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Has anyone else here had problems installing KB2770917? I have had it fail on 2 machines. Googling it shows me that there are other people having the problem. but no real answers as to why. I have already formatted one of them previously due to Windows Update no longer working. If I have to do...

Has anyone else had trouble with Virtu on this board? Or any Z68 for that matter? Version 1.2.108 gave me BSODs on VirtuWDDM.sys and 1.2.110 and 1.2.111 both crash on startup. Should I even care about using it? It is d mode only on this board since there is no video output for the Intel...

I bought an ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z with the intention of using my Megahalems from my previous build. It does not clear the RAM slots. :( Has anyone got a recommendation for a cooler that fits this board with all of the RAM slots full? Currently I have the stock Intel cooler on it. :(

Depending on IF I can find either of them in stock... I am considering an upgrade to z68 (can't afford x79). The 2 motherboards that are in the lead for me at the moment are the Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 (can't find anywhere) or the EVGA Z68 FTW 160-SB-E689-K2 (currently out of stock with more...

On my start menu (Windows 7 x64) the items on the right side that popup a menu no longer work. The document folder, downloads, etc. Even the little arrow on the shut down menu no longer opens anything. I am assuming a dll needs reregisted or a registry entry need fixed. I tried sfc /scannow but...

Short version: Does anyone have a RAID 0 array of 2 SF-1200 drives that they have been running for several months and has the speed noticeably degraded? Long version: I have 2 120GB SandForce SF-1200 SSD drives. I originally ran them in RAID 0 on the laptop for about a month and then split...

I am trying to map a drive for a user and am getting the message: "The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred: No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can...

I am going to be building 2 new machines for work and ordering the parts tomorrow. One of the guys using them is going to be using Solidworks and says he will need a Quadro card. Not a problem and we have likely decided on a Quadro 2000. The other machine will be doing mostly Photoshop and...

I bought 2 Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 120 GB drives about 3 weeks ago. I put them in my laptop as a RAID 0 array without trying them individually. There is no question that they are fast as is. But I got to thinking. I am only using 65 GB. I could split them, keep one in the laptop and return one...

I was unfamiliar with PFC (Power Factor Correction) and was looking at UPS units on Newegg when one of the reviews got my attention. It was a UPS I already owned and the guy that reviewed it complained that PFC was not supported with the particular unit and he returned it for one that did. I...

I have been running a pair of WD 7200 rpm drives in my laptop for the past year waiting for SSDs to get affordable. I see some of the 120 GB drives are not much over $200 now. I was wondering if anyone here had run a pair of them in RAID 0 and if there is any noticeable gain from doing so. I...

I am just about fed up enough with the drivers for the 4870x2 and I am considering a replacement. It looks like the GTX 470 is a good card for the money. How much of a downgrade would it be? I run at 1920 x 1200 and wouldn't mind a slight decease in raw power if I can regain the reliability of a...

I know a guy with a 4870x2 that is overheating. We disassembled it and are prepared to replace the paste on the core with some OCZ Freeze. We weren't goin to mess with the thermal pads on the memory, but the ones near the first core are fried. Has anyone else replaced these? I assume new pads...

I know someone running a Mac (not me) and it is brand new with an SSD. He is running VMWare Fusion 3.0 and has a Windows 7 guest. I assume I should have him disable defrag on it, but I also assume the VM has no idea it is on an SSD. Do the usual things apply? Should I have him disable...

When I right click on a drive in Windows 7 x64 and select properties for some reason it now comes up defaulted to the "Sharing" tab instead of "General". Both of my machines do this, but the Windows 7 machines at work do not. Something I have installed must have done it, but I have no idea what...

We are currently using fusemail as our email provider. What we would like to do is allow members of some of our sites to have a branded email account that allows us to advertise our website by inserting a tag to the bottom of the email, similar to what hotmail and others do (logo, link back to...

I installed Windows 7 last night, and was all but done and was ready to test some games. BSOD. Comes back up ok, but no internet. IP's work ok, but not hostnames. Enter manual IPs for the DNS servers, no changes. Tried system restore. Also broken. Could not find object, plus an error number I...

I have a user with a Macbook Pro. Today we switched to a new email host, and switched our MX record to the new server. I got everyone updated to point to the new mail server except the Mac user. We attempted to change the server settings and were having some issues. After some frustration the...

I have Vista 64 bit installed on a recently upgraded machine. There was a BIOS update and I decided to flash it ( which I have done on this board previously without issue). This time it decided to take out my RAID array. No big deal I thought, I have a recent backup. So I go to restore it and it...

I have a Q6600 G0 on an Intel D975XBX motherboard. 975x chipset. I have 4 1 GB sticks of OCZ Platinum PC2 6400. When I had an E6600 and 2 of these modules, I could run 3.0 Ghz without problems. I thought the current setup would too for a while, but I get random BSODs. Runs fine at stock 2.4. I...

Ok, I am about to reformat, and thought I would give the 64 bit version another try. I have an ICH7R soutbridge, and am intending to use RAID 0 (not open to discussion, don't care about the data risk, I run backups). Is there anyone else running RAID 0 on Vista 64, and if so, do you run the...

I am going to be building a new server. We are going with 4 SAS drives. My issue is to decide if we will be using all 4 in a RAID 6 array, or 3 in a RAID 5 with a spare. I am aware of the greater data security of RAID 6, but only have hands on experience with RAID 5. Would a 4 disk RAID 6 array...