IT BS thread

The MT is not as rough as some of the truck MT's but not as smooth as a car's MT. But I love it all the same.

 

I have a Noctua NH-D15 on my 4790k, but mine is clocked at 4.7Ghz. The 212 EVO I had isn't enough for that chip. Worked alright for my 2600k though.

 

Why did you choose the D15 over the D14? Just curious.

 

My coworker drives a double cab RAM and we often park next to each other. I'm alway struck by how much bigger his truck is than mine. Having owned several full sized trucks in the past I'm super happy with the Tacoma and its smaller size. But, then I often have to park in downtown parking structures and they are a tight squeeze even for the Tacoma.

 

I parked in a parking garage in Boston once and was blown away by how it was clearly not designed with large vehicles in mind. I figure I was about an inch from the walls on every corner. The ones we have here have substantially more space. You could drive a dually 1 ton around in them without a problem.

 

Do you have UEFI or a standard BIOS?
Many computers with UEFI firmware will allow you to enable a legacy BIOS compatibility mode. In this mode, the UEFI firmware functions as a standard BIOS instead of UEFI firmware. This can help improve compatibility with older operating systems that weren’t designed with UEFI in mind — Windows 7, for example. Some UEFI systems have a legacy BIOS mode that you can enable, this might work for you.

 

It had both actually, still would not let me load 7 on it. I fixed it by switching ssd into another laptop, it loaded 7 without an issue. But, it came originally with Win 7, not Win 8.

See my other posts above...

 

Supposed to have better cooling performance. I'm sure I had looked at other factors too when I bought it. Now that summer is gone,I can put my 4790k back at 4.8Ghz, and I believe temps stay below 82°C

 

Whats for fun today? Trying to recover data on a raid 5 with a second failed drive.

 

Hope you have a backup.

 

Kind of.......

 

Party foul for not replacing the first failed drive before another one died.

 

I feel your pain.

 

This one was a mess. It was at a remote site. The local guy (not an IT guy) has been "trying" to get 1 drive replaced since february. Yes february. But some how he never talked with the server team. He just kept reseating it. It would work for a week and then fail again. When it finally got to me, I checked the iDRAC and it inly showed a drive with predictive failure ( different drive than the first). There was a drive configured for a hit spare. I had him pull the predictive failure drive. When he did that and the rebuild started, the second drive failed. I got super lucky. I was able to get drives and images over nighted and there by friday morning. I rebooted the server and it said it had a foreign config, I imported the config and the server booted. I ended up getting the 4 critical VMs moved to the new array. And they were up and running by noon on friday.

 

Sounds like you need central monitoring of the hardware.

 

Yep we do, it was never setup and there are so many things going on we dont have time to get it completed right now.

 

If it's not setup then you don't.

What took longer and costs more money taking the time to set it up or having the down time?

Trust me I know exactly what you mean about time and these things tend to not be a priority till they are. I also know I am Monday morning quarterbacking but that's what management will usually do.

Glad you got it back up and running.

 

I had an office with a RAID 5 NAS that had a hot spare, a nice piece of equipment. When the first drive failed the hot spare took over and not a beat was missed.

When the second drive failed they were OK because of the RAID

When the third drive failed . . . well At least there was a working backup, but the users lost a full days work. I don't even want to guess how many $$$,$$$ that cost the company.

The lessons that office learned were that those lights on the NAS might actually mean something, so pay attention. (the onsite tech confessed that he had seen the orange warning lights months ahead of the 3rd failure. He had come to accept them as normal) Since the drives are all bought at the same time, when one drive fails the other drives are going to fail soon there after. Even if you have a hot spare, keep cold spares on hand. It took an extra 2 days to get the NAS back online waiting for parts.

 

Do we have any designers in here that use AutoCad? The engineering dept got a file from a customer that looks to be a scanned pdf of a printed and scanned pdf lol. Needs converted raster to vector but our guys are missing the mark.
No, I won't send you the file because legalities. Just point me in the right direction to help my guys please!