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I agree, we have just removed all our converters and installed the proper modules. File transfer times have more than halved They are expensive compared with the cheap converters you can pick up, but well worth the money.

My money would be on a damaged VGA cable, try replacing it. If not try unplugging the VGA splitter and just run the monitor on it own.

Any device can fail I guess, have you got another set of converters you can try? Have you had any building work done recently near the fibre run, maybe its been damaged.

After a bit of googleing it appears that the WD Velociraptors do have TLER, anti-vibration ect. It's seems the only reason they have changed from Enterprise to Workstation is the inclusion of Advance Format which I believe is only an issue on older server/OSs

Ok so RAID may not be a good idea with SSD's. How about using WD Velociraptor's for everything 2 250GB WD Velociraptors in RAID 1 for OS and 3 1TB WD Velociraptors in RAID 5 for data. This gives us some redundancy, 2tb of storage space, 10k spindle speed and I think I can squeeze it into my budget.

Didn't realise storage was going to give me this many options. I think a 10/15k SAS setup is out of the windows, I just don't have the budget. I also think the E5-2620 is a stretch to far. Maybe I should have stated this at the start but, I have a budget of £1500 for hardware (Server licensing comes from another budget). After taking the advice on here I am now looking at a HP ML350 G8 with E5-2420 and 8GB RAM, RAM can easily be upgrade to 16GB at a later date if required. As for storage I am now considering 2 Samsung 256GB 840 Pro SSD in RAID 1 for OS and either 3 or 4 7.2k 1TB SATA drives in either RAID 5 or 10

Thanks for the input, at least I am on the right track. Expansion scope is important to us and the ML350 G8 can support more RAM than we could ever use and has dual CPU socket. I agree the E5-2420 looks a far superior CPU so it may be a consideration budget allowing. I also like the idea of having the OS on seperate SSD's.

Not sure yet probably just a couple of 7.2k 1TB drives in RAID1, we don't have an awful lot of data to store.

Hi, We a currently updating some of our servers and moving to Server 2012. I am having some trouble deciding on the specifications for our main curriculum server. We are a primary school with 500 pupils and around 200 computers. The curriculum server is used for AD, File Sharing, Print Server, WSUS, DNS and DHCP I am currently looking at the HP ML350 G8 with a Xeon E5-2407 and 8GB RAM, is it going to be suitable for the next 3 years? Thanks Dan

Here is the firmware I used when I had this problem. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61227421/HP%20LaserJet%20P2055%20Firmware%20RevJ.zip

I changed some options in one of our group policies the other day, and ever since out XP workstation have been opening every folder in a new window which is incredibly annoying. I have re-traced my steps however I don't seem to be able to find the option that changes this. Can someone point me in the right direction Daniel

Take and image off one of the the other machines that is working properly and then load it on the broken one.

The main things I use my machine for. Several VMware machines Video editing and encoding Photoshop General office and internet Itunes and remote desktop. Usually all at the same time. Which is why I really need to upgrade to an I7 like everyone else.

At the moment I run: Core I3 530 @ 2.93GHz 3GB DDR3 Ram 500GB Hard Drive And to be honest with you its far too slow for what I use it for. Considering building myself a new Core i5 or 7 machine for work.

Thanks for the links, Now how can I tell which ones I need. Edit: Oh never mind, I found a picture of the ActivPen3, those are the ones I need.