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So my animal hospital customer notified me that they want to install a commercial generator to power the entire facility. The facility is what I would consider large. Two floors and maybe 50 employees in the building. Large OR, labs, etc. The contractor contacted me and said they need suitable...

Tried out the 7C84v13 update today and it caused a spontaneous shutdown at idle. Nothing in the Event log other than the unplanned shutdown. Only overclocking items enabled were XMP and PBO Enabled (instead of Auto). Rock solid again back on the 1.2 BIOS, same settings. System was fine with...

Just built a 3600X/MSI Tomahawk system after being away from AMD for many years. Very pleased with it, the system is running well. One tiny issue I had was noise on the Wraith cooler. It was making a low droning whine kind of a sound made worse by constant speed fluctuations. I made two...

Microcenter matched this price on two of them for me today. :woot: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=500gb+evo+860&qid=1574729637&sr=8-2

Been away from AMD for a while and thinking of trying them again.... Do the older B450 mobos support all of the boost/turbo/OC features of the new 3000X series CPUs? Or do I have to get an X470/X570 mobo for that?

Looks like the new A3 BIOS for the Z370 SLI Plus is fubar. It's running fine now on A2 BIOS at 4.8GHz/3200 and is very stable (8700K). Tried the new A3 BIOS this morning and I got constant BSODs at the same settings I have now. I'm guessing the newest microcode update broke something. If you...

With this recent exercise of patches and BIOS updates for Meltdown/Spectre, I realized that older discontinued systems (EOL) will probably never get BIOS updates with the new microcode for this issue. I happened to have a brand new 8700K system and a brand new laptop, both of those had new BIOS...

Ok, here's another C70 mod for you, and what's cool is this one will work on any case with a Reset switch. It's really cool on the C70 though because of the military theme and how the Power & Reset buttons are designed. . Remember the war movies where the soldiers have to turn two keys, or...

I actually did this mod on my C70 back in July, but am just getting around to posting about it here. I have a system I use for testing and diagnostics that was in an old crappy generic tower and decided to get a Corsair C70 replacement case for a couple of reasons.... For practical reasons, I...

Nice 4790K CPU, MSI Mobo, GSkill 16GB RAM Windows Combo SOLD ASUS i5 500GB SSD Laptop SOLD 8GB (2x4GB) Kingston DDR3 1333 Memory SOLD .

Silverstone NT06 Pro Low Profile Heatsink Cooler with 120mm Fan This is a really nice effective low profile QUIET CPU heatink/cooler that I had in my HTPC. Parted out that system and I know somebody here will need this. Includes all parts, instructions, and original packaging. I take good care...

Picked up a new customer and I'm trying to get iDrive.com backup running in their SBS 2011 environment. It's got two problems: First is Exchange Brick Level backup. It backs up 3 mailboxes and then hangs. It will stay running for hours doing nothing until I cancel the job. The only security...

Laptops gone to Ebay. Items I'm looking for: (would prefer straight trade) CPU: Xeon E3-1280 v2 Sealed 8TB WD Easystore drive from Bestbuy if you over bought. lol Recent low end video card GTX 970, GTX 1050 TI or higher RX 470 or higher May be interested in other items (no cell phones)...

I have a customer of mine (financial advisors) asking for advice on "Client Vault" solutions. Kind of a secure (and expensive) file sharing service with auditing. Did a brief look around and visited the http://www.smartvault.com site. Never had any experience with this type of service and told...

Installing a new Dell T130, 2016 Essentials in a small office to join a current domain and replace a 2008 server. I have 21 days grace time from joining the domain I believe to make it the Primary Domain Controller. Didn't even get to that point yet though. Just out of the box I booted it up...

I have a customer running an old XP box that needs to stay on XP to communicate with some industrial equipment. It also needs to be able to RDP to one of their customers servers that requires RDP with NLA. So I'm looking around for the RDP client v7 client update for XP and the MS download link...

WTF?! I run Win-7 Pro on my main computer but I have another computer running Win-10 Pro I use for different projects and testing various things. I was just doing something on the Win-10 system and I got a pop-up ad tied to the Edge icon on the taskbar offering "Earn Free Movies & Games while...

I still have one of those old Ahanix home theater cases with the VFD display. The VFD display module finally died after about 13 years and I'm having trouble finding another one. If you happen to have this VFD maybe in an old Ahanix case you aren't using, let me know. .

This is a cable/bracket for the JLPT1 parallel port header on MSI mobos. The connector size is a non-standard 2.0mm pitch instead of the standard 2.54mm pitch. Looks like they are available at the "Shop@MSI" website for $5 + $35 shipping but I don't want it quite that bad. I've read that they...

I have a customer who wants GPS tracking on an employee's (company owned) laptop. I told her that I know of theft recovery apps for laptops, but not any real-time GPS trackers like she is looking for. Anybody know of anything that would work for her? Needs to work while laptop is off, moving...

