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Afraid I can't help you, as there is no way I would attempt what you are doing. Any way to get your data off and do a clean install?

I assume you've checked the power settings, and verified that the monitor sleep timer is at 20 minutes? I did have one TV connected as a monitor that didn't observe the command directly. After the signal had gone away, it started it's own internal 5 minute timer and only turned off after that. I...

On my 295GTX it will indeed do audio out, but it is stereo only.

ASUS has always had slow downloads for me as well.

Thanks uda for the relatively concise reply ;) I'd forgotten about the i7 Turbo Boost. I suppose I could dual-boot my machine for testing, but the runtime on these projects really cries out for a dedicated system. I'm thinking of just giving it a core on a VM server and not worrying about it...

8 cores hyperthreaded is 16.

I'm dealing with an application that is very CPU intensive, and strictly single-threaded. This app is only 32-bit, and won't run on Vista x64 or any version of 7. I just threw it on the beast (8 hyper-threaded 2.4Ghz cores, 36GB RAM, SSDs, the works) running XP x64 and it is showing once core...

Ugh. Perhaps it was a boot record thing, but FixMBR should have taken care of that. If you feed it to a drive imaging tool (eg Acronis) what does it say? Does it call the drive bootable? If so, I would recommend getting an image of it, formatting, and re-imaging. But others might have better...

Today I'll be in for just a bit. Received a counter-offer on the house which we plan to accept. As it is a short-sale, the banks still need to approve it (first and second mortgage). But we already have our financing in place.

I didn't look that big, but I'll need to take a look. I did put it in the bottom-most slot and there is still a small amount of space (few mm) below. Compared to the 5970 it is quite small ;)

Close. I did take good care of the car for the first 100,000 miles, with all services and oil changes as prescribed. For the next 50,000, I did oil changes as specified, but skipped on the rest. Since then (considering I got my money out of it), I decided to put my money towards a new car instead.

Sorry to hear that, Greg.

I changed it as soon as the low oil light went on. It would go on first under hard cornering. I would change within a week of the light (temporarily) going on.

Sure. I'll set up a script to start flogging it with stuff. Won't necessarily be random, but it will saturate the drive sure enough.

Still at work, but I'll be leaving soon. Bought one more present for the wife, and a prank gift for dinner with the boss tomorrow. I already got him a WTF? mug that he uses daily.

Anyone else still at work?

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8326/localdrivesfull.png Comparison benchmarks

Windows 7 detected the drive as "LSI Adapter, SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068E". I thought there were only 4 cards in there? And there is an external SAS port on the card....I wonder ;)

Reminds me of last weekend at the Ritz Carlton at Northstar, Lake Tahoe. All the visitors (including me) were wowing at how great the place was, while the people who actually splashed out to stay there were complaining about the lack of heated seats on the balcony.

Bah, it requires a molex connector. I was hoping for no cables. The only thing in the box besides the drive is a quarter-sheet saying to plug it in and a bunch of foam.

It's here. Any particular tests you want to see?

Instantly "server not found" here. The advantages of having decent DNS servers.

Is that saying something good about German cars being able to run nearly a quarter-million miles with no maintenence other than oil changed every 20-50k? Or not good in that their electronics don't hold up to their mechanics?

Well, that was exciting. I only had to do about half of it, but that was enough. 80 high-school football players and their psycho parents. Got all the forms filled out, did the briefing, got everyone's picture taken. Going to bed.

I mean that you tend to re-image your drives a lot. You would need to re-run the alignment app every time you did to avoid the performance hit.

I would try resetting to defaults using the button on the back and reconfiguring. Don't forget to write down your settings first.

Swapped the battery completely, and checked for tightness. I'm afraid it is part of a larger gremlin. Something to do with grounding, from what I was told. The AM radio no longer works, and FM is almost gone. I can start the car without depressing the clutch. Engine stutters when there is less...

First I've heard of that. On the Coast Starlight, the last thing the staff does is pull up the stairs and signal all-clear. The train is rolling within seconds.

'fraid not. Just put in another offer on a house, and I need a new car (mine tends to turn itself off at random, like on the freeway). This is what my wife wanted as a gift, so she gets it.

Just got talked into running a meeting of 150 people whose organization I don't belong to. I don't even know all the rules to football (American). The great part? The meeting starts in 56 minutes. ;)

Ah, I just turn up the transmit power until it covers what I need.

OT: Just bought a Wii and about $500 worth of accessories (Fit plus, wireless bar, induction charger, Sport Resort, motion plus, component cables, etc). Capable of playing at the phenomenal HD resolution of....480P! :roll:

At home I have a WRT350N running DD-WRT that I haven't thought about since we moved. I regularly deploy WRT54GLs running DD-WRT with minimal failures (a percent or so a year). No point for N unless you have a home file server. Your internet connection is the bottleneck anyway.

I would absolutely run memtest86+ overnight, just to rule that out. Then worry about the app.

With all your imaging, it would be an inconvenience for you, but it would still work.

I didn't mention, but mine opened about a year ago.

Good info. Mine is small, but looks good. MPX, 36.0x65.0 feet, 290 seats,

I don't mind Seagate products, though some here have stronger (and negative) opinions. Samsung is just about everyone's favorite drive maker, including mine.

I'll be working throughout, the holiday is that everyone else will be gone, so I can get on with it.

...and you (and the rest of you).

Being on-contract is a liability. I would pass on it if I could.

I've been directed to plan something like this for next year. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qezz_casailuminadamusica_people A fun project, to be sure. 3-color LEDs all around, and one hell of a controller. Let the research begin.

We'll find out ;) I'll leave one of the X25-Es out and replace it with an HTS541040G9SA00 (Hitachi 5400RPM 2.5" 40GB). If I can't tell the difference, the SSDs go elsewhere. But I suspect that it will make a difference.

Right on...now I'm talking to myself ;)

That doesn't make sense to me. The way I see it, either disk access matters or it doesn't. I'm not that sure it does (other than for backup, which should rock). But if disk access matters, surely faster disks are better? It isn't a capacity thing, as most of my VMs are under 6GB.

Yup. The previous machine had enough CPU and disk, but nowhere near enough RAM. Taking it from 12GB to 36GB should do the trick. I'll be giving up my 2x X25-M and 2x X25-E to handle the storage.

Not that I can think of. I'd make sure that it is running a firmware after the garbage collection was introduced, then start appreciating the speedy goodness.

My workstation hasn't had a virus since the days of BBS on 14.4. The only server application that is running on my machine directly is VMWare Server, which is running, fully up-to-date, and hosting test environments all the time anyway. It may not be the ideal, but it is the easiest way for me...

Can't blame you really, it is the easiest and most obvious solution.

That would be making an assumption about the brains ;) Honestly, considering my workstation is the backup target and backup VM server, it needs some horsepower. Building a backup server that was unused most of the time just bugged the heck out of me, so now my workstation has the cojones to run...