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Re: RAID setup
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Rohit Wrote: Well if you're doing video work you'd benefit most by a major upgrade, especially processor and RAM. A decent video card wouldn't hurt either (though for video editing you don't need a...

Re: What is Raid?
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 0 Comments

LargeNostril Wrote: Sorry, had to jump in here and clarify this. JBOD is not a form of RAID in any way, and therefore it can not add drive spaces together. One common meaning for this acronym is...

My drive won't show up
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I've got an XP Pro box here. It's got a pile of external drives danging from it and it's seen a fair number of other drives (flash drives, etc) since XP was installed. I tried to install another...

USB Agravation
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I just finished a new build and have, I hope, just one remaining issue. I get the new hardware wizard for USB but it refuses to acknowlege the drivers from SP1, the net, a Belkin disk I have which...

USB 2.0 over 1.0
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 1 Comments

This really has no place in a windows forum but here I go anyway... I have an older motherboard with USB 1.0 pins and uh..*ahem, can I attach a 2.0 PC mount cable to it? Itll fry my box right? Ive...

Firewire and ACPI
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Trying this question again. I've 2 laptops, an IBM and an Acer, both Centrino. Trying to do audio over firewire with a Tascam device that I believe uses both isochronous (for audio) and asynchronous...

PS2 Mouse Problems
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I suspect that the PS2 port for the mouse is bad. I have an optical USB mouse, if I connect it to a USB port will it work? Jim

Slow graphics processing?
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 12 Comments

So anyway, after a very long wait, I finally went out and bought my 'new' (128mb AGP 8X GeForce 6600GT - running in a 4X AGP slot) graphics card, and a new 450W Antec power supply that'd be able to...

What's a safe temperature to run the CPU?
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Hi, My alarm sounds every now and then when things get real busy, like rendering 3D models, but I may have my temp limits set wrong. What upper limit would be considered within normal opperating...

NTFS back to Fat32
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hi Is is easy to reformate a partition back to Fat32.. thx

Add/Remove Programs
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I have a couple of programs that show up in my Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs list that I deleted the file folders for and the "Remove" button can't access or find the 'uninstall.exe' file needed...

Re: upgrading from USB 1.0 to 2.0
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

this message box is a mess - Im NOT memaw2angela!! anywaythanks for your reply...I am aware of the PCI upgrade but I have the cable mount already so I was wontering if I could use it... Guess not....

Floppy seek when click on My Computer in Explorer
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 10 Comments

Hi, all On one of my PCs (Windows XP Pro SP2) whenever I click on My Computer in Windows Explorer, the floppy drive seeks. I've seen various postings on this. The most common solution seems to be...

Emprex 1008im Not recognised
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hi I have a Emprex 1008im IDE DVDRW. Strange thing is I bought XP home edition with service pack 2 on it. On the net I have seen many issues with this but no solution. When the machine was set up the...

HP hard drive not seen
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 4 Comments

My XP system doesn't see past the "recovery disc" section of an older HP slave hard drive. Only 5 GB of an 80m GB disc is seen. How can I see and use the entire hard drive space? Thanks for any...

dvd burner
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 1 Comments

We have 2 pc's with a 12x DVD writer & a 16x DVD writer. The problem is the 12x runs so much faster & the reason is the 16x uses ~100% of the cpu while the 12x uses ~5%. Here is the info on the 16x:...

Not a Gamer, but..
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi; can someone explain to me why two video adaptors in a SLI configuration is better than one. I can understand the need for it among gamers, but what about desktop publishers and photographers like...

flash drive
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 3 Comments

my flah drive has set itself to ROM how do i fix it Plz hlp -- thnx

hdd problem
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hello, My ex HDD crashed, I mean in the computer's setup it recognize the HDD Seagate (20 GB), but in Windows when i click on it, the windows explorer shows me an alert message kind of: the HDD isn't...

"Ejecting" SATA drive (mass storage device, NOT USB) using script
Posted on March 23rd, 2006 | 11 Comments

I have used many tools: deveject devcon removedrive sync all seem to work with USB drives but will not work properly with Mass storage devices of the hard drive kind (SATA) that isn't USB.