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I have an older test power supply that I have probably abused 1 too many times, which has a pretty cooked resistor inside (still works but it looks bad). Instead of tossing it, I was hoping to replace the failing resistor. All of the other components appear to be visually ok (ie. not burnt)...

I have a question that I have been wondering for some time concerning rootkits. If I have an infected computer that I am going to reimage, if I boot from to an Ubunu LiveCD and then delete all partitions using GPParted will this remove the infected rootkit partition or is this the infected...

So I am in the market for a new NAS and along side with that will be 4 new drives- 2TB capacity each. I have been reading TONS of reviews online on the two products but have failed to find anything comparing the new WD Black Drives (WD2003FZEX) to the pre-existing RE4 drives (WD2003FYYS). Aside...

So I have been banging my head against my desk some time with this but can't seem to find a straight answer on doing this. I essentially want to disable printing abilities from some users , regardless of which computer they login to BUT I want to enable printing abilities when another user who...

Hi all! Its been a long time since I have posted on these forums but I am banging my head against the desk with this one. I was hoping one of you CCNA folks would read this. I have a Cisco ASA with the newest IOS on it and a VPN which is NAT'ed to one of my remote sites. For argument sake lets...

Maybe someone could tell me if this is possible and how to do it since I am stumped at this point. I have a SharePoint site which I need to allow 2 forms of access to. My requirement is that both of them need to have SSL enabled for security reasons. For internal users, I currently have them...

So I have NUT up and running and all is good except for the fact that it does not trigger shutdown until the battery reaches 10% remaining. Due to the aged batteries that I have (aka I am too cheap to replace them) by the time it hits 10% it runs for less than 10 seconds before the UPS runs out...

So I have been having some drive issues lately (due to a failing mobo controller) and decided to look into the SMART values in Ubuntu (go live cd!). My drive tested as follows: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1...

The title pretty much says it all. I am looking to generate a "fake" RPM signal for a switch that I modded to fit a 120mm fan. Basically, I have removed the 40m 8000RPM fan which was noisy, cut a hole in the top of the case and affixed a 120mm fan. My main issue is that the IOS now thinks there...

I am installing a desktop PSU into (or rather outside) of a 1U network appliance however the network appliance does not have a momentary switch to activate the PSU. To work around this I am going to install a SPST switch to toggle the PSU on and off, removing the green wire from the 24-pin...

Anyone know where to purchase a 120mm replacement fan for a Zalman CNPS7700 heatsink? I love this sink but the bearings on my existing fan are beginning to wear out. I found a vendor online named AcousticPC who offers the part but I am unsure if they are reputable (and their site is riddled with...

Does anyone know any tricks to getting Outlook 2010 to start with windows and ONLY display the icon in the system tray? I can start the program minimized if I put it into the startup folder but when it starts on a fresh boot it displays in my taskbar and flashes until I click on it. Once it is...

I am in the process of reinstalling Windows 7 on my new Lenovo laptop and was curious to know if the Intel Martix Storage Manager is necessary in a single drive configuration. I see that this software mainly benefits RAID situations but I was also reading that it is used for some AHCI...

Its been a long time since I have posted a meaningful question here but I now have one after all this time! I am going to be building a new i7-based ESXi server and have spec'ed it out to allow multiple OSes to run at the same time. I am mainly planning on running Server 03/08 on it with...

I am beginning a paper for one of my courses and we are to report on an older VPN technology that is either considered extinct or is not widely used anymore. Additionally, we need to report on a future VPN technology that is not commonly deployed yet (something above today's IPSec tunnels). Do...

In short I am looking to smack down some cash on a G51VX laptop from Asus. This laptop meets/exceeds my needs but I was just wondering about their customer service. Have any of you had experience with Asus customer service. if so how is the quality and turnaround times? I feel sort of ripped...

The battery in my Insprion 6000 laptop is completely shot. It officially holds no charge and the charging light is throwing a failure flash code at me. I looked on Dell's site and they have the nerve of charging $155 for a new 80w/h battery. My question is, where do you guys purchase your...

I will pay the person who finds me a cable with this kind of end $7 in their PayPal account. Long story short, I messed up the USB adapers on the front of my CM Stacker STC-T01 case. On one end of the cable it has USB connections which look like this: On the other end there are standard USB...

I have a task which is running during Vista's shutdown/logoff procedure, which I cannot seem to locate. I went through all of the computer's services and running background programs and scheduled tasks, and was unable to find any leads. Basically what is happening is when I go to shutdown or...

