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The version that is available for free does not have the brute force capability that I need. Anybody? Thanks

Does anyone have a download site for the demo of l0pht v.3? The l0pht website just has v 4 now and I want to try v 3. Thanks. Ed

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Are you using a firewall program like Zonealarm? Once you give/deny permission for Empire Earth to access the internet, it should work just fine. Ed

http://www.caseoutlet.com/Server/YY-cube/default.htm is a nice one....I bought one. Holds all my stuff and looks pretty nice too.

http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/...raid/index.html has a great description of Raid. From what I understand, even Raid 0 uses the size of the smallest drive as the baseline, so if you have a 20 and a 30g drive, with raid 0 you end up with one 40g drive, striped for performance rather than redundancy. JBOD is one option that most raid controllers have, basically drive spanning with no redundancy or performance enhancements...that would give you a 50g drive with the two in the example. The above website has a paragraph that says "While common parlance for calculating storage says to multiply the number of data-containing drives by the capacity of the drives, bear in mind that this assumes that all the drives are of the same size (which is the ideal way to set up a RAID array). In fact, the capacity of any RAID array is constrained by the size of the smallest drive in the array; it is that size that should be used when calculating capacity. So, the capacity of a RAID 5 array containing four drives that are 20 GB, 30 GB, 40 GB and 45 GB in size is 60 GB (calculated as 4-1 times 20 GB, the size of the smallest drive.) If you were to actually set up an array using such drives, 55 GB of space would be lost in what is sometimes called drive waste. If an array has drive waste due to unequal drive sizes, this will reduce the storage efficiency of the array as well, of course: the RAID 5 array given as an example here has a storage efficiency of (60 / 135) = 44%, instead of the 75% that would result if all the drives were the same size. Some controllers will let you use such "waste" as regular, non-RAID storage. See this discussion of drive size for related issues." There is also a table on that webpage under Summary Comparison of RAID Levels that shows the capacity and storage efficiency of each level of RAID and that table show that RAID 0 uses 2x the smallest drive as its capacity. Speaking from experience, I have a SCSI raid setup in Raid 0 and I can tell you that when I used to use two drives of different capacity (both 18.2 but different manufacturers so still slightly different capacities) I only have 2x the smallest capacity drive. Ed

One of mine is in my sig.

I have built a few systems with the DFI AK74EC motherboard with a GeForce2 MX card. There is a bios update for that board that addresses this very problem...where you can't install XP. Good advice earlier to check for bios updates. Ed

I have had this happen two times with two different causes. The first time, I updated the firmware in my SMC router, and the problem was resolved. The second time (different computer at another house) I replaced the NIC and the problem was resolved. Couple of things to try...Good luck Ed

www.micropro.com Its where I got my dual 1.8 Xeons....great deal, and shipped it out the same day. Seem to deal with high end stuff and had the best prices on my cpus. Ed

If there is a place in the US where Sdram and Rdram are the same price I would like to know as well. Ed

Just a thought...Have you enabled an IRQ for your graphics card in the BIOS? I am not familiar with that motherboard so I don't know if that option is in your BIOS. Also enable one for USB if that option is there. Ed

Any number of things can cause lockups. Changing the CPU only normally doesn't have any affect on the system other than a speed increase. Your post is a little unclear about how many processors you have installed. Also what motherboard are you using? What about memory? Is you memory PC133 or is it PC100? Changing the fsb to accomodate a new processor can cause memory instabilities if the memory is not rated for the new speed. Ed

My experience with Nvidia and XP sucks. BSOD over and over with NV4_disp.dll named as the culprit. Tried numerous drivers and have finally just ditched it in favor of the ATI Radeon 8500. Not too many issues so far but I have only had it one day. Ed