Am I limited to 4 drives if I only have 2 IDE channels? I want to add an additional drive and want to know if I must buy an external enclosure or not. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP with 2 DVD burners and 2 hard drives. Can I add another drive?

Hello again.... I was given a 40g Maxtor HD that is still in warranty, but it doesn't seem to "power up" So, Powermax doesn't find it. Maybe there is no solution to this, Maxtor may RMA it without Powermax being run on it.....if you have an idea or two, let me know. TIA

Hi, I know this stuff is basic, but please appreciate I'm a novice (as well as a perfectionist *g*). I'm planning to add a second hard disk as slave on the same IDE channel my current HDD is attached to. Now I've heard stories about compatibility issues when mixing manufacturers - so my question...

I'm trying to edit my boot.ini file so I can choose which O/S to start when I boot my computer. I have 2 Windows XP installations (one for back up) installed on two seperate drives. The main O/S is on a 250GB HDD connected to a Promise Ultra 133 card in PCI slot 1 on my MB, and the other is on a...

Just removed a blown psu from a machine i'm fixing up. Its PSU has wierd dimensions, like a normal atx psu, but not as deep. Anyone any ideas what form factor this is? and where i can get a replacement? a standard atx psu actually fits, but not with the cdrom drive in at the same...

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friend of mine just got a liteon dvd-rw, he stuck it in and when he attempts to open the drive to see the contents he gets the message "please insert disk into drive F:\" there is no disk in the drive but shouldn't he still be able to access it? also in nero he told me when he tries to change...

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When running a game (FAR CRY) a short while ago the game crashed and rebooted the computer. When it restarted the screen was corrupted and unusable. It had the appearance of short horizontal lines one pixel high all over the screen; you could make out what was on the screen, but not read any text....

Patience! Here is a first-time visitor to a.c.hdwe I owned an iRiver product that burned up long after warranty, but the internal 1.8 inch Toshiba MK2004GAL HD is working fine. Am looking for a USB cable to fit the 50-pin female socket on this HD in order to use it as a normal external USB HD. ...

OK, sounds like it is not a problem. But I have my BIOS set for the power button to be "on/off". When I leave this particular computer it is not usually used again for one to several days so I shut it down with in windows XP and then I turn off the wall switch in the room which shuts off the...

Would it be possible to use a laptop PC as a hard disk recorder for the TV? If so, what would I need to set it up and could I watch the recordings back on the TV a bit like a TV DVD recorder? Cheers. Si --

Printer cuts off right edge when printing internet pages...how can that be fixed?

on my old motherboard i have 768MBytes of RAM which is of the pc2100 type, i am looking at a motherboard which says DDR400 DDR400 (PC3200), the latest and fastest DDR memory standard, supports bandwidth up to 3.2GB/s to provide enhanced system performance. but on the other part it says this: 3 x...

I have an Asus aq7v8x motherboard (FSB 2x133)with a 2.0 Ghz AMD Athlon XP processor. It's a bit slow for some of the vfideo tasks I set it, so I'm thinking of upgrading with a Novatech bundle. They're offering a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz processor with an unnamed motherboard running on the Intel 865PE...

I'm a little confused. I built my system nine months ago with an FX-53 (since upgraded to an FX-55) on an ASUS SK8V board. I wish to purchase the following card, but I don't know if it's compatible with my board (OK, it will work, but will I achieve 800Mbps speeds?) I may not have anything...

I put together an external case and a maxtor had. XP found it, but it does not appear in my computer as a device. what am I doing wrong? TIA

Intel Pro 1000MT Gigabit Network Adapter. One of the cards we have is giving me strange indications. It will not install on W2K Pro or Linux but another card installed at the same time is reading fine. The diagnostic software that comes with it is telling me it's bad also. I have also moved the...

I have a Dell D800 laptop running XP SP1. I use the USB ports quite often with memory sticks and drives without a problem. I just bought a HAMA 16:1 USB memory card reader and XP will not recognize the device. HAMA stated that the device does not need a driver, but I heard somewhere that XP is the...

I recently put together my first computer, and I've been having problems that I've never encountered before. Everytime I run a program of a decent size, say, World of Warcraft, I get a Machine_Check_Exception and my computer freezes. Everything seems to work fine upon reboot, but if I attempt to...