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Very interesting. Creative say's they don't offer support on this system because it's "end of life", but they still sell them on their web site! Conclusion, crappy customer service!!!! I paid $30.00 for this system and deserve better than that. After the sale service is an oxymoron for them.......

hmm....you can try checking with their uk sales guys.
http://uk.europe.creative.com/shop/info.asp?page=2

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Multiple (3 or more) monitors for PXI 8110 controller?

I'm just fishing for help from the NI community out there to help a customer: has anyone had success using the PXI 8110 with multiple (3 or more) monitors? I believe it can inherently support 2 monitors. We've tried ADlink and Peritek cPCI cards without success.
If so, please share how you accomplished it. Thanks!
Daniel Lin
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The Apple OS hates unmatched video cards.. and Photoshop CS4 shows you that clearly.
I started with 2 nVidia 7300s... upgraded to 1 nVidia 8800 and kept 1 nVidia 7300... crashed every 10 minutes it seems.
Then upgraded to 2 nVidia 8800s. I still get 1 or 2 crashes a day but nothing near what I got with unmatched video cards.
Based on all my research and the crash reports posted it seems clear that the primary cause of the issue is Apple video drivers and their inability to tell the cards apart.In many cases my crashes were occurring because the drivers were asking the 7300 to do things it simply could not do. I found with the matched 8800 cards most days things run fairly smoothly. I will get a crash or two a day, but I can tell immediately when Photoshop is going to crash. Not that that is any help. But I can at least work now. I just must relaunch PS a couple times and save often.
From what I've found there's little you can do. Basically matched video cards help a great deal but they aren't perfect. Remove one card so you are only using a single video card, or wait for Apple to fix drivers (OS10.6 in Sept maybe???). This is clearly a case where Apple embedding drivers in the OS can be an issue because you can't simply download an ATI or nVidia update and install it.
The one thing I haven't tested with the matched 8800 cards is to turn off OpenGL since that's a primary reason for my upgrading (rotating canvas is a life saver). Turning off all Open GL features may make PS more stable on my system with matched cards. I'm not certain. I can definitively tell you that unmatched video cards are a nightmare and matching 8800s are pretty good. Nothing I'm up in arms about and I have the GL features to use.

I-Trigue 3000 2.1 speakers

Hi, I have seen the on the Creative Worldwide site and noticed that they are a new product and do not yet have a price. I am from the U.K and was wondering if there is anyone out there who knows when/if they will be available in the U.K and how much they are likely to be. I would have contacted Creative directly but they dont have a direct email adress.
Any help would be great!
Cheers, Adam.

hmm....you can try checking with their uk sales guys.
http://uk.europe.creative.com/shop/info.asp?page=2

