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It's done. Let me know what you think. I have the main part done. There still might be a few pages that I missed so let me know if you find any. That style is temporary. Sometime in the future I will be holding a competition with first prize being a full license to vBulletin to the person that creates a style for the site.

I'm Bob Schwarz, Sr. I was the founder and owner of http://visualbasicforum.com and http://dotnetforums.net up until I sold them both in November 2003. Running the backend for 2 large programming forums was getting to be too big of a job for one person. After the transfer of ownership I found I had a lot of free time on my hands so I started an off topic forum, http://whatpissesyouoff.com, to have something to do. A couple weeks later I got the idea to start a technical news site and forum. I bought http://extremetechsupport.com, http://extremetechsupport.net and http://extremetechsupport.org. My son Brandon, who is a member here used to tell me that I should start a tech site. I took him up on it and created Free PC Help Forum. With this site I am more in my element, troubleshooting, building and maintaining systems. I live in Western Illinois. I'm married and have 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Ages from 19 to 24. The youngest daughter, she is 22, is married and hopefully in the near future will make a young grandfather. My 2 oldest sons and oldest daughter live with their mother, my first wife. My youngest son lives with my wife and I. I started out with computer when I was 17. My school had an IBM mainframe and on that I learned to program in Fortran. I picked up a Commodore 64 in early 1980 and while I was working to get my Amatuer Radio license I programmed a morse code generator in Basic to help me learn the code. After I passed the license tests I coded a few other Ham related programs. Right around 1985 I got my first taste of Unix. Had a Sun box running AIX. I ported my previous programs to run on it in C. I also ran a bbs off it. In the old days there was no such thing as an ISP. You connected to other peoples computers that ran a bbs service. I also had an IBM 3086 with Dos 6 installed and later that year I upgraded it to Windows 3.1 so my family could use it. They didn't like the command line as much as I did. A couple years after that I discovered a service called Q-Link, later to become AOL. This was much better than the old bbs that were popular ways to get and exchange info. All the premium service were pay by the minute, still it was much better than bbs. My family got a lot of enjoyment out of it and it was a way to exchange software with other Ham Radio nuts. It was much easier trading a program I made to get another program that I needed. Saved a lot of coding. I was away from computers for a few years and din't get back into it until I got married a second time. I had let my kids keep my computers after I was divorced. My wife, Pat, had a HP 4086 with Windows 3.1. We upgraded it to Windows 95 as soon as it was released. By this time the net was in full swing and I was like a kid in a candy store. So much knowledge and information and I couldn't get enough of it. I set up a website on my ISP server. A ham radio site off course. It was a good learning experience. We gave the old HP to Brandon and bought a new Packard Bell Pentium 233. After a few months we realized we needed another computer. My wife and I were both active online and we just couldn't find an easy way to split the time on the computer. We bought here a Celeron 500 box. It was about this time that we realized we could build a box for half the price. This realization came after we upgraded the processor on my wifes box to a 1Gig P3. I had an AMD T-Bird 700 with a bad motherboard. We went to a computer show and bought a new board and I rebuilt it. Soon after we were hooked. We build a number of computers for relatives and friends and all the servers that run this site and used to run ExVBF and EDN. My wife does most of the building now. She is a hands on person and the arguments we used to get in when building just wasn't worth it so I let her build and then I install all the software. In my garage we have 20 or so computers. Someday we'll get them all repaired and put them for sale. Right now we have 7 or so computers hooked up in the house. 3 servers, my workstation, my wifes box and Brandons workstation and game server. My wife also has 2 laptops. He builds his own now and if it comes to overclocking and modding he is the man to talk to. Maybe I'll ask him to post up a few tutorials and a few pics of some of the mods he did. That's enough for now. Later on I'll post an article detailing the server specs complete with pics.

I'm starting work on the news pages. If the colors or table alignment doesn't look right it's because I am making a style that is the same as what is used for the forum. Some things might look strange and change real fast. I have to test as I go.

