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    is it possible to paint heat pipes

    You could colour anodize it and it won't affect performace at all.
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    HD data destruction

    Even a degausser and re-formatting the hard-drives will leave the data salvageable by a data recovery firm. There are hard drive writing programs that write 1's and 0's to the drives multiple times to overwrite/erase data but it takes a while. Some data recovery firms cans salvage data after 4...
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    Had to get more room!

    2 x P4 2.8c @ 3.4Mghz on P4C800E-D M/bs, One Celeron 1.8 on P4S800 M/B, each M/B has 2 gig ram, 15 hardrives including raptors, IDE's and the SCSI's are in raid 5 arrays.Antec truepower 2.0 P/s 550W, and an Ultra X-connect 500w P/s. The 3 motherboards are networked together with a 4 port...
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    Fan Fluctuations PSU related? help plz

    What is the Cpu temps at idle and doing something significant, playing a game etc? Some things to try, Do you have a multi-meter? Set it to DC volts put the leads into one of the empty molex power connectors (like the power plug similar to your hard drive) Red lead from the multi-meter...
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    Incosisten/Slow Performance on SATA Drive

    do chkdsk c: /r if it is your boot or swap drive it will run during the next reboot, but the same thing happening to all your drives means that either you have a M/b bios / bus problem or you have had some power outages to your system. Anything come up funny on the SMART monitoring info...
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    Setting up my SATA drive...

    Enable it in BIOS then plug it in and see if Windows detects it, if not just go to your MB manufacturer's site.
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    Incosisten/Slow Performance on SATA Drive

    Windows switches into PIO mode when it gets a lot or errors reading or writing. Check that the SATA cable is properly inserted, swap SATA cables.Run the HD diagnostic software available from the Seagate site to double check that it isn't a HD issue. It sounds like your drivers are already...
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    Wow, I really need a digital camera...ANYWHO! Lousy mod pics. -_-

    LOL, But what is it supposed to be? Don't let the ribbing get to you, you modded your case and the pictures don't do it justace. The work is well done but what the hell did you use to take that picture. :)
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    Had to get more room!

    It's actually sturdier than it looks, the bottom two drives are not matched with the top 3 so I'll be using them as spares for that array. Does not really matter as they will be sitting on their side anyways... A look from the rear... You can see another motherboard in a protective...
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    Had to get more room!

    Made a custom HD MTG rack out of some old 2.5 - 3.5" HD mtg brackets.
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    Had to get more room!

    Have to get the bottom section done now...
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    what to do with bawls bottles

    Are you saying you've got "your bawls to the wall"???
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    Project DoubleWide

    One thing you may want to look at if you are filling and area over 1/8" deep, is short strand fibergalss filler. It does not shrink, crack or come off as easily as bondo does. Not too mention it is 100x stronger. I used it over then welds in automotive body panels when I weld them on. Then sand...
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    Had to get more room!

    Thanks for the feedback! Inner panel over the motherboard, like right over or to hide it cards and all? Windows on the left side? I've thought about that in the past, and now that you bring it up it would look pretty good on the front section about the first 5" or so because that is...
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    Had to get more room!

    Trying to get a quick and dirty webpage going... shows some of this stuff... rogers says they don't like the .wmv file but I got it in there. Grin http://ca.geocities.com/dakin@rogers.com/computermods-p2.html http://ca.geocities.com/dakin@rogers.com/computermods.html
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