[H] SATA and SATA-II
Will SATA-II drives work in SATA boards? T
RE: [H] SATA and SATA-II
If they are shipped in a SATA state. The majority (possibly all?) SATA-II drives ship in SATA mode and you then run a utility to turn them into full SATA-II drives (enables certain SATA extensions). I am not sure if the procedure is reversable. Regards, Jason Tozer Database Analyst London Ext 1131 - 3SC.5 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thane Sherrington (S) Sent: 13 September 2005 12:53 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] SATA and SATA-II Will SATA-II drives work in SATA boards? T *** This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office.
[H] Activation of XP questions
Here is a clip from WXPnews this morning with another variation on this theme: .. we talked about reformatting the hard disk and reinstalling XP. But do you have to go through the whole product activation hassle again when you do that? Actually, there's a way around it. Before you wipe out the current installation, backup your product activation files and then you can restore them to the new installation. Here's how: * Right click Start and click Explore. * In Windows Explorer, navigate to \WINDOWS\System32\ (usually on the c: drive but may be on a different drive depending on where you installed XP). * Copy the following files to a floppy, CD or second hard disk: wpa.dbl, wpa.bak. To restore the files, start the computer in Safe Mode and copy them to the same directory (\WINDOWS\System32). Robert Turnbull, Toronto, Canada
Re: [H] Activation of XP questions
Robert Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Copy the following files to a floppy, CD or second hard disk: wpa.dbl, wpa.bak. To restore the files, start the computer in Safe Mode and copy them to the same directory (\WINDOWS\System32). Both times I've tried this, I lost the rest of the 30 days and had to activate immediately. Putting back the original files didn't help. YMMV, Al
[H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.
Saturday I did something utterly strange. I ordered 4GB of PC2100 for my Athlon64 desktop (scan.co.uk's today only page over the weekend, 2GB Apacer(I think) PC2100 dimms bundled with Asaka heatspreaders for £57/ea, bargain of the decade right there) said PC2100 is presently in the A64, running at 160Mhz (at not brilliant timings, but hey, paging has been told where to get off) http://chryx.shacknet.nu/memreport.png (memory latency is an Opteron'ish 52ns on a 512byte stride, measured by sciencemark) it POSTS at those timings at 200Mhz, makes me wish I had a DFI Lanparty so I could feed it 3.2v or so as it stands I've lost ~200 points in 3dmark 2003 relative to the Corsair PC3200LL I was using previously, so the gaming performance is there (and BF2 will stop hitching with high quality textures, hooray) in related news, notice how windows isn't seeing all of the ram (PCI- E addressing eats a chunk and so on) - CPU-Z is even more confused and seeing less ram than windows, wtf! the PAE switch does nothing, even with the 'S/W memory address range remapping' thing in the bios toggled that's supposed to shuffle the PCI-E addressing out of the first 32bits of address range. Suggestions? Windows XP x64 is on the table as a last resort, I'd need new TV and sound cards (WinTV PCI FM and GametheaterXP, no x64 drivers for either, doesn't look like they're coming either :(), so a PAE based solution would be preferable in the short term, anyone? -_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[H] Checking RAM size from batch file
Is there a way to get the amount of RAM available or total in a batch file in the form of an environment variable? T
[H] Investment opportunity or scam
Any one hear of these guys? http://www.grgems.com/index.html They claim to buy and sell gems and are offering small business owners an opportunity to invest. It seems iffy to me, but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of it. T
Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.
Its /3GB switch you want, not PAE Eli - Original Message - the PAE switch does nothing, even with the 'S/W memory address range remapping' thing in the bios toggled that's supposed to shuffle the PCI-E addressing out of the first 32bits of address range. Suggestions? Windows XP x64 is on the table as a last resort, I'd need new TV and sound cards (WinTV PCI FM and GametheaterXP, no x64 drivers for either, doesn't look like they're coming either :(), so a PAE based solution would be preferable in the short term, anyone? -_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [H] SATA and SATA-II
At 04:53 AM 9/13/2005, you wrote: Will SATA-II drives work in SATA boards? T yes
Re: [H] Investment opportunity or scam
On 13 Sep 2005 at 12:03, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Any one hear of these guys? http://www.grgems.com/index.html Nope. They claim to buy and sell gems and are offering small business owners an opportunity to invest. It seems iffy to me, but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of it. They are with the Canadian BBB, that would likely be the first place to start, then whatever Canadian government agency has oversight in that area (like the American FTC). As to the investments in general, jewelry is not normally a very good investment, as everyone has different tastes. Gems CAN be a very good investment, ASSUMING of course, that one is not buying retail and selling wholesale, which is what a lot of gem dealers do to clients. Vince
RE: [H] Investment opportunity or scam
The payout come from a former Nigerian royal's bank account? From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Investment opportunity or scam Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:03:44 -0300 Any one hear of these guys? http://www.grgems.com/index.html They claim to buy and sell gems and are offering small business owners an opportunity to invest. It seems iffy to me, but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of it. T
[H] another activation ?
Have a box on the LAN with a SCSI Pioneer slot drive, thinking of pulling that ( came into some IDE burners ) will removing this trigger activation ? hohoho -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- All mathochists suffer from calculust.
Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.
On 13 Sep 2005, at 17:50:060, Eli Allen wrote: Its /3GB switch you want, not PAE that behaves exactly the same as /PAE with regard to visible memory (eg, it doesn't do anything) with the addition of the 6800GT behaving like a vga framebuffer with no acceleration. whisky tango. -JB
Re: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram.
Hi James, I would wait with winXP x64, I got it on my dual Opteron with 8gb of ram, and there are a shortage of drivers, at least for me! Colorcalibration, printers etc... just to name a few! got another machine as well, so not such a big problem, still I would like to play with my little beast! :-) cheers Henrik A Dane Down Under (not following the cricket :-) ) - Original Message - From: James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:31 PM Subject: [H] Ram... lots and lots of ram. Saturday I did something utterly strange. I ordered 4GB of PC2100 for my Athlon64 desktop (scan.co.uk's today only page over the weekend, 2GB Apacer(I think) PC2100 dimms bundled with Asaka heatspreaders for £57/ea, bargain of the decade right there) said PC2100 is presently in the A64, running at 160Mhz (at not brilliant timings, but hey, paging has been told where to get off) http://chryx.shacknet.nu/memreport.png (memory latency is an Opteron'ish 52ns on a 512byte stride, measured by sciencemark) it POSTS at those timings at 200Mhz, makes me wish I had a DFI Lanparty so I could feed it 3.2v or so as it stands I've lost ~200 points in 3dmark 2003 relative to the Corsair PC3200LL I was using previously, so the gaming performance is there (and BF2 will stop hitching with high quality textures, hooray) in related news, notice how windows isn't seeing all of the ram (PCI- E addressing eats a chunk and so on) - CPU-Z is even more confused and seeing less ram than windows, wtf! the PAE switch does nothing, even with the 'S/W memory address range remapping' thing in the bios toggled that's supposed to shuffle the PCI-E addressing out of the first 32bits of address range. Suggestions? Windows XP x64 is on the table as a last resort, I'd need new TV and sound cards (WinTV PCI FM and GametheaterXP, no x64 drivers for either, doesn't look like they're coming either :(), so a PAE based solution would be preferable in the short term, anyone? -_-_ James Boswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 1653327 | AIM : TorazChryx MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
