Recent content by paintb4707

Nothing that I can tell is shorting the board out. When you say power switch are you referring to the outlet/surge protector? If so, the machine I'm on right now is plugged into the same outlet.

I have a workstation here that is completely dead. No power and no fans spin up. In a situation like this I figure it could be one of two things. Either the psu or the mobo. I replaced the powersupply and STILL no power. (and yes, it is switched on) I just replaced the motherboard...

Ahhhh I feel like an idiot. Apparently it was the firewall. I use a KVM switch to switch between our 2k3 server and the exchange server. Apparently the configuration on the firewall rolled back to a previous state and incoming SMTP traffic was being sent to the 2k3 server. I guess I got the...

When I ping it, it doesn't reply but does resolve the WAN ip of the firebox. I also cannot telnet which would appear to be an issue with the firewall, however incoming SMTP IS ALLOWED and being forwarded to the internal ip of the exchange server.

Yes I have tried rebooting. I'm really leaning towards the firewall being that I can't telnet port 25. But also I don't know if this would be because of NAT.... because incoming SMTP is allowed and being forwarded to the correct internal IP of the Exchange server. Also outgoing and optional...

How do you check the mailbox count for a particular user? OWA is what I use to access my email. I'm not receiving anything still.

I just tried sending a test email with a yahoo.com and mail.com account. Neither went through or received an NDR.

------------------ Long version ------------------ Well, I'm the brand spanking new Network Admin for a vitamin manufacturer of about 100 users. Let me explain a little about the job first. When I interviewed, they were specifically looking for an entry level admin that was still in school...

grrrrrrrrrr I've tried creating an account several times and I keep getting an error.

There are connectivity issues with the remote system, pleae re-try later :(

Woooooo! I fixed it! Basically... I had quite a lot of dust that was stuck between the fins on top of the heatsink and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get it out of there. Then it finally hit me to use the handset from a vacuum and it worked like a charm. I also manually...

No, no. I tried reseating it after replacing the thermal paste. And now temps are worse than before. Maybe cleaning it off with only 70% alcohol could be causing the problem. I'll buy something a little stronger when I have the chance to re-apply the paste. I don't see how I could have...

Do you guys think it could be the ceramique? Maybe I need arctic silver with silver oxide as suggested above. Or maybe I just need to clean it better with some stronger rubbing alcohol. I mean I still haven't re-applied the paste yet but I'm just brainstorming here. I doubt it. Even if I...

I don't think the program matters really. It seems as if all of them just take the readings from BIOS. I'm using Everest right now and I'm idling at 94c

Well.... I cleaned it off an re-applied with the arctic silver ceramique lying around. Now I can't boot at all as I'm watching it jump to 100c in the bios. I've tried reseating it several times and it seems as if the paste spread just fine and the HS is on nice and tightly. I'll have to clean...