<peter.kriek@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1194864304.120556.141940@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... Yes I had a cyyrix MII 300 a few years ago, I think it would play some avi's but .wmp files...

nach wrote: Find out what brand of hard drive it uses then run the appropriate utility from a bootable CD or floppy. The UBCD may contain the correct utility.

Thanks! Job now done. Will monitor the difference it makes. Google Earth certainly seems to load up a lot faster and move around more freely. You should have warned me to use a dust mask!!!! I...

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:40:53 -0600, ron-mcdonald@invalid.com wrote: Also try ESC and the other <F%> keys like F2 and and F10. When you pulled the ram (don't do that anymore) and got to the bios,...

I have four sata ports and understand that I cannot boot from port 2. Is it also correct that a sata cdrom should not be connected to port 2 if a cdrom boot is required? regards, Beemer

"annamalai" <annamalai.gurusami@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1194866608.022451.73490@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com... Get some temperature monitoring software and confirm if heat is your problem....

On Nov 11, 10:24 pm, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote: Hi Kony, thanks. 1. The drive is fine. There are four partitions on the same drive. All but three are mirroring. 2. I havent replaced the drive,...

Paul scriveva il 11/11/2007 : ok thanks Paul

kony wrote: The Promise and HighPoint controllers I've used had unacceptably high CPU utilization, incompatibility issues with Maxtor DM+ 9 hard drives and generally sluggish RAID5 performance....

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:08:05 GMT, "Beemer" <Beemer@nowhere.com> wrote: Don't try to 'repair' if you replaced a motherboard. That's a recipe for disaster. Do a fresh install. Disconnect the...

Motherboard-MSI Model MS-7325 w/onboard audio. I also have a Soundblaster PCI 512 sound card. I normally just use the PCI 512 for my music, video, tv card, etc. But now I also have installed Skype,...

On Nov 12, 12:29 am, kony <s...@spam.com> wrote: I'm asking normal speed, however mine is ATA working at UDMA-5 mode hdtune gave about 35mb/sec average, 40mb/sec as maxiumum seems normal. Thanks.

I have a compaq Evo N410C and I bought a 30gig hard drive which this laptop can't boot from. The BIOS system tests recognize it but when booting a little flashing underscore is all I get. I put the...

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I have kept to a schedule of regular "blow cleanings of openned cases" over the years, about every 6 to 9 months. Duty cycle is probably about 2/3 so those HDs have had about 27,000 hours of spin...

Leicester Square - 9/Feb/1998 In February 1998 I spent some time in Leicester Square, in the West End of London. This is a very busy area of London, and one which can be relied on to produce...

mofliwsb@gmail.com wrote: I don't know the answer to this, but consider the instructions you had to follow, to get CNQ to work in the first place. 1) BIOS - Advanced:CPU Configuration:Cool N Quiet:...

POSK Cafe - 2/Feb/1998 Here are two independent segments, both of which occurred in London on the same day, the first at a Polish cafe, the second on the Tube. Certainty level: 100% POSK is the...

Brighton Day Trip - 24/Sept/1998 Certainty level: 5% On a day trip to Brighton, carrying a minidisc recorder, I managed to collect several indistinct instances of what I think were people...

Virgin Radio-Johnny Boy (19/June/1999) Certainty level: 30% I'm not quite sure about this one, so I've given it a one in three chance of being about me. First the background.... from mid-March 1999...