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At least for CF and SD, it has limited writes (like a few thousand or something--DEF not good for something like this!!). Not to mention the limited bus speed 60MB/s is way over what you actually get from USB2, anyway).

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Yeh I have cat5e cable so it should be ok. I got the gigabit network cards today...problem is when I install one on the computer i intend to use as my RAM drive windows tells me there is an "error code 31, windows cannot load the drivers for this device". Why does nothing ever work right for me?

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wooo Im an Honorary Poster now! Go me!

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You looked in the manual for that error / googled it with your Card Model?

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I'm trying it now.

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wooo Im an Honorary Poster now! Go me!

You took your time!!!

Well done, here's to another 1600 posts! *opens beer*

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error 31...

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From MS :

CM_PROB_FAILED_ADD
Text that is displayed in Device Manager:
This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
Solution button: None
Cause
This error message can occur for either of the following reasons:
a.. If the operating system calls the driver's AddDevice routine and is unsuccessful, or if the operating system fails to load a
dependent device or filter driver.

b.. After unloading a driver, Windows 2000 did not close its handles, delete its device names, and so on. From Object Manager's
perspective, this indicates that the old object/device never went away, so the system does not create a device object for a device
that reappears because of a possible object name collision.

Troubleshooting
This behavior is usually caused by an issue in the device driver. Verify that the driver you are using is digitally signed for
Windows 2000. In the second situation described above, the error message is resolved after you restart the computer. To prevent this
behavior from occurring again, obtain a Windows 2000 signed driver from the device manufacturer.

If a depedent filter driver is not able to start, you can view the device class key in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class
Locate the device type that is reporting the error 31, and the view the upper filter or lower filter entries. Make sure associated
service entries are located in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
You can either troubleshoot the dependent service or remove the offending upper filter or lower filter entry from the class registry
entry. For example, the mouse reports an error 31, therefore, this is the mouse class entry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

upperfilters:RegMultiSz:mouclass OffendingDriver
You can either troubleshoot why the OffendingDriver does not start, or remove the OffendingDriver entry from the upper filters, and
then restart the system.

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Mahesh - eXpansys

note: this did not fix the prob the guy was having he did a full reinstall on a clean drive and the net card still didn't work...

Reply to dougal

Hey man, thanks for the help but I couldnt work out how to do that. I couldnt find any upperfilter string value under my belkin registry entry. Think im gonna have to phone the helpline tomorrow...ahhhh.

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...God-damn it!

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They have put me on hold...

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"You are currently 14th in the queue. Please hold the line. Your call is important to us."

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It was outsourced to india,which i wouldnt really mind accept the guy I got had quite a thick accent and "thats great" and "I just have to check with our technical specialist" waaaaay to much.
After he told me to reinstall my drivers (which I had already done 5 times) he told me there might be a problem with the card... Wow these technical support guys are sooo knowledgeable.

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i imagin you have done it but you could swap the cards and see if the fault follows??

oh and its a bind but if u pull all cards out of the comp then put them all back in one at a time installing as you go that can fix conflicts (install the net card first or after the GFX card)Edited by dougal on 12/11/04 09:44 AM.

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My Dad is getting the same problem (error code31) with his win2k computer so Im assuming it is a driver issue.

I will try unistalling all my add in cards just in case it is a hardware conflict. Thank for the advice.

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I'm waiting... :lol:

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I havent had a chance today, gotta get my UCAS stuff sorted and then im going to a foam party tonight in watford. But will have a go 2moz.

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foam party - w00t!

UCAS - what a bitch of a thing to complete, eh? :lol:

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Ive got an appointment with the admissions lady at college at 10:30 and im still really pissed! Fcuk I have 30mins to sober up! Looks like I wont be driving to college today.

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I've just requested that I be moved onto the HND Computing course, the Computing Science and Maths degree is really too hard for me (well, the Maths side of it anyway) :frown:

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yep math sux and i cant see a point for it(advanced math) in computing unless you are gunna write cryptography/ray tracing s/ware... actually scrub that as i have just thought of alot of things its used for, what uni's are u guys going to or wanting to go to?

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I was gonna do computing, but decided that it would be too hard + I would get bored. So I have chosen philosopy, gotta choose all my uni's this week, so far I have manchester and nottingham.

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I have friends at Manks, they like it.

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Yeh one of my sisters friends went there, it is sposed to be well good. Although in an FHM survey nottingham was found to have the most easy girls in britain...so its a bit of a toss up.

