself is incredibly 
>light.  Using the bump pads on the top, it braces against the outer case 
>door, so it's not going anywhere.  Shipped seven, and I've had less 
>problems with that fan then almost anything else ;)
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RE: [H] PC Picture Links

[Tim ";The Beave" Lider]

The Case is Lian Li PC-V1000B PLUS II Black Aluminum Mid-Tower Case with
Window Modified by Performance PC's and I. The next case I am looking at is
the Silverstone TJ09.

Tim "The Beave" Lider
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:36 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] PC Picture Links


"Tim \"The Beave\" Lider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Give me a few days.  I need to clean it out anyway. 

What case are you using?  

al

RE: [H] PC Picture Links

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Give me a few days.  I need to clean it out anyway. 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:16 AM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] PC Picture Links


"Tim \"The Beave\" Lider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you guys like I will take pictures of my current Gaming Computer.

Yes please.

al

RE: [H] PC Picture Links

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Nice computer.  Kind of curious on why the Thermaltake case?  Putting that
much gear in a case and do not get a case that will hide most of your
wiring. If you guys like I will take pictures of my current Gaming Computer.
 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CW
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:28 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] PC Picture Links

The armor fully weighted (2 drives, 2 opticals, board, 2 GTX, etc.) is
66lbs.  So, heavy so & so.  

It's not really that much of a dust magnet.  We sent one to NY a while back
that was a dead silent 8800GTX build; water cooled CPU; water cooled
SLI-8800GTX.  

Bad thing about it: had to be Vista 64, and right now, Nvidia's driver
support for Vista, and especially Vista 64 SUCKS.  Absolutely SUCKS.  

It's just one of those things.. in XP, he gets full SLI.  In Vista 64, Vista
only sees 1 card, and he gets way slower performance.  The 680i chipset, for
all of it's pros, has some issues still.  Asus came out with the P5N32-E
Plus, which is a hybrid chipset, the 650 northbridge and the AMD 590
southbridge.. so you get full x32 SLI, but it's so much more stable under
Vista 64 that it's sickening.  Nothing wrong under Vista 32 or XP with the
680i, but under Vista 64, the P5N32-E just slices and dices everything out
there.

I'm going to try to take a lot of pictures today and post links, get this
list back on hardware.  I checked the benches for what's being built and at
least I can get some good pics of an AMD Quad system, and a few other
oddballs I can get some pictures of to post and get some hardware discussion
going :)

FYI-

I am piling up in the backchannel and have now heard from 12 people who say
they can't post and keep getting bumped.  Jim, my email to you bounces..
things OK?

CW

-Original message-
From: "Raul Limos" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:53:42 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [H] PC Picture Links

> On 2/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yeah its an armor. We've been doing most lately in them. It is roomy and
easy to work with. I like the psu mount a lot
> >
> > We just sent out one in a silverstone tj09. Great case. But even for all
the pros going for it I still think the armor is the most functional
> 
> Roomy case, but will dust collection be a problem?  It says at the
> website there are filters for the grills.
> 
> How about the weight with everything installed?
> 

Re: [H] Order TKS31052005C

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Umm... Who's this Alfred?  Also, can he get me an Asus N6800GT Extreme? 
Just need another to make my Computer go SLI :P


Regards,

Thane Sherrington wrote:


Hi Alfred,
We'd like to order the following.

Qty Item
1VCAOG62DV1  AOpen GF6200-DV256 256MB DDR DVI AGP
2HDW1200JB   WD 1200JB 120G 8M UATA100 / 7200rpm (Net Of 
Rebate)

1MSSBKV04P   Surecom EP-KV04P 4 Port PS/2 KVM Switch
2MSSBKVC06P  Surecom EP-LVC06P 6 Feet PS/2 KVM Cables


Thanks.


Sincerely,

Thane Sherrington
Computer Connection, Ltd.
95 College St.
Antigonish, NS
B2G 1X6
902-863-3361
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Re: [H] 32bit PCI card in 64 bit slot?

[Tim \";The Beave\" Lider]

Harry good Explanation.  Although, here is a story.
This is a story of a SuperMicro Board and the tale of 64-bit cards. The 
SuperMicro board did run the cards (NIC/RAID controller) but not to the 
fullest extent. After moving the Cards to a 32-bit PCI the cards ran 
accordingly.  Yes, it was a weird situation.

I wish the rule applied to all, but it does not :(
Harry McGregor wrote:
Ok,
Since none of the collective have really given you the true straight up
answer, here it is.
It is NOT the 32bit vs 64Bit that is an issue.  The issue is one of
speed and voltage.
PCI v2.2 exists in the following forms (this does not include PCI-X or
PCI-E)
32bit 33MHz 5 Volt (this is the most common standard PCI)
32bit 66MHz 3.3 Volt (not very common slot wise, but a reasonable number
of cards can do it)
64bit 33MHz 5 Volt (A lot of Mac G4 computers used this)
64bit 66Mhz 3.3 Volt (most common server PCI bus, and has been extended
to higher speeds with PCI-X)
Older athlon MP boards used the 64bit 33MHz 5 volt (Tyan Tiger MP),
while newer ones used the 64 bit 66MHz 3.3 Volt (Tyan Tiger MPX).
It's all in the cutting of the card, and the blocks in the slot.  If the
card physically fits, it will run (or the designer should be shot).
A 32bit card will run in a 64 bit slot, and 64 bit card will run in a 32
bit slot (I have a number of 3ware cards in 32 bit slots right now).
A lot of cards are 3.3volt and 5 volt tolerant, some are not.  The
Digium quad T1 cards are a good example.  The TE405P is 5 Volt ONLY, and
the TE410P is 3.3 Volt ONLY.  We have a 32bit SCSI card that is 66MHz
and 3.3 volt capable, plugged into a 64Bit 66MHz slot on one server.
PCI is quite nice in that it's hard to screw up physically.  The notches
in the card tell you what it can fit into and work with.
Slots come in either 3.3Volt or 5 volt. Cards can be cut to be either
universal or to be specific voltages
A 5 volt only 32bit card will have one notch about 1/2" from the back of
the slot (reverse of the back of the case)
A universal 32bit card will have two notches cut into it.  
A universal 64bit card will have three notches cut into it.

A 3.3 volt only 64 bit card will have one notch 1/2" from the back of
the case, and one notch about 1.5" from the back of the cardslot.
A 5 volt only 64 bit card will have two notches separated by about 1/2"
Digium has a good page that shows it:
http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=whatpcislot
Harry
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 11:45 -0300, Thane Sherrington wrote:
 

Can one put a 32bit PCI card in a 64 bit slot?  From googling it, it looks 
like some people have pulled it off, but I'd like to get 
confirmation.  This is on an IBM IntelliStation Z Pro 6221-ATU

T
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