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Hey all, Having a very frustrating PC issue lately. It has suddenly started shutting down suddenly while gaming. It will run all day just fine, but if I'm playing something that's putting load on the system, it's like someone pulls the plug. No crash, no blue screen, etc. Screen goes black...

Hey guys, We're going to be purchasing a new home in March, and part of what it (and a lot of new homes apparently) includes is a pre-wired Ruckus WiFi setup. I've never used it, or even heard of it before this, so I'm wondering how best to integrate what I have with what the new home will...

Hey guys, I'm placing this in the video cards section as it the video card seems a likely culprit here. My wife informed me last night that her system was having some issues. I only had a few minutes to look at it and will be spending more time with it tonight, but I was hoping to get some...

Hey all, I have an old 1U rackmount system that I'd like to use for some testing, but to do so properly I need a DVD-ROM to install any of the newer operating system. Trouble is, the CD-ROM in this system is a slim drive, and is connected via a proprietary backplane connection. There are no...

Hey all, I recently jumped on the Opty 165 bandwagon with the hopes of hitting at least 2.7Ghz on it. Got a good stepping, and after a bit of burn in and testing, have found the CPU to be quite stable at 2.7Ghz at 1.375v. The problem I am having is memory related. I have 4 sticks of...

Hey all, Just got a new BFG 7800GT today. Installed it, booted up, and installed the new Nvidia drivers that also happened to come out today. Everything went smoothly. After the drivers had been installed and I rebooted, I started hearing little popping noises coming from the video card...

Hey all, This is an issue I've been fighting with for a couple months now. What happens is that I'll power on my system for the day, and maybe 10% of the time, the video card will not power up. No power to the fan even.. absolutely nothing. Sometimes turning it off and back on again will...

Hey all, Just looking for some opinions on which SATA controller typically performs better on this board. I've run Silicon Image controllers before and have had good luck with them, but I've heard some suggest that, because the Silicon Image controller shares the PCI bus (along with video)...

Hey guys, Had a question that I believe is being caused by a bad video card, but I wanted to confirm this. First, some history: I had a BFG 6800GT PCI Express card that was overheating at stock speeds. Ok, set up an RMA, no problem. I received the new card this week, which turned out to...

Ok, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I'm trying to figure out how I can go about setting up a batch file in Windows 2000 to view a log file from the previous day and copy only that file to a mapped drive for storage. The problem is that I was never really good with DOS batch files, and I...

Hey all, Looking for a little advice here. We're looking to replace a MySQL system, and are trying to go as fast as possible while still being fault tolerant. So, what we're looking at is a RAID5 array running on U320 15k RPM SCSI drives. I'm curious to know if picking up a dual channel RAID...

Hey all, I'm the proud owner of a set of the Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 Ultra surround speakers. I'm looking to get the most out of them though, and the hardest part of that seems to be the rear speakers. I don't have anything right behind me to set them up on, so I was thinking about getting a...

Hey all, I'm looking around here, trying to find a way to change the key that VNC uses to encrypt passwords. Supposedly, the key is always the same, and it's widely known, making it easier for someone to brute-force attack, or possibly to sniff out and de-crypt a password. At work, we also...

Hey all, I'm hoping someone with a bit more experience in this area can offer some suggestions. I took a quick look at a friend's PC last night as he was getting a lot of random pop-ups, even when IE wasn't running. So, OK, I figured I'd just run a few freeware apps and clean it up. So I ran...

Hey all, I'm looking for a couple of 48-port rack mountable CAT 5E patch panels. As these will be in a rack with a lot of other equipment, I was looking for something a little easier to work on. I found a panel made by Belkin (part# C-PP5-48-F-BK), and found some sites that sell it. However...

Hey all, I'm starting to look for some larger switches and was hoping someone with a bit of experience could provide some advice on what to look for, and possibly some specific models. What I'm looking for is: -Managed, stackable, 48-port 10/100/1000 switch. All ports need to be gigabit...

Hey all, Just had a quick question about PCI-X.. I've installed some 64-bit cards into older, 32-bit PCI slots, but not the other way around. Will 32-bit PCI cards still work in 64-bit slots? I'm guessing that they would, but I wanted to make sure before I picked up a board that used them and...

I'm looking to see if there is a program out there that will allow me to have multiple virtual logins on my Windows XP system. Basically, I need to be able to login 2 times from the same machine, but each login needs it's own set of parameters (for drive mappings and such), and it would be nice...