Hardware & Devices

code-frog26-Jan-07 17:30

26-Jan-07 17:30

Actually, I'm so in love with this rig I'd probably buy stock in apple Dead | X|

to get it working. The trouble is I'm not sure what kind of board it would take to support all the jazz on this thing. There is some serious jazz here.

Perc 5i/SAS RAID 10
Dual Gigabit NIC's
8 hot swappable drive bays.
48 gigs of memory (maximum)

I have no idea if I could find an upgrade motherboard that would work with all of it. If I could I might just have to get a job as a sheep farmer to afford it.

Bradml26-Jan-07 17:20

Bradml

26-Jan-07 17:20

Sounds like the problem lies in the motherboard, but I'm no expert. How much would it cost to replace it with one that supports SLI?

Brad
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Russell Morris26-Jan-07 17:29

Russell Morris

26-Jan-07 17:29

code-frog wrote:
Anyone know of a single PCI video card that will connect 3 monitors?

Matrox makes a number of video cards that support 2 to 4 monitors. I think the MMS models are probably somewhat close to what you want - but they won't be anywhere near as powerful as the 6800's.

code-frog26-Jan-07 17:35

26-Jan-07 17:35

Oh man! When is Christmas again? http://www.studica.com/products/product_detail.cfm?productid=49768[^]

Captain See Sharp26-Jan-07 18:23

Captain See Sharp

26-Jan-07 18:23

code-frog wrote:
Oh man! When is Christmas again?

Why do you need to wait for Christmas to treat your self to something you want? You are your own man, buy it. You could use your current graphics cards that you have installed for two monitors and that one for 4 more.

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code-frog27-Jan-07 3:35

27-Jan-07 3:35

So I have two budgets. I have my work budgets that has capital for this type of expense. Then I have my personal budget that gets distributions from the business in the form of payroll. For me Christmas can be whenever I choose as I have capital assets in the form of cash and credit with my financial institution. I dare say I could order 3 of these at once at the moment if I chose to. I don't choose to. With the money I've already put into this I'm going to be spending money on only necessities now and because of that I'm going to gather as much information as I can through a variety of channels and then make sure that I spend the most money I can to get the most features I can at the best value.

As you get older you will find that "buy it now, why wait" mentality is going to leave a gaping hole in your @$$ after your creditors get done extracting interest out of you. As an example my wife and I have owed a total of $40,000 on medical bills for our child. Most of that was on credit cards to feed her because our insurance didn't consider the $3000 a month we spent feeding her to be a medical necessity. The interest we pay on that will almost double what we pay back if we use the full 10 year term to do it. We are paying $400 a month more than minimum on it and as we pay off other related debt we take the extra and put on it as well.

I will advise you this. Debt is amazing and wonderful. Our child is alive because of it. Prior to her birth we had no debt and a credit score in the 800's. Because we were responsible we were able to secure the credit we needed to keep her alive, keep our bills current and make it all add up in the end. Our credit lines right now are nearly maximized but we have no open accounts. We closed them all except two (had our bank freeze them, just in case). We still have a credit score in the 800's and we have never been later than 60 days on any payment and we also called every single agency we were late at before the original due date to tell them we were going to be late ahead of time. We built good relationships and history with them where almost all of them give us 60 day payment terms without even flinching.

A lesson to you as you get older. Do it carefully and with cash. Someday you may have a child or something else who's life depends on your ability to be a good risk for creditors. Cool | :cool:

Captain See Sharp27-Jan-07 6:24

Captain See Sharp

27-Jan-07 6:24

I was assuming you were almost rich because of the hardware you have. Laugh | :laugh:

I'm not the type of person who would get into debt, I always save every penny I can, it really adds up. Once I save a ton of money I treat my self to something nice, like the laptop I bought. After I bought it I still had enough money to pay for 6 months worth of car insurance and then some.

