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The verification/debunkification I was looking for was whether or not they are quality hubs.
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Either they work or they don't. As long as the USB hub is 2.0 and powered. Question: Vista 64 G.Skill SSD ~120gb (if this was a bad purchase oh well) All kinds of Registry Optimizations for SSD drives (caching, hdd tweaks etc) all from the OCZ forum or other tech forums. Basically disabling all of windows spinning platter registry settings for better read/write performance. -A noticeable improvement So If I want to add in a ~500gb 7200rpm sata drive, will that drive be dog slow now that I've disabled things in the registry for SSD performance? C: SSD drive with Vista X: being the additional drives as a single volume Slick fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Feb 23, 2009 |
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I just got a new broadband provider and they use ADSL whereas my previous service used cable. They have provided me with a wireless router that has a RJ11 port where the ADSL connection plugs in, but the router is a piece of crap that is constantly being knocked out by everything around it. I have my own router (a much higher quality one) but it only has RJ45 ports. Would an RJ11/RJ45 converter work straight out of the box or would I need to do something else? The ADSL plugs directly into the current router whereas my old cable service had a modem along with it, so I'm unsure if it would work as smoothly as I'm imagining.
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Lytinwheedle posted:I am running a 32bit Vista system with 2gig of RAM. Under XP32 / Vista32 = Amount of RAM Windows Can See and Use = RAM on Motherboard - RAM on Video Card. I have a Nvidea 8600gt with 1gb of RAM or something, and XP only sees 3GB of total RAM even though I have 2x 2GB sticks in.
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I have a 512mb video card and 4gb of memory, but Vista still sees the full 4gb. Its Vista32 
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Thirteenth Step posted:I have a 512mb video card and 4gb of memory, but Vista still sees the full 4gb.
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jeeves posted:Under XP32 / Vista32 = Amount of RAM Windows Can See and Use = RAM on Motherboard - RAM on Video Card. I like that you just saw some numbers and made up an equation for them to fit in. This is why you see what you see. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
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Slick posted:Either they work or they don't. As long as the USB hub is 2.0 and powered. Yeah, that's completely not the case, unfortunately. I have bought two different powered USB hubs that are unable to run multiple high drain devices. What I need is not a "USB hub, any old one will do" but I need (and am wondering whether there exists) a hub that will actually supply enough power to run high power devices on each of its open ports. I have a pile of unpowered hubs that work fine for low power devices (keyboard, mouse, printer,). I bought the powered hubs in hopes of plugging in a number of high power devices (2 iPods charger cables, Cell phone charger cable , 2.5" bus-powered drives, cellular wireless bus-powered internet card), and not having them complain/cut out/not function due to being unpowered/underpowered. I am playing rotate the devices all night long trying to use them, and I would rather just come home and plug in one USB wire to my laptop and have all the stuff be adequately powered.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Here's an interesting issue I ran across this weekend while building my new system. My mobo (Gigabyte EP45-UD3L) came with two SATA cables; one with straight connectors at both ends and one with a right angle connector at one end labeled "HDD". With the way I installed everything else in the case, it made better sense to use the right angle cable with one of my optical drives. I originally had the my new Pionner DVR-216DBK connected with the right angle cable and my old Samsung SH-S203B connected with one of the straight cables. Both drives showed up fine in the BIOS, got assigned drive letters in Windows, etc. The Pioneer acted like it was spinning up to read a disc when you put one in, but it wouldn't ever boot from it/start an installer/show the data on the disc. My first thought was either a faulty drive or bad cable, so I swapped cables between the two drives figuring. I figured either the Pioneer would still not work (bad drive), or the Pioneer would work but the Samsung wouldn't (bad cable). Instead what happened was comedy option C: both drives work fine. For some reason the Pioneer just didn't like that right angle cable, but the Samsung doesn't have an issue with it. Anyone know what the gently caress is going on here? It's all well and great that everything works fine, but all weekend I've been trying to figure out WHY this happened.
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jeeves posted:Mother loving fuckity gently caress. Turns out that these HP DC7100 mid-towers that we have maybe a hundred of at work HAVE CUSTOM SIZED POWER SUPPLIES STRAIGHT FROM HP. Consider the cost of labor too, I guess (even if it's you who'll be stuck doing everything), though it's not like transplanting stuff into a new case is a whole lot more work than switching out a power supply. Slick posted:Vista 64 chizad posted:Here's an interesting issue I ran across this weekend while building my new system. Was the Pioneer drive at, say, the top of the case? Only thing I can think of. SATA connections are flaky as gently caress compared to something like IDE. If the cable was forced to loop around and push up or down on the connector in the process...