A lot of you bought those Dell T20 Mini-Towers but they can't do RAID. This card will give you RAID, 0/1/10 capability. I bought this Syba/IOCrest model SI-PEX40057 RAID controller to play around with on one of my machines. It works well but it's not any better or worse than the RAID...

I have two different VPN routers that while a few years old, are rock solid VPN business class routers. Way more reliable than the stuff on typical big box shelves. The first is a D-Link DFL-200 router that I had as a backup router for a customer, just sitting on my shelf as a spare. They have...

I have a socket 775 C2Q Q9650 that runs great 3.6GHz 24/7 on simple air cooler. Trade off the table now, but will still sell it. Cash price is $79 shipped. Heat is under "Spartacus".

Intel Enthusiast Game Voucher (Product Key) - SOLD Format: PC 1: Counter Strike: GO (14.99 Value) 2: Just Cause 3 (59.99 Value) 3: World of Warships (50.00 Value) I will email the Key for digital download. How to Redeem 1) Visit Gamingbundle.Intel.com 2) Enter Key 3) Follow Prompts

HP ProLiant ML10 v2 Tower Server - No OS Intel® CoreTM i3-4150, 3.5GHz, Dual Core, 4GB Smart Array B120i embedded 6Gb/s SATA RAID controller Looks like a pretty warm deal on a new entry level server. Another deal I'd like to bite on, but my old server is still running just fine and I can't...

I have a customer who has an old Win 2000 server with a proprietary real estate database on it. They've gone to a new web based database, but still need the historical database on the old server. That darn box has gone through a couple of hard drives and it's gasping for breath. It will drop for...

Just hooked it up today.... very nice monitor and it's HUGE compared to the 19" standard (non widescreen) flat panel I was using. It's 1920x1200 resolution so better than the U2414H I almost bought. You will probably get tagged with around $20 tax like I did since Staples is in most states I...

I still run into old Dell 2003/2003 SBS servers where Dell created a very small OS partition (like 12GB sometimes) and it runs out of space and crashes. I run into similar partition size problems on desktops and laptops too. Just had a friend's Win-7 laptop that I was able to resize and fix...

I have a unique configuration with one of my customers.... the router is beyond my control, I have to send emails to justify any changes like opening a port for an app. They have a single computer in a common area and they want to lock it down to block porn, Facebook, etc. We also need to be...

We did a project for a customer a couple of years ago (Oct-2010) and it went well at the time. The project was to setup a bunch of flat panel TVs that would show content from one central PC video source. The PC runs Powerpoint slide shows, video clips, etc. to their customers. So we bought...

I have a customer who needs pallet & crate design software. Not the software that shows the best way to stack product on the pallet or load the truck, but to actually design different types of pallets and crates. Ring a bell with anybody?

I have a good customer who runs a very small (3 person) office and reads up on all of the latest tech trends and wants to move his data from his 2003 server to "the cloud". He's got around 50GB of data last I knew, most of which (around 30GB) is family pics that he keeps on his office server...

I have a customer that wants to do an in-house streaming video server with 5 big screens to show videos, slide shows, POS promo type stuff. They said they don't mind wiring up a dedicated network for this use to avoid flooding their existing network with the video traffic. Just looking for...

I was just wondering if those cheesy Hong Kong 7" Mini Netbook Laptops could handle RDP. It should be able to do OWA no problem.... but if it could also do RDP, it would open up some interesting possibilities. Sort of a cheap "disposable" laptop that road warriors could use to connect into the...

I have a user running Win7Pro/Office 2007 on a 2003 SBS with a weird Outlook problem. New messages will get stuck in the Outbox and when you look at the Options, Delay Delivery is automatically enabled to send at 5PM on the current day. You turn it off and then go back and look at it again...

I got roped into doing a T1 cut-over the other day. The T1 router is an Adtran 3200 that needs to be re-programmed for the new circuit. I never worked on one of these before, but I figured out the CLI, almost exactly like a PIX. I got the router setup well enough to show the circuit is good...

I tried the search on this with no luck. Ok, here's the deal.... new customer with SBS 2003 Premium or Standard, I can't tell. They canned the previous IT dude and there are several things to fix. One of them is that they need more user CALS, so I'm trying to determine the OS. They do have...

As many of you guys here are (like me) IT service providers, you know that your customers are now looking for help with VOIP and other tech products that overlap with IT. We have a corporate IT customer that wants us to help them setup their conference room AV equipment. That is a new area we...

I have a few customers who want a solution like this.... sharing Outlook Calendars without the initial and ongoing expense of Exchange. Anybody have any experience with any of these types of products? Here's one I'm looking at: http://www.officecalendar.com/index.aspx