Keystation Pro 88 (or other controller) as the Logic Control

Has anybody got their setup like this? I've been trying to get this to work for the past 6 hours and no luck. Can someone please help me? Just bought Studio 2 days ago and haven't touched it yet cuz I can't get the keyboard to fully work.
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Location: Los Angeles
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: Keystation Pro 88 (or other controller) as the Logic Control
I'm sure some of you already know how to do this. I just figured I'd write this up at some point to share with others. The basic idea is to use the Keystaion Pro 88 (or some other MIDI Controller) as an actual Control Surface, or in this case the Logic Control, to have more freedom with the MIDI Controller, i.e. using the group of 8 faders (on the Keystation) to control Volume for tracks 1-8 in the arrange window, and then hitting Bank Right to automatically control tracks 9-16, and as a result making a universal controller not bound by specific channel messages, or MIDI CC Volume messages etc... in short the essence of any Control Surface.
What I'm describing below is what this app will also do: http://www.opuslocus.com/lcxmu/index.php
I basically just wanted to avoid using a separate application all together. Keep in mind that the app does simplify the whole process, but Logic inherently can do pretty much everything the app does.
I recommend reading this in its entirety before attempting.
KeyStation Pro 88 as Logic Control
Part One: Add Logic Control as Control Surface
1. Open Logic.
2. Preferences / Control Surfaces / Setup...
3. New / Install / Select your preferred device (in my case Logic Control
4. Click the icon in the setup window for the Logic Control.
5. On the left hand side under "Logic Control" you should see an "Out Port:" and "Input:" ... select the desired MIDI in/out through which your device is connected.
6. Open Preferences / Control Surfaces / Controller Assignments. Make sure you select the "EXPERT VIEW" check box.
7. You should now see a bunch of different Zones in the Zone column, one of which is "Control Surface: Logic Control"
8. Create your own Zone, KeyStation Pro 88 (or whatever) using the Plus sign in the bottom left corner of the Controller Assignments window.
9. Now basically go through the existing parameters already available in the Logic Control Zones, Select what you want. You can select entire Modes or individual Controls / Parameters. You can select multiple values (only multiple Control / Parameters NOT modes) by selecting and dragging or simply with select and holding command.
10. Command-C the selected Modes and then click back onto you user zone that you created above.
11. Click inside the Mode column (or Control / Parameter column depending upon what you selected and copied from the Logic Control zones).
12. Command-V to paste the Modes into your user Zone.
13. Do this for as many Modes / Controls you want, that your specific MIDI controller interface will be able to handle.
Part Two: Assigning Input Values
1. Open Preferences / Control Surfaces / Controller Assignments
2. Now for each parameter that you copied, you will need to set the input MIDI value from your controller.
3. Click on your User Zone, then Mode, then the first parameter in the 3rd column.
4. You should see a "MIDI Input" option (this should already be set correctly as long as you set it earlier in Step 5 of Part One). If it's not set to the correct MIDI input (which I found to be the case sometimes even after Step 5), then change that here.
5. Next to "Value Change:" you will see a box with MIDI data in it. Delete the existing date by highlight and delete.
6. Activate "Learn Mode" (bottom right corner of Controller Assignments window) then click within the "Value Change" box, then move the corresponding fader, button etc. The "Value Change" should now show the MIDI data value for that fader. Be careful here, there should only be 3 groups of 2 for data here... if you see 2 groups, of 3 groups, of 2 then typically the FIRST group of 3 should be the value you want here. You can always delete the data, and move the fader again to be sure. The reason for the 2 groups of 3 is not in error: some buttons send TWO MIDI values, one on press and one on release. You can use this to your advantage and assign TWO different functions to these buttons, thus the first (press hold) value can do one thing and the second (release) value can do another. You can also change the MIDI controller to only send 1 message on press and nothing on release, or simply make sure that only the on value is present in the "Value Change" box.
7. You'll have to do this for all the different knobs / faders etc. on your MIDI controller. There are many shortcuts of course. You can manually type in the Values if you know them. For the Keystation Pro, M-Audio has an app called Enigma that I recommend for changing controller parameters and much more on the Keystation. You can use this app to assign all the actual control data that each button or fader sends to the sequencer, once you know the values you can convert that data to the MIDI data values and enter them into the Value Change box.
8. Once you're done assigning values to the controllers, you can delete all the Zones except for the user Zone you created earlier. Before you do this, it's a good idea to back up the Control Surface preference file just in case you ever want to grab something else from the Logic Control Zones. You could always add a second Logic Control and copy the Zone from that, but you'd have to reassign all the MIDI Input: values ... short version, just back up the preference file before you delete the Zones. The reason why you want to delete the Zones that you're not using is simply because if you have a controller that happens to send out MIDI data to the sequencer, and the actual Logic Control happens to have that MIDI data value already inherent it it's Zones, then you could be asking for trouble, simply put you'd be sending MIDI data to change Volume and the Logic Control maybe has that MIDI Data Value already assigned to Pan for the existing track.
The file to backup is located here: ~Users/username/Library/Preferences/Logic/com.apple.logic.pro.cs
As a precaution I have always backed up my Logic Preference file WITH this .cs file. Technically it's not necessary... for instance: Let's say you trash your preferences and open Logic to find that the Logic Control is missing from the Control Surfaces Setup. So you add it back and now you find out that Logic is missing the User Zone that you created. If you close Logic and copy the .cs file back to the directory above, then upon reopening Logic you should find your User Zone is in place again. But I've had mixed results with that, so just in case I copy over the preference file with the .cs file as a pair. It seems that the Logic pref file only contains information that the Logic Control is a Control Surface on your system and the .cs file is the preferences for that specific Surface.
Another note: after a recent Logic update, maybe 7.2? ... it was whichever update added support for more Control Surfaces, I can't remember. This update basically erased all the hours of hard work linking the Keystation to Logic as the Logic Control. This only happened with this specific Control Surface update, but not with 7.2.3, probably simply because they didn't make any changes to the .cs pref file.
Anyhow, when this happens again in the future, there seems to be a quick fix. I take NO responsibility for you somehow crashing Logic on a continual basis after applying the fix. Personally I have seen NO issues by doing this at all. I simply copied a version of the .cs file with the new update missing the Keystation Zone, as well as a version of the .cs file WITH the Keystation Zone, to a PC (I think it was a PC, don't believe I tried it with textedit, although should work as well). I opened both of the files in notepad and compared them. I noticed the word Keystation towards the bottom and realized that most all the data (gibberish) was exactly the same up until a point in which the file with the Keystation data had a group that was absent from the new .cs pref file from the new update. So I basically copied the data from the old .cs pref file, pasted it into the new .cs pref file, saved it and open Logic. Logic warned me that a pref file was corrupt or something of that nature, but loaded fine anyway, and the Keystation Zone was back in Controller Assignments.
One last thing... the problem that some of you may run into is that by making your MIDI controller a Control Surface, or turning your Keystation Pro into a Logic Control, limits some of the functionality of the MIDI Controller. For instance, a Logic Control's main purpose is to control different faders, knobs and what not of MANY different tracks. When you move a fader for volume on the Logic control, it will move the fader corresponding to the selected track... it's not programed to say change the actual midi CC 7 for Volume, only the actual Fader. Thus, what if you want the MOD wheel to still control modulation and you want the sustatin pedal to continue to act as a sustain pedal. Well, if Logic sees that Port 1 is the input for the Logic Control, but in reality the Keystation, then it's only going to allow specific events through. The way around this issue is by using both the input options that the Keystation has... hook the MIDI out into Logic and use the USB port as well. I run the Keystation as a Logic Control through the USB port, and use the MIDI out for actual MIDI data. But the catch is you have to make sure you only connect the MIDI Port into Logic's sequencer in the environment. Thus open the environment, open Clicks & Ports, Port 1 and Port 2 are the IN/OUT for the USB port. Midi Port is the Keystation's MIDI port. Select and delete the cable for the SUM, and run individual cables for the ports you want to use. Thus, all your other MIDI interface Ports, the Caps Lock keyboard etc. Just be sure that if your using Port 1 (USB Port Out from Keystation) for the fake Logic Control, that it DOES NOT cable into the "Input View" or "to Recording & Thru". This creates yet another issue:
The controls on the Keystation have to send SOME form of MIDI control message / data to Logic. Well if the faders on the Keystation are preset to send Ch1-9, Volume 0-127 messages, then when you move a fader on the Keystation (as the Logic Control) since the Keystation is still reaching the sequencer from the MIDI port, you will be sending MIDI values that can effect your current track possibly when you don't want to. The work around for this is to be sure that all the faders / knobs that you want to use as your fake Logic Control are sending useless MIDI data... i.e. CC 75, 76, 77, and so on. This way moving faders won't effect playback, although you could still in theory record this MIDI data into your sequencer. You could however filter this events from entering the sequencer input with a transformer since you know precisely what MIDI CC values you are changing. The easy way to assign these values is to use the program Enigma from M-Audio that I mentioned above.
More discussion specifically related to the Keystation Pro 88:
You can do a lot using the Controller Assignments and different Zones from the Logic Control. For instance, the real Logic Control has Solo, Mute, and Record buttons for the 8 faders. The Keystation Pro only has 1 button underneath each fader. But you could use one of the other buttons to toggle Solo, Mute, and Record mode so that depending on which mode your in, the buttons underneath each fader will correspond to Mute or Solo etc. By the way, a good setup from my experience is to use the first 8 faders of the Keystation as the track faders, and the final 9th fader for Master Volume. You can then set two of the buttons underneath the Knobs as Bank Left and Bank Right buttons to change the 8 fader tracks to correspond to the onscreen track groups of 8. Also don't forget that you can assign TWO functions to EACH button, since a button press can send a value of 127 and a button release can send a 00 value. So if you press and hold a button it can activate "Shift-select Mode" and until released it can make the buttons under the faders act as Volume to Zero resets or whatever you want. When you release the button it will go back to just Mute mode or Solo mode. The Controller Assignments window has MANY options, and parameters some of which are very confusing and take a lot of trial and error to understand... the manual helps a little but of course isn't perfect.

I'm thinking about buying a Keystation Pro 88 (2nd hand) so I was googling around and found this:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/keystation.htm
[quote]
I had some trouble getting the transport controls to work with Emagic's Logic, even when I loaded the 'Pro 88 Logic Preset.LSO' file on the supplied CD-ROM into Logic. I contacted the guys who designed and set up the Keystation here in the UK at the old Evolution offices, and between us we managed to work out what was going wrong. First of all, you need to enter the appropriate MIDI key commands in Logic's user preferences. These cannot be updated with an LSO file, so the commands have to be entered using the Learn Key function in Logic (see the screenshot below for the list we used). Then we discovered that the transport keys were toggling, which meant that only each second press of each key was actually working. It turned out that I had an early version of the Logic preset before this had been fixed, but the more recent one has been put on the M Audio web site for anyone else that needs it. It took about 30 seconds to change the output commands so that the buttons were no longer toggling.[/quote]
Did you get it to work correctly eventually?

How do I restrict access to the RT Series PXI Controller via its FTP server?

The RT Series PXI Controllers run an FTP server, so I can view files on the controller over the Internet wtih a Web browser. I can also download and upload files with a Web browser. How can I instruct the FTP server to give access only to specified, trustworthy FTP clients?

