INFERNO2000

For Sale: Hdds & controllers: 1 IBM 75GXP 20GB 7200/UDMA100 (3 days of use, otherwise brand new) $60 1 WD 136AA 13.6GB 5400/UDMA66 $45 1 Maxtor 11.9GB 5400/UDMA66 $40 1 Quantum/HP 4.1gb Ultra2 SCSI hdd(no guarantees—pulled from a Netserver while working, but cannot test or format now). $21 Digital Research DRUDMA66 PCI UDMA66 controller. $20 [/list:u] Vidcards: 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16mb w/ TV-out & SVideo/RCA Adapter. $30 Trident TGUI9440-3 PCI 1mb $10 STB Systems Nitro 64V PCI 1 mb $10 [/list:u] RAM 2x128mb Kingston PC100 SODIMM: $35 per or $60 total. 2x128mb PC100 SDRAM(ran @ 133 w/o problem). One stick Siemens chips, the other Infineon. Either stick: $15 per or $25 total. [/list:u] Networking & Telephony Diamond SupraExpress Voice 56i 56k Hardware ISA modem. $30 2 Realtek (one an HP OEM pull, the other a Dlink 530TX+) NICs $12 per 3 3com Etherlink 3 ISA 509-b NICs $7 per [/list:u] CPUs & Mobos. Pentium1 133 Socket 7 CPU w/ passive HSF. $15 AMD K6-3 450 w/ active HSF $25 Biostar M5ALA Socket 7 mobo (4 PCI, 2 ISA, 1 AGP). $40 (knock off $5 if you buy the mobo w/ a CPU) ABIT BX6 (may have IDE controller problems—can be dealt with with a PCI controller(who wants UDMA33 anyway??)) $20 [/list:u] Shipping is a minimum of $5 for Shipping, Delivery Confirmation, and Insurance. If you buy multiple items, I’ll figure out the cost more accurately. International shipping will cost more. Unless otherwise specified(SCSI, and BX-6), all items should arrive properly and I guarantee NON-DOA.

First off: I think I have the world's largest ratpad. What do you think? (btw, this is my new desk)

easily solved: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=249939 there's the link to my post in the [H] forums

Yeah, Stiltner was taking too long on his Coldforge, so I said screw it and moved on to bigger and better(?) things. I don't have the switches set up yet. On my list of mods to do are: Change out LEDs(White for PSU1 & 2, and Blue for each of the HDDS---all of them the brightest I can get(I want to light up my room if I can!). Set up Baybuses to control fans. They're mostly L series Panaflos..so they ARE quiet....but the 2 53 decibel Delta EHE 80mm/80CFM fans need something. I'm looking at the switches in the back and an LCD up front, otherwise the 3.5" bay cover will be my new baybus. I need 2 92mm grills(then every exposed fan(except the hdd ones in the back) will have grills on both sides--but I'll get those on Monday or so.) After that, there's not much modding to do. PSU1 will power the mobo & fans PSU2 will power the hard drives & top 4 5.25" drives PSU3(whenever I determine I have need for it) will power all 5.25" bay drives. PSU2 will take over all 3.5" drives. PSU3 will also power my watercooling equipment, since the 5.25" bays won't use the power all the time(unless I get SCA equipment, which I doubt)

but htink of all the people who want this for bragging rights?

Case modded by Jim Hanson Final price: $713. (before I hear whining about someone else modding it for me, take this into account: case: 400 bucks 20 fans at about 11 a piece $220 Grills for all fans at 1 a piece $25 (some have them on both sides) FILTERS for 7 fans: 2 a piece $15 Hole saws for 120, 92, 80, 60: $20 a piece= $80 Shipping on all items $100(roughly) Total price: roughly $70+ labor and fear of screwing something up. Jim had never modded an Ultra before, so this was a new mod design. BEFORE: AFTER: (next to an Enlight 7237 for comparison)

