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Well, whatever happened, the hard drive is completely toast. The rest of the system seems fine, but a 300GB Seagate SATA HDD is no more (along with my primary computer's OS, Apps, settings, games, etc.) :sob:

Tried to boot to an official XP disk with no joy, working now from a Kubuntu Live CD to make sure the hardware is fine. Grr....

Most likely, I'll see if I've disposed of them already. How many do you want?

I agree with your reasoning on the RAM speeds, and would further mention that 4600+ CPUs are significant overkill. 3800+ is more than sufficient. Touching back on our upgrade thread earlier this week, planning on upgrading typically is silly. What upgrades have you made to the current systems in...

No ability to hit F8 at all.

The P150 ships with an Antec NeoPower 430W. That should be fine for anything shy of an SLI gaming rig, and it is very quiet.

This is the stock suspension of my Volkswagen Golf, so I don't think anything in the suspension is "too hard"...yet ;) Cornering way too hard? Yeah, probably. Stock, this car ships with 185/60-15 economy tires so I've upped the footprint just a bit. Now it's time to figure out what I can to to...

Well, this one killed my system to the point where it won't even get to safe mode anymore. I know I'm jumping the gun to blame SpeedFan; but this system gets rebooted daily and has been sable for weeks. I installed speedfan and ran it, the screen never updated and very quickly locked the entire...

Good job Handruin. I've done a brake swap before and it was no fun. On the '97 Neon the front pads shattered and buried the rivets into the disks...oops. Now that I just finished putting 17x8" racing wheels and 225/45-17 Pirellis on my car, the brakes are on the list...right after I do...

The P150 is also a great case. The PS it ships with is nice and the case is well thought out, but it's not a full-tower case. It isn't cramped for my needs, but you may want to put more stuff in yours.

Sounds like a network is in dire need. The take one of the decent machines with USB ports and make it a part time/full time server, put all the printers off it and pool them (not to handle load, just in case they break - unplug the offending printer and try again). Hit up the local ISP for a...

If the top Fan is an issue...fine. Remove it completely or just unplug it; it's not like the case is short of ventilation.

I really like the P180. Don't worry about noise, put the fans on "low" and you won't hear them. The door swivels 270-degrees back to the side of the case so you never have to see it again.

Looks great. Replying to multiple posts, and auto image resizing will be useful.

Yeah...it's not like you have anything better to do... ;-) Thanks a lot for your efforts.

Not that long....now it's a USB wifi for $13

In other words, I've never encountered an issue, and that's with a really high-end soundcard (ask Merc) and really nice speakers. Digitally perfect? Maybe not, but I've never had any reason to doubt it.

Depends on how anal you are. I consider myself to be experamentaly anal, therefore I can do without.

Just use what I've gotten for my blind clients; 36" widescreen LCD TVs as monitors. $700 and a 1024 width that they can see. Score.

Honestly, the only performance improvement that they will really see would be the iRAMs. It would make the user experience significanly better, and make re-imaging much faster.

Interesting. So that means they already know of vulnerabilities that they won't announce until after they EOL it and don't intend to repair?

Anyone try this? I just got invited to the Beta, and I don't even really know what it is. Looks like a funky application of bittorrent, but only to your friends? If anyone wants an invitation, I can get you one. Just PM me.

...or you could just sub the contract to me; I'll give you an $800/machine quote and you can have your margin ;) I would certainly not be doing onboard video; just include some 7900GTs, 4800+ X2, 2x 320GB Seagate, and an iRAM that's maxxed out.

One of the things I'm trying to do is look into software-based WAPs. Another is to see if bridging is possible. This comes on the heels of another project that had similar problems. We were trying to get a PC with 2 wireless cards to log onto a network with one and then re-broadcast on another...

Not entirely sure. But it certainly is. I'm aware of the potential for harm to an individual or even a group, but it's still really funny.

My Latitude D630 is fine as well.

My server has 3 GbE NICs in it at the moment. 2 to different internal networks and one to the router. They are currently all bridged and do a great job. I would like to add a wireless NIC with an external antenna to the mix, but bridging isn't an option. Security would be nice, QOS would be...

Nice...and prohibitively expensive...shame.

I work pretty much every day. The only time I'm not online is when I'm dancing, Sailing, or driving. Come to think of it, that's about 60 hours a week!

I agree with Buck, but when a faster system is needed or wanted: 1. If MB (therefore CPU and RAM) and PSU need to be swapped, an upgrade is silly. 2. If OS is to be updated, an upgrade is probably silly. 3. Don't keep the hard drive from an old system, it will cripple your upgrade. 4. Don't...

I use Artist-Title for my tracks, additional information is included in the ID3 info. If I was smarter, I would use Artist-Album-Track-Title; that way you can have multiple versions of the same song, and play albums in order automatically.

One other thing that helps a lot is to get 4 optical drives (EAC will run multiple instances to multiple drives). My fileserver has 4 BenQ DW1625 DVD-RW drives in it with the latest aftermarket firmware (speeds ripping significantly). I rip to a RAID-0 of raptors and then move them to my storage...

Basically, the less expensive one is better anyway. It is designed to run cooler and consume less power, but it can be run hotter before problems occur. An ideal situation from an overclocker's perspective IMHO.

ADV4400CDBOX Max Temp 49-71°C Thermal Power 89W ADA4400CDBOX Max Temp 49-65°C Thermal Power 110W

Though I've never played WOW, I have (as you might imagine) some experience with it. Over 60% of the time logged at the gamecenter is WOW. My original spec machines play quite nicely at 1024x768 with moderate graphics. Their spec is: A64 3000+ 1GB RAM 9800Pro My High-Spec machines lay it very...

No prob ;)

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Hostility?! WTF you talkin' 'bout hostility? I should kick your ass!

sechs, Considering how self-centered I am, I have to assume that you were referring to me. I'm David, Doug is the incredibly nice guy that runs these forums. And I do accept your judgement of me and my position. Furthermore as your assumptions are correct, your judgement doesn't matter that...

I had a recent discussion with a friend who has about 9 months left to live (cancer). He's in his 40s, single, and middle-class. He's also the most relaxed and fun person to be around. He cashed in his retirement fund, quit his job, and is having a great time. He realises time is short, but...

I'll second Merc on all, but only WRT: Greg because of the last line. I won't get mad at someone for "going over the line" if it was a legitamate expression of their opinion. If someone is saying something specifically to make a point (exageration, or something more personal) than "lines" need...

That's fine, they aren't illegal. And while I take the point that cops don't like them, and if they know you have one they won't give you break; I've never had any slack anyway.

That and it doesn't hurt much to be wrong.

Actually...yeah, I do. Just as I assume that all the guys hanging around outside home depot are illegal. It's not that it's a universal constant, just true enough of the time to save me the effort of worrying about it.

I don't know, but I don't know for a very good reason. I don't plan on doing anything about it. This isn't about lack of knowledge, if the world continues to exist even approximatly as it does for my lifetime, I would be really suprised. I expect the world to be destroyed more and more at an...

Yup, it is unfortunate. But considering some of the hobbies of our members and our general (rather healthy IMO) perspective, it does seem inevitable. I'm actually suprised it didn't happen sooner.

I'm familiar with laser tech, and fortunatly we don't have them here. They're enough people without such tech that the cops tend to leave their older radar guns on all the time.

Perhaps that was his daughter?

:shrug: Women (and men) are objects. Animate, sentient ones (most), but objects nonetheless. I'd have to assume that Howell doesn't frequent bars much.

Pity, I would have just taken them both...