Raid 0 = striping = one drive goes bad all data lost. Raid 1 = mirroring = one drive goes bad no data lost.

You must be getting a cached page. There are there.

I use them both. AMD as desktop and Intel as servers.

Suse and Mandrake have a x86/64 port.

Got them up. Chat is up also.

Excelent. I'll add them while I'm setting up the chat page.

Great. I have PS CS, but, I'm still learning it. Maybe add a red x on the screen for the new gif.

I'm looking for new gifs to use on the forum main page to replace the V images next to each folder. I found one and need the 2 more. Take a look at the attachment. That would be the gif to replace the one for new posts in forum. I need one that would have the screen unlit for no new posts and one with a lock on it for locked forums. I've been searching for these for a week now and can't find them.

This sounds more like a monitor problem. Try it with a different monitor.

Once the 64bit OS is gold eveything will work. When MS went from 16bit to 32 bit everything was in place. It took software developers a couple years to upgrade their software, but, you could still run 16 bit apps on the new OS.

If you have access to another computer hook it up and try it. It could be something wrong with your OS. If you can access all sites with another box then you will probably have to wipe your OS. Only thing I can think of is to check your network connections properties and if you run a firewall turn it off an try to connect.

The server is up and services now work.

Yes it's up. No services as of yet. Still woking on getting them up.

IRC server will be up sometime later this evening of tommorrow morning. I have to reconfigure the router and DNS to point to the new box.

Could be just a problem with the software the keyboard uses or it could be you inadvertently changed the config to show the volume meter. I have at times right clicked o bring up a config menu and unchecked an option by mistake. Check the config settings of the software.

The best gooing now is Epox. Check out http://epox.com

More than likely a hardware or driver problem. Did you install any new hardware or update any drivers?

I'll have it running by this weekend. I have the OS loaded just have to install Unreal and Epona. If the ExVBF people want a place to hang out they can create the room after it's up and use it until they get their own server. Simon shoot me off an email with your hostmask and a password so I can make you an admin on the server.

I should have read the first post better. With Win2k Pro you can only run one site and that site is limited to 10 connections at one time. All you can do is modify the default site to add host headers for domains you want to use and add content by editing the files in the default root.

In the tree under you computer name you should have something like this depending on what you have installed. Internet Information Services [-]Computer Name [+]FTP Sites [+]Applications Pool [+]Web Sites [+]Web Service Extensions Right click Web Sites. Select New Then select site. If you don't have the above listed then right click Internet Information Services and select connect. Your snapin might not ne connected to the server.

Tracing route to pcp05837078pcs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.***.***.***.Ip_removed] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 18 ms 17 ms 25 ms 209.212.174.237 3 18 ms 21 ms 17 ms 207.251.180.230 4 19 ms 18 ms 27 ms 0.so-0-0-1.hr1.chi2.alter.net [152.63.64.181] 5 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms 0.so-6-3-0.xl1.chi2.alter.net [152.63.73.34] 6 18 ms 17 ms 18 ms 0.so-7-0-0.br6.chi2.alter.net [152.63.71.94] 7 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms 204.255.168.58 8 20 ms 21 ms 21 ms tbr1-p013902.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.11.205] 9 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms tbr1-cl1.n54ny.ip.att.net [12.122.10.1] 10 40 ms 40 ms 46 ms gar1-p310.nw2nj.ip.att.net [12.123.219.130] 11 42 ms 41 ms 42 ms 12.119.12.18 12 42 ms 43 ms 46 ms ar01-pos-9-1.dover.nj.nj03.comcast.net [68.87.19 .246] 13 43 ms 45 ms 42 ms fe-0-0-ubr02.dover.nj.nj03.comcast.net [68.87.52 .38] 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. Pinging 68.87.0.52.38 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 68.87.0.52.38: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss) Tell them you are getting 100% loss on the router after your gateway. I am amazed that you can even get here.

Tell them you get ping timeouts on your gateway. Have them do a traceroute back to you and they should see where the problem is. You'll need to get to a second level tech. Have them connect you with a manager right away.