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The Pro posted:Appears to be HDCP which is for "Protected" content like Commercial Blu Ray Media. I had a DX10 card, noticed my "full screen display on 2nd monitor" was gone from my options. Without even changing the drivers, I threw in a DX9 card and the option was back. NVidia officially told me DX10 and/or Vista forced them to get rid of the feature. This is why I will upgrade to neither.
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Ddraig posted:I just got a new broadband provider and they use ADSL whereas my previous service used cable. You could get your own modem, though you should try the above first. Milky_Sauce posted:I had a DX10 card, noticed my "full screen display on 2nd monitor" was gone from my options. Without even changing the drivers, I threw in a DX9 card and the option was back. NVidia officially told me DX10 and/or Vista forced them to get rid of the feature. This is why I will upgrade to neither. https://wi.somethingawful.com/fe/fe14006175cfb93605f56251385351fb03762de2.jpg https://wi.somethingawful.com/ef/ef55c368a2207e8e97c43367f1563d50bdb7d6a3.jpg Milky_Sauce posted:Yeah that's full screen video on BOTH displays. The feature I am referring to allowed the computer to simply have the video open (leaving you free to do whatever else) while it would be full screen on the TV. What player are you using, what driver version do you have? The Pro fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Feb 25, 2009 |
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The Pro posted:What driver version do you have? Yeah that's full screen video on BOTH displays. The feature I am referring to allowed the computer to simply have the video open (leaving you free to do whatever else) while it would be full screen on the TV. jenny jones fan fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Feb 24, 2009 |
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Straker posted:Was the Pioneer drive at, say, the top of the case? Only thing I can think of. SATA connections are flaky as gently caress compared to something like IDE. If the cable was forced to loop around and push up or down on the connector in the process... Yes it was. I tried to keep my cable routing pretty clean though, so the cable should have been going straight in. Oh well, I've got a setup that works, that's what matters.
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Well I got two Radeon 1650's today from Newegg. They were open box, so at only $22 each I bought two. They are both exhibiting the same exact problem. My monitor freaks out. Sometimes it will display the Windows XP loading bar, sometimes it never gets that far. My 24" Dell keeps saying "Input out of range, please set to 60hz" or something, even though I plugged in a different ATI Radeon and I know for a fact it's set to that. BOTH cards are doing the exact same thing. What are the odds two cards are giving me identical problems?
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Milky_Sauce posted:Well I got two Radeon 1650's today from Newegg. They were open box, so at only $22 each I bought two. They are both exhibiting the same exact problem. My monitor freaks out. Sometimes it will display the Windows XP loading bar, sometimes it never gets that far. My 24" Dell keeps saying "Input out of range, please set to 60hz" or something, even though I plugged in a different ATI Radeon and I know for a fact it's set to that. BOTH cards are doing the exact same thing. What are the odds two cards are giving me identical problems? You shouldn't have bought those. Open box means they were sent back for some reason, not to mention that you bought cards that are 3 or 4 generations old. Did you install them properly in the first place? (Uninstall old drivers from whatever video card you had in there before, clean drivers out with DriverCleaner Pro or similar program and then install fresh drivers?)
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Sir Nigel posted:You shouldn't have bought those. Open box means they were sent back for some reason, not to mention that you bought cards that are 3 or 4 generations old. Did you install them properly in the first place? (Uninstall old drivers from whatever video card you had in there before, clean drivers out with DriverCleaner Pro or similar program and then install fresh drivers?) Well, when I throw in an old video card (ATI Radeon) it displays just fine, meaning there shouldn't be driver issues. I know I shouldn't buy a card a few generations old but I need DirectX 9 only and two DVI ports. Also, I play absolutely no games on my PC. My options were slim, and Newegg promised they checked this crap was functional before shipping. jenny jones fan fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Feb 26, 2009 |
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Milky_Sauce posted:Well, when I throw in an old video card (ATI Radeon) it displays just fine, meaning there shouldn't be driver issues.
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I've got an amd 64 3000+ with a Geforce 4 in my office. I only use this for internet browsing and it was making too much noise so I just disconnected the geforce's fan. How likely is it that it's going to fail and take other components with it? I don't really care if the geforce dies because I could get another card. EDIT : It's actually a Geforce 6800XT, I don't remember buying this at all! Still, it's probably worth next to nothing now. LastCaress fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Feb 27, 2009 |
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LastCaress posted:I've got an amd 64 3000+ with a Geforce 4 in my office. I only use this for internet browsing and it was making too much noise so I just disconnected the geforce's fan. How likely is it that it's going to fail and take other components with it? I don't really care if the geforce dies because I could get another card. Couldn't you just buy an aftermarket GPU cooling fan? I had a Zalman one for my old card that was cool and quiet. Just the job 
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LastCaress posted:I've got an amd 64 3000+... Anyway, it should be fine with the fan off for 2D stuff, just check the temperature every now and then, and avoid watching movies or using Google Earth or anything else that can use hardware acceleration.
