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  1. ESXI Box Contest Submission:

    AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor - $189.99

    (fast, quad core any more need to be said?)

    ASUS M4N72-E AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - $134.99

    (Got this because it had room for 6 SATA drives and has its own raid support)

    CORSAIR XMS2 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model QUAD2X16G-6400 G -$749.99

    (Got this because it was cheaper to buy 16GB packaged together and DDR1066 doesn't come in 4 gig sticks)

    SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB 5400 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM - $479.94 (6 x 79.99)

    (Lots and Lots of Space, not to mention healthy for mother earth lol)

    Sunbeam PSU-HUSH680-US-BL 680W ATX 12V 2.0 Power Supply - $39.99

    (cheap and powerful enough, only cons found were dealing with GPUs)

    EVGA 256-P2-N429-LR GeForce 7200GS 256MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - $25.99

    (again its cheap, you don't need alot of graphics for the server)

    HAWKING HGA32T 10/ 20/ 100/ 200/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter - $33.98

    (2 x16.99, Fast might need two for things like DHCP and Smoothwalls)

    LITE-ON Black IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDP118-04 - $17.99

    (cheap gets the job done)

    ARK 4U-500-CA Black 4U Rackmount Case 3 External 5.25" Drive Bays - $72.99

    (has room for 7 3.5" drives!)

    SoNNeT Allegro Express USB 2.0 PCIe Card Model USB2-E - $59.98

    (needed to get this for the internal USB connection, fits into the PCIx1 slot)

    Transcend JetFlash V30 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model TS4GJFV30 - $8.49

    (got this to install ESXI on)

    Total before tax is: $1814.32

    The purpose of this ESXI whitebox is going to be an all around, do what ever you could ask it to server. I added the full 16GB of memory to make sure there wouldn't be any issues running a bunch of different OSs. I put two NICs in this so that I could use it as a DHCP server or as a router, both support about 2 Gbit transfers. The nice thing about this box is that you don't have to worry about running out of room, its got 6 TB drives that all fit into the case, the Motherboard has a raid controller on it.

  2. Ok I finally found it on youtube! Here I had the three episode mini series for the creators to test it (web site to back that up, http://cybertronchronicle.freewebspace.com...isodeguide.html ) Here is the link to the first segment of the 6 segment installment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKTGgPgu3f0 . Hope you enjoy it as much as I had ... Autobots! Roll Out! (Always wanted to say that)

    P.S.

    If anyone knows where I could buy this it would be greatly appreciated thanks!

  3. I'm 98% sure that the father and son in the picture are from the movie I'm thinking of, when they are first introduced in the movie they are working on an oil rig in the middle of the ocean when the Decepticons hijack the rig. Another Major scene I remember from the movie is a battle between Prim and Megatron on top a big dam, Looks like the hoover damn possibly where they got the idea for the live action movie but it is never stated as such.

    I don't know if the movie you are talking about about is the same one I'm thinking of, The only movie listed on the link you gave was the one where they are traveling the universe fighting where the one I'm thinking of is based all on earth except for the first 10-15 mins

    Just as a tasty bit of trivial knowledge, Weird Al Yankovic plays Wreck-Gar in the new cartoon network version of transformers...

  4. I have been trying to find this transformers movie from my child hood, it was one of my favorite movies of all time and I have recently come to find that my little brother had devastated the VHS that it was on. I did my best to salvage it but the tape is done for...

    So I was able to find a scene from the movie and i will upload it with the post. So if anyone can tell me what the movie title is and any more information you have on it it would be greatly appreciated

    Thank you in advance

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  5. Thank you Sparda! I removed my newest memory stick and everything worked great. I just got the memory stick last week and it worked fine for a while but only registered 1.25G instead of the full 2G I just thought it was a overhead issue. Thank you again!!!

  6. OK so I had taken my computer to a RSO (Resident Student Organization) super bowl party where we took the cable and ran it through my computer then to a projector. I didn't connect to any networks while i was there, and my computer doesn't have wireless. While we were trying to shut down some of the over head lights with the circuit breakers and someone hit the breaker that my computer was on. when this happened my computers power supply died and got some what crispy. so I got a new power supply from a friend and this bios would start but wouldn't go any further. Than the Asus splash screen, so I tried to flash the BIOS a couple times and that did nothing. Then when i tried starting it another time the POST beep was faded and I almost couldn't hear it. then this little guy showed up on the screen.

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    I'm figuring this is a virus and I'm going to try and rewrite the BIOS chip with software from the ASUS site, I doubt this is gonna do anything, but it's worth a shot. If anyone has any suggestions or comments about this, they would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in Advance

  7. Well it's interesting, the network isn't very good. To download one Hak.5 episode it takes me three hours. When I talked to the IT support person he said it's because they have a 20MBit line that has 12MBit being shared by 1200 students, while the other 8MBit is for something else.

  8. Ok I now have Gutsy installed and the sound works, YAY!!!  unfortunately now my graphics card (NX8500GT-MTD series by MSI) won't work.  What happens is I'll select the card to be my primary graphics device from the BIOS, the GRUB will load then the Linux kernel will start to load then everything goes black and it is as tho there is no signal coming from the computer.  I have installed the "restricted" drivers for the card and it has not helped any.  Now what am I doing wrong?

    P.S.

    Thanks everyone for being cool and helping!

  9. Yep thats the number that is on the box, and support DVD that came with it.  The reason I installed it was that I love the open source concept and someone had given it to me last year, I had just recently built my own box and didn't have the cash left over for windows so i used the CD that had been given to me.  I have downloaded the AMD64-bit version of Gutsy, and like mentioned before waiting till I go to the store to get some blank CDs.

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