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I am installing a Panasonic kv-s1025c scanner on a PC that is running Win 7 SP1. There are several of this same setup throughout the office in which I am attempting to install this one. I have tried every single driver listed on Panasonic’s site...

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I have a A5500 where i have configured a route-port on an interface.

 

interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
 port link-mode route
 ip address 172.20.11.254 255.255.252.0
 

This port is a link to an old network which I am...

I am trying to install AHCI driver at windows xp installation.

How can i do that?

because all the sites i see on the internet only show options to install the driver after installing windows or integrating the AHCI driver into the the...

Hi all,

im trying to install eSXi on my dell optilex 755 i have bios revision A10 but under performance, there arent options for "Virtualization" or "Trusted Execution" there is only an option for VT there and when i run the esxi installer i...

Have a Windows Pro 7 64bit PC, it has stopped working with two USB connected scanners that have been work for 6 months or more without any such issues. Over the Christmas break they are no longer working with this system, USB loads and device...

I just acquired a server for my 1st ever start up. Yay! Unfortunately, I am the techie in the group and the owner (a software engineer). So, I'm stuck doing sys adminy stuff. I ordered the server with 2 CPUs (Intel® Xeon® Processor E5620), and...

We are evaluating between 2 systems
1.ISCSI (10GB) Equallogic 4810
2. EMC Clarion Cx4 (or VNX 5300) - 8gb fiber

having a mixture of SS drives and 15k sas.

We need the most out of IOPS - Reads, we have one very heavily used financial SQL...

Experts,

I need to find a hard disk drive that I can purchase to secure the information of my Desktop.
I read somewhere that there are hard disk drives with physical encryption.  I.E. if someone steals my Computer   (NOT a laptop), and takes...

If I had 50 GB of my own data and was thinking about cramming the following onto a 128GB SSD, would I be crazy?

Mac Lion
Parallels
Windows 7 (probably Home version)
MS Office 2011 for Mac
50GB of my own files

Curios...

Hello!  I'm looking for a ergonomic mechanical keyboard.  Does such a beast exist?  

I really like the feel of the Logitech Wave keyboard (attached is a pic).  A mechanical keyboard using this layout would be ideal!  I would generally use it...

I would like to connect 3 pairs of headphones to my PC (Dell Optiplex 745 desktop; windows Vista).  I've got the one jack on the front of the computer although it doesn't seem to work at all.  I need something that would be easy to plug and...

Here are some informational messages i've been getting in the ASDM syslog section (getting a lot, about 5-10 per second), but they seem to be the same ones repeating over and over. I'm not very familiar with the ASA and i'm just learning, so...

I'm trying to use my Rode Podcaster (USB) microphone in Windows 7. However, when I record, instead of recording from the microphone, it records from the mic that's built in with the webcam. I tried changing the input device in Audacity, but to no...

The Sleep function no longer works on Lenovo T400 & T420 laptops.

These laptops are using the Windows 7 64-bit OS.

It was working just fine on these laptops until all of a sudden it just stops working.

When a user tries to put his Lenovo...

Hello EE members,

How many (total) memory chip BGA/TSOP are set on a F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL memory kit?

Thanks for your help!

I consistently have trouble trying to restore my system onto an SSD (Kingston SNV225-S2/256GB) from an Acronis image even if the image has been made very recently from the same drive. Chkdsk /r /f cannot find any problems on the disk, but Acronis...

I am building a new PC for Windows, for which what I need most is a reliable motherboard.

I've been looking at ratings, and I couldn't find any with a clean record. I imagine they test them all, but then why so many with defects?

My...

Hello EE members,

How many Mio can we store on flash chipset of a Crucial M4 512 Go?

Thanks for your help!

Hello Team,

I have a silly yet very puzzling question.
I've done a reasonable amount of research on the subject but I cant seem to get my head round it. Since most of the research is coming from forums, alot of the questions are situation...

Hello,

I would like to build a Raid 0 using two Intel SSD drives.  I setup the raid and it worked fine, but one of the SSDs failed.  

