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Definately use Memtest like allen says for easiest RAM testing. If you are using a Burn program in PE, I'd recommend you select just to test the memory, and if you do any disk testing make sure not to select the X drive. I always figured it would not be a good idea to test the RAM and the RAMDISK at the same time. It might give an error or just be a waste of CPU cycles.

Technically, the question has been answered already. There can only be one thing to do, lock the topic or move it into GD...

You can use AJAX to change includes. You could also use page variables and vars in your include code if you wanted. It is something I was working on but I got sidetracked. I never got to test it out yet.

These are IEC C19 and C20 connectors. Wiki info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_connector#C19_and_C20_connectors Dell Whitepaper info where I got the name of the connector from: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_m1000e_selection_whitepaper.pdf Found by searching for Dell PowerEdge 1855 power supply on Google (without quotes)

I'm not sure why it is called Panther, but it is. Check the native resolution and refresh rate of the display the computer is connected to, and use those settings.

I'm no expert, but shouldn't the .xml file be named Unattand, and not Autounattend? You can name the file anything you want if you are using a custom script for setup.exe or sysprep. If you want the install DVD to find it automatically, it needs to be called AUTOUNATTEND.XML.

I think that the Athlon isn't a real dual core anyways, wasn't it like a bridged single core or is the X2 the real dual core? Yes that is the real world but it is unfortunate. That doesn't mean companies are doing it right. Most corporations I have worked with are very much against being "up to date" because they see things with a "well it still works" attitude and do not realise the price of waiting to long. Do you know how many companies wait until the last possible minute to do migrations? For example, one migration I worked on was in 2004, where the company was migrating from Windows NT and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. And the reason they were doing it was because their support period was ending, that's it.

Forget the next step! Vista is dead! Try out Windows 7.

Rhodey isn't typically seen in an Iron Man suit, only when Stark is too blitzed up. No sir, this would be War Machine.

Interesting. I found a bunch of info about Option 43, but I don't feel like reading too much about it. In case anyone else does, check these out: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v11r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.tivoli.tpm.ins.doc/install/tins_dhcpconfig43.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a00808714fe.shtml http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Using_DHCP_option_43_%28Vendor_Extensions%29

I was using your own example, Adobe with Photoshop etc, not open source. Open Source is totally different of course. However a middle ground may be what Microsoft is doing with Office 2010, that is they provide the 64bit version of the product with the 32bit version. Of course, Microsoft gets to slightly dictate terms about their platform, as previously noted there will be a point in the future where 32bit won't be an option anymore.

You also have to consider things from the other side. A company that makes a new product needs to make it available for use amongst all their prospective buyers. I am certain that Adobe could get away with forcing a hardware or software requirement but then you can bet there will be outrage because of it. Or maybe you think they would create two versions, one that goes along the regular path they are doing now, and then make a 64bit optimized version. How much more expensive do you think the 64bit version would be? How many people do you think would pay for that version? Do you think Adobe would make enough money on the 64bit version to make up for all the labor costs used up to create it? How about the advertising costs? Yes it would make sense to just get with the program and go 64bit, but the whole world does not operate like the power users and enthusiasts do. It just wouldn't work out the way you are thinking.

Sounds interesting, but why do I have to see my MD5? Is that not an action behind the scenes? Do I have any use with my MD5? Behind of that, if I install any facebook application, the creator of that app can detact my facebook password? You see it partly because Facebook is lazy. There are other ways to do it, but who knows why FB decides to show it to you. It has nothing to do with your password. Here is a general example of why they use this type of info. Say you go to a website. When you get there, it creates a cookie. Inside the cookie is a temporary MD5 hash value. This is also stored in your browser session. This way, the site will check everytime you go to a page to see if you are logged in. It may do this by making sure the hash in your browser session matches the one in your cookie. If they are the same, you are logged in. If they are not the same (or the cookie is deleted) you are not logged in anymore. You can even try that here, MSFN does not put the hash value in the URL for you to see, but it is there. Go and delete your cookie and refresh the page. You will not be logged in anymore! Anyone who is smart at webpage security would make it so the hash has an expiry. So that no one can take your cookie to steal your login. In the best cases, there are 3 keys used by the website. One in the cookie, one in the browser and one on the server. This way, you can say (A + B) * ServerCode = C. So that the cookie and browser key can be different, but the server can take both of them and generate a third key it keeps to itself. So as long as A + B = C you will be logged in.

