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Computer Hardware Hard Drives

Samsung 830 256GB in raid 0 with Z77 chipset and TRIM

Got my new drives, two Samsung 830 256GB I then dropped them into an intel ROM raid 0 with Intel RST 11.6 drivers and I get some pretty great looking benchmarks AND TRIM! These were running on my Asus P8Z77-I DELUXE ITX motherboard.

[zp src=”AS-SAMSUNGRAID0.png” album=”vivi/” width=”600″]

The benchmarks speak for themselves. If anyone would like me to run some other tests, let me know.

This is the test PC build by the way : El Linko

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Operating Systems Windows 7

How To Install Windows 7 from a USB Key with ISO links!

I’ve been reading a few methods to install Windows 7 from an ISO to a jump drive, or DVD. The best method to do it from a Windows computer is to obtain Microsoft’s own software for the task :

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

Install that, and point it to the jump drive you want to use (it will get wiped), and point it to the ISO you want to install on to it.

Windows 7 Ultimate SP1-U ISO

English x86: X17-59463.iso
English x64: X17-59465.iso

French x86: X17-59477.iso
French x64: X17-59479.iso

Spanish x86: X17-58877.iso
Spanish x64: X17-58879.iso

Windows 7 Professional SP1-U ISO

English x86: X17-59183.iso
English x64: X17-59186.iso

German x86: X17-59886.iso
German x64: X17-59885.iso

French x86: X17-59195.iso
French x64: X17-59197.iso

Spanish x86: X17-58866.iso
Spanish x64: X17-58868.iso

Italian x86: X17-59212.iso
Italian x64: X17-59215.iso

Portuguese x86: X17-59246.iso
Portuguese x64: X17-59247.iso

Swedish x86: X17-59271.iso
Swedish x64: X17-59273.iso

Norwegian x86: X17-59229.iso
Norwegian x64: X17-59231.iso

Finnish x86: X17-59192.iso
Finnish x64: X17-59194.iso

Dutch x86: X17-59233.iso
Dutch x64: X17-59236.iso

Danish x86: X17-59891.iso
Danish x64: X17-59883.iso

Traditional Chinese x86: X17-59295.iso
Traditional Chinese x64: X17-59297.iso

Korea x86: X17-59299.iso
Korea x64: X17-59300.iso

Windows 7 Professional N SP1-U ISO (Note: N editions come without media components)

English x86: X17-59335.iso
English x64: X17-59337.iso

German x86: X17-59323.iso
German x64: X17-59327.iso

French x86: X17-59348.iso
French x64: X17-59351.iso

Spanish x86: X17-58871.iso
Spanish x64: X17-58874.iso

Italian x86: X17-59364.iso
Italian x64: X17-59366.iso

Portuguese x86: X17-59395.iso
Portuguese x64: X17-59398.iso

Swedish x86: X17-59418.iso
Swedish x64: X17-59424.iso

Norwegian x86: X17-59380.iso
Norwegian x64: X17-59383.iso

Finnish x86: X17-59344.iso
Finnish x64: X17-59346.iso

Dutch x86: X17-59384.iso
Dutch x64: X17-59387.iso

Danish x86: X17-59318.iso
Danish x64: X17-59320.iso

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1-U ISO

English x86: X17-58996.iso
English x64: X17-58997.iso

Spanish x86: X17-58857.iso
Spanish x64: X17-58859.iso

French x86: X17-59007.iso
French x64: X17-59009.iso

Thanks to mydigitallife.info, where I got the information easily. These are the official ISO’s from Microsoft, so get them while you can!

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Operating Systems Software Windows 7

Temporary profile creates in Windows 7

I had a user who logs in with a domain account and creates a temporary directory every time he logs in. This is what I did that fixed it :

1. Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem.
2. Back up all data in the current user’s profile folder if the profile folder still exists, and then delete the profile folder. By default, the profile resides in the following location: %SystemDrive%\Users\UserName, you could just rename it something different in the same folder.
3. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
4. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.
Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
5. Under the ProfileList subkey, delete the subkey that is named SID.bak
Note SID is a placeholder for the security identifier (SID) of the user account that is experiencing the problem. The SID.bak subkey should contain a ProfileImagePath registry entry that points to the original profile folder of the user account that is experiencing the problem. You would delete the SID.BAK with an issue :

[zp src=”sidkey.jpg” album=”blog/etc/” width=”600″]

6. Exit Registry Editor.
7. Log off the system.
8. Log on to the system again.

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Gaming General Computing

The Best Way to Farm Act1 Inferno – Diablo III

1) start the quest “The Imprisoned Angel : Enter the Cursed Hold”

2) First take the waypoint to The Old Ruins and check for “Dark Cellar” which has a low chance to have a rare monster or treasure goblin. The chance has been nerfed from when it was being farmed regularly but there is still a chance and it is a quick Neph valor point if a rare is there.

3) Head to New Tristram, teleport to the Cemetery of the Forsaken.

-Once in the Cemetery, check the four possible crypts. Skip Development Hell if it spawns because named rares usually don’t drop anything anymore.

-Each Crypt has 1-2 blue packs and sometimes a yellow. Even when you achieve 5 neph stacks, still clear the rest of the crypts.

4)Next return to New Tristram and head north out of town into the Weeping hollow (or just head south from Forsaken Cemetery). You will continue by clearing the weeping hollow map. you should find at least 3 rare/chapion packs here. Also there is a chance for the Den of Fallen which will guarantee another 3 rare/champion packs and a chest.

