visualspy

Digimerge is ok, some cards still has RCA type inputs instead of BNC, ADI and Tri-Edge here in NOrthern California carries it, I would try using it 1-2 years from now, when they finish prototyping and beta testing in the market. Geo's are better commpared to Digi's

I would never use anything else besides Intel chipset, remember you get what you pay for, spend a little more and you will definitley eliminate unncessary support or returns of your systems. One have to remmeber, these systems of ours runs 24/7, wise to use server grade boards

Search online for PC cases, plenty of them distributors should be in your area, Search for case mods, get some insights, i'm sure your DVRs will look like no other.

cool! you are using the good ones. Those will boot to any size of a drive, the brands you mentioned are higly used for servers and are very stable

Your right! tech support is the most important

All motherboards will boot to any size of a drive its basically Windows is the one with the limitation. just keep in mind, every Hard drive manufacturer has its own program, the one i posted is for Maxtor I've never seen or have it happened to me, but.. Normally i always make 2 partitions, the 1st partition is for my programs and O/S. (which is usually 10gb) the rest will be for data. I guess in my format, i never ran into the problem of not being able to boot with drives larger than 120gb, I always use this format for MY Video servers also. Windows may crash but the vidoe files are never lost. I hope it fixes your problem, btw.. what motherboard are you using?

I'm new also, I've always used www.dyndns.org 5 accounts for free and works with Linksys, SMC, DLink, Netgear hope my 2cents were helpful

1.) Check the Bios, if the bios sees 250gb, then your good to go to step2. if not, do like DVR_Expert_Australia said, upgrade the bios, then proceed to step2. 2.) if your HDD is a Maxtor, you will need to go to Maxtor.com and down load the big drive enabler (Very small file). Assuming your Video server is already up and running and has 2 partitions. run the program, tte program will automatically make the correct registry fixes. 3.) reboot your computer once complete running the program. 4.) After windows finish booting up, go to disk management, you will see your remaining space as unallocated. Delete the partition and recreate it with all the remaining space. this entire process should only take you 5 mins and will solve your problem. below is the direct link to download the big drive enabler and info http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/big_drive_enabler.htm