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    Network redundancy question

    General question...

    Running a Netgear GS724T smart switch that currently has one fiber connection from the hosting ISP to one of the SFP ports. If I install an additional fiber GBIC in the ther...
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    New life for an old server...

    I have an interesting orphan of a server sitting in my office...

    Digital AlphaServer 2100 4/275

    Quite an angry-looking big-rig monster of a machine. She lived life as a Tru64-powered...
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    Thanks, NooNoo! Started playing around with this...

    Thanks, NooNoo! Started playing around with this already last night. I pulled down the Eclipse that you suggested, but just started doing the notepad approach following some online tutorials.
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    I have a similar question. I do have some past...

    I have a similar question. I do have some past experience with ADA, BASIC, C++, and, to a lesser extent, COBOL, Assembly and Java. Nothing major, mainly college courses and some toying around on the...
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    Serial connect to SMC Barricade

    Anyone ever play with configuring a broadband router via the "Console" port?

    Trying to connect to an SMC7008ABR Barricade broadband router via serial (null modem) cable to the "Console" RS-232...
  6. Installed the new card, loaded the drivers and...

    Installed the new card, loaded the drivers and swung the cabling over to the new card. Success!

    Only obstacle I encountered was the 29160 card was running my drive in narrow, asynchronous mode,...
  7. Moving Boot drive to different SCSI controller...

    My PC boots from a 9.2 GB Seagate Cheetah drive attached to a Tekram DC390U2W controller. The drive is U160 capable, but the controller isn't, so I'm running at Ultra2-Wide speeds.

    To squeeze a...
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    One final note... I don't like unexplained...

    One final note... I don't like unexplained problems, so I went to the trouble of swapping out the motherboard with the identical spare to see if the PCI slots were bad on the first board.
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    Well, this got a lot stranger before I finally...

    Well, this got a lot stranger before I finally fixed it...

    I wiped out the system and reloaded Win2K from scratch. I updated it to SP4 and ran the VIA 4-in-1 driver pack. This was all done with a...
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    Thanks for the suggestions, Zerotech. I tried the...

    Thanks for the suggestions, Zerotech. I tried the BIOS setting changes, but no dice. The PCI slot below the AGP card is empty. But this got me thinking about another idea... I pulled the NIC card....
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    nVidia driver hang

    Very strange one... I've never had issues with nVidia drivers...

    Have a Hercules 3D Prophet II (GeForce2 MX200) card in a system with Win2K Pro (SP4). When I load the nVidia driver package, it...
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    Bounced the mobo pic off one of our Wintel...

    Bounced the mobo pic off one of our Wintel admins. It's a PC-104 connection.

    http://www.pc104.com/whatis.html
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    Unless you're planning to overclock, Crucial...

    Unless you're planning to overclock, Crucial Memory ONLY. 'Nuff said.
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    Currently running an XP 2000+ Not expecting a...

    Currently running an XP 2000+

    Not expecting a huge leap. My wife's system is running a Duron 900 and she could use some more horsepower, and her mainboard (Asus A7V133-C) tops out at XP 2100+....
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    Does the laptop have a serial port? If so,...

    Does the laptop have a serial port?

    If so, maybe pick up an external serial modem? I believe almost all USR external serials don't even need drivers (they are built into the OS). All of the ones...
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    Thanks, Epimetreus. I haven't bought anything...

    Thanks, Epimetreus.

    I haven't bought anything yet, so it's nice to still get some input.

    I'm thinking now that the regular 2600+ is the way to go (instead of the mobile), so I'd be interested...
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    Does the mobo have a VIA chipset? I've run...

    Does the mobo have a VIA chipset?

    I've run into this exact same reboot loop several times on VIA-chipsetted mobos after swapping PCI cards, sometimes after a 4-in-1 update, sometimes out of the...
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    Thanks, Garak. Downloaded some of the BIOSes....

    Thanks, Garak. Downloaded some of the BIOSes. Looks like I'll need one of them even to run the regular 2600+ chip.

    I'm gonna continue to prowl the web and wait for some more responses here before...
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    Ouch, Ruslan! Hope my K7S5A doesn't die that...

    Ouch, Ruslan! Hope my K7S5A doesn't die that death!
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    Will K7S5A run Mobile Xp 2600+?

    Hoping someone has a straight answer...

    Will my ECS K7S5A (Rev 3.1 w/"XP" stickers by CPU socket and latest/greatest BIOS) run an Athlon XP Mobile 2600+?

    Since this is a 266FSB processor, I...
  21. Sly made a comment about dual/single-sided...

    Sly made a comment about dual/single-sided modules.

    Is the existing 128 a dual-side or single-side? What is the replacement?

    Usually (though not always), newer, single-sided modules use...
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    If I recall, the monster Voodoo card at least had...

    If I recall, the monster Voodoo card at least had an external power brick instead of demanding two discrete leads from your PSU.

    Although your lights would probably dim every time you booted with...
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    Check the mobo for blown/leaking caps. Had a...

    Check the mobo for blown/leaking caps.

    Had a system with an Abit board with bulged caps. Same kind of behavior... even after a clean reinstall, it would boot into safe mode, but encounter...
  24. Thread: SUWIN errors

    by NightRust
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    Every time I've experienced SUWIN errors,...

    Every time I've experienced SUWIN errors, especially during Windows 9x installs, on circa-486 and -Pentium systems, the culprit has been a bad motherboard.

    If you have spare memory, hard drive,...
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