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I'm sorry, but I don't trust refurbished hard drives.

Those drives are refurbished...

Few will end up dealing with the XSATA multiplexers and we really don't need 6mbps when drives are still constrained to a maximum of 100MBps. What I want is for SAS to replace SATA totally. SATA is simply a subset of SAS and that means SAS controllers can operate either SATA or SAS drives...

Handruin, just one more thing about the temps (I'd edit the previous post: But that is not allowed.) The ambient temp of the case is 43C

I read further, they are going to have an open beta, where anyone may DL the client. No need to sign up for the beta team...

On idle, at stock speeds, and displaying 2D stuff the card runs exactly 49 C. The default settings are a GPU clock of 500MHz and RAM at 600MHz. Running the ATI overdrive automated clock config produces temps of 68-70C and produces a GPU @ 632 MHz and RAM at 716MHz. I delibrately downgrade...

I have the x1900GT IceQ and I have to admit it runs relatively cool (for a modern high performance video card). Matter of fact, I overclock it signifigently. One does pay a signifigent premium for HIS IceQ cards though. It cost about $50 (aprox 15%) more than the low price for a generic x1900GT.

Well, the first thing you will have to do is sign up for the beta team. Submit your request in this topic As to your concerns, I have multiple questions too and really untill more information has been supplied and the GPU client is released to the beta team, we really won't have a clue...

Won't work -- The SATA drive boots just fine as long as the IDE drive isn't connected (so there's no need to reinstall the SATA). The IDE takes boot precedence over the SATA when they are connected, so modifying the SATA boot.ini won't help. Feel free to try again.

I'm starting to run out of ideas on how to safely access the IDE drive while the SATA is connected. We still have the option of using data recovery software; We have the application of the ERD; and we still have the option of doing an inplace reinstall without formatting or changing the...

Just as an incidental, have you ever tried to boot into safe mode or any of the other diagnostic boot modes on the IDE drive? I don't hold very high hopes for it, but it is something that hasn't been mentioned and is relatively easy to do: After selecting the IDE install, start pressing F8...

When using the recovery console, the SATA drive is disconnected: We aren't going to modify the SATA drive at this time and we don't want any mistakes. Nothing can happen to the working SATA drive install, if it is disconnected. After the boot.ini file has been replaced on the IDE drive...

We are trying to get the SATA install running with the IDE drive installed, so you can access the data on the IDE drive. The multi-boot boot.ini was stored on the ide drive and that is why the ide drive is connected and the SATA drive is disconnected: We don't want you modifying the wrong...

Congrats go to Mourn for breaking the 500,000 point barrier and Tea broke the 100,000 level!

I logged in and looked at all new posts, and my immediate reaction upon seeing it was that it shouldn't be here and immediately reported it to Handruin (I didn't even notice that it was already in the moderators forum when I reported it). Really, it seems like spam to me and I know I'm not...

Really, chkdsk on the SATA drive shouldn't have been able to hose the IDE drive install. OK, lets try something, that I have not done before. I'm gonna try to fix the IDE's boot.ini file pointing to the SATA drive using the recovery console Currently, when you have both drives attached, and...

I've generally given up on Adaware. Spybot seems to work much better.

It was my understanding, that you could boot to the drives individually and that was how you knew the boot.ini files had been damaged. If you can't boot to the ide drive individually, then we are stuck there. There are only two real choices to get the data back from the IDE drive. The first...

Merc is the one to ask about HD audio: He keeps up with it. It may be worth you while to use a slot for a HQ sound card, but I really don't know much about sound chipsets: So ask Merc.

If gaming is no longer a priority, then the 6100/6150 series is an excellent choice: It is probably the best current onboard graphics, but only a little better than ATI's Xpress 200 series.

There are no onboard video solutions that don't "Suck" for gaming, in any FF. All current and past onboard video is just plain not powerfull enough for gaming. It does fine for business work, but modern gaming is out. 300w for a high quality PS is more than enough, untill a modern graphics...

If you can boot to the IDE drive when it is seperate from the SATA drive and it blue screens with the SATA drive attached, then boot to the IDE drive while seperate and uninstall/reinstall the SATA drivers. With a little luck that will fix the blue-screen problem when the SATA drive is attached.

MSI is accusing www.Woot.com of selling stolen 7900GS cards

He may actually end up needing to, but we aren't there yet...

No, emergency disks still exist, though their usefullness has always been suspect. The gods that be (M$), simply made their creation obscure in the extreme. You now make them inside the backup program. Don't ask me why, because I have no idea. Further, I have no idea how Peet could have...