I'd like to purchase another matching SSD to recreate the Raid0, but have a question concerning matching...

Hi,

I have a c7000 enclosure.
presently 2 bl460c G1 in it.

One is ok for now (firmware 1.82)
The other one, I'm trying to upgrade the firmware from 1.26 to 1.82.
I know those are old firmware, but it's working fine on the first one and...

I have a Dell 2950 server with a Perc 5/i RAID card installed. Recently, I have been getting a warning that the BBU is no longer providing sufficient charge for it to function properly. This was not a terribly serious concern until we had a...

I recently purchased a Poweredge T410 from Dell with a SAS 6/iR RAID controller. Because of the hard-drive shortage, Dell did not offer the drives that I was looking for and the higher-end drives offered in their place were extremely expensive...

I just purchased an Asus Transformer Prime and the corresponding Mobile Docking Station (http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Transformer-Prime-Mobile-Docking/dp/B00685ZDB2).  

I have loved it until last night when I logged on to WordPress and tried to...

Hello:

We had a hick-up this morning and it had to do with a bad hard drive on our HP Storage works MSA 20 Hard Drive cage.  more specifically 1 of the hard drives went bad (display is showing "84 Drive Failure Box#1 Bay 11")

This area...

Hi there. I'm looking for a wireless print server that will attach to a normal USB printer and support WPA Enterprise
Every print server i've found doesnt support this type of authentication

Can a Matrox TripleHead2Go display different windows on all 3 monitors instead of extending a single display across the 3 monitors?

I am very well aware about how the Matrox TripleHead2Go video boxes can extend the same display across three...

I have a Compaq Presario 1600 with Windows 98.
I have not used it, or booted up for a good 3 years or more.
I got it out and plugged it in and left it plugged in for about 48 hours.
The indicator shows a fully charged battery.
I booted up...

Nowadays laptops don't come with DB9 serial ports anymore but
USB ports.  I've lost my USB to DB9 adaptor 2 years ago & don't
intend to get another one.

I have a pair of C3750X-48 switches mounted & just directly beneath
these switches are...

After I saw some new HP and Dell systems and how cheap is much of what they're made of, I'd like now to build my own system.

I know all new hardware is 64-bit. Then, to what extent is it compatible with 32-bit software?

For instance, the...

I have a user that when they edit this one excel file a .tmp file is created everytime. The fle is located on a windows 2003 file share... The user is using a Windows 7 Office 2007 pc. I tried removing Excel Add-ons and also turing off indexing...

any body have the Manual for fibra modem Ericsson T063G

Hello EE members,

What is the ID (decimal number) of the SMART value storing the volume of dat written on flash chipset by an Intel SSD 520?

Thanks for your help!

When I try to start Windows Audio Service I get error:

Error 1297: A privilege that the service requires to function properly does not exist in the service account configuration.  You may use the MMC snap in and the Local Security Settings MMC...

I plugged in the printer and was able to print from it immediately. But how do I scan?

When I power up my dell Vostro 230 SFF a steady amber light is on but no video is displayed to the screen and it will not boot up. The drive is a sold state drive and it sounds like it is spinning.

I thought it was the power supply, I replaced...

Hello,

I have a Dell PowerEdge R300 that is running SBS 2003.  I have been thinking about adding a card to it to support an eSATA HDD enclosure.  I went to the back of my rack to see which of the two riser slots are open and lo and behold -...

I have a MacBook Pro with a 2GH i7 processor and 8GB of RAM. And I am thinking about buying a 2.5GH machine with 4GB of RAM. The plan it to swap the hard disks and upgrade the faster machine to have 8GB of RAM.

Is this possible? Would I simply...

We have one Dell Optiplex 780, I need to replace the data drive as only 300Gb and it is full.  Dell told me that the largest hard drive I can put into this machine is a 500Gb drive.  This sounds ridiculous.

Can't I simply purhcase a SATA 300...

