I've had a dell poweredge server running for a few years now hooked up to my houses ethernet lan setup, it has windows small business server 2000 on it and I generally use it for backing up and storage from other pc's around the place.
I've been asked by a mac OS8 user (I really i know next to...
You can buy ethernet networking test kits that verify cables are running and test entwork speed and soforth, like this one http://www.buytester.com/network_testers/6269.asp .
As for simple hardware testing i've always found that having a good pool of working spare parts makes troubleshooting a...
Did you remember to stick some thermal paste between the heatsink and fan? If you previous cooler was a stock amd it'd have come with the little preplaced pad, if you change to a new one you need thermal paste or it may well overheat.
All true, though you can in fact disable it (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/SE7500CW2/hyperthr.htm), it does slow a minor few types of program down, but on the whole it's better to leave it, it's generally faster, a lot more when encoding something or doing any video work
Nope, i'm certain that hyperthreading cpu's aren't a requirement for boards that support such, you can even disable it if you so wish and it'll run fine.
Hi, thanks a lot for you're exhaustive answer, much apreciated. It is definitely a wireless router though, and i'm certain it doesn't include an adsl modem. It's a netgear wireless prosafe fm114p http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FM114P.asp .
I can't actually find a link to the adsl modem...
I doubt you fried it......I remember once I thought i'd fried it by doing something similar, in reality i'd just made a stupid mistake. To clear the cmos you switch the jumper for a few seconds while the pc if off, then put it back in place before tunring back on. If you leave the cmos in the...
Hi, I bought a wireless router recently and own a single port router/adsl modem, am I able to run the adsl modem/router into the wireless router or will the two router interfe? Otherwise it just means buying another adsl modem. I thing someone once said that dhcp could be disabled on a router...