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Thunked about it. New kit. And a big bloody sledge hammer to the ex495 for being such a pita over the years. So back to the OP! Should I bother with an ssd as the OS drive? Using WHS2011. If so - how big should I go (as the actress said to the bishop).

Cheers god. Either that or McDonalds.

It's the PSU. Worse, I think it was my fault - I misconnected a fan plug (pins wrong) whilst it was up and running and the unit shut down. Never powered up again. Amazing that something like a fan header can fry a psu! so choice being £60 for a new psu + £90 (£150) for the RAM upgrade vs £210 for a Dell PowerEdge T20 Intel Xeon. Suppose I could rip the ex495 apart and sell the parts too. What a bloody faff.

Nightmare (again - this server is the bane of my bloody life) Fitted the Kingston KVR800D2N6/4G purchased from the above link and now my server's bricked Some fella posted recently that the 16 unit ones are somehow incompatible. However, I didn't predict it killing my machine. Put the original working 2G back in. Wouldn't start up. The PSU doesn't even fire. Re-seated the CPU. Removed cmos battery and replaced after 2 mins. Still PSU doesn't spark up. Just one tiny stick of ram has f*****d my whole system. I need to give up on computers full stop. They're evil and awful.

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Some people have the same interest all their life; others switch regularly to different things. The world and history is full of lifelong-obsessives (Einstein) and wonderful factotums (De Vinci for e.g.). Your depression could partly be your 'chi' telling you it's time for something different. If you don't want to stray too far from home - get yourself a new scene related project. Collecting's all well and good, but creating rocks Maybe merge the two. Manuals collections. Game music collections. Game adverts (maybe buying up old mags off ebay + scanning them in yourself). etc etc etc - just some ideas. "Han's xxxxx Collection" could one day be as famous as circo's game video collection or the GameEx database. How about updating the mame 3D model collection?

Ignore these clowns. DO NOT build a cab. It will suck out your eyes and devastate your soul. I always thought one of Adultery's lesser known plugins was a fantastic idea: I'm not big on all the achievements business. My completer/finisher gaming habits finished with FFVII when I'd maxed out the game play time (1000 hours?) and done all that bloody chocobo digging thingy.... However - loved the idea of the above - introducing another 'new' concept to old games. That's my fave bit about all this - rejuvenating old genius. Wipeout 3 in HD - now that's what I'm talking about I also reacon twitch style online play of old games could be good too. Love the idea of online collaborative/vs play on old systems - never really looked into it - but know it's been implemented in various emulators. Game of Spy Vs Spy on the C64 anyone? How about Head Over Heels?

Found first cave. Got a sword. NO idea what to do next. It doesn't give you many clues does it? Oh dear, Null - also found this:

Naw. I skipped gaming between C64 + playstation - aside form endless bouts of SNES mariokart @ Uni. My first zelda was ocarina of time + that was just perfect. I'll look again for a cave!

Love Zelda. Absolutely no idea what you're menna do in this one, though. Just run around?

I am middle aged with a beard. I do not upgrade, I squeeze every bit of life out of things. My Ipod is a Ipod video bought 10 years ago. My server was released in 2009. I am scouring the planet to get parts to make/keep it working. My phone and tablet are legacy, but the first ones to have 4G/nfc etc... I like to skate that grifting/skin flint line. Unless I'm buying an esoteric custom marquee sized display from china and then i just go mental. Thanks for shopping with Victor Meldrew and have a nice day.

Assume I know nothing when it comes to the details of mobo, mem, cpu interactions. The mushkin deal also stipulated didn't ship to UK, so the stars are aligning I think towards trying the Kingston CL6. The true issue is stability + capacity over a 5% ram speed increase. The problem comes when the RAM is maxing out (which it is now on 2GB - making it very sticky to use + updates etc seem to be taking longer). When the 4G was installed, despite being defective, windows ran zippy. Thus, I think the aim is to have 4G over 2G, not so much CL5 vs 6 I've also discovered you can manually set the timings in the bios, but no idea whether I should! All the cpu bus speed stuff is a bit beyond my head atm (think mine is 1333MHz? - have no idea how this related to the ram) So yeah - gonna wait one more day to see if ever get a reply on the mediasmart fanboy site (not holding my breath) + then plump for the Kingston. which was, btw, another great find - all rams were looking around £90. This is coming in at £25! Might grab a couple if one works cheers again, t.

You found some of the Kingston! I couldn't find that for love nor money. Yeah - I've been all over that thread like a cheap suit. As with anything internet, I've also read somewhere that it should be CL5 - so I'm not sure about CL6. Yeah - the Mushkin 991762 is the holy grail. However, it is also obsolete. Amazing you found a strip - however - also see this is used. I'm thinking after the royal PITA all this has caused I need to get new. The Kingston might be a right find though, thanks. I've posted on an ex495 site - hoping someone comes back with a definitive on whether CL6 is OK. Nice price to compared to £90 that I've seen for equivalent! Hans - yu the daddy when it comes to servers - I kneel before the mighty Norco! (You did name it, right??). It was the fact that all the hassle seemed to be random and intermittent that made me check the memory.