Hi. I want to buy a computer to run Solidworks on? Please could you advise on what I should be looking for?

Should I go for a workstation or desktop?

How much memory do I require?

What operating system should I go for?



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What is best practice for filling a 42u rack, considering proper cooling and sufficient power is available? The racks would include a KVM and and should buffer airflow space be considered as occupying space? Total rack space for servers would be...

My HDD has several partitions. CrystalDisk informs that there are bad and pending sectors on it. How can I find out what partition(s) they are in? I know, it is best just to replace the disk in such situation, but still...

Thank you.

Missing a win 7 64 bit driver for a samsung p580 mobo.  H/W ID ACPI\SMO8800
Tried every driver on samsung site (aus, us & global).  Any ideas??? Need to install before i can drop off to client.

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Can anyone tell me what these post codes mean?


AMI (92)Hard disk setup complete. About to go for BIOS ROM data area check.
Compaq (92)Error on CMOS read/write test.
Chips & Tech (92)Configuration check.
Phoenix (92)Jump to User...

We have built a new PC in the office and when we turn the machine on all the fans, DVD Drive, HDD all start up but nothing can be seen on the screen (stays in standby). Please note there is no onboard graphics.

M/B - GA-X79-UD3
CPU - Intel...

I'm trying to format my sandisk CRUZER usb flash drive and I can't seem to get rid of this "CD ROM " partition that it keeps creating.  I do NOT want this gosh darned backup crap.  I just want a USB drive to store things in.

There's gotta be a...

I noticed recently that I noly had one path to my SAN volumes from each of my ESX hosts.
Equallogic is PS4000.
I went through hancocka's guid here for setting up the multiple paths:...

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I am working on a Brother DCP 7020 which jammed the paper immediately after it exited the fuser unit. After thorughly cleaning the unit it continued to happen. When the machine was opened it was discovered that there are some holes in the...

We have just purchased a fuji-xerox WorkCentre 3220 and it comes with Paperport 11 SE as it scanning software.  I have changed the default location for saved scanns but cannot work out how to get the software to prompt for a location before it...

A client of ours had a problem with overheating where their server is locationed (a HP server).

They are looking at ways or soriting it and the architects (who are considering moving / building an area in the garage for the server) have asked...

Hi all,

just after some opinions on whether it would be worth getting a san for our main office

we have the following which could utilise:-

Exchange 2010
SQL
File Server

ive seeen some HP disk array kits they call them, where we get...

came in this morning and found my XP Pro machine will not power up. When I press the button on the front to boot, nada.  No lights, no sound, no nothing. It is plugged in, tried a different cord from another computer. What do I check? I have...

Hello experts,

I don't own a Sun STK 6540, but I am trying to learn how to administer it

I have found alot of procedures and documentations about this storage's administration...

Hi Techs,
Im trying to fix an hp elitebook 8440p laptop.  It powers on, but it wont boot.  Tried to boot to the install disc and still wont boot.  There's nothing on the monitor, either.  Any assistance is appreciated!  Thank you!  Mark88

Trying to find an ip camera that will work in Southeast Alaska where we get lots of inclement weather.  I need the camera to be able to:
* use ftp with a programmed user and password.  
*send photos to a website via ftp and I need to be able...

I've been called on to sort out a problem with the front desk computer at my younger brother's primary school. It gets blue screens almost every day.
When this happens it doesn't crash, just freezes on the blue screen and takes a few goes to get...

I have a PCI-E sound card.   Can I use it in a PCI slot or will it only work in a PCI-E slot?

Hi all,
I have 2 computers that each have multiple hard drives installed. Windows has set up these drives so that they are formatted and configured as spanned drives meaning, the drives are "combined" and show as one large drive.

I want to...

I thought I had deleted all my disk groups before created three new ones. Now I see the new ones as well as two ‘old’ ones.

Under Modify > Delete Virtual Disks the button Delete is grayed out. I’ve rebooted the server as well as the storage...

