nmX.Memnoch

Sounds like it's something with your firewall then.

Yeah, but SysInterals utilities are usually pretty high profile so I can't see them putting something out if it caused serious problems. I tested it on my home domain and it showed me every object I've deleted (OUs, users, groups, etc) in the last few months (within the default Tombstone time). I didn't try restoring any of them though...and I only have one domain controller. The only issue I could see would be the Tombstoned data not be replicated to other DC's correctly...but I'm sure they tested that as well. I registered on the Quest site and got a phone call within an hour after doing so. They were gonna try to offer me some other products but I cut the guy short telling him it was just a "one time deal" type of them. I haven't tried their GUI utility yet though...I'll try to remember to do that tonight.

Intel has been doing it for years. Some 2U rack-mounted servers use them (if they don't have a riser card). Those are usually 64-bit PCI/PCIX cards though. The one I linked for him above is a standard 32-bit PCI desktop card. You can even find low-profile SATA RAID controllers. I've got one in my work system (although I'm using it with the full-height bracket).

Can you access internal things normally?

Just what fizban2 said...this happens when you do a reinstall without a reformat of the drive. It's because the SIDs for those built-in accounts are different and a profile for their user names already existed. In such a case, Windows XP (and even 2000/2003) will create a new profile and append either .WINDOWS, .DOMAIN_NAME (in the case of a domain account), .COMPUTER_NAME (in the case of a local user account), or .NT_AUTHORITY to the directory name. It does not mean that there are user accounts with those exact names.

MSINFO32 doesn't exist on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. The replacement command is systeminfo. systeminfo /s remote_computer

http://www.quest.com/object_restore_for_active_directory/ I have not used that, but it's supposed to let you restore Tombstoned objects. EDIT: I found this article as well: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...3167/43167.html You don't have to register to download that utility.

Heh...it's beating my P4EE 3.4@3.7 by about 10 seconds or so...and I'm running a full 1.3GHz faster! I'm definitely excited about the release of this processor...I'm just trying not to get too excited until I see some "official" numbers at product release.

S3 offers something closer to a true powered off state than S1 does. There are still a few things running with low voltages, but it still uses much less power than S1. As you found out, the CPU fan being powered off in the S3 state is perfectly normal.

This is true. Onboard sound uses software to process sounds, which means it uses the system CPU. Good quality addin cards use their own hardware to process sound so they use much less of the system CPU. You can still get cheap addin cards that are pretty much the same as the onboard sound...meaning they still use software to process sounds. So be careful of which cards you purchase (all Sound Blaster cards use hardware). This is why the newer Sound Blaster cards are better. The hardware has been improved so that it can process more sounds at once. I still wish NVIDIA would update SoundStorm and put it out in a PCI/PCIe form. The Sound Blaster 512 is basically a "low-end" Live!. It doesn't have all of the added features (or rather they removed some features since the 512 came out after the Live!), but it does use the same chip.

I don't think they ship to Canada anymore either....

YAY!! I can't wait!!

Hehe...yeah, I definitely know what you mean. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world though...

That's what I'm waiting for!

Or a single CPU with SMT (e.g. Hyperthreading)...or a single CPU with multiple cores. Sorry, it just required some clarification. Of course, the current line of Celeron CPUs don't have either. I would expect them to get dual cores at some point though.

I agree with that 100%. There really shouldn't be any reason to use the 2nd NIC at all. I suspect they're just trying to get extra money by making them pay for the additional connection...sneaky indeed. Unfortunately, they all see hardware firewalls as additional hardware to what you're paying for (namely, the server). And as such, they'll consider it as another service they provide...for a fee. I agree that connecting it directly to the internet isn't the best option, but when it's your only option you should be making sure that IIS is configured correctly (for starters, IUSR_ should only have access to the web root, and no write access to what it does have access to), keep on top of all patches that apply and don't do things on the server that you shouldn't (again, no web browsing on your servers). And if you have any administrative sites (Sharepoint Admin Site, etc) they should be limited by username and IP addresses. Securing IIS under Server 2003 isn't all that difficult. Again, I agree with you that you shouldn't connect them directly to the internet...but all too often people either don't understand that or don't want to pay the extra associated cost(s). The hosting provider we use for some personal sites charges an additional $99/month for a SnapGear SME550. While it's a decent box the 35Mbit/s throughput would hinder our 100Mbit/s connection...which we also pay extra for. This particular box is currently running FreeBSD, but it was running Server 2003 for over a year without any problems at all, which I attribute to a (mostly) proper configuration.

Windows Server 2003 has built in drivers for those controllers. You shouldn't be having a problem unless the controllers are configured incorrectly. Go into the setup for each one and set it back to the defaults (there should be an option).

It's not his graphics card. Try the XviD codec. I've had this happen with some DivX files where DivX plays them in black and white, but they play fine with XviD.

This should've been in the Hardware Hangout forum... Who is your system/motherboard manufacturer? You typically have to get onboard sound drivers from the system/motherboard manufacturer.

What he needs is a low-profile NIC. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16833106122

That's the ideal solution but when you're renting a server from a hosting provider they rarely, if ever, set them up that way. That's not to say that you can't get them to do it upon request, but of course that's going to cost you extra per month.

It's also possible that the slots are PCI Express. @chrno2004: What's the model of your motherboard?

The GeForce 4 didn't have enough power to really run full-screen antialiasing. And Anisotropic Filtering was pretty much broke on it. The AF is probably what made things look blurry. I highly suggest you give FSAA and AF another look (literally). The image quality today's cards can achieve is astounding...and it's only getting better. Half-Life 2 is a perfect example of a game that benefits quite a bit from FSAA.

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ It's not very expensive and works very well. Just be sure that you are not recovering your data back to the same drive. Recover to a seperate drive, then move the data back once it's been recovered.

Do you mean the System Idle Process? This one is a weird process because it actually shows how much CPU time is available to the system rather than how much that process is using...at least that's the way I've always translated it. At the time of typing this email that process shows 99% on my workstation, but the performance tab says I'm only using 1% of the CPU. What does the performance tab show when the process says it's taking 50%?