The operating systems are the same in this: Don't worry about it.

If you can boot to each drive individually, then you can simply replace the boot.ini files on the respective drives with the one that was modified and is in this thread.

Bozo, you can get independant boot.ini files if both installs, were done when the other drive was disconnected. In this case, there were early issues with not loading the SATA drivers which will also make the SATA drive invisible to the OS during the IDE install. So, my point is, it is...

An emergency repair disk is not used the way you used it: You can't just boot to it. To use an emergency repair disk, you would have had to boot to the OS CD and select repair: At which, you would have inserted the repair disk(s) at OS's prompting. If you actually did successfully use the...

Not yet, but undoubtably it will occur. It's just a question of time till the northern ice sheets give way to ocean.

I would argue that a commercial T1 ISP is much more likely to be connected to a higher-level ISP (Fewer hops) than a retail DSL line. also that ISP is also much more likely to connect to redundant high-level ISP's that will allow for a better path selection (Again fewer hops). Further, a...

I don't understand, I'm totally confused. Booting to both was working, right? At somepoint, things happened and it stopped working, for one, and then more things happened the other the other stopped working too. Now you can't boot to the SATA drive (What's the error message) because the...

each address/cell in Flash RAM has a limited number of write cycles before it fails. It is not an explicit number but rather, a probability that failure will occure on each write. Statisticly, it may be 100,000 cycles on average, but inactually it could be the first, or it could be the...

You left out: RJ11 (Telephone) -- Who needs stinking dial-up anymore. parallel ports -- Thay are being replaced by usb only printers. game ports -- I've never found a Joystick that I've wanted to use on a game. Case doors -- They only break anyway. Reset buttons -- Any time a reset button is...

Thanks for the offer, but no need (I can deal). While, the original purpose of the beep speaker is really only needed during the MB install process, I find that it is appropiate also for long-term temp/voltage/fan monitoring. The alternative solution is to use out-of band communication like...

I recieved an answer from Antec: Since, the trouble ticket had been changed to awaiting customer comment -- I choose to At which I immediately got a response (Within 5 minutes): At this point I simply responded: [/SIZE][/SIZE]

I find the Pentium-D choice to be really not-good, but maybe that is simply because the project designs were set in stone before Core2Duo. Secondly, I don't trust their statements about no heat issues; mainly because they didn't supply any test data supporting it, instead, they supply a chart...

I don't consider this to be bad news. If true, there are only two possibilites: WD drags Samsung down the proverbial tube or Samsung fixes WD quality control issues and gains much more access to the retail channel. I am also thinking that there may be future competition with Hitachi or...

I doubt that fragmentation is causing overheating. However, fragmentation will create isolated locations that get an extraordinary number of read-write cycles compared to normal and that may be what is causing the flash to fail on lower-end units. Just my guess on the situation.

Then how did you send your previous fax: A fax machine? The answer is still the same: Tell your fax machine to answer the phone.

You need to tell your fax software to answer the phone.

Done

I went out and bought an Antec p180 case to replace an old poorly designed ATX case that just couldn't keep the temps down. Fiddling with case fans and regreasing just wasn't soling the problem. I have to say, I like the new case except for the fact of no speaker. It also fixed the temp and...

Yup, As a technician, one has to keep up with the new OS flavor of the month. M$ is not quite up to the selection of Baskins and Robbins, but they are trying.

Theoretically, holographic storage has the capability to slaughter magnetic storage in speed, capacity, and durability. The question is how much will it cost and how long to market and those are Q's that I can't answer. Maybe it'll be like flash RAM and take 30+ years before signifigent...

Seagate press release - achieved densities using perpedicular recording that would result in 2.5TB on a single standard 3.5" drive. I'm sure that it is a few years away from being mass marketted but it is impressive. Now the race is on as to how fast can Holographic storage can ramp up its...

No it doesn't: I don't know how the specific drivers are written and that is the question. Gimmie a break -- There are only two choices to try.

If so, then he can cut & paste the two together to get one that will work because the syntax for the SATA drive will be contained in its Boot.ini and the syntax for the IDE drive will be contained on its drive.

If your SATA drivers emulate IDE drives it will look like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect/ NOGUIBOOT /PlexTools Professinal...

Could you please post your current boot.ini file. It is far easier to tell you what to modify, if we can see the specifics of what is being modified. Basicly it should look something like this if your SATA drivers emulate IDE drives: [boot loader] timeout=30...