It is possible to "Lock" the controller from the Measurement and Automation Explorer program. The password you set when locking the controller (which prevents others from making configuration changes to the controller while running) is the same password that controls access to the FTP server. When the controller is unlocked, anyone who can access the PXI controller's IP can read, write, and delete files on the FTP server. When locked, anyone can read data from the FTP server, but only when logged in with the lock password will you have access to write or delete data.
For more information on locking your controller, see the user manual, MAX online help, or the following link.
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What methods should a controller interface contain? (MVC)

Implementing MVC architecture in hope of achieving good design in OO.
Using Observer pattern (java,util. Observable/Observer etc...)
Many people talk about having an Interface for both Controller code and View (GUI) code. I don't see the point really.
Question is what methods should an interface for a controller contain? surely not event code like "actionperformed"? Because how you know before hand what gui components you'll use? And even so, no need for an interface as interface is mostly suitable for using inheritors in many places..
any one explain to me the benefits and if really good design, what goes in interface for a controller?
thanks in advance.

I deem you dismiss the OP's idea too fast - but maybe I'm of the "second school of thought" :o)
I agree designing for different client technologies is overkill unless it is a requirement, but the OP specifically mentions changing the UI's widgets while sticking to the same technology (Swing, for that matter).
In this case, implementing Swing's EventListener interfaces in the controller has 2 drawbacks:
Did not mean to do so. My thrust was that regardless of #1 or #2, you can solve it with delegation. I believe this is the idea you describe below.
One has been discussed - namely, that the controller and view have to know intimate details about eachother. As you well described in reply #6, it is natural that they know a bit about eachother, but maybe not so much - otherwise what good is there to have two distinct classes?
The view needs some way to ask the controller to load the shopping basket, but why force the controller to receive the demand as an ActionEvent? The controller may expose a loadShoppingBasket() method, and leave it up to the view to implement the widget-level event handler that will call this method.
Similarly, the controller needs some way to ask the view to display the items in the basket, but it doesn't need to know whether it is displayed in a JList or a JTable or a JTextPane or whatever... The view may expose a displayShopingCartItems(List<Items>) method.
Agreed. That was my point, that you can delegate from the listeners to more meaningful controller methods. Whether one decides to implement an interface or simply use a stateless helper class with package-private methods (or whatever) is a design decision.
The second drawback with having the Controller class implements the many EventListener interfaces, is that if two different widget in the view trigger the same type of events (say, ActionEvent), the controller know has to disambiguate between the two possible sources (for example by examining the event's actionCommand field).
Not only does that couple the controller's code to the view's implementation (which should be the only one to know that the "Submit" and "Cancel" buttons have respective action commands of "SUB" and "NONE"), which is only drawback #1 reiterated, but with more than two sources of ACtionEvent, that also makes for wide if-then-else blocks in the actionPerformed() method, which is not elegant nor error-proof.
I agree. Although another alternative is to use inheritance to overcome this limitation. Again, it's all how much work you think is justified.
In summary, I find it less coupled, and more maintenable, to have the controller and view classes expose hardly-higher-level methods such as, loadBasket() and displayItems(List<Items>), and have the view implement small (generally anonymous) event-listener that handle the widget-level events and delegate to the appropriate hardly-higher-level controller's method.
That said, unless it is required that several implementation of a same logical view coexist, there's no real incentive that the hardly-higher-level methods be exposed in interfaces; exposing them in the concrete Controller and View classes is fine.
Agreed. (Above). :^)
One last word: actrually there's an incentive that the view's methods be exposed in an interface: it makes it easier to unit-test the controller class, by injecting mocks of the views without depending on a Swing runtime (I posted [a thread|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=5377751] about difficulties in using Swing components in headless builds).
Will have to chew on that one. My gut instinct is the view would be the last thing I would bother to have interfaces for (without the need to support multiple views). It's an interesting thought tho. I guess my base position is to unit test everything in the model and integration test the views and controllers. Tho, to your point, failures in the VC are obvious to users and immediately annoying.
Edited by: jduprez on Aug 23, 2009 9:02 PM - formatting
Edited by: jduprez on Aug 23, 2009 9:16 PM- had a hard time getting the hold on my old thread- Saish

Better to virtualize domain controller?

I don't pretend to know much about this other than a very basic understanding, so please bear with me.
We've purchased a new server that we'll be using exclusively for hosting RDP for two clients. Each client will have their own virtual server. We're struggling a bit though trying to decide where to put the domain controller.
There are two things we're considering:
1. The physical server runs ONLY a Hyper V role doing nothing else and we load up a 3rd virtual server that will act as the domain controller for the other 2 virtuals.
or
2. The physical server runs runs the Hyper V AND acts as the domain controller.
The guy loading up the box is suggesting the first option. It seems to me, however, that we're adding another level of "stuff" with the domain controller being a virtual rather. My thinking is that everything has to eventually go out through the
operating system on the physical machine. Making the domain controller another virtual rather than the operating system on the physical box, adds another step where things have to go through the virtual DC THEN out to the physical box.
One of the arguments for the 1st scenario is that we can allocate resources to it more easily if the domain controller is virtual. I also like the fact that if the domain controller goes to crap, its just one file that needs to be restored and we're up again.
He also brought up the fact that the virtual DC could be restarted (after updates, for instance) without having to shut down the other 2 virtuals. Whereas if the DC is loaded on the physical box then the other two viruals would have to be shut down before
a restart of the DC could occur. However, I'm not sure that stuff outweighs any performance loss that might occur going through (what I'm perceiving as) the extra step of a virtual DC.
Any insights would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you,
Ken

Gosh Chris, thanks for all the information and insight.
I want to configure virtual domain controllers and a file server. Based on your discussion, here's my plan--
Host 1:
1 disk (not connected to RAID controller) for host / management OS
running Hyper-V Server core (free) or Server 2012 core
remaining disks configured into RAID array for virtual machines
Virtual Disk 1 - Server 2012 OS Domain Controller - root of forest
Virtual Disk 2 - shared files
Host 2:
Host / management OS is either Hyper-V Server or Server 2012
Virtual domain controller - replicating with Host 1 domain controller through Active Directory
Software requirements:
2 licenses of Server 2012
1 license of Windows 8 (for management workststation)
Hardware requirements:
2 servers
1 management workstation
Desired outcome for redundancy:
In the event Host 1 went off-line either because of Bad Things happening or hardware upgrades, Host 2 could step in and serve as domain controller. Further, I could reattach the virtual disk from Host 1 to Host 2. If Host 1
virtual disks are not available, I could restore the shared files virtual disk file from a backup of Host 1 / Virtual Disk 2 to Host 2.
Concerns:
1) Whether to put the hosts in the domain.
Excellent article at from the Virtual PC Guy blog at blogs.msdn.com on the "The Domain Controller Dilemma. With one administrator and a small network, it seems easy enough to create a workgroup for Host 1 and Host 2, and create local administrator accounts
for each hosts.
2) Windows 8 Client Hyper-V for management.
I would use another workstation running Windows 8 with Client Hyper-V. Would I have access to Host 1, Host 2, and their associated virtual machines? If I had access to Host 1 / Virtual Disk 2 (the shares on the file server), could I attach it to Host 2's
virtual machine?
Any holes or gotchas?
Thanks.

