Month: June 2012
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Asus 7850 Direct CU II 2GB review
This graphics card has grown to be a staple in our workstation and gaming builds; today we have a mini-review of why you might want to consider including on in your own build.
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How to update/upgrade OpenIndiana
Unlike Ubuntu Server, the text-only version of OpenIndiana doesn’t prompt you on login to update its packages when new ones become available. To do a dry run upgrade use the command: pfexec pkg image-update -nv The -n flag specifies a dry run (no system changes) and the -v flag produces a verbose output.…
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How to reset a ProCurve 2510-24g to default settings
Here’s one someone asked me today – it’s reasonably straight-forward, though not necessarily obvious: Press in both the Clear and Reset buttons (tiny buttons on the left edge) Release the Reset button after the port lights come on (~2 seconds) When the Self-Test LED starts flashing (to the left of the Clear and Reset…
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BIOS update: Asus P8Z77-V
For those customers (well, for you single customer at this stage…!) who have this board there’s a new BIOS out, #1015; it’s worth updating to this one as Asus claims it improves system stability, memory compatibility and USB compatibility, along with supporting some new CPUs. You can download it here.
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BIOS update: Asus P9X79 WS
Asus have released BIOS 1104 for this workstation board; if anyone is using a HighPoint RocketRAID card with this motherboard it’s worth updating as it fixes a problem where the RAID partition(s) disappear after S3 sleep. You can find it here.