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I did computing for A-level and it sucked. I think it would be slightly better at uni (more challenging + better facilities), but when it comes to things like programming I can never seem to see a project through to the end.

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because the path to computer development is gonna die within the next 15years

Why do you think that? I think it might become less profitable because so many people are doing computing courses now. But I dont think it is gonna die.

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Here is some information I gathered on the subject.. once upon a time. I'm not going to organize it more than it is.
If you want to do that and follow up I'd be glad to see where it has taken you. If the links no longer work.. I'm sorry.

Q257405 -- <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;257405&" target="_new">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;257405&</A>
=======
<A HREF="http://www.overclockers.com/tips00621/" target="_new">http://www.overclockers.com/tips00621/</A>
<A HREF="http://www.cenatek.com/" target="_new">http://www.cenatek.com/</A>
<A HREF="http://www.m-sys.com/" target="_new">http://www.m-sys.com/</A>

<A HREF="http://users.compaqnet.be/cn181612/RAMDisk/RAMDisk.htm" target="_new">http://users.compaqnet.be/cn181612/RAMDisk/RAMDisk.htm</A>

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A ramdisk can perfectly be used to store :

- web content of web servers
- temporary index files and tables of database servers
- temporary files ( TEMP and TMP environment variable ) and "Temporary Internet Files"
- the scratch disk for Adobe (R) Photoshop (R)
- games and programs in general (1), reloading parts and data occurs many times faster
- MPEG audio ( MP3 ) and video capture / editing
- all kinds of data that may be lost ( or MUST be lost for security reasons ) at shutdown

dualDDR 6.4GBytes/sec =6,400,000,000 B/sec
PCI 32*33,000,000/8= 132,000,000 B/sec
Disk = 40,000,000 B/sec - Burst 133 MB/sec

SCSI even if the disks suppose to support 40/80/160MB per sec transfers..

<A HREF="http://www.plda.com/download/ug_pciexpresscorev100_20031019.pdf" target="_new">http://www.plda.com/download/ug_pciexpresscorev100_20031019.pdf</A>
<A HREF="http://www.pcisig.com/home" target="_new">http://www.pcisig.com/home</A>
3GIO=3rd Generation I/O 64-bit, 133/266 MHz,
= 6,600,000,000 B/sec (seen theoretical 5.5GB/sec VIA)

<A HREF="http://www.intelforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=7626" target="_new"> PCI Express </A>

Quote :

The greatest benefit of PCI-Express will be seen in the realm of graphics,
with PCI-Express allowing more powerful video cards for the desktop.
While AGP8X offers around 18MB/sec/pin, PCI Express x16 will offer 4GB/sec
(8 GB/sec concurrent) bandwidth, the request pipe depth will go from 32 to 256,
and the power delivered will be 60 watts max for PCI Express, compared to 25 watts
for AGP 8X. With this increased voltage, and throughput, video performance
should increase tremendously both qualitatively and quantitatively through
much more powerful video cards.

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<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.html?i=1830&p=9" target="_new">Anandtech PCI-Express</A>
The possibility that PCI Express could replace HyperTransport
as a processor to processor interconnect is also unlikely.
PCI-Express lacks the cache coherency protocols and its higher
latency than parallel interconnects with source-synchronous clocks
make it inappropriate for that type of usage. Certainly, AMD and
nVidia have nothing to fear. Intel probably would not use it to
replace the P4 bus either, since an open PCI Express standard
means that Intel would not be able to charge third party chipset
vendors for P4 bus licensing.

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<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=53" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=53</A>
Date: October 1st, 2001
Category: Peripherals
Author(s): Thorin

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=53" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=53</A>
ATA Drive Standards:
• ATA (IDE) - Supports PIO modes 0,1 & 2, SingleWord DMA modes 0,1 & 2, MultiWord DMA mode 0.
Running at a maximum of 8.3MBps.
• ATA-2 (Enhanced IDE or Fast ATA) - Support for PIO modes 3 & 4, MultiWord DMA modes 1 & 2.
Also supports LBA (Logical Block Addressing and block transfers).
Running at a maximum of 16.6MBps.
• ATA-3 (Ultra-ATA, Ultra DMA, ATA33, DMA33) -
Supports Ultra DMA mode 2 running at 33MBps.
Adds improved reliability and drive security.
• ATA-4 (ATA66, Ultra DMA66, DMA66) -
Supports DMA mode 4. Running at a maximum of 66MBps.
(Requires 80 wire cable to acheive 66MBps [more information on cables below and comments on current drive speeds])
• ATA-5 (ATA100, Ultra DMA100, DMA100) -
Supports DMA mode 5. Runs at a maximum of 100MBps.
• ATA-6 (ATA133, Ultra DMA133, DMA133) -
Supports DMA mode 6. Runs at a maximum of 133MBps.
Adds support for drives larger then 137GB.

