Parrotgeek7
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The Dell onboard diagnostic shows an error code 7, which in Dell speak means..."HOLY CRAP!!!!".. The other diagnostic code begins with 00F0W2: (Thats another Dell code)
Where is this error code presented? The ATA controller at POST? I rarely get to deal with Dells other than the PowerEdge Line.
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't go looking for Toms hardware or some such site to confirm it. after all, its money out of their pockets so if it wasn't a bad drive, why would they jump to the replacement option? Don't know, don't care, just relaying what was said to me as a PSA and/or heads up.
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Qwest VDSL 1410 down /982 up
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I thought VDSL had higher speeds than that?
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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)
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Ok, thanks. So im not going crazy. There's some good news.
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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 talking on the phone and trying t type at the same time...
and no, you don't have to be any closer then a normal dsl line. ours carries phone, tv and internet. ( so maybe all togethor its greater then 8, haven't actually cared enough to look. Our whole package is $120/month. But since you ask, I am about 150' from a switching station/box.
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Qwest VDSL 1410 down /982 up
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Try deleting your dialup connection, rebooting and then adding it back in.
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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.
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you mean 24kbps isn't fast anymore.....
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i wish they(Maxtor) had acknowledged this a couple of months ago...when my 160gb drive died a sudden and noisy death...when i tried to get a rma after getting the famous eight number code..i was politely told my drive was out of warranty..by a month...the good news was that i was using it as a backup slave and had been backing it up to dvd regularly..so i lost no data...just a lot of time and stress...
i switched to seagate...5-year warranty and nice and quiet...
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I have a hunch seagates 5 yr warranty is going to play a major role in determining which hdd to but from now on.
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If enough people conplain - maybe you can get an RMA on it
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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.
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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 an error code 7, which in Dell speak means..."HOLY CRAP!!!!".. The other diagnostic code begins with 00F0W2: (Thats another Dell code)
Not meaning to be an alarmist but though people should know so they can take the neccessary precautions. (backup backup backup)
This problem seems to exists mainly in the drives OVER 160GB.
Just thought people should know. Be good.
PG7
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Just wondering what ever became of this problem.
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edit, posted twice for some reason.
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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 site, you will find their versions of drivers for cards)
ATI meanwhile, makes cards as well as chipsets and sets the driver requirments, so they are in a more controlled,if you want to use that phrase, environment. Thats why you see fewer versions of ATI drivers then you do with N-Vidia.
It's not that one chipset is consistently better then the other, on some systems I like ATI, on others N-vidia ( and in the case of low powered workstations, the Intel chipset is just fine too)
Hopefully thats a more clear answer of my answer...
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Bottom of the page. I bump unanswered questions and worthy causes
Liz
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Thanks
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If they are that close, your should choose nvidia. Nvidia makes good easy to use drivers for linux
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)
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I'm using a linksys WRT54GS with spedbooster router. I have done several things so far to make my home network secure. This is what I have done so far.
1. I have a unique name for my network, changed from the default one.
2. I have filtered my Mac addresses, permitting just the Mac addresses I have.
3. SSID, I hid this so it can't be seen by others
4. WPA, set and very difficult passsword
5. Last, I changed the router password.
My question, I heard I should clone/spoof my MAC Address also. I just can't seem to figure this out, can anyone assist me in doing this? I'm also looking for any else I can do to make my network as secure as possible.
What is a port? and how do I find this?
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Gateway
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~1795 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551, 8/20/2001
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 641.16 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.91 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
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#'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)
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I have always had good luck with Maxtors, until now. None of mine have failed...knock on wood...yet!!!
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8 views and not 1 opinion?
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PG two post with nothing in them?? Your error or am I not seeing things
You're not seeing things. just keeping the thread near the top so it might be of help.
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Can't use the latest and greatest on a version of an OS that is 3or4 years old.
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.
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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.
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Honda Boy it seems you have bitter feeling about winme...I've used win 1.01, win3.1, win 3.11, win 95, win 98, winnt 4.0, and win me with very few problems...oh, I did have problems with win 1.01....I could never get the mouse to work...have a nice day.
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Did you shake it by its tail?
Weird Thing
in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP
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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)