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Question Best place to get notification of Dell coupons

Anyone got a preferred place to get notification of new Dell coupon codes as they come up?
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- Feb 16, 2019
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- Forum: Laptops
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SSD spare space confusion.

Thanks. This machine will be running linux and I'll need hibernation support. Any thoughts on making that unused area the swap partition, mounted with discard? i
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- Post #4
- Oct 7, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SSD spare space confusion.

Can someone help me understand this? On many, though not all, SSDs, performance and life is said to be increased by not allowing the drive to become more than 70-75% full. It's said that this can be done either by just keeping an eye on the the space, or by doing a secure erase and leaving...
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- Oct 7, 2013
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Haswell C2 stepping pains

Wanting to buy a C2 stepping Server type mobo, Supermicro seemed to have some good ones. So, notes to newegg, amazon, tiger all come back "We have no idea what we have in stock, contact SM". As though SM would know. Notes to SM confirm that both C1 and C2 steppings are in the chain. SM DO...
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- Sep 30, 2013
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
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Identifying C2 stepping mobos

Looking to buy a Supermicro X10SL7 mobo. Anyone know how to tell before purchase (product number maybe?) if the one being offered is the defective C1 stepping or the new C2? i
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- Sep 26, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Motherboards
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What was in bad NTFS sectors?

NFI looks real interesting, I'll check it out! Thanks!
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- Post #7
- Sep 16, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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What was in bad NTFS sectors?

Thanks again.
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- Post #5
- Sep 16, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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What was in bad NTFS sectors?

Thanks mikeymikec. I took a look for winnit (and chkdsk) entries but couldn't find anything. iirc I may have cancelled the winnit run when I saw it start having problems and the manual runs have always ended with a disk disconnect so maybe they don't get logged unless they complete? So I...
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- Post #3
- Sep 15, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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What was in bad NTFS sectors?

Had a 3TB NTFS drive go bad on me a few days ago. I've ddrescued it to an image and determined that a single 4k sector (8x512b ntfs psuedo sectors) is unreadable. I would like to try and determine what is damaged so I know what I need to restore from backup after reimaging it. A CHKDSK on...
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- Sep 15, 2013
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) requirements

AMT supports remote KVM
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- Post #5
- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) requirements

Thanks, but notwithstanding I'd still like a system with AMT.
- IanWorthington
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- Sep 8, 2013
- Forum: Computer Building
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Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) requirements

Looking to build a system I can remotely power cycle. Intel AMT seems to be the thing I need to this, which requires a VPRO-enabled cpu and a Q87 chipset. Does it also require any else on the mobo or is that sufficient? ie are all systems with a vpro cpu and a q87 chipset enabled for AMT? i
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- Sep 7, 2013
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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Remote power on/off/reset

I'm looking for a mobo that I can not only power on remotely, but power off or power cycle as well when the OS locks up. I've read about Intel AMT, Intel Remote View, and some others but am not sure which are current and what I need to look for in a mobo and cpu to get it to work. Any...
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- Sep 4, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Motherboards
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Stop Windows 7 from disconnecting drive on read error?

easeus disk copy doesn't work at the file level. I've got most stuff off already just want to do the best I can with the others. Just had a quick look at ddrescue and not sure that it can work with ntfs files either, looks like it just images the sectors as well.
- IanWorthington
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- Jul 18, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Stop Windows 7 from disconnecting drive on read error?

Trying to copy what I can off a dying drive using Roadkill's Unstoppable Copier. Unfortunately Windows 7 has its own opinions about what to do when there's a read error and disconnects the drive. Anyone know how to stop Windows from doing this? Ian
- IanWorthington
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- Jul 18, 2013
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Operating Systems

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