I have a USB memory stick that registers as "Drive E:" on some computers that I put it in and "Drive F:" on others.  Is there a way to always get it to register as the same drive on different computers?

We have a client that used an Symbol LS1902T-1000 barcode scanner in their PS/2 port with QB POS.

We just replaced their computer (used Dell PC with new XP load) and purchased a PS2 to USB adapter since the new computer didn't have a PS2 port....

Is there a product out there which I can plug my headset into, which would then plug into both my phone and my computer, so that I could use it with both?
Thanks!

Hello,

Tured on my pc this morning and i get a constant beep through the speakers.

This only happens when i enter any profiles.

Noise only comes through speakers and have tested 2 speakers and headphones all with a constant beep.

Hi,
My laptop has 4GB of memory which is flashed at BIOS. Due to XP 32 bit, I can only use 3GB. I am now upgrading to Windows Vista 64 bit. Vista is memory hungry and I want to upgrade my laptop to 8GB.

How can I locate which memory modules...

Experts,

I am using pLop boot manager to boot into various drives on my system. The issue is, I have a lot of drives, and it's very difficult to identify the drives from just their hex values (I have a pretty complicated setup). It seems plop...

The drive clicks when connected and is not recognized by the system. It seems likely that the PCB board burned out.

Is replacing a WD PCB straightforward or difficult?

I have an Acer D241H monitor, which has built-in speakers.  This monitor has a VGA and HDMI input as well as audio in (and audio out/mic).  I am having trouble with the audio input when connected to my tower via HDMI.

This setup has worked...

This is a laptop that functions normally but has a screen that throws artifacts randomly and exhibits a sort of "vertical hold" situation where the screen is constantly rolling up and down.  Plugging a monitor in to the laptop does not exhibit...

I know that with floppy disks you can get them around a magnet and you will actually erase the contents of the floppy disk.  I am wondering if it is possible to do something similar with a flash drive.  I often keep one in my pocket but I wonder,...

Hi all,

im trying to put together a spec for Virtualising 8 machines, currently these 8 machines are running pentium 4 3.0 ghz processors

what equivilent would i need with the modern day xeons in terms of power

i know 24ghz of p4 power...

I thought I had deleted all my disk groups before created three new ones. Now I see the new ones as well as two ‘old’ ones.

Under Modify > Delete Virtual Disks the button Delete is grayed out. I’ve rebooted the server as well as the storage...

Hello,

i am looking for a decent quality, and reasonably priced negative photo scanner
can you suggest some  - only post from experience !

it needs some functionality software, like for removing scratches, dirt etc...

thanks for all info

Hi

I recently moved my office in my basement
my computer can get the wifi signal no problem
But my terminal to process credit card is supposed to be wired to the internet

Since I move all my office I would need a few hundred feet of...

Hi,

I'm looking from some monitors 23" preferably like the dell ultrasharp series with adjustable height and angles. Something decent but don't need the highest end.

DVI, VGA is needed.

HMDI and dual port (isn't necessary for me).
...

I’m working up the quote for our data cabling and IT/Server room.  Do you guys rather have your jacks/patch panels numbered or color coded and numbered?  
Please advice.

I'm running a custom built rig, with an ASUS m/b and an AMD Radeon  5830 video card, running 3 monitors (one on the Display Port, and 2 on the HDMI connections). The OS is Windows 7 64b Ultimate. I have another video card as well to run a fourth...

This is for my customer. I fix PCs for a living.

Customer has HP Pavillion Slimline S300. Cpu is AMD Dual Core 2.16 Ghz. Memory is 2 x 512 MB or 1 GB total but only 894 MB is available as video card is low end and uses PC memory for video...

Hi all,

I've recently upgraded my HP Compaq D530 from 256 MB to 512 MB. The BIOS tells me I have installed 512 MB, but dispite that fact Windows is still only using 256 MB, it tells this in my computer but also in the task manager. When I use...

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I have a acer aspire 7540G When i try to install xp instead of win 7 it cant find the harddisk
Ive made a new disk with this driver iaAHCI but not sure if its the right one. The harddisk is new and works fine i have tested  it.

