Re: [H] need iPod help ?

1. FUD, iTunes is garbage BECAUSE it is apples product getting it's mits into your wallet & machine. 2. Nothing wrong with Creative Zen Vision W vs. iPod, better IMO since ZVW has bigger screen and most certainly is not "crap". 3. It can be "managed" simply with Explorer or MediaMonkey, likely j

Re: [H] Memtest86 v2

The failures I got were in hi-RAM areas > 640K <= 102K, assume due to it testing ROM space that should not be part of the test range. Rick Glazier wrote: v1.70 has no errors in about 6 hours, v2.0 1700+ in 35 hours, 3.4a 122 in over 9 hours. All failures are in test #8, and seem to be one me

Re: [H] WinXP Partition size?

6-8GB, but that's with a customized setup script that moves Program Files, Temp, pagefile, and Documents & Settings to a second partition. :) Without those moves you need closer to double that AND a second partition where you manually point software installs to (i.e. "D:\Program Files\") or you

Re: [H] WinXP Partition size?

From: "DHSinclair" What is a reasonable partition size for WinXP? First, there is nothing wrong with the question, or all the other opinions ;-) How big is the HD? How much time do you want to spend on upkeep or special settings? (See end of story.) I personally use (2) x 320G drives here,

Re: [H] eide/pata

From: "Greg Sevart" I've had better luck with PATA adapters based on Silicon Image's 0680A chipset. That is what I have. I needed to re-solder a jumper block (jp1) because it was placed very high and at a 15* angle. (A random quality

Re: [H] Memtest86 v2

I've also had memtest86 give false positives, so an error doesn't necessarily indicate any problem at all, but could be an incompatibility with your chipset...or perhaps some other sort of hardware fault. I still view it as a valuable tool, however. I just try to take the results with a grain of sa

Re: [H] Memtest86 v2

Thanks, I have lots of time to RMA it... And digital pictures of all test results. Rick Glazier -- From: "Thane Sherrington" So if it gives you an error, then you have bad RAm, but if it doesn't, that doesn't

Re: [H] Memtest86 v2

From: "maccrawj" IIRC there are two flavors of MemTest86, one with a Plus (+) at the end that was newer? Thanks, I'm testing memtest86 1.70, memtest86 2.0, and the different memtest86+ 3.4a v1.70 has no errors in about 6 hours, v2.0 1700+ in 35 hours, 3.4a 122 in over 9 hours. All failures

Re: [H] Questions about volumes greater than 2TB on a RAID array

I hit the same issue recently when I used 4 x 1TB Samsung F1s on an Areca 1210. The solution I went with (mainly to allow certain disk utilities to function) was to split the RAID into 2 volumes. Initially I went with 2 x 1.5TB volumes but later re-did it due to a complex sets of requirements (I h

Re: [H] Memtest86 v2

At 05:59 PM 30/10/2008, maccrawj wrote: IIRC there are two flavors of MemTest86, one with a Plus (+) at the end that was newer? http://www.memtest.org/ When I was testing issues with VPU recover on my new system as was being told to blame my RAM I tried both and think MemTest86+ was the one