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With a fresh install of Windows 2003 on the Intel SE7221BA1-E server board, no default graphics driver is loaded. This causes an “out of range” message to appear on most monitors after the LOAD screen finishes, when the logon screen is supposed to appear.

The solution is to press F8 when the server loads up and either enter SAFE MODE or VGA MODE.

Then install the Intel Chipset drivers found here and the Intel Graphics drivers found here.

Posted By Chris in Hardware, Windows
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Ridata announced three new SSDs today (Ultra-S Plus Series) in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models.

The new drives utilize the multi-level cell technology - resulting in lower cost, but also slower speed. The drives will have a nominal read speed of 128MB/s and a write speed of 80MB/s. The drives will retail for $170, $295 and $538 US respectively.

Although choosing these drives for speed is ultimately a poor decision due to the availability of inexpensive SATA/SAS RAID configurations, there is simply no denying the amazing access times - 0! ms. These SSDs are fantastic for IO performance. They are well suited for database servers that are small in size but handle above average volumes of requests.

http://www.ritekusa.com/pressrelease.asp?pressreleases_id=54

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Here are the Dell MD1000 Direct Attached Storage Benchmarks I had promised earlier. The performance is not bad. I’m trying to squeeze some more MB/s out of the read performance. I’ve also included performance / disk. Looks as though 4x and 8x disks in RAID10 have the best performance per disk. All the disks are 73 GB Seagate 15K SAS.

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