MRGRIM

If you press F12 (I think) you can take a "One time boot option" Try that and selecting to boot from the CD Drive. Are you able to try the drive in another system / or try a different drive in this system. Might also be worth while changing the (IDE/SATA) cable to the drive. CD drives are only $10 might be worth getting a spare.

Welcome MRGRIM :)

? Not really what I said I was after. Full load (W) of that board are really low, don't know what Rig (W) you'd be pulling to run that card

Sigh, VaKo do you know how long I have been looking for something like that board (i.e multiple NIC's)? Cheers

If one line is slower then add load balanacing rules.

I'm not a Cisco guy so I can't comment on the last posters hardware, but some of the DrayTek and ZyXEL routers also provide WAN balancing and Fail Over (prehaps my approach is wrong, but I go for WAN balancing rather than simply having the line sat, waiting to be used)

Why not wait until you get to college? Suck on their bandwidth (which is likely to be a lot quicker than yours?)

Rkiver ... not sure what warranty you have :P never have I ever been able to claim a cracked screen. Dell have swapped a few "water damaged" motherboards :P ofc I didn't tell them that was the problem "It just won't boot damn you!" :D

Buy a NAS or see if there is something similar to a wireless print server (I imagine there is)

If work didn't provide me with a BlackBerry I'd get an iPhone (I might be tempted to look at HTC/Windows latest offerings or even the Android) I don't think I could ever go back to having a phone without a data plan, despite my dislike for most things Apple - the iPhone to me just makes sense (as do most 'next gen' phones)

That made me chuckle :) I hope you've heard of DoA (Dead on Arrival) a method of returning kit I've broken with no questions asked :D muhahahaha

The site I was thinking of was http://www.serversniff.net/

I only just found this topic while searching for something else (so hopefully I'm not pointlessly bumping an old topic) What I am struggling to understand is how DSL differs from Dial Up (in terms of connection method) I can understand how someone could start rebuilding with simple Modems e.g. I'll Dial your server and then we're connected. Does DSL work in the same way? From my understanding it doesn't? e.g. A provider needs to go make changes to my local exchange to enable DSL to be used on the physical line?

I had to pick a parcel up from UPS and I noticed they had one or two black and green screens I recognised

I'm out of my depth on the FTP front, if you did something similar in IIS I guess you could have authenticated users, as the underlying folder share would have NTFS permissions?

Looks ok, however I don't like Samsung products and (as stated in other posts) I love Western Digital, so I'd swap the hard drive over. I don't know much about MSI boards as I tend to only use ASUS. I have a real hard on for Corsair PSU's at the moment - for no real reason other than they are modular and they where the first makers I saw do this plus the packaging they come in is really OTT. You’ll pay quite a premium for owning one though, I’d say at least x3 the price of your current PSU. I had system problems previously and Corsair’s support was very good so I’d also recommend Corsair memory. Perhaps other users have equally good experience with the component manufactures you have selected. I used to build systems with really cheap parts with the attitude of “its cheap and it will do the job and last 2 years” but when my customers constantly had problems and my family’s stuff fell over it got annoying.

We still run a IBM AS400, it's 25+ years old... it scares the shit out of me.

Wait... I was the first person to post a picture and dogz didn't win? WTH?!?! :D

Windows XP (On wards) allows you to use offline files http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/m...flinefiles.mspx VaKo will probally better explain the setup but the dirty basic way to do this is;- 1. Have a logon script that maps a H: drive (letter is not really important but most examples use H for "Home") 2. Go to client workstation, right click their my documents folder, click properties, there will be a location option, simply move this to the H drive. 3. I can't remember if that automatically enables offline files, if not right click the H drive and tick "avaliable offline" That works great for laptop users. You could then use something like TS or Citrix if they need remote access, of you could have some sort of FTP site setup. Just re-read your entire post, this solution would tick some, but not ALL boxes.

If you know ports 24, 25, 587, 2525, 10025 or 52525 are open then you could use DynDNS Mailhop service http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html I don't know of any other providers. Change ISP asap.

Provided you know the hostnames and the user you are currently logged in as has Admin rights you could use Shutdown.exe /m \\hostname /s /f I belive the syntax is correct. If you don't have admin rights, I guess you could knock something up using telnet?

Thank's the info guy's. I've fun the Intel tool you suggest VaKo and you are indeed correct about my processor not supporting VT. Just incase anyone digs this topic up http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dynamicDet...&ItemID=176 this is the AMD Cpu information tool, I belive it should tell you what is supported on your AMD processor.

That is what I though – I guess you’re talking anywhere upwards from £100-£200+ for something decent; second question – is it justified; my VM server is hardly going to be constantly under strain? I’ve run CPU-Z and confirmed that the CPU is “Prestonia” I can’t seem to find anything that says it isn’t VT compatible though I’m thinking given its original release date it won’t be. What is annoy is the article you provide earlier VaKo mentions that the Xeon 3000 series does support VT and if you then look at the Xeon article it suggests (at least to me, that the Prestonia chip is part of the 3000 series) perhaps I am just being dumb?

The major thing for me has always been the 2 years of extra warranty. I’ve only had to use WD warranty twice in some 10 years of system building and one of those times I think it was “our” fault due to the environment the drive was operating in. It really is AWESOME, what I really like is their “advance replacement” system, you have to give them a credit card up front but they’ll ship you a brand new drive straight away, then simply ship your drive back within their timeframe and subject to them testing it they won’t charge your credit card (not for a 120GB drive they where going to charge in the region of $140 :P ) they also offer the standard “send it back we’ll test it, then send you a new one” it’s just nice to have the quicker option, more so in a home environment than work I find. I'll take another look at the 1TB drives, however compared to 500GB they where quite a lot more expensive. Do you have any recommendations for PCI Sata raid controllers, there seems to be a lot of them available and that actually worries me as I know 90% of them will be made in China, have little to no support (hardware or after sales) and will likely die within 6 months

I'm really glad I found this topic ;) I was going to post a similar question. At the moment I have a HP DL140 (G1 I think) sat in my attic, I've been away on holiday recently and I just can't get use to the "humm" it is making. It's something I can probably get used to again, but I also starting to wonder just how much juice that puppy is sucking. It's quite a decent server 2 x 2.4Ghz Xeon (I'm hopping someone will be able to tell me what generation Xeon's they are [as to whether they will support hardware virtualisation], 2 x 160GB drives and 3.5GB RAM. It Run's my home SBS server very nicely but I’ve come to the decision that I really want to give Xen Server a go (due to a large migration project my company has recently undertaken) so if the DL140 will support Xen Server I may use that. EDIT: With the use of VaKo's link I belive it has "Prestonia" processors, I am unsure if these are G3000 or G5000, or if this even matters given that Hardware virtualisation IS supported? That said I’ve put together a new rig for around £450 I can mirror the two drives in Raid 1 configuration using the raid manager provided by the motherboard (do you have any suggestions as to whether this is good, or is it better looking at other Sata raid controllers?) Is there anything you would upgrade? I’m looking at hosting a DC, Exchange & possibly one or two other VM’s (maybe some Linux distribution for Apache and/or a Windows Web Server) I've gone with the WD Black drives, does any one have an opinion on Black vs. Green in terms of performance vs. power efficiency , and how you think this will effect a virtualised environment? Another thing to consider is the black comes with a 5 year warranty where as green is only 3 years; which for me personally swings hugely in favor of the black. I’ve gone for 8GB of Memory, I appreciate 16GB would be better but the only place I’ve seen 4GB modules is Crucial and they come in at around £115 each. The current specification is from Overclockers.co.uk, I can get it for £420 from eBuyer.com