Seeking advice as to what to purchase
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Can someone guide me on following.
I have 2 CPUs Intel 2GHz Xeon QC E5335.
Need advise as to what motherboard, power supply, cards I need to
buy to make a Server PC.
Regards,
D M Joshi ...
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Anyone used FreeNAS?
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
Hi All,
I want to play with mirroring fair chunk of data across town between
mine and a mate's house.
We're both on ADSL so our upstream speed's not brilliant, but
nevermind.
I was planning on setting up a FreeNAS box at one end, possibly
eventually at both, and filling it from the pile of hard disks I have
ly ...
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"Older" scanner better than new!
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:00:03 +0100
Just an observation more than anything else, but when my "old"
parallel interface scanner packed up I replaced it with a Packard Bell
usb one that worked fine. However, with my old scanner I could use it
to scan decent pics of 3D objects. i.e. it was able to focus on parts
of an object a cm or so above the top of ...
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IRQ clash
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:23:39 -0700 (PDT)
A few frustrating hours spent searching for a hardware fault ended
when I moved a RAID card from PCI slot 4 to slot 3, to stop its IRQ
clashing with my USB keyboard.
Does PCI-X assign IRQs to slots in a less inflexible way than PCI? ...
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Advice to anyone considering 8GB with a TV Tuner
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:40:32 +0100
I just upgraded my machine to 8GB from 4GB becuase DDR2 is so cheap at the
moment and I have a TV Tuner, it was working pretty well with 4GB apart from
the occasional glitch where I would get a popping/crackling sound repeating
and I had to close the WinTV app and perhaps reload it a few times, this
didn't hap ...
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Older PC keeps giving odd errors at POST
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:30:26 +0100
Hi
I've an older homebuilt machine here that has started behaving oddly
on boot up
I will get a message saying that CPU frequency has changed and to
enter the BIOS to confirm settings. I do this and confirm and save and
then get the error again.
I suspect this is a BIOS or mobo issue as memory frequency is ...
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Power issue at PC power on
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
I built a new PC in the week and at first everything was normal as
soon as I pressed the power button the PC would startup.
Then I added a couple of PCI cards and ever since then the first time
I switch on the power after the switch on the PSU is turned to the on
position I get a short burst of power then a paus ...
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Update to: I will never buy BFG products again!
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:34:04 +0100
They returned my card and I examined it myself, and took it to the post
office adn to a local PC repair company.
Both advised me I should have used a rigid box to return to BFG BUT both
agreed the damaged Molex could not possible have happened whilst
packaged as adjacent capacitors, fan housing etc were untouch ...
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Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:25:58 GMT
Don't buy or become reseller for Foxcon Mboards being fitted with dodgy BIOS
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
They have now been reported to the FTC.
It will be a support nightmare.
Go return the boards and demand refunds from your vendors.
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weird problem involving wep encryption
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:34:38 +0100
Came across a strange problem regarding a wireless network using wep
security. One laptop would refuse to connect for more then a second, the key
was correct, and it had worked previously. All the other wireless devices
would work.
Because of issues not really relevant, wpa was not a permanent possibility,
b ...
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