Sorry, I am a bit long winded! A couple months ago I purchased a USB/Firewire combo card from Newegg.com. As follows: Koutech IO-FUTURE IO-PFU330 FIREWIRE/1394 + usb 2.0 COMBO PCI OEM Installed it & it ran great. I used it for an external hard drive, flash drive, mouse, no problems at all. I was...

I've been experiencing problems that I couldn't debug so I decided to format. I've formatted this drive a few times over the years and did everything I always did before. I got my ISP up and running but I am unable to get to the windows update site. I'm getting a msgbox error that says Internet...

Hi all have scoured the net contacted Sony support (useless) and am at the end of my teather... Need info on the following; Sony CDL5000 CD Library Sony OSL2000 Optical Library Some manuals would be great..!!!

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My new computer came delivered today. Good - but bad. The supposed 1.4Ghz AMD Duron has come up under SiSoftware Sandra utility as 1.05Ghz and under Windows 2000 Professional system information screen: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1048 Mhz. However searching for the information...

Can one use firewire to transfer files between two computers? These computers are within ten feet of one another. Mike Skuczas

I am searching for a driver for the above card which came in a Dell 8250, but which didn't have a driver disc - there is no driver available on Dell's support site and the one on Hauppauge's won't install properly (I'm left with a Code 10 in the device manager) - I'm running XP Pro SP1 - at...

hello, my computer had been running for about 10 days, when yesterday, i finally decided to shut it down. when i tried to do so, the "saving my settings" dialog was taking an eternity to complete, so i pushed the reset button on PC, and then i shut i down. when i tried to boot-up my computer this...

Hi, One of my computer is down right now. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it. It can only be an hardware issue, since it doesn't even POST. I remove the Sound Card, Ethernet card. I replace the video card with a known working one. The memory have been swap / remove / exchange. These...

Im going to get a new 120GB drive and am looking at 2 by different companies. drive 1 is a ata133 and 2 MB buffer the other 1 is a ata100 with a 8 MB buffer. for a gamer what is better a higher ata or a higher buffer all other specs are the same -- Life is the greatest adventure you'll ever go...

Could someone please explain why 5400 RPM drives are still being sold? I see that maxtor has new 300Gig 5400rpm. Is there any reason not to stick with 7200 once they have been introduced? From a hardware manufacturing standpoint is this hype sales or is there a logocal reeson? Thanks for any...

Hey all! I know this isn't the best group to ask, but every group I join appears to be a "warez" type group, ripping and posting movies. What I'm looking for is a way to dump a bunch of AVI's or MPEGs that I have onto a single DV-R that will play in my DVD player, giving me a menu to choose which...

I posted a bit ago, this thing has ****ed me off so much I took a two month break from messing with it. AMD K-7 950 Mobo: MSI ( http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/MSI/2512592/2512592nv.shtml ) New 300W Power Supply Got this as a barebones with everything but the drives. The PSU was...

I can't find the right driver for my ATI graphics card. It's a PCI graphics card and on the main chip it says: ATI 3D RAGE (TM) 215GT1NA21 ?PD93640GD-LML 9617KK010 I've searched the web and some info says it's a Rage I or II and other pages say it's an Xpression, but I'm still not sure. If anyone...

I recently formatted my WD 17gig drive using the WD disk supplied with the drive. I set the jumpers on 4&6 which WD says makes it a 1 system drive. Well I actually have two drives but being the anal person that I am who worries about messing up, I always unhook the second drive before formatting. ...

I have recently bought a new Lite-On 52x32x52 Cd writer. I am very pleased with it wrigint at low speeds although I have found it will crash Easy CD Creator 6 half way through the burning process, especially at higher speeds, wasting the cd. I have a feeling it could be the program, although since...

I was all set for a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80Gb 8 Mb cache (three actually - 2 for RAID 1 plus a spare) because the 120Gb got good reviews in my brother's magazine (PCPro or Internet I think). Then I look in my Computer Shopper magazine and it gets really rubbish reviews. I'm not bothered about...

Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor 36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard. I created...

They were unlocked but now people are saying they are superlocked- cant even unlock them by messing around with the CPU. Umm, the nForce2 chipset doesn't give a $hit what multiplier the CPU is set at, you can change it regardless (at least last I checked...anyone confirm?). Right when Im...

Will a heat sink made for a Socket Type:370 and Socket A work on a Socket 7?