Yeah you can probably save enough switching to a P55 mobo to get a better video card (probably 5850 if possible, tough to find them currently), and have better performance for gaming. Mid range video cards are never overkill in my experience, just how long they last. The 5750/5770s are expected...
If this were me, I'd pick up the drive setup (though I think you'd get much better performance out of RAID 10 than you would RAID 5 but I'm only going off of intuition here), and the controller card, and wait on the next gen stuff coming out early next year. If you need the speed now, I'd go...
Agreed. Late '09 / Early '10 has Gulftown CPUs (which will supposedly work with current X58 boards), and maybe GT300 on the horizon. Also the 5870 dual GPU card is supposed to launch before then as well I believe.
Prices will probably be much different as well, like he said.
If you wanted...
It is the process of making a a disc image file readable as a virtual CD/DVD-ROM so you don't have to use writable media to use it.
Many programs offer this feature:
Daemon Tools: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
Virtual Clone Drive: http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Alcohol...
See if there are driver updates for whatever IDE controller your motherboard uses. Try a different brand of discs, and/or a different burning program, (I'd suggest the wonderful and free Imgburn (http://www.imgburn.com/).
Mills
BIOS settings default or tweaked? Did you change memory timings without changing the voltage? If you can toggle hdd mode from IDE to AHCI, try that. Are you using any kind of bridge chips for a device? Like a sata to ide converter or something?
All I have for now. Are you saying it...
Kill processes and disable devices down to the bare essentials, check for freeze, slowly restart things one by one, ensuring proper operation after each till you nail it down.
Good luck,
Mills
I think EnCase is popular among law enforcement agencies, and I'm pretty sure it will not recover a drive overwritten with a proper wiping tool. http://www.guidancesoftware.co...e-digital-evidence.htm
1. What was the BSOD error? Was it triggered by something specific or random?
2. Are you checking RAM speed/timings with CPU-Z?
3. Why did you up your ram voltage if you are running at SPD, was that to attempt to address the problem?
4. I'd reinstall Windows with your known good ram and see...
Sounds like it's toast bud. You may be eligible for some kind of replacement if you have one of the NVidia mobile chips affected by the bad bumps. I know I've read about an OEM extending warranties (may have been HP or Dell) on affected laptops. I don't know for sure, but that's all the hope I...
Sluggish as in poor UI response time or slow to execute tasks? Was it always like that or is this just lately? Has her 'workload' changed much? In other words, is she working with much higher res pictures/video?
I'd simply keep an eye on taskmanager as she works (sort by CPU usage), and if...
Think Windows just won't allow access to these sensors to a limited account by design. Your best bet is probably a workaround in the form of putting an old hdd in there for him to install his own windows on and unplug/remove yours; or relegate him to the BIOS readings I suppose.
Mills
Wow, you're right there is no i7 OCing article.
I always thought RAM roundups were a waste of time, since most RAM will perform pretty close to the same given the same clock/latency. Measuring differences in performance as clock/latency changes is useful and there is an article on that...
Current rig:
CPU: Q6600 G0 @ Stock
HSF: Glacialtech 5750 Silent
Mobo: Asus P5E
Case: Rosewill R5604-BK
Fans: 1x 120mm Front Unknown Brand, came with case; 1x 120mm Back Scythe S-FLEX D
Video Card: BFG 8800GT OC @ Stock OC
Hard Drive: WD 320 Single Platter
For some reason my...
Start>run> %TEMP% will open it. It's a variable so it could be set to anywhere, on Win7 for me it is C:\Users\Mills\AppData\Local\Temp .
Nevertheless, I'd assume it's more to do with the way explorer works. You can use Procmon to see what directories/files are polled when you double click...
Hmm, it looks like the L1E driver may not be included in your livecd. I didn't realize it was so cutting edge. It looks like pan0 is for Bluetooth.
None of that tells us anything unfortunately. Next step could be either download, compile and load the L1E module, which may be more work than...
I believe that the only sensor on the CPU is the DTS which is what reports the Core Temperatures, the rest are the motherboard. I'm not 100% on that though.
Mills
But technically when I execute runas.exe it is run under my credentials until elevation occurs, no? Therefore other processes running with my privileges should be able to access its memory until they elevate. But it doesn't elevate until it has a password..
That's what has me confused...
I'm on a gigabit network and my transfers remain constant regardless of audio playing.
Win 7 RC 35MB/s (via FTP) with and without audio (slow laptop hdd).
Mills
I'd grab the very nice Process Monitor software available from Microsoft, run it and turn off everything except filesystem access. Watch in real time what is going on, and see if you can nail down what's happening. If all access completely stops for those seconds, it may be a hardware problem...
Some things to try:
Use the Add New Hardware wizard and point it to the driver inf files (you may need to extract them from the driver installer, Uniextract is nice for this).
Download a Linux livecd and run lshw and see if it is reported there, this should nail down if the problem is in...
Does it fluctuate with load or does it remain at 98? Is your reported 'case temp' so high?
Think the most likely candidate is your sensor is just broken and you can safely ignore it; never hurts to be sure though.
If I ran a keylogger as a limited user, then elevated to administrator with Run As or runas.exe, is my administrator account compromised as well?
I don't really want to install one to find out, does anyone know for certain?
Thanks,
Mills
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