64 bit and cpu question on lenovo 3000 J 115 computer ?

can the lenovo desktop 3000 J 115 support 64 bit program and os
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KT6V LSR (MS 7021) SATA controller card second opinion, please

I want to thank Fredrik Asenius for his reply to my previous post.
However, due to the fact that the purchase of a SATA controller card and two SATA2 hard disks will be handled, of necessity, at a distance of 800 kilometers (involving courier expenses), the technician of the store has requested that I ask for a second opinion from another expert in the forum. An error, therefore, could be very costly. (No offense of any kind intended to Fredrik Asenius)
My motherboard is the MSI KT6V LSR (MS 7021) Via KT600 Northbridge and Via 8237 Southbridge chipsets.
Both SATA connections are currently taken up by two SATA hard drives (no striping, nor mirroring in use). The rest of the installation consists of IDE CDRW and DVDRW drives, as well as an MSI Nvidia NX6200AX (256 RAM) AGP video card and a Soundblaster Live Value PCI audio card. The other four PCI slots are not occupied. The system also has 1.5 gigabytes of RAM and a 520-watt PSU. I am running Windows XP SP2 Professional.
My questions are the following:
(1) Since the two SATA connectors on my motherboard are occupied, if I wish to add another SATA device I will have to install a SATA controller card. Does the SATA controller card have to be SATA 1 or can I also use a SATA 2 controller card?
IMPORTANTLY, the technician questions whether the motherboard will accept a controller card adding more SATA devices. He says that you cannot add any more SATA devices to this motherboard. Is he correct?
(2) If it is possible to add more SATA devices using a controller card, since the chipset on the motherboard is Via the SATA controller software is also from Via. Does the SATA controller card also have to be one that uses the Via SATA RAID software? (In other words, are there compatibility issues? Can all this all work together?)
Once again, thanks for the help.

Quote from: bjmcm on 14-December-06, 04:40:05
(1) Since the two SATA connectors on my motherboard are occupied, if I wish to add another SATA device I will have to install a SATA controller card. Does the SATA controller card have to be SATA 1 or can I also use a SATA 2 controller card?
IMPORTANTLY, the technician questions whether the motherboard will accept a controller card adding more SATA devices. He says that you cannot add any more SATA devices to this motherboard. Is he correct?
(2) If it is possible to add more SATA devices using a controller card, since the chipset on the motherboard is Via the SATA controller software is also from Via. Does the SATA controller card also have to be one that uses the Via SATA RAID software? (In other words, are there compatibility issues? Can all this all work together?)
Once again, thanks for the help.
I have had a fair amount of experience with this kind of issue.
1. No, the add in card does not need to be SATA I, it can be SATA II. I recommend a SATA II card and SATA II drives. Putting SATA II drives on a SATA I controller can fail to work.
2. Is he wrong? Essentially, yes he is wrong. It depends on how literally you take his words. You can NOT add more SATA drives to the motherboard. You CAN add an add-in SATA card and then put the additional SATA drives on that new add-in card. The difference in wording the answer is critical.
You ask about the Via chipset on the motherboard and also on the add-in card. Actually, it is probably LESS likely that the add-in card will work if the chipsets are the same. The issue is the computer being able to differentiate between the two controllers. I had this very problem with a machine.
That computer had two add-in cards. Each was the same brand. The computer could not differentiate between the two cards and gave a hardware error. I replaced one of the cards with another brand and it works fine. The manufacturer suggested trying the cards in different PCI slots. I did not try that, I just got a new card because it was easier for me.
The add-in card does NOT need to support RAID, that is optional. If you do not want to use RAID, the card does not have to support it. If you do want to use RAID, obviously the card does need to support it. RAID is part hardware and part software so if the card supports it and you do not to set it up as RAID, that is fine.
One caution...If the add-in card has an external port that you want to use, be aware that there is something called e-SATA that might use an incompatable type of port connecter. I had a card with that connecter and I found that the cables are extremely expensive and also hard to find. Most external SATA connectors are the SATA I style that you are used to though.

NAC SSO in Windows 7 not Working

Hello,
I'm having problems with SSO process on workstations with Windows 7 and I need help to solve it.
ENVIRONMENT:
Clean Access Manager: 4.9.0
Clean Access Server: 4.9.0
Clean Access Agent: 4.9.0.33
Compliance Module: 3.4.27.1
Windows Domain : Windows 2003 Server Full Functional Level
Status of Active Directory SSO: Started
More Informations:
In Windows Domain Controller, i ran the follow command with no errors:
ktpass –princ NAC_USER/[email protected] -mapuser NAC_USER –pass mypass –out c:\nac_user.keytab –ptype KRB5_NT_PRINCIPAL
The file nac_user.keytab was created in c:\ of DC.
in Windows XP Workstations, SSO is working correctly
in Windows 7 workstations work when i manually enable DES in "Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Local Policies/Security > Options > Network security > Configure encryption types allowed"
I have many workstations running Windows 7 and can not do this manual procedure in all of them.
running tail -f /perfigo/access/tomcat/logs/nac_server.log command in CAS, i see the follow messages during an attempt to do SSO with unchanged Windows 7:
2012-03-09 11:45:21.231 +0100 RMI TCP Connection(481)-10.5.32.248 WARN com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - Server was not running ...
2012-03-09 11:45:21.231 +0100 RMI TCP Connection(481)-10.5.32.248 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - Server starting server ...
2012-03-09 11:45:21.329 +0100 RMI TCP Connection(481)-10.5.32.248 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - Server is now running ...
2012-03-09 11:45:21.329 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - SPN : [NAC_USER/[email protected]]
2012-03-09 11:45:21.329 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - building kdc list for domain mydomain.net
2012-03-09 11:45:21.469 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - done building kdc list for domain mydomain.net
2012-03-09 11:45:21.469 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - KDC(s) :[srvslsdc001.mydomain.net, srvpnpdc001.mydomain.net, srvpnpdc002.mydomain.net, srvalvdc001.mydomain.net, srvtatdco001.mydomain.net, srvtatdco002.mydomain.net, srvpaldc002.mydomain.net, srvmurdc001.mydomain.net, srvnundc001.mydomain.net]
2012-03-09 11:45:21.469 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - writeKrbFile: writing to file ../conf/krb.txt
2012-03-09 11:45:21.469 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - writeKrbFile: wrote to file ../conf/krb.txt
2012-03-09 11:45:21.470 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - creating login context ...
2012-03-09 11:45:21.470 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - GSSServer - created login context ...javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext@b55e97
2012-03-09 11:45:21.631 +0100 Thread-88 INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - Notifying GSSServer status Started
2012-03-09 11:45:21.807 +0100 Thread-88 DEBUG com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - accepting ADSSO socket ...
2012-03-09 11:45:42.285 +0100 10.5.112.140 SWissServer Thread INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.swiss.SWissUtil               - opswat=3.5.2.1 dm_opswat=3.5.2.1
2012-03-09 11:45:42.329 +0100 10.5.112.140 SWissServer Thread INFO com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.swiss.SWissUtil               - SWissServer: OPSWAT SDK Path=https://10.5.33.10/perfigo_download/CCAA/opswat-win.zip
As we can see, I restarted the AD SSO service and the two bold lines are the records while trying to SSO with Windows 7, but without success.
NAC Agent pop-up request for manual authentication.
does anyone know how to solve this trouble?
If you need more information please let me know .....
Regards,
Daniel Stefani

