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Merc, are you using the newer model WRT54Gs without Linux? I've been using a WRT54GL for about two years now, and the only problem I have is the need to reboot it every few months. The issue seems to stem from the third-party firmware that I use, and not anything with the hardware. It's an...

First, unless there's been a sudden change, Samsung drives aren't sold at retail; only through channels. Second, no matter how many successful shipments, that *is not* a satisfactory way to ship a drive. Considering how outfits like UPS treat boxes, I'm surprised that properly packed drives...

More than three BSODs in one morning? I guess it just reflects on your abilities as a technician. At least I can't inflict Vista on my computer because the operating system won't work on it... or maybe the computer is rejecting it....

As above, no x64 drivers. It wouldn't be a long term solution, anyway. The problem seems to squarely lie with the crappy-butt nVidia drivers.

All recent versions of Photoshop (not Elements) will support 3GB of memory. You just need to have the appropriate amount of RAM and flip the 3GB switch on 32-bit Windows. I've run Photoshop CS3 on Windows x64; it works and sees 3GB of memory for use. For reasons simply unknown, Adobe won't...

This coming from the guy with two 74GB Raptors. I have four open SATA ports, three open SATA power connectors, two open SAS connectors, and number of open molex power connectors. Even if I had all of my internal drives (optical and all) on ATA, I'd still have free ports. It's not an issue.

Well, he's got to try to speed up that RAID 0 of Raptors somehow. Why not saddle it with a bad operating system? PS: Three BSODs from the pre-NRM driver in x86. Back to bridge mode....

Isn't "pre-cache" a bit repetitive? Everything in a cache is there for speculative future use, and is, therefore, cached before needed. I'd like to point out that there is no "completely unused RAM" in Windows XP. Any "free" memory is used by the system cache. That is to say, any memory...

I think that the manual for my board said the same thing. Obviously, it was in reference to the chips available at the time, and not a real limitation of the motherboard hardware. Can't DFI tell you whether this will work? Hasn't anyone else in the whole world with this board tried four sticks?

The saga continues.... So, I did a clean install of Windows x64 with the new driver. After about six hours of testing, I was able to trigger a hang; but I was basically doing stuff that I'd rarely, if ever, do in real life (make a long, multigigabyte copy while updating the database in...

Academic versions sometimes have little differences that may or may not matter. For example, some companies make academic software unupgradeable. This means that you have to buy a full version to upgrade.

FYI, on 32-bit Windows, most applications can't use more than 2GB of memory. It's a Windows limitation.

They require special fuels and spew a lot of pollution?

Unlike 802.11b, g is pretty acceptable for most purposes. Given the choice between cheap/cheaper and mature g hardware and more expensive and relatively new n hardware, I'd go for the g.

I thought this thread would actually be about people....

FYI, FastFAT is the FAT filesystem driver. Also realise that the problem is sometimes with the driver that was supposed to load after the last one that you see.

Maybe you can work around this by deleting the optical device before syspreping.

There is an option which should technically turn off the the firewall and switch it to 100base-T (which is fine for my purposes); but, after changing that, I can't get a driver to install. It should use the pre-NRM driver, since the network bus enumerator goes away, but it doesn't work with...

Doesn't that have to do with the chip revision? I know that the CG revision chips that I originally had would dump the memory frequency down a grade if I installed four sticks on a single processor, but the E0 chips that I have now don't do that.

Isn't syspreping supposed to trigger a reID of the hardware?

I'll second what Merc said. I run ECC memory on my Opteron system and can't tell the difference between it being on or off. I jave one set of sticks with the pedestrian server/workstation timings and another set with the much tighter enthusiast timings; I cannot tell the difference.

Honestly, there's no reason to use past 6.4, so upgrading is really useless. WiMP isn't a required update, which is really a sign that you need to tell your clients that not everything listed needs to be installed. If it makes them itchy, set automatic update to download and notify, and have...