Hey--I work at Circuit City I needed something to finance my plans of world domination between busy seasons. They make commission by selling you those plans. 50 cents for the RPP's (telephones, walkmans, etc), about 7.50 for protection plans for everything but PCs, and who knows what for CSP's. That's why they're always harassing you about it. For the record, I won't even mention it, and I never make commission. I don't believe in commission. If you want something, great. if you don't great. If you want an extended warranty, fine, if not, oh well. I don't want my income based upon other people's naivety on buying extended warranties. Hell, to me everything is disposable. By the time it breaks, there's something new out that I want instead. My philosophy is to help the customer buy something. Not to sell them something. I just want them to leave and not come back because of what was sold. So, if you're in the Decatur, IL area, look for me. I won't bother you about a plan. Hell, I'll get fired before I try to sell those in earnest. I plan on quitting and becoming a techie for the cable company---those @$$Holes are always screwing up computers when they install the cable modems. I always have to go fix them. I'll be the techie everyone wants

My Pentium 3 900/512 laptop goes from cold boot to done in under a minute (including putting in BIOS password and Windows password) Something seems very wrong...do you have any networking items such as DHCP enabled? That made my W2K Server slow

my laptop does that as well. or rather, doesn't do that.

I just got Mac OS X not sure what I'll do with it though. Mandrake is my alt OS. other than 2000 SP2(and SP3), and XP

In Canada asking me to come work with him (seriously)

Mine: 386 20/4mb (laptop) Pentium1 133/48mb ram (Doom2 Box) Pentium2 233/96 mb ram (Quake2 Box) K6-3 450/288mb RAM (server) Pentium3 900/256(Toshiba laptop) Dual AMD AthlonMP 1800/1024(workstation) Parents: Pentium1 100/48mb ram (Packard Bell Solitaire machine) Athlon(classic) 700/256 (family system-HP)

Are you using WOL? WOL screwed up my system.

I signed up for it, and a week or 2 later, I got an email telling me they've chosen me for beta testing of Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. Pretty sweet, since I just got a Win2k Server up....I'd migrated my main machine(s) to XP Pro...so I'll have a rig or 2 to beta test on.

The only GF that I know of to have that would be Asus' Deluxe models.

Half-Mast LAN Party would like to show it’s support for the victims of the horrible tragedy that took place on September 11, 2001. They would like to throw a HUGE Not-For-Profit event, that brings in not only guests, but other LAN Parties. The expected attendance for this party will be around 500 people. The cost of this LAN Party would be the usual $20, with extra donations taken. The money raised would go towards paying for the party, with any money left over going to help the victims through a relief fund. As of yet, nothing has been set in stone, as far as dates, times, location, etc. The tentative time and place is weekend of October 5th, Bloomington, IL *Brandon Cloud (Necessary Evil) *Brian Rust (Viper) <http://www.half-mast.net> <http://www.lanextremeparty.com> <http://www.midwestfrag.org>

BUMP! It's this weekend, guys! Come help us and support a good cause. And frag a few bastages as well

but, doesn't 2000 have a HAL as well? Oh well. HAL +1 = IBM, just like MS +1 = NT

I just bought a Voodoo3 3000 AGP and a 10GB hdd from a friend of mine (here, he's Fake McCoy if memory serves me correctly). Same price as a GF2MX200 w/ TV out. It's fine for me, since it's going in a Win2K Server/Linux box. you want your voodoo to live on? Go Linux.

I don't think therre's a real fix just wait a month, it'll be fixed if you have onboard audio, use it for the time being.