Hi Guys,
When I changed the files /perfigo/access/tomcat/conf/krb.txt and /perfigo/access/bin/starttomcat in CAS according to the configuration guide:
/perfigo/access/tomcat/conf/krb.txt
[libdefaults]
kdc_timeout = 20000
default_tkt_enctypes = RC4-HMAC
default_tgs_enctypes = RC4-HMAC
permitted_enctypes = RC4-HMAC
and
/perfigo/access/bin/starttomcat
CATALINA_OPTS="-server ... -DKRB_OVERRIDE=true"
an error was generated in nac_server.log when i tried run SSO Service.
ERROR:
2012-03-07 11:52:50.655 +0100 Thread-77 ERROR com.perfigo.wlan.jmx.adsso.GSSServer               - Unable to start server ... KDC has no support for encryption type (14)
But I remembered that during the changes, I checked the options for the user account I'm using to run the service to Use DES encryption types for this account.
When i uncheck this option in user account options and kept the changes to files krb.txt and starttomcat, the SSO service started with no errors and Windows 7 users now do the SSO too.
tks,
Daniel Stefani

Memory Question??? Where's Jocko?

I have a question on the memory frequencey showing in the bios of my motherboard it states that I have 200ddr is this correct? I have pc3500 mushkin 222. Is there a way to change this or is this just the way it shows?
amd 64 3400+
kt8 neo
34 gig wd 10000
radeon 9700 pro
2x512 mushkin 222 special
Thanks as always
Von

Well, it's a limiter and it's not
It only allows you to set your memory at a certain speed WHEN not being OC'ed....
Let me explain:
At "FSB?" 200 and set to 400DDR you get 400DDR=200MHz
At "FSB?" 200 and set to 333DDR you get 333DDR=166MHz
BUT!!!!! Pay attention now!!!!
At "FSB?" 210 and set to 400DRR you get 420DDR=210MHz
At "FSB?" 210 and set to 333DDR you get 342DDR=177MHz (not sure if they are exact but should be close, just to get an idea)
The thing is, YOU DON'T HAVE A FSB!!!!!!
The thing they call "FSB?" in the BIOS is in fact only a reference clock, nothing more.
As the Memory controller is also running at CPU speed, the memory speed is a divider from the reference clock.
Another common mistake is that people think they have a north-bridge....well you have one, and it's located INSIDE the CPU...so if you change the reference clock you also change the NB (=memory controller) speed but the dividers/multipliers stay the same.
The only thing that doesn't change as far as I know is the Hyperthreading bus, that one is locked all the time, well at least it's here on my Opteron system, and should be the same on AMD64.

How to install this update and solve USB and touchpad issues?

