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Hey everyone, So with some video card bundles that I purchased I ended up getting 3 of these now infamous Gigabyte 750/850W Gold power supplies. I ended up putting them in my lab to replace some pre-80 plus Corsair CX units but now a couple months later they are a danger. As these units run...

Hey everybody, I am looking to find at least one old Gigabyte TPM 1.2 volume (either the 1.0 or 1.1 model of their 20-pin TPM). I fully understand this does not work with Windows 11, I want to do some TPM work with some older FM2+ systems that I use in my lab, and the Gigabyte TPM 2.0 module...

Hey everyone, I have a RX580 (rx580aorus-8gd Rev. 1.0) running BIOS F4 with Samsung chips. I have been doing Windows 11 config testing with different builds as a work side projects (IT Consultant here) and I noticed one config would not take Secure Boot and it involves this RX580. I cannot...

Hello everyone, I am just looking to purchase a new board / CPU / RAM as the rest of my components are just fine I have decided on a Gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming motherboard and 32GB of DDR 2933 memory The processor decision has turned out to be a lot more complicated than I expected due...

Good evening :) A very good friend of mine is looking to upgrade his old in the tooth Core i5 750 rig. Space is an issue so he is looking mATX. Here is the build I am proposing: I am a bit out of date on what is cool / fast as I deal much more with servers/storage in my work life than...

Hey there, I created this thread on the AMD forums and seem to be getting no where... https://community.amd.com/thread/212855 I am looking to get my hands on a newer installer for the RAIDExpert2 tool that works with the A88X. In short the RAIDExpert2 utility download from this link...

Hey everyone, I have built a workstation box in a small case but I have run into a problem with temperatures. Here are the specs and pictures: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (2.8GHz, 95W TDP) Coolermaster Hyper T2 Cooler with Arctic Silver MX-2 Thermal Grease (just re-applied) Old White ATX Case...

Hey everyone :) I have a Frankenstein of a machine that I use as a loaner when working on others computers, my video encoding rig, and secondary Hyper-V lab environment that I boot into Server 2012 R2 when I need more resources than my primary lab can muster Here are the current specs...

Hey everyone! Today I decided to upgrade my old DIR-825 which has DD-WRT on it to a firewall hosted on my Hyper-V environment to increase my OpenVPN performance. I am running Server 2012 R2 on the hardware listed in my signature - it works perfect in production for various other Windows...

Good morning everyone :) I am in the process of prepping my new A88X box to be my low power Hyper-V server but have ran into a snag with getting the RAIDXpert2 utility to do much of anything - I have a strong feeling it is related to this driver not being installed with the latest APU...

Hello everyone, This issue has been rearing its head for me for sometime and I keep running into roadblocks. Basically we have a FA2240 that shares out CIFS for our home directories, file shares, etc and it is all tied together in a single DFS namespace. As we are not replacing the...

Hey everyone, I am trying to write some scripts to change the zone transfer and notify servers for around 1000 internal zones but the Microsoft technet articles on these commands are lacking a lot on the syntax. I was hoping that someone could point out how to do the spacing on the IP...

Hey everyone, Tomorrow I have a meeting with our design group and as the Senior infrastructure admin I have been asked to review putting our local vCenter instance into AWS. I for a host of reasons am totally against this but want input to if I am just being close minded or if my fears are...

Hey everyone, I just completed a migration from a Debrian 4 DHCPD box to Windows DHCP. The environment is around 40 scopes and 800 reservations and besides one bug is working perfectly after some fun scripting :) Basically if you have a reserved IP in Scope A and plug into Scope B you get...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc This is literally my loaner machine that I give to people when they have issues or I am building them a new one. I spec it to be useful for gaming, web browsing, and all uses but not great. 2) What's your budget? Are...

Hey guys, I have been slowly putting together a machine for a friend of mine who has been doing humanitarian work/chasing tail for 2 years in South Asia. He is coming home in a couple weeks and I have a computer ready for him but don't feel 100% confident about if I left enough head room for...

Hey everyone, I have run into an odd issue that VMware themselves has not been helpful on. Here is my support ticket to them: "On October 2nd a guest named WDNS001 was hosted on our VMware 5.5 Cluster specifically located on Host 3 of that cluster. At around 11AM we lost all access to...

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Good morning :) I am looking at doing a small upgrade to my girlfriends machine to get the motherboard and such up to snuff and to take advantage of the SSD more that I installed earlier. Thoughts on the build? 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc...

