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Change Win XP SP2 Kernel to support Hyper-Threading - How to?

That's exactly what I did. Happy to say that it worked beautifully, so thank you very much to all who helped. Saved me a lot of time and I learned something new as well, so thank you all :)
- NightFalcon
- Post #10
- Jan 1, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Change Win XP SP2 Kernel to support Hyper-Threading - How to?

Don't have the ServicePackFiles, probably because the install had SP2 integrated. I do, however, have HALMACPI.DL_ and NTKRNLMP.EX_ in the I386 directory of the install CD. Think it would be safe to assume that it's the same thing, just needs to be renamed?
- NightFalcon
- Post #7
- Jan 1, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Change Win XP SP2 Kernel to support Hyper-Threading - How to?

bsobel: Yep, I checked that one. Under CPU History it's only giving me one option "One Graph Per CPU", and shows one usage window. bacillus: Surprisingly enough (and I didn't think to check this first), it shows 2 CPUs under Processors. However, System Information also shows only one, so...
- NightFalcon
- Post #5
- Jan 1, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Change Win XP SP2 Kernel to support Hyper-Threading - How to?

Hello everyone, I have a bit of a problem here and not sure how to go about fixing it. I re-installed my Win XP box a few weeks ago. That was right after I was finished playing around with Ubuntu on it, and that thing had major problems with my hardware. What I did was disable half the stuff in...
- NightFalcon
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- Jan 1, 2006
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Operating Systems
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SMC 5 port gigabit switch $22.99 after MIR

For those thinking about buying this - I have the 8-port version and so far I couldn't get the jumbo frames to work properly. Enabled them on all the computers and servers, but things such as browsing the files on a remote computer kept freezing explorer, so had to turn jumbo frames off. Still a...
- NightFalcon
- Post #8
- Dec 29, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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If more things were written in assembly....

Not the least bit. It takes a long time - yes, it is much more difficult to take someone else?s code and modify it yourself - yes, it's also more difficult to debug, though with the right tools this can be helped a bit. It is certainly not difficult. In fact, my personal view is that those who...
- NightFalcon
- Post #7
- Sep 19, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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If more things were written in assembly....

Ah, my favorite topic :) There are many things that prevent a complier from taking C/C++ code and turning it into the most efficient set of asm instructions. But for the most part, it's not just the translation that isn't (and can't be) perfect, it's also the fact that even asm written for...
- NightFalcon
- Post #3
- Sep 17, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Linksys ProConnect Monitor/keyboard/mouse switch $24.13

Stay away from this one. I just sent mine back in for a refund. Luckily they took it even though it's only warranted through manufacturer. When connected, my keyboard would respond at about a 1 second delay when in BIOS (so I hit a key and it takes a second for it to react). In Win XP SP2...
- NightFalcon
- Post #6
- Jul 4, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Most definitely. I think a lot of this is due to the fact that they have their hands full with new customers joining everyday. It shouldn't be an excuse for worse customer service, but this is the likely reason. I remember when I first joined there were no hold times to speak to a rep and...
- NightFalcon
- Post #1,033
- Jun 17, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Download all nine of Beethoven's symphonies legit in mp3 format. #9 OUT NOW!!!

Thanks... slow as hell (5KB/s) but hopefully it'll still be done by the time I get back home today :)
- NightFalcon
- Post #80
- Jun 13, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Same, just checked and the called id is working for me. Now that everything works I can finally switch to paying by the year :)
- NightFalcon
- Post #968
- Jun 7, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Still showing up as Anonymous here :( Reset the gizmo, but CID still not fixed.
- NightFalcon
- Post #933
- May 28, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Regarding the caller ID, when I talked to the tech he told me that if it's not working by Monday, I should give them a call back. A few more days it looks like.
- NightFalcon
- Post #916
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

It's not about protecting the gizmo, I can't have another NAT device between my modem and my firewall. Have a rather complicated setup and putting the gizmo in there would screw a lot of things up. I can live with my current setup though, it's still cheaper then verizon, and I have a second IP...
- NightFalcon
- Post #910
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Heh, sorry guys, looks like the best option is to have the gizmo outside of your network. The port info is as follows, unless you can get a static IP (on the WAN side) specifically for the gizmo, you're not going to be able to do this. All UDP: 5060-5061 16384-65535 Guess I'll just be...
- NightFalcon
- Post #908
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

It seems I spoke too soon about putting the gizmo behind my firewall. That worked up until the configuration changed. I had my verizon number transferred over to sunrocket account and basically the whole thing stopped working. Once I put the gizmo over to the WAN side (I've got 2 IPs from...
- NightFalcon
- Post #907
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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VOIP SunRocket Internet Phone Service $199 for 15months = $13.27/month

Hi there, not that it looks like there's an absence of opinions in this thread, thought I'd share mine so far for those that are thinking about switching. I've had the service for almost a month now and have only good things to say about it. Absolutely no problems with call quality (no echoes...
- NightFalcon
- Post #783
- May 15, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Windows Server -> Disable "Other users logged-on" warning on shutdown

As per my thread here, I've been having some shutdown problems with my server. Right now it seems to be only able to actually shutdown when done from the physical side, can't do it remotely. This solution would be fine for me with the exception that eventually I won't have a monitor...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Apr 26, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2k3 Shutdown Problem - Application Error

Brand new motherboard, I doubt it. How would that affect this situation in any case?
- NightFalcon
- Post #7
- Apr 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2k3 Shutdown Problem - Application Error

Nope... Guess I spoke too soon :( Two successful shutdowns and we're back to the old. I just don't get this... [EDIT] Correction... the shutdown seems to work as described above, but only when the command is issued from the console or by using the power button on the enclosure. When I try...
- NightFalcon
- Post #5
- Apr 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2k3 Shutdown Problem - Application Error

