Hello Folks , How many read /writes does a typical hard disk (SATA or IDE) would endure . This is not mentioned in any spec from the manufacturers . Thanks Subra

I want to upgrade to a new PC and put my old XP in the new machine. (Later I'll install Win 7.) This is what I have now: XP Pro Volume Licence, AMD Duron processor and VIA SV266A chipset. The hard drive is IDE. First I'll copy the XP partition to a new SATA drive but what do I do after that?

Outlook Express and Internet Explorer take more than a minute to load. Rebooting will cure the condition for a limited time only. Any help or informed suggestions will be most welcome & thanks.

I don't use Micro$loth win, but when I last bought a 80 GB IDE, I asked the vendor to put W98 on the first 1 GB partition. And later I was able use it to connect via my friends Fixed-Wireless-Terminal. But when I bought my own FWT, it had the new usb "Zero-CD" system, which needs XP or later. I...

I finally settled on: Board: ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $63 (w/ shipping) Item=N82E16813131615 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131615&Tpk=N82E16813131615 Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W...

HP Pavilion a6200n won't boot up. By process of elimination I discovered that if I removed one of the two 1Gb DDR2-5300 memory sticks it would boot. There are 4 slots, 2 blue ones next to each other and 2 black ones next to the blue ones. Both chips were in the blue slots, none in the black...

Pentium IV running XP home. Is there any way to add an external drive for DVD capability, etc.? (Microsoft Flight Simulator needs a DVD drive.)

Here is an idea for the future which could buy some time with increasing computer performance: Start designing entire computers which are very heat tolerent. So illiminate all components which are low heat tolerent like plastics/pcb's and such. Replace everything with maybe metals or so which...

I am trying to get a Toshiba Satellite Laptop going. I think the model is either L505D-S5965 or PSLM0U-00F002 or PA3726U-1MPC. It came to me without a hard drive, so I tried two Hitachi HTS541680J9SA00 's that I have - 80GB SATA - and tried to install XP SP3 from a working install CD. Both...

The HP Pavilion ZE4208s is dawn slow. I re installed the whole system starting after erasing everything and reformating. System seemed OK, but after all the Microsoft software updates slow again. Memtest showed no errors. I am out of ideas !

Hi, I want to add an external drive to my PC for mostly archiving purposes (and to transfer files between computers). The 2 choices are - a 320GB external portable hard drive - a 500 GB IDE hard drive to put into my external hard disk enclosure which is several years old (connects by USB 2.0). Is...

This is a bit of a longshot for both newsgroups but maybe one of the experts here has at some time used the INTEL Digital Blue QX3 Microscope and can offer some advice please? Years ago I used this successfully on an old W98 PC. With that machine recently consigned to the local tip, today I dusted...

Hello, I have a MSI K8N NEO4 platinum motherboard. The northbridge fan needs a push start and is bearly holding 1000rpm. I'm afraid to leave the PC if it's left on in case the fan stops and it fries. I've love to be able to get a new mobo/cpu/memory but i can't afford it and need to make this one...

Since I copied my XP Pro system from a southbound hard drive to a new, larger drive I've had new icons appear in "Mycomputer." I'd lke to know if there is any significance to the change. BTW, this is no joke. Some of the hard drive and/or partition icons appear with a hand holding up the...

I'm wanting to set up a USB external 2.5 inch enclosure that draws power from its own ac adapter. I have a NexStar SX that has a 5v DC input, but it didn't come with an adapter. And it seems there are plenty of output connectors available in 5v adapters, including mini-USB and various...

Yes DOS! Can anyone point me to instructions or preferebly an ISO image for creating a DOS bootable CD. Mine has finally failed. I need to update my BIOS and only have a dos option. I have a blank CDr + Nero standing by! Google just turns up invalid urls or advice that I should not need a DOS...

I have a CPU fan that runs all the time at around 4,100 rpm. This is completely unnecessary when the weather is cool. I believe a speed of about 3,000 should be ok at present. Is there any such program around? I know about SpeedFan but I think it's a primitive piece of work. The CPU needs a...

Dear all, I've the following problem but I'm not shure whether this is the correct group or not: I had a problem with my hard disk recorder from Pioneer. I found a method in the internet how to recover the data from the disk. I installed the demo of the needed software (UFS explorer) and tried...

The last machine I put together was built around an Asus P5AD2E board, so It's been a while. I'd like to build a fairly basic, durable machine, that will play recent games decently, and frankly, at this point I'm clueless. It would be much appreciated if someone can point me to a decent quality...

A friend gave me a FusionHDTV 7 RT Gold PCI card, and I placed it in a PCI slot in my AMD MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 mobo W7 Ultimate system. Device Manager shows: Other Devices Multimedia Controller Multimedia Controller All flagged yellow, with code 28 error.