I posted this at the [H], but wanted your opinions as well "Does anyone here think that Windows XP will be the watershed I hope it is? Anyone with an old computer that can't support XP properly will hereby be considered Legacy...and manufacturers can move on and provide those of us with "modern" machines better materials, more suited to our capabilities, rather than their forefathers'. no more games meant to cater to people with a Cyrix 333 and a 4mb S3Virge DX. TNT2 or better, 16mb and up. no more applications catering to the hopeless Win95 crowd with their struggling Packard Bell and Compaqs that still rely on edo and an infinite amount of a Technician's patience and aggravation. I don't necessarily want to have this shoved down people's throats, but dammit, it's time that we moved on and turned our backs on systems that are top of the line for 6 years ago. We need a watershed event to speed us along. ISA is dead. a very few boards still allow it, but no new ones(DDR-generation) are coming with it. I believe Mac did it with their G series...much to the chagrin of legacy users, and delight of others. If legacy devices are still needed, for some inane reason, leave them with an OS more suited to them (Win98SE). Let them stay there and not be upgraded or updated or whatever. Let them sit in their corners and fold genomes or whatever while they're not being used. Hook them up to the internet and use them as printservers or file servers or whatever. If you insist on using your Pentium2 450 or AMD K6-2 400 with 64mb of RAM, spend the lousy 20 bucks and upgrade yourself to 192 or more! 50 bucks will get you a GF2MX 200 w/ TV out. Get rid of your ATI RagePro Turbo AGP(I admit, I have one). have an 8gb hdd? a mere 50 bucks can get you 20GB more! Something needs to be done. id is doing their Doom3 in such a way that if you have a TNT2, you can basically forget it, and the GF3 will have a hard time running it at what are considered "minimum" fps by today's avid gamers. Quake 3, UT, and especially Tribes 2 were good at pressing the standards. Some of us upgraded(I upgraded to a GeForce256 because of Quake 3, and Tribes 2 made me upgrade to a GF2 GTS) But what has done this with Operating Systems? nothing really. You just got a bloated WinME that did nothing worthwhile over Win98 other than dumbed the OS down for the idiots who couldn't handle Win2K(and as for gamers--most of them opted for Win98SE over WinME....very few of you out there willingly use-and endorse-WinMe over Win98Se in games. And hte rest of you have moved on to Win2k or XP.) for one reason or another. Win2k was a watershed for NT4 systems. no longer could a Pentium 100 do the trick. while this was bad for some companies who didn't want to upgrade, that was their choice. to get the nice new features that 2k offered, they had to get better systems. but XP isn't just in a corporate environment. They have their eyes set on the consumer market as well. They're finally moving people over to the far more stable NT kernel, and as long as shitty ****ing companies such as Compaq and HP don't screw the kernel over with their bloatware, I think MS could do really well with the newfound stability alone that most consumers didn't know their computers had. I've not seen an unexpected blue screen on my machines with NT kernels in 9 months. With this change, can MS officially label the 9x core as "legacy" the way WinMe did to MSDOS, and provide it with fixes, but not new developments? ...Instead investing it's time and money and research on XP, .net, and other endeavours that would help the consumer in what could potentially be a "new" computing world and opportunities for the consumer that the NT kernel provides?" http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=227065&highlight=watershed

I'm glad that XP is forcing a move. No more Pentium 133's being enough in today's world. A watershed for x86 is necessary....hopefully XP will prove to be sufficient to start it.

XP costed me 2 attempts of downloading over 2 days and 3 cds to get a good copy. Eventually, someone just loaned me the CE, and I got rid of my non-CE. Since it was free to me(MCSE program at school, and unscrupulous friends ), installing it instead of 2k doesn't cost me anything. disable the features I don't use...and I'm on my way at just 80mb RAM usage instead of 72. oh well. no items on desktop is nice... locked bars is nice. I use the silver luna, and like it. I ungrouped the control panel. I have NT-style login and logout. no real bugs, other than if I restart my laptop, I lose sound. this happened in 2k as well(only sound was at twice the pitch as norma), so all I can do is shut down for a restart. I'm going to purchase the Server edition next year when I buy Hammers...but I'll stick with my Pro CE for now