Well I'll be damned... I have no idea what's going on but it seems that setting the NIC's "Wake on Link Settings" from disabled (default) to OS Controlled along with Wake on LAN to OS Controlled solves the problem. Go figure... Oh well, at least waking up at 4am didn't go to waste, for once I...
- NightFalcon
- Post #4
- Apr 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2k3 Shutdown Problem - Application Error

Regular PCI is 32-bit 33MHz, but in my case the NIC is built-in to the motherboard, and the RAID card is on a PCI-X 64-bit 66MHz slot. This is not likely to be a hardware issue since on the old OS install the server shutdown without problems, just didn't power down the hardware (Showed the "Now...
- NightFalcon
- Post #3
- Apr 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Win 2k3 Shutdown Problem - Application Error

Hi guys, would really appreciate some help on this because I've spent hours on google and come up with nothing on this issue. I've got a dual Xeon Windows 2003 Standard Server at home that I'm just finishing setting up. Everything has been running fine for the past couple days with one...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Apr 26, 2005
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Computer Building
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Help choose a server board

What about in terms of the PCI-X speed? Will the difference between 133MHz and 66MHz be apparent? Obviously the theoretical maximum bandwidth of 133 is twice that of 66, but will an SATA RAID 5 array (even with 8 drives which I may have later on) be able to reach those rates, or will it be...
- NightFalcon
- Post #4
- Mar 12, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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Help choose a server board

Anyone? Between those two boards?
- NightFalcon
- Post #2
- Mar 12, 2005
- Forum: Motherboards
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Help choose a server board

Hi guys, even though I thought I was already past this stage, I once again find myself questioning the decision since it was made a few months ago. So here's the deal... I'm building a server for myself, nothing too advanced, but not cheap either. The current cost as I estimate it will be around...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Mar 12, 2005
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Motherboards
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

Well regarding the drive failure notification, I will certainly set it up so that I get an e-mail as soon as a drive fails. Though actually, until I have all 8 drives taken up by the RAID 5 array, I can have the 4th drive connected and mark it as a spare, so that as soon as any drive files, the...
- NightFalcon
- Post #12
- Mar 9, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

Well tbh, in the many years I've been working with computers I've only had a single bad drive and that was an old WD 40GB with nothing on it. Can't say I even want to plan for failure of 2 drives at the same time, because with every other RAID level I loose a lot more space and with some I also...
- NightFalcon
- Post #8
- Mar 9, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

Anyone else then?
- NightFalcon
- Post #6
- Mar 9, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

np Also wanted to add this, can an NCQ SATA drive work with a controller that has no native NCQ support? That seems to be the case with both of those controllers, and it seems that Seagate now produces mostly NCQ drives. Just want to make sure that they will still work, even though I won't...
- NightFalcon
- Post #5
- Mar 8, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

Care to elaborate? I will actually start of with around 500GB of space (depending on what initial drive size I pick). My initial setup will have only 3 drives, either 250GB each, 300GB, or even over that, haven't decided yet. From there, I will expand the array as needed, so when I have all 8...
- NightFalcon
- Post #3
- Mar 8, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 5: Hardware vs. Semi-Hardware

(Long post ahead, you?ve been warned :)) I have this problem - I'm building a file server which will need to be very reliable and be able to serve over 2T of data at fairly high rates (not all at once of course :P). I have already decided on most of the components, but when it comes to the...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Mar 8, 2005
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Computer Building
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Backup of Windows workgroup user accounts

Hi guys, have a question and was hoping someone here knows the answer. Been not very successful on google so far... At our company we have a number of servers that have a few hundred windows user accounts on them (Win 2000 Advanced Server mostly). Now if a server was to die we'd be in a...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Mar 4, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Some advice on hardware RAID and planning for future

Anyone else then?
- NightFalcon
- Post #4
- Mar 4, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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PCIe network cards?

Well that may be so, but they don't seem to be manufacturing any PCI Express cards, so not much point in me looking at them. bersl2, thanks for those links, but the second one is to a controller, not an actual card. That d-link looks good, but so far it seems that the only place to get it...
- NightFalcon
- Post #8
- Mar 4, 2005
- Forum: Networking
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PCIe network cards?

nvm... you beat me to the link. But what is that??? I need just regular gigabit card and for PCIe... that one is PCI-X to start with.
- NightFalcon
- Post #3
- Mar 3, 2005
- Forum: Networking
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PCIe network cards?

Hello, I've been searching for a while now, but so far no real luck. Does anyone know if there are PCIe 1x network cards out there? I just ordered myself an SC420 dell server that I'm planning on using as my firewall and I'll need to add 2 more nics to it. Would very much like to make one sit on...
- NightFalcon
- Thread
- Mar 3, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Networking
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Dell Poweredge SC420 - $249!

tlechaos, my guess is that the free ram upgrade was only when the server was $249
- NightFalcon
- Post #47
- Mar 3, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Dell Poweredge SC420 - $249!

$229 now... very tempted to get this and use as my firewall :) Btw, is there anything special they use for the floppy, or is it just a regular one that I can install myself and not pay $30 extra? [EDIT] nvm on that last one, found the asnwer in the FAQ: Q: Does the SC420 come standard...
- NightFalcon
- Post #45
- Mar 3, 2005
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Some advice on hardware RAID and planning for future

Erm... thanks I guess, but I wasn't asking for hardware suggestions, or a manual. My questions were addressed to those who had experience with these procedures and if they had encountered any problems.
- NightFalcon
- Post #3
- Mar 3, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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