Recent content by noobtastic88

Hi everyone, Having assorted problems with my computer and I'm not sure what is going on. When I try to launch Photoshop it won't open, crashes without an error. When I use Teamviewer it goes to a blank, black screen. I also have the blizzard app launcher on the computer, and it's...

sorry, hope this isn't too much of a novice question, very new to electronics and theory. so I have an iPad.. pretty old iPad. I have noticed that it will no longer charge with the factory charger anymore. I have to take the charging cable and plug it into a higher voltage? (is that right?)...

All, Would appreciate some pointers regarding my wireless network. Right now i've got a Linksys e2500 router, 802.11n. It works fine, but sometimes when 2 or 3 of us are on the network playing online games the lag is pretty terrible. The router is located in the basement of our house and we...

Hey guys, I had a fan that recently went bad, and it was a 12V, 0.30A 90mm fan. I need to find a replacement fan online but I am not sure what to look for. Should the amps be no higher than 0.30 or does that not matter as much as long as it is 12V? I have a soldering kit I am going to need...

hey all please excuse the novice question. I am trying to set up SMTP alerts so when a hard drive fails in one of my servers I will hear about it vs. logging in to each server and checking the logs manually. Here is what I do NOT understand: basically how this all works. I have heard of SMTP...

Ok guys I really cannot believe I am asking this, but I am a total noob when it comes to anything networking. Our family has an internet plan with 30 megabit download speeds. So, that means that in an ideal world (if kids aren't online gaming, nobody else is downloading anything anywhere else...

Hey all. Was thinking of building a HTPC a while back, now I'm leaning towards getting something that can store/serve media and also be a "labbing" computer i.e. be able to handle probably 2 VMs running on it at once. I was thinking 16 GB RAM should do it - not sure what kind of processor I'll...

Hey all, I have a computer with a HDMI output and 2 usb outputs. I want to hook up 2 monitors to this laptop. I am wondering if it is possible to hook up some sort of adapter so I can have a second monitor via the USB ports? Say I have a 2nd monitor with a DVI or HDMI port, can I buy some...

All I have a shared system. One of the users of this system wants a certain software program but I cannot install it via exe or msi because that is going to interfere with another person's installation of another program. was reading up and somebody told me to just download the binaries as a...

Hi all I am building a computer for a GIS friend. I know what I need for RAM, cpu, etc, requirements but I am a bit stuck on what to get him for storage Was thinking a RAID 1 pair of SSDs for boot drive and another pair of RAID 1 SATA 2 TB drives for data. But I am a bit concerned about...

Hello I have a total of 4 drive bays I need to fill and I need to create an OS volume and a data volume. I'm struggling with what would be the best approach. I've thought about 2 SSD drives so the OS boots quickly and 2 data drives (each pair in RAID 1). That way I have redundancy. I've...

All, Maybe I am asking for something that doesn't exist, but I want to build a low power all purpose server. I'm trying to learn some programming, I want to mess around and host a web server and database (low traffic... just want to mess around). I also want to host a game server for a couple...

All, I am interested in building a computer with a PCIe solid state storage. I also want to attach several SAS drives to a RAID controller. Can this be done? The PCIe storage would be the OS and the RAID array would just be for data. This is my first ever build with a PCIe card so any help...

Hello all, I want to build an ultra low power HTPC with RAID enclosure/NAS. Not sure where to start for components. Ideally this would be 24/7 and I'd like to keep the operating costs as low as possible. I saw one guide where a guy was supposedly able to keep operating costs at ~$25 per year...

All, Trying to decide if a 4-drive configuration with 600 GB 10k SAS in RAID 5 or 1 TB SATA 7200 in RAID 10 would be better. Cost isn't a critical factor, but I'm more wondering in terms of reliability and performance. I've been told to avoid RAID 5 as much as possible - I'd like to net...