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I'd like to get started on a long overdue upgrade of the main rig in my sig below. I haven't done a complete overhaul in a few years so bear with me as I'm a bit out of the loop. The parts that I need to upgrade: CPU Motherboard Memory PSU The parts that I plan to keep: Case: Apevia XSniper2...

I have a directory called: Music Within are the following subdirectories: Artist Albums Compilations Labels +Playlists Singles The "ls" command lists them in the above order but shouldn't it list them in the following order? +Playlists Artist Albums Compilations Labels Singles This has been...

I plan to move the motherboard and CPU in my main computer to my HTPC and the mobo and CPU in my HTPC to my file server. With that, I'm going to need to upgrade the mobo and CPU in my main computer so I'll need a few suggestions. The current specs fare in my signature. Basically, I'll just be...

I have this processor and motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPLGGWS/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=20X73Q6XPB3ZO&coliid=I1US9HBL68GESR http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FU829ZQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 A week ago, my computer froze up...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Web browsing, Word processing, Light gaming (emulators, indie games, flash), listening to music, virtual machines, light Python, VBS, and SQL 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $650 with tax and...

I had the power supply in my file server die recently, and it appears as though it killed the mobo, or did it? I replaced the PSU with Antec Earthwatts 380, and while the power light on the motherboard comes on and stays lit, when I press the power switch, the CPU starts for a split second...

I have an NTFS drive that I want to add to a server that I have running CentOS 5.5 32-bit. I've installed ntfs-3g, but when I try to mount the drive, I still get the "unknown filesystem type ntfs" error. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, I've set up a VM running CentOS 5.5 in VMWare Workstation. I want to give it access to a physical disk (1.5TB Western Digital). I followed the instructions on VMWare's site for adding a physical disk, and all seemed to go well, but after booting the VM, the disk doesn't appear in...

I need a SAS RAID controller that supports 0+1 for a database server. I've done some searching, but the few I've found have had the dreaded Silicon chipset. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm building a new file server, and I'm about to get this mobo, which says it supports DDR2 667/800/1066(OC). I have 2GB(2 X 1GB) DDR2 533 on hand, so my question is, would the board support it at its lower rated speed, or would I need to buy new RAM? It seems that it would, I've just never...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Server which will host music, movies/tv shows, pictures, and backups of games and software. It will also act as a torrent/download box and stream music and video to other computers in the house. 2) What's your budget...

Greetings, I just moved in to a room in a new house with my gf and another roommate, and while I can get my PC to connect to the network, my gf's laptop gets limited or no connectivity while our roommate's gets nothing at all. The network is using 64-bit WEP encryption, and using the same...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Web browsing, Word Processing(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc), Photo viewing(plus some light photo editing), Listening to music, Light gaming(Mostly ROMS and flash games like Bejeweled, Mahjong, etc)) 2) What's your...

It's been a while since done a completely new build, so I could use some help. I've had some bad experiences with bad power supplies in the past, so I'd like to get it right the first time with this one. Here are the specs: Case: Sunbeam Transformer IC-TR-US-BA-WOPSU Black Steel ATX Full...

My girlfriend has had an Acer Netbook for about a month, and in the beginning, things ran smoothly on my network(Linksys WRT54G, Comcast Cable). About a week or two ago, she started having problems with websites not loading and began having "connection error" issues. I tried...

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Funny after spending all night at work thinking about how much I'd love to play Sexy Parodius, Salamander, & company on my PSP, Konami has a surprise, here it is: http://www.psxextreme.com/psp-news/633.html Now, if only Psikyo would release a Gunbird Collection and Sengoku Ace Collection.

So I normally leave my computer on with some mp3's playing before I go to sleep, and I wake up a few hours later, and the music has stopped. Not only that, but all sound on my rig has ceased. No sounds when I click to open folders or click browser buttons in IE explorer, etc. If I try to...

Decided to reinstall windows on my secondary rig, but I'm having some troubles. It gets up to the point where it copies files needed for installation, but then I get this error saying: "Setup cannot copy the file: ftdisk.sys" -To Retry, press Enter. .........blah blah blah" I tried...

This problem started about a week ago. Whenever playing mp3's from my music drive, Musicmatch crashes, and an error message comes up regarding something about a delayed write failure from the particular drive. A little while after that, the drive just up and vanishes from "My Computer"...

Is it just me, or does Snake seem a little out of place in this game? It's like putting Jiggly Puff in Tekken 6. I'd like to see more characters in it, but wouldn't it be more fitting to include characters like Sonic, Ratchet, Sly Cooper, Jak, Daxter, Tak, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, Mega...

After waking up a little while ago, I went to move some files from my secondary machine to my primary rig via the shared folders in "My Network Places" only to find out that the shared folders had up and vanished. I went to "My Network Places" in the secondary rig, and they were still there...

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After installing in my new system, I couldn't get WinXP to install. It would get to the point just before it begins copying system files, and then give a message saying that "windows had to be shut down due to an error." Soon thereafter, my PSU died, and took out my two rear case fans as well...

I will be upgrading my video card soon, and I'd like some opinions on which is the better card for the money. They both have 256MB RAM and the 256-bit memory interface, but the X850 has a slightly higher core and memory clock. Is the difference worth it?

Motherboard RAM Video Card Current specs are in my sig. The new motherboard will allow me to ditch my IDE controller card for adding new drives, and the onboard fire wire is a nice touch. For the video card, I just want something that will last me the next 2-3 years before I...

I currently have a 480W PSU running all the stuff in my sig, and I'm planning to add a two more optical drives and another hard drive in the near future. Will the 480W suffice, or should I upgrade to something 500W+ ?