I owe you another pint, tthurman! I fitted a 4G module into my HP ex495 a few years ago. Replaced this with the stock 2G module - no memtest errors + WHS2011 installed first time! Dammit - what a frustrating week! Dunno how you guys stay sane in IT. Now I've just got to source some very specific and likely obsolete obscure 4G memory!

So - it's dead? It's quite a hard bit of memory to find. Single slot 4G DDR2 DIMM (240 PIN) 800Mhz PC2 6400 CL5. Already re-seated it prior to this. Only other thing I'm wondering is whether it's the motherboard - if that was dicky that'd throw memory errors potentially?

Whoa - well that just expanded the task! I did a last ditch diagnostic and found this out about my system: That kinda means my memory's buggered, right? I have no idea how to interpret memtest! If it is, I might just try replacing the memory before splashing out on another setup.

Thought I'd come to my home team for this one. Posted across 3 different Home Server forums. It's like a ghost-town - they're a funny bunch... My EX495 is dead. New server needed. What a PITA. Trying to recycle as much as I can and seeking to reuse: WHS2011; 3x2TB WD Greens (still with my data on!); SatableBit Drivepool and ESET license. So I'm looking at this: http://www.dabs.com/products/dell-poweredge-t20-intel-xeon-e3-1225v3-3-2-ghz-4gb-1tb-no-os-t20-3708-BYXG.html?refs=4294943184&src=3 You get a £110 cash back on it once bought. How does this look? Anyone know if it'll run WHS 2011 - seen a few incidental posts saying they're running WHS2011, but no specific discussion. I'm also thinking about having an SSD as the system/apps drive, but lots of uncertainty about this: a) what size should I get? I'll also be running Filezilla and BitTorrent Sync b ) Are there any different setup considerations with SSDs or do you just plug and go like you do normal sata? Know a few of you guys are hardware men - any advice?

True. It's getting progressively hard to get sick of the sight of each other when you never look at each other. Oh wait, you could meet up in your VR bubble-zone and get sick of the sight of each other there. Scary times. It'll all be OK again when the electricity runs out. Mind you, wtf will I do then?

Ok, so a game called "technolust" on a virtual reality headset - they did know how that sounded, right!? In all seriousness, I'm not sure how I feel about occulus et al... I see how facebook, smartphones and tablets have broken down human contact progressively. The thought of families sat in a living room after tea, all with their own headsets on fills me with dread. It just feels a step too far. Still - I guess you could throw things at people with them on without their knowing it was you..

I can verify that tthurman's Americench is terrible. Also, I do love the new word "unhidabled" - ties the reader into a logical conundrum. Is this unhidabled: Or is this: <null> I am working really hard on getting out more, I promise.

Still waiting to see Ikaruga played on that bad boy...

DriveMappy (https://sites.google.com/view/magoarcade/software/drivemappy) A small app that can help any of you running GameEx off Network storage setups. I found Windows Drive Mapping via Explorer to be a bit of a faff (having idiosyncrasies around user + admin accounts etc). Also, wanted something that would enable me to edit assets/setups whilst offline/away from my LAN. So made this. I have any apps (GameEx, CPWizBIz, GEmvoy) setup using mapped network drives for gamefiles and assets (e.g. drives Y: and Z:). My setup involves having all my assets on my home server. I have installed BitTorretn Sync (https://www.getsync.com/) on my server which essentially allows me to run it as a cloud service (no more capacity limits through corporate ones). Then I've set up cloud-sync folders on my laptop - nice thing about BTSync is you can select download files on demand, rather than autosync all files (saving disk space). On my laptop, I have it to try mapping the Y + Z drives to my server first. On fail - then maps these to the sync folder (which matches the server folder). Thus, I can essentially access a copy of the server when LAN connected - essentially through the interweb. Secondly, the versatility of BTSync can help with disk-size management. All automagically done on startup. (Caveat: to get full features of BTSync - you need to fork out £30 - but there's a lot of functionality through the free version too).

It's prolly yer first guess (i.e. Bad Luck). Servers are temperamental things... I'm not so sure about seagate either. I've had some go bad in a home server in the past. Moved to WD Greens and been golden for about 3 years now. I'd research it before you settle for replacement over refund.

Welcome emwizard. Just a thought - did you try the things suggested there in that log? I know codecs can be a bit of a not so obvious requirement, so wondering whether you have there installed? Not sure myself which ones you're meant to have - used to be Shark. I've just recently stared a fresh install and used K-Lite, which seem to work OK.