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[Rodney 1.666]

Interesting: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7hardware/thread/95611990-c2bf-4040-ba41-c29ab1e18457

Suggest these drivers: http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Suggested and implemented, yielded horrid results. Driver rolled back...

[Rodney 1.666]

Spoke to my IT prof Thursday and he suggested running ubuntu off a disk. If the sound it still broken it's hardware, if it's fine then it's Windows. (Now why didn't I think of that...)
Gonna give that a try hopefully tomorrow. If there are any additional suggestions in regards to that plan lemme know.

[killermonkey]

agree on the "why didn't I think of that" sentiment... be careful though, if the broken hardware is in a certain spot that isn't activated by the linux driver then you'll get a false result. I still stand by my initial eval of broken hardware

[Rodney 1.666]

Although coincidently right when you upgrade to Win 7?

Still stand by that too? 
I gave your initial hardware hunch the highest probability right from the get-go (and still do); I just like to take every precaution, because this universe is arranged such that the one thing I don't do out of x things is the one that bites me in the ass...

~Edit for parenthesis fact.

[Rodney 1.666]

REWIND

Well the laptop thing is going to have to take place some time next week so I'm back to my own endeavors.
I've narrowed it down to four motherboards and have no idea which is best bang for buck (or even which has the most bang).

What confuses me is when a number of them say they have one PCIe and one PCI-Express... I know they're the same thing so that must mean something else.

The mo-bos in question are here, here, here and here. (List here)

CPU as far as I know remains the same as does the RAM, and went with jj's case suggestion (but one above ) which ties in with Major's suggestion of ATX for moar slots. (Figured out where I'm going to put a 20" case as well.)

Your thoughts on the motherboards? That's really the only obstacle left.

[major]

It's the most, but the P7P55D-E PRO offers the most features and future-proof-ness. SATA6, USB3...

Do you have any cards in your computer that are PCI? PCI is a out going technology(I don't eve have any PCI cards in my pc, all PCIe X1). Cause if for some reason you had more than 2 pci cards you would have to pick one with more PCI slots. If not, I'd suggest the P7P55D-E PRO.

The ASUS P7P55D-E seems similar to the PRO, just only has one PCIe X16. So you wouldn't be able to run two GFX cards, but that really isn't a problem since odds are you would never.

And the others are similar to these, just lack USB 3, and such things.

[Rodney 1.666]

Negative on the PCI usage; I have some sort of modem card one of them right now but it's never been used.


Well I seriously doubt I will ever need two GPUs, so I guess the P7P55D-E is the way to go.
Also broke it all down (or rather added it all up) and that option will give a total of $724, whereas the PRO brings it to $770. ($46 gap)

I compared the two as well and don't see any majorly-important differences, other than like you said the two PCI-E slots.
Would leaving the other one empty have any impact whatsoever on the system?
Are there any other differences between the two boards of any importance that I might have missed?

~Edit for recap:

• Case
• Motherboard or Motherboard
• CPU
• RAM (x4)

[Proxie]

Looks like a nice build.

[namajnaG]

It sure does.
Just need a decent Graphics card and you're good to go.

[Rodney 1.666]

So a month (two months?) ago I finally got around to assembling the rig, and I couldn't happier.
Everything in the graphics department is cranked to max and it doesn't even blink unless I'm running Crysis or something.

About that laptop earlier, everything is peachy now, except for the microphone. Apparently she has to yell into the thing for anyone to hear her. Microphone boost is maxed out in Windows and output on all applications that use the mic are maxed out as well.

Any microphone plugged in to the jack works fine so it's the internal mic. Drivers are updated.

[CCsaint10]

Care to elaborate and explain how you fixed the sound issue?

[Rodney 1.666]

She sent it to Asus because I failed to ask Question #1: "Is it still under warranty?", which I'm still kicking myself in the ass for because that was such a hurp durp thing, especially after working in electronics and dealing with that sort of thing on a regular basis...
In my defense I would assume that if I'm being asked to format it among other things that it's not...
Anyway, got the laptop back with Vista on it again, she formatted and installed Win7 on it and it went off without a hitch, sans sucky sound... wtf. (Those who forget, that's exactly what I did, twice.)

So yeah, that's all good but the internal microphone is still busted, and Google just gives me a bunch of people with the same problem.

[CCsaint10]

so maybe km was right about it just being dead (the actual hardware). Oh well, glad you got it fixed.

[Rodney 1.666]

Figured this is as good a place as any to ask without starting a new thread.

My new 1.5TB hard drive came in and I want to clone my old 363GB drive to it. Does anyone know of a good, free hard drive cloner out there? I'm Googling but thought I'd check if anyone has had a good experience with anything in particular. Being that this is a sensitive operation I'd like the goods and don't want to play with something shady.

I would just make an disk image and copy it to the new drive but... that requires 400GB+, which I don't have, which is why I need the upgrade in the first place. (<9GB remaining)
I would use my external but it's also full.

So yeah. Any software suggestions?

[Kratos]

Figured this is as good a place as any to ask without starting a new thread.

My new 1.5TB hard drive came in and I want to clone my old 363GB drive to it. Does anyone know of a good, free hard drive cloner out there? I'm Googling but thought I'd check if anyone has had a good experience with anything in particular. Being that this is a sensitive operation I'd like the goods and don't want to play with something shady.

I would just make an disk image and copy it to the new drive but... that requires 400GB+, which I don't have, which is why I need the upgrade in the first place. (<9GB remaining)
I would use my external but it's also full.

So yeah. Any software suggestions?

I use Acronis, but the problem is its not free. It does a excellent job cloning my partition, so that i cna move it over to the new drive. It also clones the MBR too.

Here we go

http://lifehacker.com/5839753/the-best-disk-cloning-app-for-windows

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