Is there a way to make the cdrom activity light go elsewhere easily?

Hello Group, I've had 2 Adapted 2400 Raid cards operating for over 2 years now and I had problems with the second card. In fact, the computer would NOT start up until I removed the card. I took the card/drives apart & manually looked at the contents.... RAID 1 card was A.O.K. each drive had a...

The PCB has a blown chip, and I need to recover data from the disc. Does anyone have an old one of these discs they don't need anymore? Firmware rev 3.32.

I am looking for a replacement mobo for eMachines T2200. The original one is ECS L7VMM2. It doesn't boot, no any POST beeps. I couldn't find this model, it was discontinued. What could be a good replacement? I want to keep original CPU Athlon XP 2200+, DIMM, hard drive, etc. Thank you in...

hi, i just got a new dell at work and i have a problem. i wear progressive glasses - the correction changes vertically with close in correction at the bottom. the monitor with this system bottom edge is about 4 or 5 inches above the desk. so, to look at the screen i tend to tilt my head back...

Hi. I know the root of this problem isn't actually mup.sys. It's actually the process after it. But, what I'm wanting to know is how to solve my problem. Here is my problem: I recently purchased a Belkin Firewire/USB combo card and put it in my PC. It was working fine until I tried to use it's...

I have W98Se and Partition Magic 6.0. I had created an unused partition on the HDD in order to keep the c: drive unemcumbered by too much free space. I used PM 6.0 to move some of the space to the c: drive and it created, instead, 15Gb of unallocated space. How do I allocate that to the c:...

Hi, I own an Acer Aspire 2010 notebook with a Hitachi 80 GB drive, formatted in NTFS (Running Windows XP). When I attempt to start my notebook while running on batteries, I occasionally (But not always) get the error message "Boot sector invalid". The drive is recognized correctly by the bios,...

I bought, sometime ago, a 36.5 Gig or so HD for an old Apple which is broken. As it is too old, I thought in using the drive for one of my PCs. Now, the device (HD) comes with a converter to plug older machines. And I have an SCSI adaptor (Iomega) in my PC which has a 50 pin connector to plug SCSI...

I have an older PC with a 550MHz Pentium III processor. During the last days, the system became very unresponsive. Booting is very slow and when the system is finally up, the mouse keeps hanging very often. And applications load very slow. There are no crashes or errors. I don't think this is an...

Hi, I bought an intel 810E board from ebay (it is from a Fujistu-Siemens machine) and I cant find any docs on where to connect the front panel connectors eg. power switch, HDD LED, reset etc. Does anyone know either where I could find it or does someone have an i810E who could tell me the...

What do you recommend? I'm currently using Ad-Aware SE Personal and that's it :p...So what do you guys recommend

I have an old hard drive from a windows 98 machine that I would like to install as a slave on my newer xp machine. The xp hard drive has two partitions: partition 1 has the system files and is labeled C with an NTFS file system. Partition 2 has the recovery files and is labeled D with a FAT32 file...

Hi, I removed the case from my PC today to check the make of my sound card. I didn't touch anything inside, although there was a lot of dust and fluff flying around. After replacing the cover, I tried to turn the power back on but nothing happens - no fan, no lit LED, nothing. I know power is...

Trying to help my mom (from AK to FL) fix a problem with her CD/DVD RW. It does not recognize any media she tries to play. Message: Please insert a disk into D drive. Occasionally it will pop up an error message saying This Program Is Not Responding. When it does that, it freezes and after...

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:22:58 -0600, frank wrote: i have an old internal 3,5 disc drive my new computer has no 3.5 drive can i use this old drive somehow as an external 3.5 drive? or what can i use it for besides a paperweight? thanks

I need to install a new Seagate 120 HD and it is not recognised by my Award V4.51 PG BIOS (12/10/1998 - I440BX - DD - 2A69KD42C - 00) on a PII CPU MMX 600 MHZ. Do I need to upgrade my BIOS? How can I do this? Can anyone help? Thank you!

OK, for my new economy desktop PC, I have already purchased a 17" flat monitor and a double layer DVD writer. Tomorrow, I am ordering these items: 1. Intel 3 GHz, 2MB cache, 800 FSB P4 2. Intel D945GNTL Motherboard ("If the cost of a good-quality compatible board from any other company, such as...

Hello, I have an Adaptec 1210SA Serial RAID card with two 169GB hard drives attached. I have it set up to do a mirror. For several months things have been fine. I have lots of data on the disks and I have not had too many problems. Then yesterday after a reboot Windows no longer sees the logical...

My PC gets to the "Verifying DMI Pool data.." message then just hangs there, doing nothing. Any ideas ?