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I've used PC's since my dad bought an IBM 5150, but I've never bought a laptop before. My girlfriend and I are looking to buy three laptops for my three stepkids (ages 11, 9, and 8), and I figured this forum might have some good suggestions. We are short on money, so I am thinking Costco...

Weird -- the Netis installer has version 1026.13 for Win7 x64. I'm giving it a try now.

The 1026.13 version is only for Win8.1. I'm running Windows 7 x64, and the drivers in the zip for that are only version 1024.9. I tried using Device Manager to "Update Driver" and pointed it to the 8.1x64 folder, but it tells me my driver is up-to-date. Manually right-clicking "install"...

I have noticed with motherboards that use Realtek chipsets, that a given motherboard vendor seldom keeps up with the Realtek driver releases, and the best solution is to go to Realtek's website directly for the best/latest drivers -- all the vendors do is slap their own brand-name on the driver...

I've purchased several Alfa AWUS036AC 802.11ac dual-band wifi USB adapters for use with three Windows 7 computers I have, and I am looking to get better performance out of them. I am connecting them to a TRENDnet TEW-812DRU AC1750 dual-band wireless router. What perplexes me is the...

I run the Disk Cleanup tool, click on the "Clean up system files" button, after which it shows there is 4.55 GB of "Windows Update Cleanup" that can be removed. I click "OK" and then click "Delete Files", after which the progress bar moves along slowly but surely, and then the cleanup app...

The machine running Backblaze is my home server already -- it runs all sorts of applications, is a file server, and PVR -- so I can't set all the traffic from the machine to low priority, but limiting the port 443 traffic from that machine is acceptable.

I decided to go with a workable if not quite perfect solution: I set low priority for traffic from that machine's MAC address that is on port 443. So any HTTPS from that machine will also get low priority... but that's better than Backblaze crowding out other traffic. There is a throttle...

QoS only affects outbound traffic, but the router allows you to specify either a source or a destination IP for doing it. I don't want to lower the priority for all the traffic from that computer, only the Backblaze application, so priority based on source IP is a bad idea. Priority based on...

I am not a networking expert so I am in over my head a bit on this topic. I have Backblaze running on my home system, and I want to use the QoS in my Trendnet AC1750 router to give the Backblaze bandwidth lower priority than most other traffic. What has me stumped is what Backblaze says...

That looks like a cool utility, but it only accepts integer refresh rates -- this is frustrating, since I want to do 4 x 23.976 = 95.904 Hz I sent a ticket to EVGA support and they got right back to me -- said to try their Precision X utility, which does let me adjust the pixel clock. Again...

I had been pairing my old Sony FW900 CRT monitor with a Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, using PowerStrip to run the monitor at 1920x1200 at 96 Hz (useful for watching movies since it is 4 x 24 fps). I recently replaced the Radeon with an EVGA GTX 750 Ti graphics card, but now neither the Nvidia...

No I did not know that -- thanks for the info!

Oh yes, my first computer ran Windows 3.0 and I quickly became a staunch OS/2 fan and MS hater. While Symantec has never had anything like the iron-grip on the industry or stifled innovation the way MS did, what got me hating Symantec was watching them buy one innovative company after another...

Any suggestions though on cards that are quiet and also have good price/performance?

Just like the title says -- what's the fastest video card on the market that is both very quiet and will fit in an Antec NSK2480 case? That case will take true full-height cards but there is MINIMAL clearance ABOVE the card for heat-pipes and fins. You can see my Antec case here on NewEgg...

Anyone?

I have backup software I've been using for my data. I also see plenty of options for backing up entire partitions. But I am specifically looking for backup software for the purpose of backing up the programs I've installed, including their registry settings and other files created by the...

Also, it looks like Partition Magic got killed by Symantec (I HATE that company -- they buy so many companies and shut them down), so there is no version of Partition Magic that runs under Windows 7.