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I have a dead hard drive. It is a Fujitsu MHT2080AT-PL 80gb 8mb cache 4200rpm drive. The drive will not spin up with its current logic board. I substituted the logic board for another from a different model Fujitsu, and the drive spins up but is not detected. Therefore, the logicboard is bad and must be replaced with an exact model. Where can I go to get an exact replacement? I need it ASAP.
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Otacon posted:Where can I go to get an exact replacement? I need it ASAP.
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Sir Nigel posted:You shouldn't have bought those. Open box means they were sent back for some reason, not to mention that you bought cards that are 3 or 4 generations old. I would just like to comment that not everybody thinks this. I've had no problems with open box items. Hell, the only things that usually give me trouble are the ones that are brand new and shrinkwrapped. I guess it's still a gamble, but the odds still greatly favor the buyer.
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Saukkis posted:I would first try eBay, but at least this company seems to sell them. $30 for a PCB with $25 shipping. Obscene. I found an exact match on eBay and just purchased it. Thanks for the idea.
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Otacon posted:$30 for a PCB with $25 shipping. Obscene.
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What's the cheapest/easiest way to share a wireless USB keyboard between two devices? I know I could use a KVM but that requires me to get to the switch and physically press a button OR buy an expensive (?) KVM that supports special keyboard presses to switch between devices. Does anybody cheaper/easier exist? I only need to use one wireless USB keyboard and share it with two devices... (HTPC and Satellite receiver)
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I presume with Sat receiver this isnt viable, but if both devices are running any of linux/windows/mac and are networked together you could use Synergy to do virtual KVM over the network.
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Can you guys recommend a good USB 2.0 IDE hard drive enclosure? I have an old 120 gig Seagate sitting unused I'd like to use to backup a lot of MP3's that are scattered among a few different computers. Huge plus if I can buy it on Amazon, but not required. Thanks.
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Vinlaen posted:What's the cheapest/easiest way to share a wireless USB keyboard between two devices? If your Satellite receiver can't use Synergy, This $20 Trendnet KVM lets you switch by hitting the scroll lock key twice. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817403047
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Zorilla posted:I would just like to comment that not everybody thinks this. I've had no problems with open box items. Hell, the only things that usually give me trouble are the ones that are brand new and shrinkwrapped. I guess it's still a gamble, but the odds still greatly favor the buyer. Sorry if I didn't emphasize why I thought that it was a bad idea. You may get problems with it being open box, you never know, but the real reason I consider it as a bad idea was because those cards are like 3 or 4 generations old and you could have gotten a much better card for almost the same price. At the very least you could have gotten an ATI 2400 for 29.99 that comes with a warranty and can do full HD decoding on the GPU. The X1550 can help, but it doesn't have the full unified decoding of blu-ray or h.264 etc.. HD formats.
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Thanks for the help guys. That TRENDnet KVM should work great. However, do you typically need a VGA cable plugged in for the keyboard/mouse to switch? In my case I don't have any VGA (eg. I only want to switch the keyboard/mouse)
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I boot from a WD 250GB drive. I have an empty identical drive sitting around. How would I go about making an exact copy of the boot drive? Ideally including all the boot stuff, so if the first drive fails, I can pop the new one in and have it work right away.
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Kreez posted:I boot from a WD 250GB drive. I have an empty identical drive sitting around. How would I go about making an exact copy of the boot drive? Ideally including all the boot stuff, so if the first drive fails, I can pop the new one in and have it work right away. Any imaging software, such as Acronis ($$) or Norton Ghost ($$$) or even CloneMaxx (free!) will do the trick - you're looking to clone your drive. There are many other options available, but I've only ever used Acronis and Ghost. Note: you will need another computer to do this, as you shouldn't attempt to clone a drive that's currently in use by Windows (but it is possible, just risky)
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Kreez posted:Awesome, thanks. Alternatively you could use a Linux live CD (such as Knoppix) to do this without having to tear out any drives...
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Is there a safe way to share an external hard drive for two computers? I got a new one a few months ago, but the other one is still working fine. I was thinking about using one for gaming and the other for music/videos, but that'd have no use if there's not much on it.
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