You can't uninstall the chipset. I don't install the firewall software for it, as it only makes things worse, but I can't change the silicon. Under x86, I've determined what the settings and software need to be, and it seemed to be fine. This situation with x64 seems to either be something...

FYI, I usually have this off, because the hardware acceleration features of the nForce ethernet tend to make it hang. And the CRC errors apparently come because the packet sniffer can't properly sniff when the hardware keeps butting in to do stuff.

Funny story... So, I opened my case to realise why I had stuck all of my expansion cards in the bottom three slots: I had replaced the stock cooler on my video card with something that was large but, in return, very quiet. So, the standard PCI slot is completely blocked. Fine, I'll stick the...

After spending the afternoon swapping cables, installing and uninstalling updates, and running tests on other computers, it appears that the majority of the problem lies somewhere between the RJ-45 connector and the keyboard on the computer. I ran some tests on the shiny new R60 over the...

An update... So, I booted back into 32-bit XP and ran the same tests. First, I has to disable checksum offload, because it was leading to a load of CRC errors. After that, I started getting the same load of low throughput and busy network/server errors, but it never leads to a Apdex...

It's an nForce3-based board, and I'm using the onboard NIC, so there is no default driver. I'm using the latest (only?) final x64 driver for this chipset. I've tried forcing the NF4 ethernet driver, but it seems to make the system unstable. Through a suggestion elsewhere, I downloaded and...

"Drive" and "San Francisco" do not go together. It's not just a city of hills... it's a city of hills with little parking.

I have a bit of an usual problem, and I'm not getting any headway with it. I'm looking to move from Windows x86 to x64, but the only issue that I haven't been able to solve or work around is this: my media player sometimes hangs when playing my music. So, the program that I'm using is...

You're just not in any of the businesses where it really makes a difference. You'd be amazed in the difference between a 1000+ page manual put together in Framemaker versus Word....

Are you saying that you don't use them (i.e. profit), or that your moral compass has a magnet next to it?

You can't patent code, only methods. You copyright code. The ruling seems to say that it's not software until you install it, so, I can make all of the copies of Windows that I want (in a foreign country), and, as long as I don't install it, I haven't stolen anything.

Oregon... a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

So is piracy now okkay, as long as you do it outside the United States?

If it is... it's working. Actually, a lot of stores (mostly Target) had Wiis available Sunday... and they stayed available through yesterday. Supply is still tight, but it appears to be getting looser. Personally, I'm going to hold out until the online retailers can get me one without tax.

Avoiding the problem? Always a solution. And unlike your arms arms, your computer doesn't come with or need RAID 0.

Try cold calling. That is bad.

Problem: Moving onboard-based RAID 0 array from one computer to another. Solution: Stop using RAID 0.

If it isn't hot and noisy, it isn't an Ultrastar!

Maybe this is because I'm still running an AGP x850 (and it's doing just fine).

I believe that would lead us back to Linux.

Of course, I can't convince my dad that I can assemble a much nicer computer for less. Last year, he bought a Dell XPS for, as far as I can tell, surfing the web and running eMule to download easy listening music. This is also the guy who refuses to crack the case to add anything, and, thus...

We're going with dual players? I thought that the dual disk was the thing....

I can't tell the difference between ECC on or off, let alone between different timings. That should tell you something.

Well no. Let me rephrase: Are you saying that Vista doesn't come with acceptable drivers?

It's a Dell OEM disk, so, after hacking in the BIOS information for pre-activation, it should work fine. I just wanted to try to avoid the Dell goop.

Remember how I was talking about replacing the drive on the Thinkpad? Well, got a new laptop instead and the old one will be going to my sister, who is working on a business degree and could actually use it. I want to wipe Windows and reinstall it. I don't really do work on laptops, so any...

Are you saying that Vista doesn't come with appropriate drivers?

I still want to know what happened to Da-Iry....