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Congratulations Dino, you are becoming more "God like" now . And yes, uncle Bill should be happy…

The nVidia GeForce 6800XT cards are dirty cheap too, they should be around £40 for the 256MB version (no need for 512MB).

VascoMan already made the guide to that. If you don’t know what to do with it the please take a look at the nLite / unattended sections on this forum.

VascoMan, thank you for the testing, also nice to see the nLite / unattended add-on there . If some one else confirms that it works I will edit my first post to add your information. Intel(R) ICH9 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 2922 Intel(R) ICH9 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller – 2923 jrf2027, it seems I forgot that there was also a 6 Port SATA ICH9 Controller; I should edit this in my first post soon, thank you!

Well, here in Mexico, and almost the whole South America, there is another understanding about a "cybercafé". Here they don’t serve any thing but they still call it a cybercafé. My new place is more like a shop, including repairs and upgrades that will be done behind the desk while people wait for there machine. To start the shop up, I will use some computers that I rent to the people for about, and don’t get shocked, 0.8 USD an hour. People can still play HL2, NFSU 2, GTA SA, DOOM 3, Quake 4, AOE 3 and more games, so a small LAN party can be organized from time to time, mostly in Sunday where it would be full with people playing games in small groups. Still 8 days to go before opening the place . Why don't you at least get a 350 W that's Antec or Fortron? I already know you don't need some killer 700W or even 500W! Some PSUs may make things worse. I had 350W Enermax PSUs before in my first place but those I took from Europe with me. Now, the only "better" PSU I can find is the stock Coolermaster 430W PSU or the WAY overpriced (in Mexico) Thermaltake 430W PSU. The ones I use now are OEM, but still not that bad, but they have thinner cables and a relative cheap fan that I replace by a Coolermaster ball bearing fan at 7 volts.

What I’m missing here is a real photo of the Jerkstopper, can you post one? That 3D CAD picture looks okay but wondering how it really looks, in and outside the laptop .

I would watch my words there if I was you. No negative discrimination on this board.

I think you hit a wall here, however, did you try to call Westinghouse?

Indeed, funny farm , like my topic here.

Well, the power supplies really look flashy with all those lights, but you don’t need 800 or 900 watt PSUs to run that system, even a 520 watt powerfully from Corsair for example will give enough power to run your new rig stable. If you like Crossfire later on you could pick a 620 watt version. If you pick an 8800GTS, make sure you get the 512MB version based on the G92 GPU, or when it comes out the 1GB version (if not overpriced). The 2 cases are way different, while the Antec case is a new design, the Ultra uses an aging design that got updated. The Antec is by far more sturdy then the ultra, as the ultra doesn’t use a frame like the Antec does; it uses the right side panel as part of the frame and there for can’t be moved. These kinds of constructions are seen by compact cases, or lightweight cases for lowering fabrication costs and weight. Be aware that the Ultra case doesn’t come with any case fan while the Antec comes with some good 120mm case fans and a big 200mm top fan. ($79.99 after $40.00 Mail-In Rebate) Makes it a must have over the Ultra case!

Indeed, that tutorial uses more logic.

geologic, welcome to THE forums. The server doesn’t use an Adaptec controller; it’s only an Adaptec BIOS that gets installed. The hardware is based on the Intel ICH5R Southbridge. To rebuild the RAID structure, just replace the bad hard disk and press CTRL+A, you will enter the RAID BIOS and there should be an option like "rebuild RAID array". Since al the data is mirrored, there should no problem rebuilding the RAID. No need to format the hard disk by the way…

Most important difference between SATA and SATA2 mode is the CPU usage, went down from 10 to 4% on a X2 3800+ CPU. Well, the difference between a 7200.9 and a7200.11 I don’t have to explain . How is the noise level by the way?

tRAS I presume you are talking about? That’s high, even if you have the timings on 5-5-5 or 6-6-6. I would blame Asus for tight chipset timings...

Yes it will pull your system .

The upper rotor plate is magnetized too much, so it sticks to the rotor with the engine attached. The link you guys showed/used gives as last step to remove the bezel and tray plate/bezel, but the easiest way to do it is to eject the tray before opening the drive up.

Well, I didn’t have a digital camera before I started to take all the crap and from the frond of the building. I fooled you guys with this, it next door actually; "my" building was worse then the one from the neighbor . I have still to work on the lights outside, but that will be after I open the place. For now I will use a simple light bulb that stays on the whole night. It’s a pretty dark avenue, typical Mexican style . Those will be just simple PCs, nothing special. Their based on a Gigabyte motherboard with Intel 945GC chipset. I use Celeron 420 CPUs in them working on a speed of 2.13GHz. Just the smallest drive I could find, an 80GB SATA WD drive. The screens are from BENQ, 19" 16:10 witch will be mounted to the tubes and onto the wall. Simple Labtec keyboards (made by Logitech) and Logitech Optical Mouse. Headphone with microphone from Genius; more a Logitech clone and they sound good as well for the price. Housing and PSU are really cheap, I replaced all fans including the ones from the PSU with cooler master fans and let them run on 7volt for less noise. There is no use to have expensive PSUs in Mexico as they burn out completely every 6 months due to brown-outs (yeah, sadly enough). I should be ashamed of my self, I promised to make descriptions of the pictures but didn’t due too lack of time these days .

Well, don’t get me wrong but I think you could solve this with a 10 USD Sound card... I don’t know why that sound card wants to "sit" on IRQ 5 any way; last time I saw cards using that IRQ was on the ISA bus...

I’m sure it’s not the LiteON drive, I use them my self and sold plenty of then in AHCI mode. Happy it worked by the way .

Actually, if the x64 CPU has support for hardware virtualization, and you're using VMWare, you can actually run 64bit guests on the VMWare server 32bit host. However, your CPU usage on the host from that guest VM will be much higher than if the host was 64bit. So yes, it can be done, but it's not recommended. Then I hope the topic starter has an AMD, Intel is too buggy and slow for this... well, just as a side note .

Well, all drives are almost different. Start with opening the tray with the emergency hole and in a straight line bend paperclip. Take off the front plate of the tray with your hand, no screw driver is needed (there are 2 plastic clips on the downside of the plate) To take out the 4 screws from the base plate (bottom). Then you should see the PCB with the IDE/ATAPI interface. Remove the bezel from the drive. lift the inside out of the metal housing, some times you need to bend the side walls a bit away so the plastic inside comes out. Turn the inside up-side down or better said: turn it with the top up. There you see a plate that holds the upper rotor plate that normally holds the disc in place. Sometimes it attached to the metal housing and sometimes it has its own "bridge" that is hold in place with 2 to 4 screws. Remove the screws if necessary. Now connect the drive again to a PSU and see if the tray goes open and/or what’s blocking it. Be careful not to touch the PCB, which could lead to a short. Assembling goes the other way around, and to help you more we need to know your findings after connecting it to the PSU when still open. Good tip, comes in handy when they don’t sell good stuff around the place where you live . I presume it last long and can take some friction (never used it).

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I have seen this problem a lot before, some drives use a magnetic plate to hold the disc in place when inserted. Sometimes the other plate get’s magnetic too and they are hard to separate. You can open the drive to see if you can turn one plate around, but I could only do this in 10% of the cases. Another option is to keep always a disc inside and change it to another disc whenever you like. You have to separate the plates first by the way so opening the drive is needed if the emergency eject doesn’t work.

You have to install the driver file first else it will not help.EDIT: Okay! So it worked after all, congratulations . EDIT2: Could you post your BIOS setting please so I can add them to the first post in this topic.

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