Recent content by Brian JK

I've done some work on consumer desktops and laptops but never worked with servers. I have a dell poweredge t20 that I want to add at least 4 gb (up to 8 gb more). It already has one OEM stick of 4gb. What's the best way to upgrade, just get another compatible 4 gb stick or is it more critical...

I want to estimate the cost of getting a hyper-v server hosting some VMs for some phone applications. I have two applications that are about the same in requirements: cpu: dual core, 2.6GHz ram: 4 gb What would be the minimum system requirement if I wanted to run just one of these applications...

I have a few laptops that were shipped with windows 8 (key is in the BIOS). I'm ready to upgrade to windows 10. I'd like to create an image with windows 10. How would this all work, does windows 10 authenticate with the key in the bios still even if it was for windows 8?

Here's the error message I got on a reboot. What can I look into to help troubleshoot the issue? Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 3b BCP1: 00000000C0000005 BCP2: FFFFF80003805B57...

https://rufus.akeo.ie made it work!

I've been putting clonezilla on flashdrives to boot and all work perfectly except for a pny 32 drive. It works fine in windows but when I try to boot from it, nothing. I formated it before using tuxboot to throw clonezilla on it. any thoughts? the drive in question is...

turns out it was the vsync setting. i put it on through the graphics setting of the card and it worked.

I built a rig on a 120 gb pny ssd and I want to migrate everything to a larger 240 gb sandisk ssd. my mb is a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI. when I try to boot up the computer with the second ssd connected, it's not being recognized. it also loads slowly and shuts down slowly. I'm not really familiar...

I don't have another system to use it on but I did switch to another slot on the mb. same issue. It might even be slightly worse. Thoughts?

I just completed my build (http://pcpartpicker.com/user/br1ckhouse/saved/hhndnQ) and everything seemed to work ok until I ran The Witcher's intro video. I posted a video at http://youtu.be/HtMr0aDLfRM Around 1:55, it's hard to notice but whenever there's a fact action sequence, the screen...

Windows 7 and yes, we'll have individual keys for each. I'm totally unfamiliar with OPK, is it a preinstalled windows feature and is it easy to use?