I have Equium M50 (59E) and got bitten by an update that took out my touchpad and keyboard .I have made fresh install of XP Home and have all updated drivers and all is going well .The last update i cant seem to fathom is for
Driver Ana _2005_10_24_V1.2 it is for ,Standard Open HCD USB Host Controller........X 2 .........
The update fixes all kinds of issues of the kind i am having and is a recomended update from Driver detective ,that i use offten .
The trouble is it says to uninstall drivers for the one i have installed allready and when i do this it knocks off my USB mouse leaving me not able to install the new ones .When i reboot it installs the ones i dont want reinstalled .
This is the read me off the new update and realy it is beyond me to underdstand what to do ............so here it is ?
Driver revision history:
Twinhan VP704A Driver Release note
Note:
1.In case the system crashes while running with VP704A, Please install ULI
USB 2.0 host driver in \ULiUSB20Driver
2. For XP/SP1, please update with the patch in
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-tw&familyid=733dd867-56a0-4956-b7fe-e85b688b7f86>
3.In XP/SP1, updating driver will crash the system, while new install is ok.
The trick to update driver in XP/SP1 is shown in the following steps,
a. Uninstall the driver
b. Unplug and plug the USB device
c. Install the driver
4. To support remote controller, please launch Agent.exe in \Agent.
Further details can be found in \Agent\Readme.txt
Known issues:
1. Multi-instance is not supported
2. Remote wakeup is not supported
3. High CPU usage in Analog audio/video capture
4. Bad VBI Signal using YUY2 color format
5. AV out of sync if audio captured from wrong filter.
(Fix:using the filter "USB Audio Device" in WDM stream capture device)
6. Noise with analog-TV and FM Radio
(Fix:using the filter "USB Audio Device" in WDM stream capture device)
Driver revision history:
2005/10/24, Version: 1.0.2.8
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Crossbar not properly set.
2005/10/21, Version: 1.0.2.7
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Firmware version read from FLASH OK!
2005/10/14, Version: 1.0.2.6
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Mutil-Access driver blank part below part screen when VBI!
2.Mutil-Access driver HCT driver verify crash fix!
2005/10/07, Version: 1.0.2.5
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Tuner Power off when S-Video,Composite.
2005/09/30, Version: 1.0.2.4
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Agent.exe updated for repeat bug!
2.TI5150 Register for Video Format fix!
2005/09/29, Version: 1.0.2.3
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.A trial driver build for multiple access support. (in the folder "\Multi-Access")
Note: "USB Audio device" filter provided by system does not support mutil-Access.
2.Reset TI5150 when a new frequency is set
2005/09/27, Version: 1.0.2.2
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Fix I2C unstable access on some devices.
2005/09/23, Version: 1.0.2.1
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Analog TV becomes darker sometimes.
2005/09/15, Version: 1.0.2.0
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Fix INF for Windows 2000 installation.
2.FM radio scan policy changed!
2005/09/13, Version: 1.0.1.9
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.USB serial number string not visible with USBView, firmware update required.
2.FM radio scan policy, return unlock if PLLOffset>=9x12.5KHz
2005/09/13, Version: 1.0.1.8
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.After switching between A/D/AV several times, video display becomes dark in THDTV 2.61
2005/09/12, Version: 1.0.1.7
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Improve channel lock status check performance
2.Pinnacle INF Fix.
2005/09/09, Version: 1.0.1.6
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Add some audio initialization function.
2005/08/31, Version: 1.0.1.5
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.NTSC & PAL mode resolution separation.
2005/08/30, Version: 1.0.1.4
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.AvgTimePerFrame.
2.Frame Drop.
3.Pinnacle inf file HCT chkinf fail.
2005/08/22, Version: 1.0.1.3
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Add Remote controller interface in digital source filter.
2.A new Remote controller test tool with source code in \Test_RC.
2005/08/16, Version: 1.0.1.2
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Reorg Pinnacel & Twinhan's driver & folder.
2.VP704A_BDA_Test tool, add system code test.
3.Set IR protocol standard by registry keys "IRSTANDARD", "IRSYSCODECHECK1" in INF file.
4.Firmware update
2005/08/15, Version: 1.0.1.1
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Serial number function is lost while adjusting TV audio volume
2.RC6A CIR support
(This firmware uses GPIO3 (M9207 pin 80) to decode RC6 protocol.
The hardware should be reworked to connect M9207 pin 80 to CIR module and the fimrware
EEPROM should be flashed with \Firmware\M9207.bin )
3.Serieal number, MAC address and OEM device name supported.
Please refer to further details in \Firmware\readme.txt.
4.Ioclt sample source code included.
2005/08/08, Version: 1.0.0.10
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Analog TV audio volume increase.
2005/08/04, Version: 1.0.0.9
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Analog TV Video mode set failure.
2005/08/03, Version: 1.0.0.8
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Off-centerf requency scan +/- 125Khz
2.Fix duplicated program scanned in MCE.
2005/08/02, Version: 1.0.0.7
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.THBDAConsole.exe "ulFixedBW", "ulDisableOffFreqScan", "ulMCEFreqTranslate" bug fixed
2005/07/28, Version: 1.0.0.6
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.THBDAConsole.exe "ulFixedBW", "ulDisableOffFreqScan", "ulMCEFreqTranslate" support
2.Improve I2C communication stability.
3.Unify Signal strength & quality indication as THBda ioctl interface.
4.Capture filter Lock status check.
2005/07/28, Version: 1.0.0.5
Bugs fixed and new features:
1. The same signal strength & quality indications as VP7046.
2. Debug build driver
2005/07/21, Version: 1.0.0.4
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Update INF.
2005/07/20, Version: 1.0.0.3
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Improve performance in PCM4
2.Switching from Analog TV Mode to FM Mode failure
2005/07/04, Version: 1.0.0.2
Bugs fixed and new features:
1.Production Tool FM test OK!
And here is the readme from the other file within the update ?
ULi PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller Driver V1.72 for Windows 98 SE, Windows ME , Windows 2000 and Windows XP
INTRODUCTION
This driver supports ULi EHCI host Controller under Windows 98 SE, Windows ME , Windows 2000
and Windows XP.
CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT
1. Installation Instructions
2. Uninstallation Instructions
1. Installation Instructions
(Windows 98 SE & Windows ME)
A.When ULi USB 2.0 Controller has attached on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- This program will copy driver files into your Windows system,then restart your computer.
2. After system reboot, Windows will find the new hardware "ULi PCI to USB Enhanced
Host Controller" and install the driver.
B.If no ULi USB 2.0 Controller on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- This program will copy driver files into your Windows system, then turn off your computer.
- Attach ULi USB 2.0 Controller card on your system and then reboot your computer.
2. After system reboot, Windows will find the new hardware "ULi PCI to USB Enhanced
Host Controller" and install the driver.
(Windows 2000)
A.When ULi USB 2.0 Controller has attached on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- This program will install and load the driver and you don't have to reboot the
computer.
B.If no ULi USB 2.0 Controller on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- This program will copy driver files into your Windows system, then turn off
your computer.
- Attach ULi USB 2.0 Controller card on your system and then reboot your computer.
2. After system reboot, Windows will find the new hardware "ULi PCI to USB Enhanced
Host Controller" and install the driver.
(Windows XP)
A.When ULi USB 2.0 Controller has attached on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- Click "NEXT"
- This program will install and load the driver and you don't have to reboot the
computer.
- After install ULi USB 2.0 driver successfully. System will detect "USB 2.0 Root
Hub". Please select "install the software automatically (Recommended)" and then
click "Next" button to continue install.
- This program will install and load the driver and you don't have to reboot the
computer.
B.If no ULi USB 2.0 Controller on system
1. Install ULi USB2.0 Driver
- Run the setup program.
- This program will copy driver files into your Windows system, then turn off
your computer.
- Attach ULi USB 2.0 Controller card on your system and then reboot your computer.
2. After system reboot, Windows will find the new hardware "ULi PCI to USB Enhanced
Host Controller", continue to install.
- After install ULi USB 2.0 driver successfully. System will detect "USB 2.0 Root
Hub". Please select "install the software automatically (Recommended)" and then
click "Next" button to continue install.
Notice:
If you can't setup driver successfully. Please reboot your system and then follow
above steps to install driver again.
2. Uninstallation Instructions
1. Open "Control Panel" folder.
2. Invoke "Add\Remove Programs" icon.
3. Choose "ULi USB2.0 Driver" item.
4. Click on "Add/Remove" button to remove drivers.
Change List:
1.74
1.fix issue that multi-interface keyboard can not be detected on the usb2.0 hub.
2.support all USB2.0 Host Controller.
1.73
1.fix issue that On Win98SE , Blue screen when unplugging some USB2.0 Scanner after scanning image.
2.fix issue that On Win98SE, Blue screen when unplugging some USB2.0 Scanner from USB 2.0 Hub after scanning image.
3.fix issue that On Win98SE, Blue screen while copying files across the SUNBOX UH-204 Hub.
4.fix issue that wirless lan will disconect when plug-in usb device.
1.72
1.Fix issue that system will crash when USB HD copy large file.
1.71
1.improve Power management function in Win98/ME.
1.70
1.Improve the function of devcie detection.
1.62
1.Fix the problem that a USB floppy under USB 2.0 HUB cannot function when system resume from suspend.
1.61
1.Fix the problem that some USB device under USB 2.0 HUB cannot be found if system resume from suspend.
1.60
1.To support power management functions when a HUB with USB device plug into
a root HUB.
1.57
1.Fix USB floppy with USB 2.0 HUB can't be detect issue.
2.Fix issue that audio can't display smooth when USB device attach to system.
3.Fix system can't detect USB dvice when USB device attach to system in
suspend mode.
4.Fix issue that when USB root HUB have full loading, USB HD sometimes
transaction fail.
1.56
1. Fix issue that DVD decoder device can't display properly.
1.55
1. Fix OTI USB 2.0 hand drive can't be detect issue.
2. Fix USB mouse can't use after resume from suspend.
1.54
1.Improve driver security.
1.53
1. Fix bulk transfer may stop if USB device is plugged in USB 2.0 hub
2. Fix USB 2.0 mass storage device can't be access after resuming from standby if there is another USB 1.1 device existing
1.52
1. Fix system pages fault when accessing mass storage device in Win98SE, or scandisk failure when selecting
automatically fix file system errors
2. Fix system may hang up in Win98SE/ME if USB 2.0 cardbus card is plugged
v.1.51
1. Improve USB 2.0 cardreader compatibility.
2. Fix USB IDE devices can't be accessed after resuming from standby/hibernation.
v1.50
1. Improve bulk transfer
v1.48
1. Fix USB 2.0 LAN driver installation hanging up
2. Fix some USB 1.1 cardreader can't be identified when plugged into USB 2.0 hub
3. Fix some laptops Win98SE booting hanging up
v1.47
1. Improve bulk transfer performance.
2. Fix USB 2.0 bulk webcam preview failure.
v1.46
1. Support USB 2.0 and 1.1 Isochronous devices
2. Fix system hanging up when rebooting system if USB 2.0 host controller is disabled in Win9X/ME
3. Fix system hanging up when uninstalling driver if there are USB 2.0 devices connected in Win2K/XP
4. Improve device detection capability in Win9X/ME
v1.45
1. Fix system hanging up when resuming from ACPI sleep mode.
2. Fix mouse sometimes doesn't disappear when it's unplugged.
3. Fix Win9X composite device detection failure and improve Win2K/XP composite device
v1.44
1. Support composite device
2. Improve device detection
v1.43
1. Improve IDE read/write transfer failure rate with USB 2.0 to IDE bridge on PC card platform
2. Fix high-speed device detected as full-speed device
3. Fix some USB mouses detection failure problem
4. Fix some USB 2.0 hubs detection failure problem
5. Fix Win98SE crashing if ULi EHCI 1.42 is installed
v1.42
1. Fix PC Card ejection hanging up in Win98/ME
2. Fix suspend/resume hanging up in Win98
3. Solve sometimes USB 1.1 device can't be detected if OS boots with USB 2.0 and 1.1 devices plugged
4. Fix some PC Card USB 1.1 device detection failure
v1.41
1. Add new feature that system can install driver before device is plugged.
2. Fix PCMCIA OHCI controller resource assign issue on Windos ME.
v1.40
1. Support Win9X/ME/2K/XP with ULi USB 2.0 driver.
2. Fix PCMCIA EHCI controller detecting USB 2.0 device problem in Win9X/ME.
v1.32
1. Fix issue that driver can't detect Microsoft driver in Windows XP
if OS path is not c:\windows.
2. Fix issue that driver can't detect USB 2.0 controller device in in some system.
v1.31
1. Fix issue that driver can't install on Windows 2000.
v1.30
1. Fix issue that Win9X/ME shows no USB 2.0 Root Hub.
2. Fix issue that hanging up when second entry into Win9X S1 with HID device plugged.
3. Fix issue that sometimes when you click "Scan for hardware changes".
to PNP ULi USB2.0 controller, system will informs you the usbehci.sys
file can't be found.
4. Fix issue that v1.20 finds no EHCI controller to install driver for after different
verison of ULi EHCI controller devices are plugged and unplugged.
5. Support installing driver for more than one ULi EHCI controller devices existing on
system at the same time.
6. Fix Win2K/XP shows USB Root Hub for USB 2.0 Root Hub.
v1.20
1.Support ULi USB 2.0 Host controller driver for Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.
ULi Coporation. (ULi) web sites:
http://www.uli.com.tw/ (Taiwan)
CAN ANYONE TREAT ME LIKE A TWO YEAR OLD AND GIVE SOME GUIDANCE AS TO HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS UPDATE .
i WOULD BE VERY GRATEFULL AND KIND OF THINK IT WOULD BE BENIFICIAL TO A LOT MORE PEOPLE AS I SEE A LOT OF XP AND PROBLEMS OF THE KIND THIS UPDATE IS SUPPOSED TO FIX .

