I'm looking into getting a DVD recorder, but have a few questions I can't find answers to. I've got an Athlon 64 3500+ and I'm using SATA HDs. I'm looking at 2 drives primarily. A $50 IDE 16x drive w/ a 2MB cache and $66 SATA 12x one w/ an 8MB cache. Will using a PATA vs. a SATA recorder...

Hello, Have a abit NF7-S rev 2, sata hdd 250 gig, xfx 6800 gt. When I internet my hdd stops when I scroll through the page. I hear a "klik" and my system freezes for about 2 seconds. Then I can work again. Does anyone know this. I hope so because gaming is out of the question. The more I ask from...

Hello I have a Belkin modem/router and wireless network card, and I want to upgrade from 128bit WEP to WPA-PSK. I set up the router OK. The network card doesn't see the network. It says on the box that the card supports both Win98 and WPA. I contacted Belkin who say WPA only works with Win XP...

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...

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....

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...

I have a new HP Pavilion a1020n computer. Dont like it, but I am stuck with it. No agp slot and no pci express either. Is there a card that will let me use an agp video card in a pci slot? Also is there a card that will let me add an ide hard drive? The HP has ATA drive installed and I want to...

Hello I'm searching for a good PCI Express Low profile graphic card (for gaming) for my Compaq DC7100 Small Form factor PC. I was only able to find the Radeon X300 but this one is not strong enough for modern games.... Perhaps someone knows a good card that will fit in my desktop Thank You for...

I recently changed the Power supply on my mini ATX motherboard. it does not power up. I made sure the new powersupply works fine. when I unplug the CPU pins then, the fans on the powersupply and the heat sink power up. what could be the problem .. the PC is a PCCHIPS. MOBO

I have the Pentium4 3.2 ghz 800mhz FSB processor fitted to my system & the Mainboard is a Gigabyte 8ik1100 which utilizes the full features of this processor. If i go into Nero Info Tool it tells me the bus speed is 200mhz which seems odd. I downloaded the Intel utility for checking this & it...

how powerful does your computer need to be to support a dvd writer? i have a pentium III 450 with 128mb and win98 SE - i have looked at some writers but they seem to require more than this - are there any dvd writers around that i could use successfully - i dont want to buy a writer only to find...

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HI, I have recently converted from the dark side (mac) and need some Windows advice. My hard drive is on the verge of going out and I was wondering what would be the best way to back up drive. I'm not sure if Windows is like Mac OSX where I can transfer the entire drive on to a new disc. Your...

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...

Franklin wrote: If I want to improvise an antistatic strap then could I simple wrap some wire around my wrist (or my ankle) and then attach the other end of the wire to the case of the PC I am working on? Isn't that all an antistatic strap (like this one shown here) really is? ...

Recently I bought a dead Acer 340t Travelmate laptop. Powering it up, I would see hard drive activity for approximately 2-3 seconds, then nothing. I had the BIOS reflashed and I could boot the machine when it was returned to me. But then, gradually, I would get fewer and fewer good boots, and...

Hello! I got here a IBM-DTLA-307030-(30GB)-hard disk. It shows slight cluster damage: LBA 010DCFF3 to LBA 010DD00C (If I wrote down the values properly.) (These values are given by the IBM DFT (Drive Fitness Tool).) The data/files on this disk could be saved, with the loss of only an unimportant...

Hello, Palux! You wrote on Tue, 24 May 2005 20:11:52 +0200: P Hi P What happens to SCSI? P I see less and less SCSI drives in retail shops. P Will it diseappear completely? Don't think so, but it will mainly be used in commercial environments.

I am setting up a computer using IDE Raid 0 Two 80 gig drives. Is it better to put them as master and slave on one IDE chain and Master my IDE DVD on the second chain or Put both of them as Masters on two separate chains and Slave the DVD? Joe

Wat is nu echt een goed schijf (groot ± 250 gig) Moet veel en lang draaien