The current (Spring 2001) best/fastest drive on the market is the IBM Deskstar series
(according to popular opinion and StorageReview.com). It only pushes 37.5MBps sustained,
this is barely enough to justify the upgrade to ATA66 (for the 4.5MBps gain over ATA33).

SCSI Drive Standards:
• SCSI1 - An 8-bit bus, and supports data rates of 4 MBps
• SCSI2 (SCSI) - Same as SCSI1, but uses a 50-pin connector instead of a 25-pin connector, and supports multiple devices. This is what most people mean when they refer to plain SCSI.
• Wide SCSI - Uses a wider cable (168 cable lines to 68 pins) to support 16-bit transfers.
• Fast SCSI - Uses an 8-bit bus, with double the clock rate to support data rates of 10 MBps.
• Fast Wide SCSI - Uses a 16-bit bus, and supports data rates of 20 MBps.
• Ultra SCSI - Uses an 8-bit bus, and supports data rates of 20 MBps.
• SCSI3 - Uses a 16-bit bus and supports data rates of 40 MBps. Also called Ultra Wide SCSI.
• Ultra2 SCSI - Uses an 8-bit bus and supports data rates of 40 MBps.
• Wide Ultra2 SCSI - Uses a 16-bit bus and supports data rates of 80MBps.

USB 1.1 = 12Mb/s= 1.5MB/s
USB 2 =480Mb/s=60.0MB/s

<A HREF="http://graphics.adaptec.com/pdfs/lta_sata.pdf" target="_new">http://graphics.adaptec.com/pdfs/lta_sata.pdf</A>

DISK PERF TOOLS
<A HREF="http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html" target="_new">http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html</A>
<A HREF="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/01/18/diskperf.html?page=2" target="_new">http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/01/18/diskperf.html?page=2</A>
diskperf -ye
diskperf -yf
<A HREF="http://www.nrgglobal.com/support/sysload_faq_item.php?IID=58" target="_new">http://www.nrgglobal.com/support/sysload_faq_item.php?IID=58</A>
// There is built in on Windows 2k and later
<A HREF="http://computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/Server_Health_Check.htm" target="_new">http://computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/Server_Health_Check.htm</A>

The loving are the daring!

Reply to Flinx

Hey man, thanks for the links. Some of them were really usefull. I still plan on making my remote RAM drive just as soon as my new gigabit network cards arrive.

Reply to jammydodger

In the next 13yrs? Sounds a little optimistic to me. I heard that experiements have been done on brain cells that allow them to be used as transistors, but that is a long way off from a full blown computer.

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Ne probably missed the '0' off the end! :lol:

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Ok just got my newe 3com gigabit network cards and they are working fine woo! I tried to set up a RAM drive using the windows experimental RAM drive utility that Flinx kindly linked me to.
However when I tried to make the drive bigger than 1mb it screwed up (it does say somthing about possible problems with computers that use NTFS). So im gonna try and find myself a free utility.
Can anyone suggest some good hard drive benchmarks?

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I reinstalled the windows experimental RAM drive utility and it seems to work fine this time (odd). So I would just like to thank Flinx.
Lets see what this remote RAM drive can do...

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Have you made it bootable yet, and wacked Windows on?

I wanna see load times!!!

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Would do, but im skint so only have 640Meg my third computer atm + it will only support 1.5Gig which is a slag. I was thinking of installing firefox on it and putting the internet cache on there aswell. Bet surfing the net would be damn quick then + if i need to get rid of my porn history quickly I just restart the third computer :wink: .

How much could I get a cheap socket A (has to support T'bird) motherboard and 2Gigs of PC2100 for?

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I'd say, if you get lucky on Ebay £150

You got any benchies yet?

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Did sandra benchies, but I only got 35MB/s for some reason the is the maxium the gigabit network can provide(should be 133MS/s). Which is odd. Wanna do a benchie of the seek time and find out why my network is so slow...perhaps its the cable.

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:frown:

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