don't we already have a post just like this 10 items down? I'll post this for what I have now, and what I'm building next month as well. * indicates not on hand My Laptop / LAN rig(it's that powerful ) "CERBERUS" Running Windows XP Professional CE MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ Toshiba Satellite 3000/3005 series Intel 815 motherboard Mobile Pentium3 900 with speedstep to 700 if I so choose(and I don't!) 2x 128 Kingston PC100 RAM 14.1" TFT LCD display. 1024x768@120hz 16mb GeForce2 GO (good enough to max my display out @ 90fps constant in Q3A, and 330 fps in a window in UT. Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 1 IBM DJSA 2200 20gb 4200rpm hdd 1 Toshiba 8x DVD ROM 1 Smartmedia slot(currently has a 64mb card in that stores my homework) 1 Teac 3.5 floppy disk drive(the only floppy drive on any of my computers!) Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Intel 82801 AC-97 codec Logitech S20 speakers @ home AIWA headphones for LAN gaming Canon S20 Digital Camera Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer Ratpadz Ratpad (plain) Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Realtek 8139a onboard LAN Toshiba AMR onboard 56k modem Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353 Cooling through CPU fan ====================================================================================================================================================== Now for my file server, Linux Box, and Game Server. "SenselessApathy" Running Win98se, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Linux Mandrake 8.1 MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ Soyo 6BA+ 3 Pentium3 550 Katmai 128mb (4x32) miscellaneous PC100 RAM Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16mb Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 19" Diamondtron NF Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 1 Toshiba 32x CDROM 1 IBM 75GXP UDMA100 7200rpm 20GB hdd(Windows 2000) 1 Maxtor DiaomondMax UDMA66 5400rpm 11.9gb hdd(Linux) 1 Western Digital Caviar 22100 5400 rpm 2.1gb hdd 1 Western Digital Caviar 2200 4200rpm(if it's lucky!) .2gb hdd Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Ensoniq Audio PCI *Win TV Go! Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 1.0a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB (Dell Edition) Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Linksys Winbond NIC Davicom 8101 NIC 3com Etherlink3 ISA NIC Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ Enlight 7237 modded by a friend, purchased for 20 bucks Deer 300w PSU(hey, it works) ====================================================================================================================================================== And now for my flagship rig I'm building this fall. "RAGNAROK" Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition(and eventually Server) MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ *==unknown maker/model== 760MPX motherboard *2x1.533 ghz AMD Athlon MP 2x Swiftech MC462 and Delta EHE 80mm/81cfm fans 1gb(4x256) Crucial Registered ECC PC2100 DDR RAM *==unknown maker/model== GeForce3 Titanium 500 or Radeon 8500 Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 19" (Diamondtron NF tube) Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 2x IBM 18.2GB 36LZX 10k RPM 4mb buffer Ultra160 SCA hdds(with adapters) 2x WD 18.3GB 7.2k RPM 4mb buffer Ultra2Wide 68pin hdds 1x IBM 4.5gb 7.2k RPM 2mb buffer Ultra2Wide 68pin hdd 1x Seagate 2.1gb 7.2k RPM 2mb buffer UltraWide 68ping hdd in LianLi RH620 Mobile hdd rack 1x Pioneer 305s 10x40 slotload DVD (Ultra2 SCSI) 1x Plextor 12x10x32s CDRW (Ultra2 SCSI) 1x Sanyo BP5 24x10x40 CDRW (UltraWide SCSI) 1x Adaptec 39160 Dual Channel U160 SCSI controller(dedicated to U160 devices) 1x Adaptec 2940U2W Single Channel U2W SCSI controller(will also control UW and U2 devices) Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Hercules Game Theater XP *new headphones--possibly Grados S80, David Clark Helicopter, or Sony MDR V700 DJ Canon S20 Digital Camera Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB (Microsoft Edition) Ratpadz Ratpad ([H]ard|OCP Flames--new corner design) Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Dual Port Compaq 8122 10/100 NIC (dual Intel 82558 chips) Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ All-black Faraday-Cases ColdForge w/ extra hdd rack(giving me a total of 14 3.5" and 5 5.25" usable) with fanbus and possibly an LCD --or-- Chenbro Ultra modded for use with 120mm fans wherever possible, made by Jim @ Coolcases.com 2x Enermax 465 PSUs modded w/ Panaflo 92 and 80mm H series fans. All wires wrapped in split loom. 4 pin leads will go to power front fans, or CPU fans. 4x Panaflo 120 M series in front (intake) 2x Panaflo 120 H series in rear (exhaust) 2x Delta EHE 80 EHE series on Processor(80cfm/55dcb each--will need fanbus dedicated to them!) Lian Li RH620 removable hdd rack That should do it!

