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Its an IDE Cable Select cable. Apple used them many year ago and as pointed ou, so did many other OEM's. The pin on that wire is non functional by design (why? You'd have to ask the engineers who designed it)

On the Dells (at least the one I pulled this error code from...an 8700) if you boot into the setup menu and go into the diagnostic partition there are several test you can run (4 actually). The code also indicated it failed a post test, which i would have thought to mean either a bad cpu/mobo/ram or vid card but apparently Dell includes the sata drive in the post test too. I haven't heard of any 3rd party confirmations or recalls, but when they immediately go straight to replacing the drive, without asking questions and they acknowledge that they are having unusual failure rates I usually don'

I thought VDSL had higher speeds than that? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It does. MUCH higher than that. I think PG either had to many margaritas tonight or he got shammed by a telco salesman. (read my post above) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, thanks. So im not going crazy. There's some good news. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, so I'm being dsylexic tonight. 4110 down /892 up. I didn't think it was very slow...max on it is supposed to be around 5 down and 1 up if I remember right. Suppose I could look it up but I'm being lazy and i'd probably spell something wrong..... See what you get for

Qwest VDSL 1410 down /982 up

Try deleting your dialup connection, rebooting and then adding it back in.

Whatever you can't afford to lose should be on another disk (or at least have a copy on another disk). Thats the whole point of backups. If you're unfortunate enough to lose you back up drive, you should have the original to work off of. Always keep 2 sets of data. Original and Backup. You don't...then don't whine when all your stuff goes bye bye.

you mean 24kbps isn't fast anymore.....

I have a hunch seagates 5 yr warranty is going to play a major role in determining which hdd to but from now on.

Whe I spoke with Dell and gave them the error codes, they didn't even flinch before they offered to send out a new drive. They won't, as far as I can tell, replace a working drive but if it fails they will because they do know they have a problem.

For those of you using any of the Maxtor SATA drives, and even some of the IDE drives manufactured and shipped between 6/04 and 2/05 please take a moment to heed this warning. There is a know manufacturing issue that is causing the drives to fail unexpectadly and w/o warning. It manifests itself as a hdd that hangs on the windows splash screen. I was part of a conference call today in which the Dell and Maxtor reps and techs both acknowledged that they had a "significantly higher" rate of failure on drives manufactured during that period then any other drives. The Dell onboard diagnostic shows

Just wondering what ever became of this problem.

edit, posted twice for some reason.

You're right, I was incomplete in that short answer. N-Vidia does write drivers for its chipsets, however the individual card makers often modify the drivers to work better with their added components and setups. Thats why they include their drivers on the install cd's usually. (and as someone else pointed out, their additional software which may or maynot need the drivers to be modified) The generic version from N-vidia will work with any conforming chipset mde by them, but quite a few higher end cards have specificly redesigned drivers. (EX: if you go to MSI or one of the other card makers s

Thanks

Take your pick of sites

N-Vidia doesn't make anything but the chipset for the devices, the drivers are made by the companies that manufactur the cards. N-Vidia is only a designer and chipmaker, unlike ATI which actually does produce a line of cards itself. (just to clarify)

#'s 1, 4 and 5 should be all you need to achieve a secure network with that router. So far WPA has not been cracked. #2 and #3 are pointless and are not any type of security measure. Your SSID is broadcast in every packet you send and recieve so whats the point of hiding the network? (security thru obscurity?) and you can see how easily you can spoof a MAC addres, anyone with an ounce of brains could do the exact same thing. Your passwords and encryption are what you need for protection, not the other useless crap.

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Things you'll have to do to access your network from the outside> 1) Make sure you router has ports 5800-5900 forwarded to a static ip address (your host machine) 2) Make sure that host machine has VNC server running and has a password on it 3) Make sure your firewalls allow VNC to pass thru The bold part is what you missed. You really only need to set 1 static ip and then you can use the common name ( familypc, mylaptop,pc2 etc) in the VNC viewer to access the other pcs with dynamic ips (as long as netbios/beui is intsalled so the name can be resolved)

I have always had good luck with Maxtors, until now. None of mine have failed...knock on wood...yet!!!

8 views and not 1 opinion?

You're not seeing things. just keeping the thread near the top so it might be of help.

You can't use most usb devices on sytems that require special drivers for the device (like some keyboards and mice), the age of the OS really has nothing to do with it. I have seen old Compaqs that came with usb mice work straight off when using their 98 recovery disks.

Make sure you have netbios/netbui installed under your protocols, your firewalls turned off and file and print sharing enabled and something actually has to be shared. Use the "search" button to find other computers on the network, Hint hint.

Did you shake it by its tail?