BestBuy is not the ideal place to compare TV display quality in most cases. This is because the video signals they use for all their screens is split so many times the video quality is usually pretty bad. Maybe you'll get lucky and find a display with just 1 source on it.

OK so if I am right by what you are saying (you'll have to research this too) is that you get a TFTP timeout on clients booting to PXE where they are on a different subnet or IP block than the PXE or WDS Server? But clients that get an IP on the same IP block or subnet have no problems? If this ends up being the case, definately sounds more like a networking problem rather than with just WinPE.

The RAM on the clients should be OK then. Next you need to troubleshoot your app in the PE. You did not say what version PE it is, or what architecture. If it is WinPE v2.1 x86, does you app run in a Vista SP1 PC? If your app makes use of .NET Framework shared assemblies, note that WinPE does not have .NET support. Use ProcMon or Dependency Walker to make sure your program has all the files it needs to run properly.

Note for the future, the Windows 7 WAIK documentation clearly states that in order to image Windows 7, you must sysprep using the generalize switch. There are instances where a non-generalized image will work on other hardware, but that is getting into the realm of non-support. Generalize will remove the network location you chose previously, but obviously the OS is on a different PC with a different NIC MAC Address and sees a new network.

I don't completly agree with you: the itanium isn't supported by XP x86. Also if you install win 3.11 on dual core or better you won't get all the benefits of the dual core architecture. Ok then, find me a motherboard that uses an Itanium CPU that has XP support... Here it is : a HP Zx2000 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=fr&prodNameId=82076&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=82074&swEnvOID=1026&taskId=135&swLang=13 And as for the price you can find one there : http://cgi.ebay.fr/HP-ZX2000-Itanium-2-900MHz-4GB-36GB-DVD-A7844-84002-/300333964940?cmd=ViewItem&pt=COMP_EN_Workstations&hash=item45ed4c9e8c It isn't exactly cheap but some designers or modelers might need this kind of power (instead of buying silicon graphic workstations). Right well you see there it says XP 64bit in that webpage, but you spoke of XP x86... Anyways about previous post (it was on page 2 so I couldn't use multiquote) there is no real point to using a 64bit OS and not use more than 4GB RAM. Yes it is going to be next to (if not) impossible to properly score the benefits of a properly used 64bit system against a 32bit system. So to say "you will not see any real difference" I beg to differ when I think about how much better our servers are now that they have minimum 16GB RAM in them.

If it is the same type of file as the current bootloader screen, you could probably just replace it. This is more of a customizing Windows question, but check out this thread here:

Perhaps you can enable BOOTP (i think WDS uses this, maybe not) on only one of the servers? I might be wrong.

What is the size of your boot.wim (on the CD) and the size of physical memory in the client? Here are some practical examples of requirements: a ~200MB boot.wim x86 requires 512MB RAM on the client a ~200MB boot.wim x64 requires ~1GB RAM on the client however a 600MB boot.wim x86 will not work on a system with 4GB RAM on the client

Its a hash key, typically used for session verification.

I don't completly agree with you: the itanium isn't supported by XP x86. Also if you install win 3.11 on dual core or better you won't get all the benefits of the dual core architecture. Ok then, find me a motherboard that uses an Itanium CPU that has XP support...

Windows 7 support and Vista support is very similar. For example, I've never actually used Vista outside of Audit mode, but used Windows 7 quite a bit. I find I was able to get my Vista certification (it was free to take the test, why not) and passed it with flying colors. Learn Windows 7 and you'll basically know Vista. Only thing you need to know about Vista is the book smart type stuff, like what editions can do what and upgrade paths.

I always thought XP was an emote... xP