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Right, so after being annoyed enough that Catherine didn't want to run on my 3.41 PS3 US 60gig (internal), I figured what the hey and let's update to 3.55 CFW Kmeaw. So I did. Sadly however, my uncharted 2 backup (which worked with 3.41 stock, payloaded via the ps3hax 'stealth' manager) now no longer functions properly (produces a red bar with yellow dots where the loading spike used to be and crashes). It does the same behaviour I used to get on the gaiamanager (1.* something) under 3.41.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to fix this? I have:

Kmeaw 3.55 installed
Lv2 patch can be applied
BDEMU v2
Gaiamanager
Multiman

Trying to run everything internal as I have no disk lying around, but if that is the problem I would be more then willing to move my Wii HDD over to the PS3 (though it DID work with ps3-hax's 'stealth' loader, which of course was signed for 3.41).

I was wondering if anyone here has any idea what to do with a Wii without any nand. I have several backups of the Wii's nand, but none of which are any real good (random code jibberish / injects). There is the off chance that one of the backups has a working IOS, but I suppose chances are slim. None of the backups are good enough to give an actual booting Wii AFAIK.

Anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps sneek could do the trick, assuming some of the nand is still flashable with by luck the right IOS for bootmii (the Wii is bootmii compatible, but I would have to inject the bootmii code in one of the nand dumps, the dumps were not made with bootmii (installed)).

One other option could be an algorithm that tries to combine the NAND backups I have here into one with the most prominent data. Problem is (I have ofcourse, no key's of the Wii) that they have been made with a little bit of time inbetween them and one or two boots.

On my raid 5 array I recently experienced a bit of strange behaviour. The array is made up out of 6 disks, of which one is hot-spare. All disks are 1 terabyte of 2 brands (WD and samsung), different types (EADS / EACS / spinpoint F1 and F3) and ages. The disks all report smart OK and I believe it . Anyway, recently I added the hot-spare (spinpoint F1) due to one of the disks periodically reporting smart failure/warning which I have ruled to be a heat issue coming from the silencer it was in + low airflow. To be safe, I added the hotspare. All disks have 0 formatting and are used RAW.

Now however, I moved the array to a new system (the same system, new install on a different disk). Keep in mind the old system still worked flawlessly at this point with the array and perhaps too would the new system if I had moved my mdadm.conf. However the new system reported 1 disk not part of the array (so 5 disk array, including the hot-spare and not containing one of the regular disks) which made me pass an "mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg". After, the array was deemed degraded and started rebuilding.....

It would appear a regular disk (WD EACS), that had previously NOT been giving any problems (not the heat issue or any other) suddenly reports with less sectors and not detected to be part of the array... in the old setup there were absolutely 0 problems with the disk. The disk also reports no reallocated sectors or anything else. No partitioning has been done inbetween.... I am at a loss what could be causing this. A full clean sweep of the disk still yields in lower sectors than all the other disks. Meanwhile the array is back-up now containing the hot spare, running in clean raid 5 mode.

<btw> before rebuilding the system (new install) already reported the disk not part of a raid array, when booting back into the old OS the array (and thus that disk) came up like a charm.. I did not check to see wether the disk also reported a lower size in the old system as I did not expect this problem. I can still boot into the old system and check which I will do possibly </btw>

Anyone have any clue what just happened with the array and perhaps a way to get the drive back in there (as hot-spare)? Easiest way would of course be to backup all data, simply toss the entire array and rebuild it a new while tinkering with partitioning. However as the array is 4 terabytes big I have no where to store the data inbetween and I do want to keep it. Any help appreciated .

<edit>Owyea, I forgot to mention, it';s the only disk fdisk doesn't say has partition table problems (all the other disks report not having one and having invalid flag 0x0000 on partition table 4)

Recently I broke one of my PSU's. After overloading it under way too high temps (ambient / case temp 60 degrees celcius) it obviously decided to quit. I was kind of hoping the thing would automatically understand it was overloaded and overheated and shut down itself, sadly, no dice. Anyway, seeing as white smoke came out of the thing, and it does still run but just not providing any juice of importance, together with the fact that all the capacitors and fets seem fine I feel I can still bring her back.

When I look at it all I really see that could be broken (and would also explain the white smoke and stench) would be 2 transformers (I think they are transformers). However I seem to be unable to find their specifications in order to buy replacements.



Hope the image resizes . Anyway, the bigger one is easily readable and the smaller one sais: AG-159-T3 [return] YC 0907.

Anybody know what these things would be? I obviously meen the 'yellow' (my phone cam + bad lighting I know) things of course .

Well here goes. I have to build a system for my system in law, which has to be able to run random old games and slightly newer ones on not all that high settings (and obviously function as a proper household PC to do your homework on). Software will be provided by moi and can be said to cost 0 euro.

I will personally provide a PSU (400W cooler master, with enough on 12V), a screen (15 inch lcd yeay !) and wireless USB dongle. I can also throw in a DVD reader on IDE I guess, not sure if I have that lying around here. Aside from that I know my way around the PC and I will build the system. Thing is, I have a budget as they have a budget . And it's pretty tight. The total spendings cannot exceed 150 euro's (by much). From this money I have already purchased 4 gigabytes of DDR3 memory for the great sum of 12 euro 70 cents.

With the current hard disk prices, the budget doesn't really stretch.

Personally I was thinking along the lines of a cheap 37 euro Biostar (oh gawd, first time for everything I guess) AM3 board (alternative is a 43 euro gigabyte board)
35 euro's for the Athlon II 250 from a friend of mine

Which would leave 78 euro's to purchase a disk (possibly second hand) and grafics card. Again that quickly leads to not all that great a prospects. The disk is easily 25 euro's thus 50 euro's for the card. The case will have to be scavenged from somewhere as do the keyboard and mouse...... From what I gather a 5770 can be bought for roughly 50 euro's (nearly new and slightly lower secondhand). I currently game on that, so that works .

Alternatively, I could go for an Intel G530 (41 euro's, new) together with a 45-48 (Asrock - Gigabyte) euro motherboard. That would leave 50 euro's, but should be a more powerfull CPU.

As you can see, in order to create a medium range PC, I seem to be short around 30 euro's or so... Any thoughts on what would be the best course of action ? Games wise I suppose I could leave out the grafics card, seeing as the mentioned games pretty much ran on specs from the stone age (Empire Earth). Not sure if the onboard 3450 / 4350 would be powerfull enough to run things reasonably on slightly more expensive AMD boards... However I seem to be able to get a 4850 for 35 euro's 2nd hand in the neighbourhood.

Ah yes, and as for keyboard and mouse, a simple 20 euro logitech set will suffice. That can be added to the budget (making it 170) or if at all possible could be payed from the 150.