It says above 2 relevant and 1 correct answere available .............
I'm new here so could anyone direct me to these answeres?

Post-Modification Problems: Hard Freezes. Kernel Panic?

So, I bought a used Dual 867MHz MDD back in March and it appeared to be 100% functional. It even had gone through the PSU/fan exchange program (and was still slightly loud). Comparing it to a Dual 867MHz MDD I got just a week ago, it had a different PSU, all different fans, a different heatsink, different optical drive, and a better GPU (Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB as opposed to the "new" DP867 having a GeForce 4 MX 32MB).
About two weeks ago I overclocked the system bus on the first DP867 to 167MHz, thus bringing the CPUs to 1.08GHz. No problems there. I even changed the heatsink to a copper one from a DP1.42GHz FW800 model. Again, no problems. Pre-mod I had a 4x512MB config of PC2700 Crucial DDR memory at CL2.5. I replaced those with a 2x1GB config of PC3200 Princeton DDR memory at CL2 (2-3-2-5 to be exact) that have heatspreaders. I didn't change the GPU (though I have a Radeon 9800 Pro I'm going to put in once I resolve my problems... read on...).
Pre-mod and post-mod any RAM that is PC2700 or faster is showing up as PC2600 in System Profiler, which I find very odd. That same Crucial RAM is now in the un-modded DP867 which has a 133MHz bus and it, again, shows up as PC2600. I find this odd.
When I first got the now-modded MDD, I replaced the stock 60GB IBM HDD with a Maxtor 200GB drive that has a 16MB buffer. Works fine. All this time, though, it was on the ATA66 bus. Post-mod, I moved it to the ATA100 bus and then my problems began...
The machine would boot just fine. In fact, it would boot so fast I never saw the blue OS X loading screen. Kind of freaky. Then it would HARD crash in 1-5 minutes. The only solution was to hold in the power button until the machine turned off. Putting the drive back on the ATA66 bus didn't help. Back on the ATA100 bus, I could not re-install OS X from a 10.4.3 disc I have (guy who sold me the first MDD included that and iLife '06) because it couldn't verify the hard drive. Fortunately, I had so little on the drive, I backed it up to one of the spare 60GBs by putting them both in the second MDD and using Carbon Copy Cloner (great app!).
With the Maxtor on the ATA66 bus, I could re-install OS X, so I did. I did the Archive & Install so as not to have to deal with migrating user data. First thing I noticed when it rebooted into a fresh 10.4.3 was the CPU temperature at 60°C! As far as I know, these particular PPC chips max at 62. I freaked. I shut the machine down and let it sit for several hours before booting back up and patching to 10.4.7 and re-installing the Developer tools (and patching those to Xcode 2.4). This was a problematic process, interestingly.
My system is now back to the way it was pre-mod and though it's working a lot better, it will still occassionaly hard crash/freeze. Is this a kernel panic? When I shut it down and then boot back up it tells me I can send a report to Apple, but rarely does it show me the report.
Here're the things I think could be problematic or just some possible ideas:
1. I was under the impression that the 167MHz bus would recognize PC2700 speeds, but all my fast RAM shows as PC2600, which isn't even a real speed. This worries me a bit, as slower RAM doesn't play nicely with the faster bus.
2. The Acbel PSU doesn't have enough output. I believe it's 360W max (what an odd value). I changed all the fans to be quieter (and thus slower), but the 120mm main case fan had to run off of one of the 12V power leads since it uses too much power to go off the mobo's 2-pin lead meant for said 120mm fan. I also added two 60mm behinds the heatsink which are on a fan controller (also hooked up to one of the 12V leads - I only have one HDD and one optical drive, so there're lots of leads). I also plan on putting a Radeon 9800 Pro in, but now I wonder if this PSU just can't handle the added pull from the OCed bus (and CPUs) and extra fans (not to mention slightly more power-hungry 120mm fan).
3. The PC3200 RAM's 2-3-2-5 timings don't sit well with the system. The MDDs should be able to handle both CL2 memory and a 2x1GB config according to developer documentation for them.
4. I messed up the ATA100 bus during the modding, though with nothing attached to it, I don't see why this should be an issue.
5. Repeatedly opening and closing the case has weakened the thermal paste and I need to re-attach the heatsink. I doubt this is true, but you never know.
6. The PSU is over-heating? I know they get really hot and I'm in agreement with other modders that the MDD design is not thermally officient.
7. The CPUs are overheating. Temperature Monitor, post-mod and not including the post-OS X reinstall temp reading, has yet to show these CPUs hit 60°C. They get to the mid 50's no problem, and in fact, get to the high 40s very fast (and then VERY slowly rise to the mid 50s from there). Overall, then, the system is warmer than it was pre-mod, which I find odd considering the better heatsink and extra fans.
8. These processors just aren't 100% stable at 1.08GHz. It's possible if you consider the way processors are made and why they get clocked to the speeds they get clocked to. Or...
9. The whole CPU board needs more voltage, which would require some more soldering.
Lastly, this machine seems to, since the mod, be cursed by the PowerMac G4 "No Sleep For You!" Bug. No matter how you put it to sleep or wake it up, only the fans kick in on wake-up and none of the rest of the system. Holding the power button shuts it down, and after booting it tells me I can send an error report to Apple, and again it only occassionaly shows me said report. My father has a un-modded 733MHz Digital Audio G4 that can't sleep and my un-modded Dual 867 MDD can't sleep (it wakes up, then hard crashes about 5 seconds later).
Any information would be greatly appreciated. Not to knock the fine folks at MacMod.com, but I haven't been getting the kind of feedback on all of this I was hoping for there.
Here're my machine stats (pulled from an error log):
Model: PowerMac3,6, BootROM 4.4.8f2, 2 processors, PowerPC G4 (2.1), 1.08 GHz, 2 GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, ATY,RV250, AGP, 64 MB
Memory Module: DIMM0/J21, 1 GB, DDR SDRAM, PC2600U-20320
Memory Module: DIMM1/J22, 1 GB, DDR SDRAM, PC2600U-20320
AirPort: AirPort, 9.52
Modem: Dash2, UCJ, V.92, 1.0F, APPLE VERSION 2.6.6
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Parallel ATA Device: Maxtor 6L200R0, 189.92 GB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D,
USB Device: Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, Logitech, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 100 mA
USB Device: Apple Pro Keyboard, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 250 mA
Extra System Software:
Flip4Mac (latest version), Temperature Monitor (set to launch at log-in), Developer Tools (latest version).
Thanks in advance!

