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I picked up a Chenbro RM24508M3RP5 rack mount chassis which seemed like a perfect way to build a low-cost storage server with some shucked 14 TB drives. Overall I'm moderately happy with the chassis except for one big issue - the fans are in high gear at all times, in wind turbine territory...

I recently replaced my trusty old shader unlocked Sapphire 6950 which was hosting two 27" LCD's with an HIS Radeon HD 7950 that was on sale last week at NCIX. Never heard of HIS but I figured I'd take a chance... Basically, I removed the old video card and plugged the new one in, hooking...

Intel ICH9R RAID5 array, had a couple of volumes in the array, deleted a smaller 200GB volume and only one 3.5 TB array left and want to add the left over 200GB to the 3.5TB array. Attempting to "increase size" prompts me if I'm sure, I click yes and then I immediately receive the error message...

I am attempting to build a RAID5 array on an Intel hardware controller card. The array either fails during slow initialization, or after initialization when I start dumping data to it in Windows. Other drives on this card work fine in RAID5; however I need WD1002FBYS to work in particular as...

For sale is one brand new, unopened, retail boxed Intel Core i7-965 Processor Extreme Edition CPU for $900 US including shipping to your location in USA or Canada. Newegg.com's price - $999.99 USD + tax Newegg.ca's price - $1,249.99 CA + tax Again, this CPU has never been used and is in brand...

I've seen this problem before and I don't remember what my resolution was... I have hard drives that work fine inside a PC. Plug them into an external USB connector and they show up as "unknown" & "not initialized" in disk management. I obviously don't want to initialize them as I'll lose my...

I'm looking to buy the Mega Man collection for NES in one shot. I saw one auction go for $45 for all 6 last week, but I missed it.... everyone else seems to be charging $100 + shipping or even more outrageous pricing. I'm too impatient to wait to see them cheaper again, so was wondering if any...

Our company mainly specializes in selling systems to business or corporate clients that often require systems with 24/7 uptime, continually processing data or systems of 'high reliability.' For years we'd built our systems with Western Digital's enterprise or "RE" line of products and in 5...

So, brand new Sapphire 4850 on a fresh install of Vista in a well cooled chassis causing "display driver stopped responding" multiple times in Vista x64 with Aero enabled. Talked to some folks, suggested that maybe Aero was overheating things. Having used Nvidia exclusively for a lot of...

Many years ago I built a few video editing systems for a client, based on the Matrox RT 2000 and 2500 cards. At the time I didn't know much about video editing, and realtime editing on the PC was still fairly new. Years later, after hearing feedback and personal experience, the Matrox RT cards...

A client gave me a pile of parts they purchased off a friend second hand, that included a Core 2 Duo, two sticks of 667 1GB DDR2, and a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (latest BIOS) motherboard. Upon flicking the power supply switch on, the system typically causes all my UPS's on my workbench to beep...

Memofix seems to be a Canadian 'repair depot' that handles RMA for a lot of manufacturer's in the US, such as Antec, Quantum, etc. They used to handle Seagate, but they don't anymore. Basically, you send them a broken item and they'll send you someone elses broken item that they've recently...

This is more security related... but also network, I suppose. I have a domain user, with user level access to his workstation, that needs to insert and remove many USB keys. The problem - Windows XP will occasionally give him mapped drive letters for his USB keys, thus completely preventing...

I have a strange problem with my Vista install, and I'd rather figure it out than reformat. Basically it's a fairly fresh install of Windows Vista Home Basic x64 w/SP1 that was working fine. Suddenly one day it refused to browse network shares. I can access the internet fine from this...

I've been putting off learning the finer points of Vista until the 2nd edition of the Resource Kit comes out, so I'm stuck with what's probably a simple problem. I need to access the Vista DVD's \boot\bootsect.exe file off a boot, however upon booting off the Vista DVD and opening a command...

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I had an advance RMA with Western Digital, they sent me a drive that was lost by UPS, which I didn't find out about until a few weeks went by and I called Western Digital and they said, "oops, sorry UPS lost your drive." So I called up UPS, and they said, "Yep, we lost your drive, sorry about...

I'm looking for suggestions on a quality freeware or open piece of software that allows you to have a floating dock of many icons to launch applications and folders with. I realize quick launch can do this, however I want a separate icon set from quick launch (as I functionally use quick launch)...

Looking to buy legitimate Windows 2000 OEM COA stickers that are unregistered and unused, and can be re affixed to a PC chassis. I need four in total, but will buy one at a time if you have one. If you've used the key but it's unregistered with Microsoft, I'll take. It doesn't matter...

Well, I figured I'd get the word out there that Connect3D offers zero post-sales technical support, and at the same time see if anyone has any suggestions on contacting their RMA department. I'm a small town reseller and I'd sold a system a few months back with a Connect3D brand Radeon X1600...

I've installed my Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and was impressed at the volume of the stock cooling. I can't even hear it running! I've always regarded stock Intel CPU heatsink / fans as being top quality in terms reliability during normal use (ie. not overclocking) and I've yet to see one die even...

I realize this probably isn't the right board to post this question, but I'm not sure what else is out there where I have the chance to hit on some folks that have experience with server hardware... I ripped apart one of our old 2U Exchange servers to put FreeBSD on and went to add some...

AzenRAM is sold advertising "lifetime warranty" everywhere I see it sold, however I haven't been able to locate the company itself to send this RAM back. I may have purchased it from Futureshop or I may not... I don't have a receipt anymore and the RAM is definitely bad. Anyone know if or...