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No! I apologize, I should have looked in your first picture. The caps on that board are not easily identifyable on visual inspection for failure, because they have a different casing. I forget what this type is named. You can only check for leakage visually.

Maybe there were a lot of complaints about it? I know tons of people that use the address bar for searching.

There's no way you'll get any help cracking the password! However are you certain that these have had their passwords changed? Did you try the default one as listed in the manual?

You can do a quick look at your caps to see if there any potential bad ones. The pictures on the right of this page: http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=5 can show you some examples. What to look for primarily is a slighy bulge on the silver colored top part (it should be flat) or ever a rust color on the tops. Of course, if you had leaks on the bottoms or blow outs (you can look for that as well if you want) I would expect even less performance than what you are currently seeing. Either way, if it ends up being caps they CAN be fixed without replacing the board but that comes down to your particular experience with electronics, so replacing the board may end up being a better solution for you.

Based on your report, it appears that you can actually fit 32MB of data on a 1.44MB floppy disk, but can LS-120 or a regular FDD then read this disk, or just the LS-240?

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Its marketing really. By the time IE9 hit release, the bing thing was to use the Bing BHO as the search option. Either way, I'm pretty sure you can search from the IE8 and IE9 address bar, as long as that option is enabled in the Advanced Internet Options.

Your best course of action is to use the Windows Server Fulfillment site. It would help if you had a machine with a Server 2008 COA, but I am not entirely certain how exactly the site works. You might be able to get the media with just a 2003 COA. On the following link, click the plus [+] in the "Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) Customers" section. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/downgrade-rights.aspx

I've seen other DDR3 chipsets retrofitted for DDR2, but that always confused me. Anyways, it seems there isn't a problem using a v2.1 card in a v2.0 slot, or even a v1.1 slot. But let's get down to the fact at hand. You had a working config and "suddenly" is acting up. I can think of two reasons for this: 1. Your config isn't supported. I'll take a look and see if your manufacturer has some detailed info like Intel does. 2. There has been degredation on the actual electronics. I'm specifically thinking of caps, as they are the easiest to spot. Most everything else is a lot harder... Since you were overclocking the CPU, this could be directly related. Don't always believe that heat is the only negative side-effect of overclocking.

If you are getting the browse box after the PE boots, its because there is something up with your NIC. Either you can't get an IP or the NIC drivers are not installed. Open a CMD and verify you have an IP and can access the mapped network drive. Otherwise you'll need to use DISM to put your NIC drivers in the boot.wim. Also, in the imagex.hta, on line 25 is a "myFilePath" which is what you want to match against the map driver command in your startnet.cmd. For example, mine says: myFilePath = "Z:\" 'The folder that contains the *.wim files add "\" to the end of the path.

I'm not 100% on how PCI-E works, and I've certainly confused myself trying to figure it out before... so this might not be relevant. First thing I'm noticing that you are using a PCI-E 2.1 card. Your board has 2 PCI-E v2.0 x16 slots and a PCI-E v1.1 x4 slot. Also another thing I can't figure out (but still may be power related) is why this X48 board has DDR2 memory in it. The X48 Express Chipset Datasheet makes NO mention of DDR2 in it anywhere.

I'd keep that install image in a share, like you are now. Then create a custom boot image that uses the install image in the share. Add that new boot image to WDS. All WDS is like a giant roadmap.

There are a couple of reasons, one if the ownership like -X- suggests. Another annoying thing is that the protected file locations (windows\system32, program files, etc) even on other volumes will become protected.

Most wireless routers have an internal firewall enabled that keeps wired and wireless traffic separate. Post your network layout and the make and models of your network hardware. Likely we won't need to know about the clients.

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I've found the 3Ware (now LSI) are the easiest to work with and the most reliable, mostly because it has a CPU and RAM on card. Some other controllers I've used (Intel, Adaptec, Promise) pale in comparison. Yeah the 3Ware is more expensive but that price means something in this case. Either way, make sure you install the management software and make sure to label your drives/cables/ports. You'll have to swap at some point, so make sure you make it foolproof. As far as models, I've (am) used 9550, 9650 in 4, 8 and 12 ports. Sorry to list Promise as an example. bleh. B)

Also it is possible that one of the installers is locking the process and the other ones work install. I've found strange instances of this, such as this example: TPM then BT = TPM installs but not BT BT then TPM = both install So you may want to try playing with the order of installation.

Not to disrupt the topic here (its great) I used to know a bit about the SuperDisk but I have largely forgotten about that info. I ran into problems with it when I worked for Iomega. There was some sort of goofiness when in a system that also contained the internal Zip 100 drive. Something about having extra/phantom drive letters or it things where it would change letters on you. So when you get done with your current agenda, throw a Zip drive in there and expand a bit.

Also, if your server is 2008, and your clients are not Vista/7 then you can also disable the extra SMB messages that 2008 uses designed to communicate with modern OS. Best I've ever been able to get is a 45% upload to the server.

I had considered, at one point, to have two DVD drives and set each to different regions. I don't watch movies on my PC anymore so that never really happened. Here is what I found out while researching it back then. - You can change the region on a drive up to 5 times. The 5th change will lock it at that region. - You can "start over" and get your 5 changes back by flashing the drive firmware. And of course the other option was to use two drives.

If you are lucky, its just the BCD that is screwed up. There are various "fixes" on HP's website to return both the BCD and MBR to the correct states but you are going to have a problem because you don't have Vista on there anymore. The Windows 7 and Vista recovery process is different enough for this. And since you changed the OS, HP might not help you for free. We have a large topic about this already: Also, marking the recovery partition as Active isn't what you want to do. The boot process of going into the recovery partition searches for it, and makes it active at the time of boot, and sets the OS partition as inactive. If you have the recovery partition already active (even if it could find it) it would give you an error.

You can't use Vista's setup.exe to install an XP wim, but you can have a WinPE boot and write an app that gives two options: 1. Install Vista using Setup 2. Install XP using Imagex

There might be some licensing issues if you put a WinPE boot image on each PC, however you could have a USB key that boots a WinPE and makes the changes you need.

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