I have always wondered the answer to this. I have some DVD-R's which write at a max of 4X. After written, are they only readable at 4X or can they be read faster than they are written? Thanks.

Yeah, I know it is like 7 versions older but I need it for one of my classes. The textbook I have is written for FC3 but it does not have the install CD's. Does anyone know if there are any "legacy" mirrors left out there for me to grab the ISO images with?

Ok, lets see how [H] you guys are! For those of you own a Canon printer, have you ever changed the default print settings on the printer? Specifically, I want to force the printer to always print "Last Page First". You can set this as a profile for the printer, however not as the default. Do...

My existing Belkin F6C120-UNV is about 6 years old, and as you can guess the battery is shot in it. Since Belin wants $150 for a pair of new ones I decided just to recycle the unit and buy a new one. The load on my existing ups is around 600VA. I think I am just going to get a 1000VA one to...

This is a problem which has been driving me insane for sometime. I have a nice watercooling setup for the CPU and cannot even overclock the damn thing. When I go into the BIOS to overclock, I set everything up for a very mild overclock. For instance, I set my cpu to 300X9 and set the voltage...

I am looking ot purchase another PSU for my watercooling tower. I have my main tower which is powered by a 600W OCZ PSU which has been going very strong but the PSU in my watercooling tower (which is a separate tower) has failed and is out of warranty. I am looking to replace this PSU with an...

I had a question from one of my networking classes and was just wondering what it meant. When you use the command: ping HOST.security.local what exactly are you pinging? What is security.local? I also was wondering WHAT happens when you ping this? If anyone could answer that for my I...

Could anyone tell me if an Intel Core2 CPU would work in my 3 year old Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook (and if Dell's latest BIOS for this notebook will support a Core2)? I have read that the socket type in this notebook is socket M. Thanks!

I am taking a poll on which is better recommended for cooling the smoking hot P965 chipset on my P5B DLX board. Which would you choose? Any comments are appreciated!

I have been having this problem for quite a while now and have been unable to locate a solution. Maybe one of you have some kind of clue as to what is going on with my system. Whenever I plug a new or existing hard drive into my system the New Hardware Wizard goes to work but shortly hangs...

I ma getting ready to make some more cooling-based purchases for my Asus P5B deluxe board and am looking at all of my possible options. I originally was going to cool my NB using a good old heatsink (since the stock one absolutely blows) but since I have a decent water cooling system I thought I...

I have a simple question. Is it possible to view the SMART info of individual drives in a RAID 0 array? If so, which program can accomplish this?

Before you guys rush to tell me that I have a bad drive let me say that this problem appears to be restricted to Vista. I have done much reading on the internet and was unable to determine a specific cause of this phenomena. The click happens from time to time and only produces a single click...

Within the next few days I will be adding two new hard drives to my computer. I currently have two 60GB drives working in a RAID 0 array, which also hosts Windows XP. The new drives are 250GB a piece and will also be working in a RAID 0 array....with one difference. Currently I only have a...

I am getting ready to purchase another set of sticks for my box (mainly for vista) and was wondering which I should go with, the 6400C4 or 6400C4D. I currently have 2GB of the 6400C4D in my computer and wanted to add another 2GB. I noticed on the Egg that the C4 cost $60 after a rebate, while...

I am in the position to go ahead and purchase a external solution for my computer but am not sure what to do. I want a external hard drive STRICTLY for storing the images for all of my drives. I just want to store them externally in case anything ever happened to my computer (lightning, drive...

Are there any decent free surround internet radio stations out there? I am talking about those which use that spiffy ACC+ codec to divide the sound up into six channels? The only one I have seen so far is Tuner2.

I messed up my south bridge heatsink and wanted to buy another one. This is the stock heatsink that I am looking for. Its copper in color and measures 37X37. It has two mounting holes for compression clips to go into. If anyone pulled theirs off of your board and replaced the SB with a after...

The title says it all! What is the fastest USB drive on the market today. So far I have read that Partiots Xporter XT is the fastest at nearly 30MB/s. Any other close contenders out there? PS. I am mainly interested in 4GB capacities.

Hello, I know there are a few boards out there which do this. With a Asus P5B board is it possible to have the BIOS shut the system off if a fan speed reaches 0 RPM? If it is not possible in the BIOS I will just install PC Probe and have it shut the PC down from within windows if this happens...