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code-frog27-Jan-07 7:34

27-Jan-07 7:34

No, not rich. After almost being sued a year ago from a major hardware failure and data loss I decided then that when I had a chance I was going to get something with a bit more stability. So here I am.

It's good to save. You never know what's coming around the corner of life.

El Corazon26-Jan-07 18:59

El Corazon

26-Jan-07 18:59

If you can get support for one PCIe board, you can use Triple Head 2Go[^] to extend that to three monitors. But you would still need a fast graphics card to support the raster size, which means PCIe. I am afraid I don't know the issues with 2003 server, I run XP Pro for all my development because I only do workstation products, not server products. Sorry.

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Andy Brummer26-Jan-07 19:06

Andy Brummer

26-Jan-07 19:06

How about 2 basic dual output pci cards? I wouldn't trust an adapter to work well for that anyway, if anything it's probably screwing up the timing on the cards causing the drivers to lock up. Another option is to get an older quad output pci card on ebay. They've been making them for years. You are going to get perfectly good GDI performance with any video card.

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Christian Graus26-Jan-07 19:41

Christian Graus

26-Jan-07 19:41

I am running two PCIe cards, with great success. Adding a PCI card to the mix breaks them all. So, my core advice is, go all PCI, or go all PCIe, don't mix them.

And, 2 dual head cards is a ton cheaper than a 3 or 4 head card. By a good $1000, I found.

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USB Missile Launcher.....

Joan M27-Jan-07 0:24

Joan M

27-Jan-07 0:24

Yes,

you can always go for a matrox, they offer QUAD display with one card without any problem.

Also they offer "triple head to go" that's a little box that will allow even your laptop to work in that way.

I've always had a matrox installed, they offer reliable solutions that work without any problem and have lots of tools that will help you to be more productive like being able to configure how you want to maximize, how the mouse will work...

PS: they are slightly more expensive than the cheap nvidia and ati graphics cards, but they are worht it.

Hope this helps.

Are Jay26-Jan-07 12:37

Are Jay

26-Jan-07 12:37

I've just purchased a geek toy. USB Missile Launcher and the software for it keeps locking up. I've been to the manufacture website for updated software and it does the same thing.

My question is how would I go about writing my own software for this device? I have a dll that I can NOT register with XP and have tryed to add a reference to my new application but I get this error, "Reference to c:\my.dll could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid assembly or COM component."

Any advice on where to start would be great!

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adding virtual webcam

CaesarCZ26-Jan-07 0:28

CaesarCZ

26-Jan-07 0:28

hello,
I'm capturing input from a USB webcam, do some filtering on the video and would need to output it to another, this time virtual, webcam device that I somehow need to add to the system (WinXP SP2). Even a .NET solution is okay with me (though I doubt there is some).

1) would I need a custom device driver to do that?
2) if not, which way should I go?

thanks

Ethernet card/driver problem

David Crow23-Jan-07 10:17

David Crow

23-Jan-07 10:17

I've got a Windows 2000 machine with an ethernet card in it. Apparently the card was mfg'd after Windows 2000 came out as the OS has no driver for it (per Device Manager). Is there anyway I could get a generic driver just to get connectivity, and then get online to search for a specific driver?

Thanks,
DC

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Trollslayer23-Jan-07 12:04

Trollslayer

23-Jan-07 12:04

Identify the chip used and go to the manufacturer's website - e.g. Realtek, Marvell, Intel etc..
Often the driver works for any board with the chip.

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fat_boy26-Jan-07 2:08

fat_boy

26-Jan-07 2:08

Good advice from the previous poster.

Just to let you know, I have an NT 3.51 driver on a network card on my 2K box.

Drivers are very backwards compatible.

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David Crow26-Jan-07 2:31

David Crow

26-Jan-07 2:31

fat_boy wrote:
Drivers are very backwards compatible.

Thanks, that's good to know. The owner of said machine has a driver CD that shipped with his installation of Windows Me. Hopefully that'll get him going (enough to get access to an updated driver).

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