Hey everyone, I have been curious to review and try out a VPN service but for my home network I was hoping to terminate it against my SonicWALL and then setup rules on the back end to make it as secure as I can. In looking through the "top VPN providers" I can't seem to find one that...

Hey everyone, We took a 2.5 year old HP MSA60 enclosure out of service that has 12 x 1TB 7.2k drives and I also have 2 cold spares, duel power supplies, and duel IO engines. It still even has 1.5 years of warranty left and they asked me to take it home. Everything is on our production...

Hey everyone - thank you as always for helping out on this :) Here is the questions and my thoughts on a rig - input as I am no where near as in the loop as I used to be on hardware is hugely appreciated! 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc...

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Hey guys, I apologize on my lack of knowledge on Cisco wireless gear I am much more familiar with Aruba, HP, Ruckus (ick), and SonicWALL gear. I have been tasked with moving 4 air-lap1252ag-a-k9 units from a 4000 series controller (AIR-WLC4402-12-K9) to a 5000 series controller...

Hey everyone, I have ran into an odd what looks to be video related issue (but again not sure). As soon as I install either the latest stable or beta Radeon drivers the machine after the Windows screen just "blacks out" and I get some gibberish on the edges. Here is the full build...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Backup gamer, HTPC connected to my main living room television 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Less than $500 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Primarily gaming, Borderlands 2, GW2, Diablo 3 etc 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Trying to keep it under $800 tax out 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the...

Hey guys, I am putting together a PC for a friend of mine (at no mark up of course) and as I have been out of the PC building game for a while would like some input as to my hardware build and such. Any help is hugely appreciated :) 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming...

Hey everyone, I am not a Microsoft Office guru and I got an odd question today that I was unable to give a logical answer to. As a picture is worth 1000 words, here goes I am unable to add anything to both the business or mailing address fields while in the list view. Most other...

Hey Guys, I have been tasked with completing a Cisco config update on an ISR and I am a little confused on this as I have been doing so much SonicWALL, Fortinet, and Palo Alto work recently. Client is running a Cisco 2911 running IOS version is 15.0(1)M6. They have added a new WAN...

As always :D 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming primarily, I have a work laptop setup 90 degrees away on my desk with two monitors 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? Only a single card, $500-600 is fine and shipping is not...

Hey Guys, I am having a lot of weird issues with my 5850 in my Gamer, I feel strongly that the card is defective but I just wanted to see if possibly I am missing something. I run an EyeFinity setup with three Dell U2412B IPS monitors in Portrait (i.e. 3600x1980) A couple weeks ago I...

Hey Guys, my 5850 just packed it in. Tough sledding to use a card that freezes any machine when you install the drivers... I will warrant it with XFX but I have been looking to upgrade for a while. Now seems like a good time for some reason! I have a Corsair TX750 PSU, excellent...

Hey Guys, I apologize right off as I am not a VMware guy. I am a Cisco/HP/SonicWall network engineer who due to staffing shortages is being asked to backup an ESXi 4.1 server with a USB external hard drive. I understand that I need to have the drive formatted in FAT32, but if someone could...

Hey Guys, I was just dropped into configuring some Dell 3448 switches to trunk back to a HP Procurve 2910al in the core. The HP I can configure in my sleep, but the Dell edge switches I really don't know how to configure one area correctly. Basically I have an enterprise wireless solution...

Hey Guys, I have a weird question I have an environment that I am working on that during power restoration after an outage I run into an issue where certain services come up (i.e. Exchange/BES and an AD based CRM service) before the domain controllers are ready to go. UPS wise I don't have...

So right now I am running into a litany of issues with my entire home setup and I am trying to wrap my head around on how to as cost effectively as possible complete upgrades that fix all of the issues with the least amount of working hardware left over. First off the problems: Server...

Hey Guys, The included 380W eathwatts power supply in my Antec NSK3480 just packed it in after warranty. I am looking to replace it with a 350-450 watts quiet but effective unit. I live in Canada and purchase from n-c-i-x. The specs are: Athlon X3 750 at stock Gigabyte 780G board 4GB...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Primarily streaming video content on a wired gigabit connection from my server. Also used for video conferencing, youtube watching, and my DJ for parties at my place. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping...

Hey Guys, I am looking to buy a single slot pretty good gaming/HTPC video card. First the specs of the PC in question: AMD Athlon X2 7750BE Gigabyte MA78GM-US2H (using onboard video) 4 x 2GB PC8000 G.Skill Antec NSK3480 /w included Antec 380W PSU (not sure which series) Western Digital...