Re: [H] New TV.

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Bobby Heid wrote: I wanted to thank everyone for all of their inputs. We have an older rear-projection 52 that I was wanting to replace. The wife was balking at the $1800-1900 prices I was wanting to get (the 52 Sony Bravia or 52 Samsung 650). She was pushing for a 46

Re: [H] New TV.

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: Make sure when it is delivered that they have 2 people carrying it. Had a customer of ours accept a delivery of a PC we sold them for their meeting room (instead of a projector) and the UPS guy carried it in on his own and damaged the TV. Typo

Re: [H] Thermaltake Blacx

2009-04-09 Thread Bino Gopal
I got one from Amazon (love Amazon Prime!) and will report back on how it works, though it seems fine so far! :P BINO -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf

Re: [H] Thermaltake Blacx

2009-04-09 Thread Al
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:34:02 -0700 Bino Gopal binogo...@hotmail.com wrote: I got one from Amazon (love Amazon Prime!) and will report back on how it works, though it seems fine so far! :P I have three that need a home. Two USB and one USB/ESATA. Al

[H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs

2009-04-09 Thread Bino Gopal
Hey guys, I ran into an issue I don't really have much experience with on my OLD P4 3.4 Ghz Dell XPS system from Dec 2004: The system came with 2 74GB WD 10k Raptors in RAID0 (which is still a pretty decent perf setup from what I understand). 1 is in SATA0 and the other is in SATA2. A couple

Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs

2009-04-09 Thread FORC5
run fdisk and change the status to not active. Some MB's do let you choice boot order in the bios fp At 09:48 AM 4/9/2009, Bino Gopal Poked the stick with: So my question: is there any way to fix this other than taking the 1TB drive out and reformatting it and NOT marking it as Active? If so,

Re: [H] Question about boot order stuff with HDs

2009-04-09 Thread Bino Gopal
Ahh, I was just being stupid--for some reason (despite looking at it 3-4 times last night, though this was at 3am and I was pretty tired) I missed seeing that SATA drive was higher on the boot list than the Intel RAID Array! So since the 1TB SATA drive is marked Active for boot and was higher on

[H] SATA port multipliers?

2009-04-09 Thread James Boswell
Hey guys, I've got a client wanting a machine in a Silverstone SG05 case ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=sg05area=usa ), and the current leading candidate for the mainboard is the Zotac 9300-ITX ( http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16642 ), the basic objective

Re: [H] SATA port multipliers?

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Martin Jr.
I'd use a USB to SATA adapter off one of the internal usb headers for the blu-ray drive. Use one of these to keep it tidy. You'll also need a slim sata to sata cable http://cgi.ebay.com/12%22-305m-Slimline-SATA-Cable-Slim-Drive-CRX890S,AD7670S_W0QQitemZ130296426485QQcmdZViewItem