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A tape drive of mine recently started ejecting tapes a few seconds after loading them. Everything I have found says to reload the firmware. I went to the support site and downloaded the latest firmware. The downloadable version of their diagnostic program (TapeRx 4.6) no longer supports firmware updates. The previous version and apparently a version (TapeRx 4.6+) not available for download does. Does anyone happen to have an earlier version available?
>>>-----> MikeO
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Hi all,
I've just buyed a Core 2 Duo at 2.4 Ghz - E6600. It's installed on an asus P5B motherboard. All seems to work fine excepts for the temperature. The Bios reading and the Probe II is around 60º C in idle mode and the fan is all time running. If I used the Everest software that discriminates the temperature between the 2 cores they mark 43 and 47º C. when I test with Sandra benchmarks and when doing the Multimedia test the temperatue raise until 68º (52 a 54º C with Everest).
If I touch the CPU it's hot but not in an extrem point. Are this values correct for a Conroe CPU or are them dangerous?
Thanks in advance,
Marc Soleda
... she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this... Dire Straits
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I believe the maximum recommended temperature for the Core 2 duo is 60º (Have a look at the intel website).
I have a E6600 as well as I can tell you that my Gigabyte motherboard reads the cpu temp as 19º on startup and the cpu fan won't even start to kick in until the temperature rises a bit.
If you think you might need a new CPU heatsink and thermal grease I'd recommend the Zalman 9500 CPU fan, and the Zalman ZM-STG1 thermal grease.
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Hi Matt,
thanks for your comments. Have you installed the stadandard Intel's heatsink or the Zalman's one?
Thanks in advance,
Marc Soleda
... she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this... Dire Straits
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I initially had the standard Intel heatsink installed and it worked without any issues. But because I plan to overclock the E6600 I figured I might as well get some better cooling. So I now have the Zalman 9500 installed. Works great. It is rather large so if you'd probably want to check you case for clearance etc.
Matt Woods
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The maximum temperature specification is for case temperature, measured at the center of the outside of the heat spreader. Monitoring programs report the temperature of the on-die integrated sensor, which is higher than the case temperature.
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I installed Conroe X6800 processor on asus P5WDG2-WS Pro Mobo and 'm running it at 15% overclock specs. The temperatures are still under 45 even under heavy processing loads with Intel stock cooling fan. I used OCZ silver thermal compound rather than the stock one.
gud luck,
-Pavan
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After reinstalling the fan the temperature decreased near 10 degrees. Now, measuring with Core Temps it has a little bit more than 40 degrees that it's pretty fine.
Enjoy your box !!
... she said you are the perfect stranger she said baby let's keep it like this... Dire Straits
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Thts correct, at idle you should have 40 and while running at full load you should not go beyond 45 with a perfectly installed cooling system. For me since I overclocked it from 2.94GHz to 3.33GHz.. my temperatures are acceptable.
-Pavan
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Hi,
I have a laptop IBM ThinkPad and I want to connect it to my TV. How do I do that?
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How about asking Lenovo support[^] about it?
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Hello everyone. can anyone tell me the addresses of the I/O ports through which the Hard Disk can communicate with the Operating system??? Like, the base address for ATA primary hard disk controller is 0x1f0, the base address for ATA secondary hard disk controller is 0x170. can anyone please tell me the other port addresses which can act as an interface between the hard disks and the Operating system. Thanks..
Vijay.
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You just go to device manager and view the hardware's properties where you get to see Memory address space, interrupts, and I/O ports for it!
Or you could search Ralf Brown's free interrupt list the part about I/O ports!
To follow the path, Walk with the MASTER, See through the MASTER, Be the MASTER!
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Does anyone know if a 15" (or bigger, integrated screen - i.e. not a strap on) touch screen laptop / notebook exists? The largest one I have seen so far is a 14.1" rugged unit.
Steve
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Does anybody have any clues on how to disable a touchpad programaticaly?
I think that Windows must have some kind of wrappers or interfaces to do this...
Any leads will be more then appreciated.
Thank you.
protected internal static readonly ... and I wish the list could continue ...
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Use System.Management namespace(hint: visit and search MSDN) because this namespace has all about attached hardware to your computer plus diagnosing them!!
To follow the path, Walk with the MASTER, See through the MASTER, Be the MASTER!
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Hi Guys,
I'm trying to write a util that can list all the devices attatched to a given machine....
WMI would be good so that a remote machine can also be queried....
On this I've already had some luck....
The real problems I'm having are:
1. Showing an autochanger (invisable)....?
2. Extracting the serial number for a given device.
3. Extracting the SCSI path to a device I know is SCSI attatched(all I can get is the win ID).
4. Doing it in a managed framework.
Does anyone have any ideas???
Thanks Rob 
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Use System.Management namespace for mor information visit and search MSDN!
To follow the path, Walk with the MASTER, See through the MASTER, Be the MASTER!
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how do I, programmatically (c++), get the driver's version (to simulate the device manager data --> driver's properties)?
thanx
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Hi,
I am looking around for a MoBo with some specific requirements. Here are the specs that I am looking for-
The board should support 2xDual-Core Xeon Processors (Woodcrest/Dempsey)(800/1033/1333MHz FSB)
Atleast 1xPCI-32bit (2 whould be fine), atleast 3xPCI-X and atleast 1xPCI-e x16. It would nice to have Dual channel SCSI host-raid adapter. 2xserial ports (1 port and 1 header is also fine). Must support DDR2 ECC registered or FBDIMMs of 667MHz or greater.
Apart from all of the above mentioned specs, here is an important spec that I must have on the MoBo, it should a seperate chipset for PCI-X and PCI, in other words a PCI card installed on a 32bit PCI slot running at 33MHz should not slowdown the PCI-X cards installed on PCI-X slots and running at 66MHz or higher.(This is very important fro my setup and applications).
If anyone have any suggestions on this type of MoBos, lemme know. I really appreciate your help.
thanks,
-Pavan
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Thanks, I have gone through all those sites (Tyan, Intel, SuperMirco, Asus, MSI). Intel is out of the picture as it doesn't have any board which meets atleast near to my PCI specs. Coming to Tyan, their boards seem very good and reliable for a 'server' environment, but doesn't seem challenging for a DP workstation. Asus and MSI are also having any boards meeting my PCI specs, except Asus workstation board (but unfortunately its SP board) and their server boards doesn't have atleast 2 PCI(32bit). I am left with SuperMicro xeon boards, they do have boards with my PCI specs, but I am not sure how they work and their reliability. Coming to budget, it doesn't matter, what all I am looking for is a DP MoBo supporting Woodcrest/Dempsey processors(800 to 1033MHz FSB) and 2 PCI (32bit) and 2 PCI-X and 1 PCIe-x16, 2 serial ports and 1LAN and I would like to have high HDD trasfer rates and PCI-X speeds. Budget is not at all a problem.
-Pavan.
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You could try posting to hardforum.com. While thier overall focus is on highend gaming systems there's enough overlap with other highend hardware that you should be able to get some input. Overall relyability of SuperMicro if nothing else. PCI-X is an obsolescent standard, so finding support for it on new boards is going to be an issue.
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