The mirror is simply to ensure that if the boot drive fails, I can be back up and running in a short time. Yes, the real data is kept on an array of big drives, and I use Stablebit DrivePool to turn it into a single huge pool, and to duplicate the important data. I also run online backup in...

I KNOW I had my WHS2011 boot drive mirrored previously. I don't know why it worked in that situation but not this one...

For some reason I couldn't get this to work on my new Windows 7 install. My server used to run Windows Home Server 2011, and I had set up a mirrored boot drive using two 60GB SSD's. The boot drive was a dynamic disk with a 100MB boot partition and the rest was the system partition. The...

I mean "login" as in logging in to two accounts with two desktops. The local account would have large fonts/icons and is intended for watching simple workout videos, which might be paused for days at a time, using a small wireless keyboard. The remote account would look like a normal...

I would like to set up a Windows 7 system to have two separate accounts, with the idea that the first will only be used to login locally and watch media files etc. while the second will only be used to login remotely to run background apps. I'm currently running Windows Home Server 2011 to do...

That sucks. Any alternatives, either different motherboard or controller?

Does it matter if the boot drive will be attached to the motherboard? The SAS will be for the storage drives.

OK, looks like I can't put off upgrading my server any longer. Are there any newer/better options now for SAS cards and extenders?

Sorry, I should have been clear: the E35M1-M Pro has a X16 PCIe 2.0 slot, a X1 PCIe 2.0 slot, plus two PCI slots. It has onboard graphics so am I right in thinking I can stick the 9211-8i in the long slot and the RES2SV240 in the short one (and use the 4-pin for power)?

Would that arrangement work with my current ASUS E35M1-M Pro motherboard? The RES2SV240 manual says its X4 PCIe connector is used only for power. My motherboard's second PCIe is only X1, so I assume it wouldn't work. But the manual says it also has a RA 4-pin power connector, and it looks...

I don't know much about SAS and was looking at getting the NORCO RPC-4224 server case. It has 24 hot-swap drive bays, and from what I can tell, it is fed by six SAS backplanes. I would like to run either Windows Home Server 2011 (which I have on my current media server) or perhaps the new...

This is a WHS2011 application -- it moves plenty of bits every day for doing PVR, but it doesn't need to be bleeding-edge fast. I just tested it with a 20GB file -- it maintained 40+MB/s the entire time. That's plenty good enough for what I'm using it for -- something that can stream...

FYI, I installed the version 7.50 drivers from Realtek's website (not ASUS, which still only has ver 7.37 on their website) and I have yet to experience a network drop-out since. I see there's now a version 7.53 on Realtek's site but haven't installed it yet.

Sheesh, this mobo replaced an 8-year old system that had onboard NIC that I never had a problem with -- that system could record up to four HDTV channels simultaneously -- this one so far hasn't had more than two channels connected. Gigabit ethernet has been around forever -- how could it be...

This would explain why I'm always finding my WHS2011 machine disconnected from the network -- apparently the NIC is crashing like you have observed. Very disappointing. Is there any likelihood that a driver update could fix this?

I am running Windows Home Server 2011 and every couple days it is unable to access the network. Pulling up the Network and Sharing Center, I see the computer-network connection is down, and it says the repair was successful by "Reset Local Area Connection adapter". Would this be a driver...

Windows Audio is already enabled. The other guy having problems was running Windows 7. I have noticed that if I FIRST login locally and configure it for speakers rather than headphones, I will get a tiny amount of sound from the speakers. Turning all the volume controls all the way up makes...

Yes, I just installed the very latest (Dec 16th) R267 drivers, and there's still no sound. I did find someone else with the same problem on a different forum -- he said he's not getting sound from the back panel or the SPDIF, but the HDMI does work. The graphics play Blu-Ray smoothly...

Having bought a pack of those and tried them, I can say the head is too big to clear the case.

Yeah I just installed the new drivers last night. I think the server graphics work correctly now but I have yet to get the audio working so it is hard to know for sure. The server has a monitor connected in front of my exercise machine, so it functions like a basic TV set -- I don't use it...