Thanks

Our cable internet frequently fails and we have backup from the phone company which is much slower.  Their is an appliance that will automatically switch when one service goes down but I don't know what it is called.  Any ideas?

I have a ProLiant ML350 G5 HP- 2 and after replacing the cache battery it's been a couple months and now I'm getting warnings to replace it again. Is there a way to find out if it's the battery or the board?

I have seen those cables that can make one power outlet two--one male plugs into UPS and two female connectors dangle off of it to allow two devices to be plugged in.  

Is that safe if it is two low power devices, like a cordless phone and...

hi guys

We currently have 6disks, 1TB each with Raid 5 on our SAN The result has become a vdisk of 5TBon. I would like to delete and create a 2TB, 2TB and 1TB vdisk instead from this block.

1) How long does it take on average to...

We are running Win2.3k 64bit EE on a Dell R810 server. We have successfully upgrade the mian bios firmware to rev 2.5. Since that upgrade we have been having iDrac6 failures on boot up. We have been advised by Dell that we should upgrade the...

I’m Looking to purchase either an 8 port PCIEX8 or 8 port PCIEX16 SATA hard drive RAID card.

I currently have a total of 8 SATA hard drives in my computer. I need to be able to set up a RAID 1 (mirrored) array between 2 SATA hard drives) and...

Windows 2000 Server (SP4) with MS SQL Server 2000 installed running on a VMware host reboots every few hours.

I have tried to run this set up on several different Host machines but each show the same behaviour.

This is a brand new host...

Hi Experts,

I have an HP 2015 shared from an XP machine on a LAN.  Other XP machines can print to the shared 2015 just fine.  When I try to do the same with a Win 7 64 machine, I can't connect to the printer.

The only Win 7  64 drivers HP...

I can not boot from the bootable CD in my drive, yet I opened the BIOS and verified it was set to boot from CD first.

Any idea why it's not working? I am in the process of digging up the version of the BIOS, if that would help debug this...

I am looking for an MFP that is for a group of five people.  For the most part, the Canon we have is great and works well, but only one person can scan because it has to go through USB.  I checked out a few other printer/scanners from Xerox and...

is it possible to enable dual output at the same time?
i would like optical out and analog out to be active.

currently i have to go in to WINDOWS-SOUNDS  and set Default to the output i desire when i desire.

A black and white will do.
Prefer colour.

Any of them out there that support Win Me?

Hi Experts,

Asus Rampage Extreme IV socket 2011

If you are looking at the motherboard, the cpu is facing north, to the south of it are the PCH / Southbridge, and to the north the voltage regs, what is the black heatsink on the left (west)...

Hi guys,

I just bought a lot of 5  Symbol P470 for the warehouse

Ive tested it with 123scan from symbol, it uploads the file to the scanner and communicated with PC

I try to run the MCL-LINK Lite for phaser - cant get a connection

Ive...

Need a new TV for:
- Skyplayer/Iplayer/youtube etc from PC
- Blueray player from PC
- Normal terestrial channels

This is what I am thinking:
http://www.ebuyer.com/341756-hannspree-se40lmnb-40in-super-slim-edge-led-tv-full-hd-se40lmnb
...

Can anyone recommend a desktop computer (windows 7 compatible) with the "fastest" cpu and at least 16 gig of memory at a good price. I have a I7 from 2 or 3 years ago now. Are they much faster now?

I bought a WD Caviar Black WD1002FAEX and put it into a Rosewill RX-358 V2 enclosure and connected it to my computer via eSATA.  It seems to cause freeze ups and be occasionally unresponsive... almost like not waking up properly?  

Anyway, I...

I'm really not sure what I did to cause this horribly maddening problem.  (I just got some new software today that I've been waiting for over 2 weeks, and now I can't even install it)

This MIGHT have something to do with me installing Soluto,...

Hi,
i was wondering if i could get a definition following a simple explanation of risk management approaches?

Thanks in advance