I'll post this for what I have now, and what I'm building next month as well. * indicates not on hand My Laptop / LAN rig(it's that powerful ) "CERBERUS" Running Windows XP Professional CE MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ Toshiba Satellite 3000/3005 series Intel 815 motherboard Mobile Pentium3 900 with speedstep to 700 if I so choose(and I don't!) 2x 128 Kingston PC100 RAM 14.1" TFT LCD display. 1024x768@120hz 16mb GeForce2 GO (good enough to max my display out @ 90fps constant in Q3A, and 330 fps in a window in UT. Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 1 IBM DJSA 2200 20gb 4200rpm hdd 1 Toshiba 8x DVD ROM 1 Smartmedia slot(currently has a 64mb card in that stores my homework) 1 Teac 3.5 floppy disk drive(the only floppy drive on any of my computers!) Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Intel 82801 AC-97 codec Logitech S20 speakers @ home AIWA headphones for LAN gaming Canon S20 Digital Camera Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 for home and games Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 1.0a for travel(cause it's expendable, and MS will replace it if I fuxor it up!) Ratpadz Ratpad (plain) Ratpadz Ratpad ([H]ard|OCP Flames--new corner design) for Tournament use only Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Realtek 8139a onboard LAN Toshiba AMR onboard 56k modem Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ Toshiba Satellite 3000-S353 Cooling through CPU fan ====================================================================================================================================================== Now for my file server "(Piece of)Shitbox" Will be running Win98SE for ease of LAN access MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ Soyo 6BA+ 3 Pentium2 233 retail 2x 32 miscellaneous PC100 RAM no monitor will be used on KVM 4mb ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 1 Toshiba 32x CDROM * 10gb hdd Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Ensoniq Audio PCI Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 1.0a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB (Dell Edition) Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Realtek 8139a NIC Davicom 8101 NIC IBM NIC Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ *Generic ATX case--maybe a suitcase PC 80mm fan if ATX case, 2x Panaflo 120M series if suitcase ====================================================================================================================================================== Next, my NT4 DNS box for testing purposes only "PleaseDie" Running Windows NT4 Server MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ Packard Bell OEM SIS mATX Socket 7 motherboard Pentium 133mhz w/o heatsink 48mb EDO RAM(miscellaneous) onboard 4mb SIS video no monitor--will be set up on KVM Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 1x Western Digital 200mb hdd Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ onboard Ensoniq Sound Codec headphones if it's lucky! Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB (Dell Edition) Dilbert Etch-a-sketch mousepad Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall 3com Etherlink III ISA 10mb NIC Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ a USPS Priority Mail Service box no fans. ====================================================================================================================================================== And now for my flagship rig I'm building this fall. "RAGNAROK" Windows XP Professional Corporate Edition(and eventually Server) MotherBoard, CPU, Ram, Video, Monitor: ------------------------------------------------------ *==unknown maker/model== 760MPX motherboard *2x1.533 ghz AMD Athlon MP 2x Swiftech MC462 and Delta EHE 80mm/81cfm fans 1gb(4x256) Crucial Registered ECC PC2100 DDR RAM *==unknown maker/model== GeForce3 Titanium 500 *Sony G420 19" monitor or ==unknown maker/model== 17" LCD with digital and anolog inputs Disks: ------------------------------------------------------ 2x IBM 18.2GB 36LZX 10k RPM 4mb buffer Ultra160 SCA hdds(with adapters) 2x WD 18.3GB 7.2k RPM 4mb buffer Ultra2Wide 68pin hdds 1x IBM 4.5gb 7.2k RPM 2mb buffer Ultra2Wide 68pin hdd 1x Seagate 2.1gb 7.2k RPM 2mb buffer UltraWide 68ping hdd in LianLi RH620 Mobile hdd rack 1x Pioneer 305s 10x40 slotload DVD (Ultra2 SCSI) 1x Plextor 12x10x32s CDRW (Ultra2 SCSI) 1x Sanyo BP5 24x10x40 CDRW (UltraWide SCSI) 1x Adaptec 39160 Dual Channel U160 SCSI controller(dedicated to U160 devices) 1x Adaptec 2940U2W Single Channel U2W SCSI controller(will also control UW and U2 devices) Sound & Multimedia: ------------------------------------------------------ Hercules Game Theater XP *new headphones--possibly Grados S80 Canon S20 Digital Camera Input Devices: ------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro USB (Microsoft Edition) Ratpadz Ratpad (plain) Ratpadz Ratpad ([H]ard|OCP Flames--new corner design) for Tournament use only Telecommunications & Networking: ------------------------------------------------------ ATT @HOME CableModem Netgear RT314 Router/Firewall Dual Port Intel 10/100 NIC (Compaq made, Intel Chips) Print Subsystems & Scanners: ------------------------------------------------------ None Cooling & Case: ------------------------------------------------------ All-black Faraday-Cases ColdForge w/ extra hdd rack(giving me a total of 14 3.5" and 5 5.25" usable) with fanbus and possibly an LCD 2x Enermax 465 PSUs modded w/ Panaflo 92 and 80mm H series fans. All wires wrapped in split loom. 4 pin leads will go to power front fans, or CPU fans. 4x Panaflo 120 M series in front (intake) 2x Panaflo 120 H series in rear (exhaust) 2x Delta EHE 80 EHE series on Processor(80cfm/55dcb each--will need fanbus dedicated to them!) Lian Li RH620 removable hdd rack That should do it!