A few people out there have assured me that if I don't max out the system in terms of add-ons and things, the PSU should be more than adequate. I have 1x fan controller, 1x HDD, 1x optical drive, 1x graphics card in AGP slot that doesn't require an extra 12V power lead, no PCI cards, only two sticks of RAM, an overclocked system bus, and one fan hooked to a 12V lead rather than its 2-pin connection on the mobo (after discovering it doesn't run on said 2-pin connection). I've also taken out the case speaker to allow air to be pulled in through the top of the case.
I plan on adding two more fans to the fan controller (it can support 4). These fans will go at the bottom front of the case (under the face plate) and run at low speeds just to make sure the process of air flowing through the lower case starts off strong. So, two 60mm fans start it, the 120mm fan forces it past the heatsink (though as many probably know, not the whole heatsink - what a great design...), and then the two 60mm's behind the heatsink pull hot air out of the case.
Thanks for the info about System Profiler, Malcolm. I think you're right, though - if the CPUs were overheating, it would shut down. That's the whole point of the TAU's or whatever they're called.
I'm starting to think that either the 2-3-2-5 PC3200 RAM is suspect, or the processors are not stable at 1.08GHz. I'd downclock them back to 867MHz, but I think I need to buy some surface-mount resistors for that, and I really don't know what kind to get (as in, how many ohms).

P45 Platinum, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, 8GB DDR2 PC8500 Problem

Anyone else experiencing this problem? or have a solution.
I tested Windows 7 Beta; I basically built a computer to test it.
Intel Quad Core P6600
MSI P45Platinum Motherboard Supports Max of 16BG & BIOS updated to current
4GB of Corsair (2 x 2GB) TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF (Native 1066MHz Overclocked DRAMS)
500 GB Western Digital SATAII
HIS HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Video Card
No problem with Windows 7 Ultimate Beta 64-bit and Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 and finally Windows 7 Ultimate – Retail (RTM) 64-bit Boots in 15 seconds.
So I figure if 4 GB is great, then 8BG should be spectacular, So, I purchased an additional 4GB of Corsair (2 x 2GB) TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF memory and installed to fully populate my 4 dual channel slots.
To my dismay, my system boot time increased to 30 seconds and then the system became unstable and exhibited random crashes with all sort of page file and system errors.
I removed and swap the new 4GB memory for the old it boots and operates fine.
So then I thought maybe it was bad memory so I interchanged new 4GB for the existing 4GB and it worked fine. It seem to be an issue with installing more than 4GB.
I then searched the Internet for a solution and discovered this 8GB issue is a known problem with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with no solution in sight. Some seem to think it is a hardware issue and other seem to think its an software issue with Windows 7 Ultimate – 64-bit.
I have seen some info indicating that installing 8GB of DDR22 PC-6400 doesn't have the problem.
Thanks in Advance
Calvin

The MB specifications state clearly that 1066 and above is OC only.
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Overclocking
This mainboard is designed to support overclocking. However, please make
sure your components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, while
doing overclocking. Any attempt to operate beyond product specifications is
not recommended. We do not guarantee the damages or risks caused
by inadequate operation or beyond product specifications.
That means its up the user to determine if they want to try/risk the OC condition. No stability is guaranteed. Every manual states that OC is not recommended and at your own risk, possibly voiding the guarantee. How much more should the manufacturers do in terms of stating what is regarded as OC and that its risky? All the P45 chipset boards with DDR2 state the same in terms of 1066 being an OC, no matter from which manufacturer.
Yes, with tweaking some are lucky to run at the OC speeds, but probably above the chipset, Ram and CPU recommended voltages. The more memory you add the more stress on the memory controller and subsequently an increased chance of instability, especially at the OC speeds.

How do I get music videos, tv shows, and movies from my iTunes onto my iPod touch?

I just bought the 32 G iPod touch bc I read online that the 8G holds 2000 songs plus other stuff and the 32G holds 8000 songs plus more. I have 3000 songs on my iTunes and for some reason it said it won't hold more than 2600. Also I can't figure out to put the music videos, tv shows, and movies from my iTunes synced onto my iPod touch. Help?

The advertised number of songs an iPod can hold is based on set factors such as the encoding for each song and the length for each song.
Transferring movies is selected under the Movies tab for your iPod sync preferences with iTunes.
Transferring TV Shows is selected under the TV Shows tab for your iPod sync preferences with iTunes.
Include Music Videos is selected under the Music tab for your iPod sync preferences with iTunes.

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