5) Once you have cleared all of Weeping Hollow, teleport to Festering Woods. There are 1-3 elite groups o n initial map. Warrior’s Rest and Crypt of the Ancients have 1 guaranteed elite group each and you may get Last Stand of the Ancients event for another elite group

6) Use the waypoint to travel to “Highlands Crossing”. You may encounter a rare or named in the small area before the bridge. You will travel across the bridge into the “southern Highlands”. Here you will clear the map which normally contains at least 3 rare/champion packs and has a chance for a goblin. You will also be looking for the Moonclan Cave which will have at least 3 rare/champion packs and a chest in the 2nd level. Also as of the latest patch The Lyceum is now open which can be found here also which may contain 2 rare/champion packs

7) Travel to the “Northern Highlands” Where you may find 2 rare/champion packs as well as a chance at a treasure goblin and a random dungeon the “Watch Tower” which may also contain at least 2 rare/champion packs. I also went a little further north into “Leoric’s Hunting Grounds” for 2 more rare/champion packs and another goblin.

8) Once you have cleared Northern Highlands (and possible event), teleport to Halls of Agony Level 2. There are two elites in this area. Once they are killed, go to the door to the highland passage

9) In the highland passage there is a possible event in which you have to kill a named mob at the end. You will know right away if you have the event because there will be a quest giver. If you don’t have it, just go to the cursed hold.

10) In the cursed hold there are two elites packs + the warden. The warden is a straight forward boss. Once you are done, just go to halls of agony level 3

11) Once in hall of agony level 3 there are two elite packs. Kill them then make your way to the butcher.

12) Kill the Butcher and repeat as desired.

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Air Cards Computer Hardware General Computing Laptop

Panasonic Toughbook CF-53 MC7750 4G Verizon Issues – 2101 Error

We have a few new Toughbook CF-53’s in that occasionally get the 2101 error within Verizon Access. I was wondering if anyone else was having these issues? I am in touch with Panasonic, and Verizon on trying to get a permanent fix, but it seems to be very intermittent right now.

If I get a resolution, I will update this post.

*updated*

OKAY, so I have two CF53’s with the issue. Been contacting verizon with no luck, finaly got a hold of the Panasonic wireless engineer and he shared with me some new software specific to these MC7750’s, and specific to this 2101 error. Basically what was happening was that the driver software was installing some connect option for Windows 7, it would sometimes install and conflict with Verizon Access Manager. So what he did was remove that from the installer, and bingo, worked like a champ…tried this one two laptops with error 2101.

Software :

Drivers from Panasonic: linky
Software from Verizon: linky

Make sure to uninstall all old drivers, and VZAccess Manager and then install the new ones.

Any questions let me know, I will try to assist.

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Computer Hardware Gaming

FPS stuck at 50 in Diablo 3

I am not sure what was happening, but every time I would join a new game, hit CTRL + R (gives you ingame FPS) it would be locked at 50FPS, even with the limiter at 61, or even off. To fix it, I had to do the following :

For reference, I have an i5 2500k, 680GTX, 16GB DDR3, 256GB SSD.

Go to \Diablo III\D3Prefs.txt

Change setting LimitForegroundFPS from 1 to 0
LimitForegroundFPS “0”

I also reset LimitBackgroundFPS from 1 to 0
LimitBackgroundFPS “0”

This fixed it for me!

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Server 2003

Large ntuser.dat files in server 2003 – HP driver issue

Originally our terminal service server ran out of space, wondering why, we went to investigate and saw that ntuser.dat files were about 400MB or more. We also noted that new users logging in were taking 15-20 minutes to actually load into the terminal service the first time. What we eventually found out was that the HP Drivers were causing the issue.

You will want to delete this key + and sub keys (I advise running a export of the registry first, just in case):

– HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\hewlett-packard

Then we deleted all the user profiles that were bigger then 100mb and they recreated.

You will also want to verify that the default user registry hive (the ntuser.dat file) is not over 512kb or so (that was our default size).

– HKUsers\.Default\Software\Hewlett-Packard

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Computer Hardware

Hard Lockup’s With Asus P8P67PRO and Random Freezes

My PC :

i5 2500k
corsair 1050W
EVGA 680 GTX
4x4GB DDR3 G.Skill
Asus P8P67 PRO REV3
Corsair M4
case – Corsair 600T

My PC was randomly locking up on me whenever it felt like. It was generally under 24 hours of being booted. I was replacing stuff left and right, and on a whim, tried just unplugging the USB3 Bracket, and it fixed it. I have had my PC on for over 3 weeks, NO lockups. Check that bracket, apparently it’s shit, at least in my case it was!

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Software

How to convert to PDF for free?

Okay, this seems to be a pretty common question “How do I convert my BLANK document over to PDF? Without paying for Adobe Acrobat STD/PRO?” Very simple, use a freeware program called doPDF. All it does is installs a PDF Printer, so when you print from your document, you can print it to the PDF Converter.

Very simple, and free with no ad-ware/spyware! You can download it directly form their website :

http://www.dopdf.com/download/setup/dopdf-7.exe

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drivers Operating Systems Windows 7

Getting Panasonic CF-53 USB3.0 Drivers to load into WinPE/Landesk

This one was a headache! I got all drivers loaded properly for Panasonic CF-53 in Windows 7, except one unknown device, which was actually a USB 3.0 Hub driver. It would not load the traditional way, so what I ended up doing was taking the drivers, and putting them on the image itself under C:\windows\inf folder

If you would like the drivers, you can get them here :

http://www.uploadland.com/?d=4F7316241