Scott will be without a computer for a few days. The hard drive is going bad in our computer and we are going to replace it. He won't be able to get on here for a few days. If you need him you can send me a PM and I will try to help you out.

I just wanted to give you all a heads up.

I build those crazy machines... Let me know if you're spending more than 800-900 bucks or so... I can beat the price in most cases.

Ryan

Uh oh...Ryan is going to "update" the site while Scott is away.

Brian_B said:

Uh oh...Ryan is going to "update" the site while Scott is away.

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Nah, just change the administrator passwords.

todd knows me!

Ryan

O'Rattlecan said:

todd knows me!

Ryan

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And somehow you seem proud of that fact! I find it rather scary.

O'Rattlecan said:

I build those crazy machines... Let me know if you're spending more than 800-900 bucks or so... I can beat the price in most cases.

Ryan

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Thanks, I will. It is having problems reading the partitions. I have it at work and we are running some diagnostics on it and are probably going to replace just the hard drive. Hopefully, anyway.

He is going through withdrawal.

Funny how Scott got a new money pit toy that we were giving him suggestions for and suddenly the computer has issues and isn't at home. Hmmmmmm. Interesting isn't it.

6L PWR said:

Funny how Scott got a new money pit toy that we were giving him suggestions for and suddenly the computer has issues and isn't at home. Hmmmmmm. Interesting isn't it.

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Actually, I never thought of it from that angle.....Things that make ya go hmmmm!!!

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Funny how Scott got a new money pit toy that we were giving him suggestions for and suddenly the computer has issues and isn't at home. Hmmmmmm. Interesting isn't it.

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If he wouldn't have broke it then I wouldn't need to fix it. If he wouldn't have bought new wheels for his truck and I would have been able to get me the laptop that I wanted he would not have had any down time.


The money pit toy hasn't been played with for a few days either. I thought since he didn't have a computer he would be wearing the tires out on it but that's not the way it happened.

if you do have to replace the hard drive, replace it with a SATA drive if possible. you will love the transfer speed boost. if your computer is more than like 4 or 5 years old you may not be able to.

bowtiehatr said:

if you do have to replace the hard drive, replace it with a SATA drive if possible. you will love the transfer speed boost. if your computer is more than like 4 or 5 years old you may not be able to.

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Unfortunately the HDD controllers are totally different. You can't replace a parallel ATA drive with a SATA drive.......

just depends if they have a sata controller or not.

bowtiehatr, the transfer speeds are marginally faster at best. Only drives with large cache benefit from the extra bandwidth. The seek and read speeds are still usually 7200 rpm's, and overall speed doesn't improve.

Ryan

the tranfer rates are ridiculously fast. yes the read speeds are still the same, but the amount it can carry is huge. i built my last tower with a sata 160 as my main, and without raid i can load any program to date from a cd many times faster that a eide drive any day.

bob, like ryan said if your main board is set up for sata you can use sata drives and transfer (for you) picture alot easier. they have sata 150 or 300 which are the two options last i looked. if you dont have a sata controller on your board, then you can install a add-in card with sata hookups, but it does kill some speed.

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I thought since he didn't have a computer he would be wearing the tires out on it but that's not the way it happened.

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SEE!! She did it just to try and fix him!! Damned women!!!!

He should be back on tonight.

We can't get it to report any problems with the hard drive. We added some memory though so things should move a little faster. We are running one last test on it right now but so far it has reported no problems either. We think it might be over heating when it is reporting the errors. We will see what the last test shows.

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SEE!! She did it just to try and fix him!! Damned women!!!!

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Yes Todd us women are Evil, but we take pride in being evil.

I'm back. I was starting to wonder if the computer was going to come home.

Uh oh...we are in trouble now!

Just kidding. Welcome back stranger.

there he is!

Ryan