I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with some utilities. I've found floppy images as big as 700meg that do the job well, but I need something larger now. Look here for what I'm talking about: http://bootcd.narod.ru/images_e.htm Does anyone know where I can find a "floppy" image large enough to...

Many are starting to use big ATA HDs as a backup medium. Many of these backups will be done unattended at night. That leaves these backup only HDs powered and spinning both before and after they need to be. This increases their exposure to data loss. I'm looking for a way to power and unpower a...

It's a Dell sc420 server. It's run good for a year now. Suddenly it shuts off with a blinking amber light on the power switch. (Amber blinking indicates that the system is powering up.) I pulled everything from the motherboard and found the 4 pin 12volt power connector was scorched brown. I...

Hi, I just bought a LG 4081B 8x+/4x- burner which I'm using in Linux. I finally got some DVD-R media that will burn at 4x (according to dvd+rw-mediainfo) but whenever I start it burning using k3b/growisofs, it doesn't seem able to sustain 4x and it always drops down to about 2.8x and stays there. ...

Hi, I'm looking not for a specific motherboard, but for a motherboard that has 4xSATA and 4xUDMA and only one processor slot. I've found Gigabyte K8N Pro (or something like that) that has socket 745 but the board is no longer on sale in Croatia (or I haven't found any not sold yet)... Does...

Hello. I got a chance to get a retired computer from my friend. He has two boxes, one is running as an old server with 4x(400MHz xeon PII l2 cache 512KB) SMP (not sure of the mother board), another one is his new server, one PIV 1.4G CPU with DDR memory. Both with 512MB memory. He is moving to...

Does anyone ship a working PC under $4000 with four quad-cores? I really don't care at all about RAM or disk or graphics, I just need CPU. My Core-2 Duo has spent the past six weeks running two random number tests. That's a typical load for me.

wonder if anyone out there can help me. I need to get data off some old 5 1/4" floppy disks and archived onto cd. I have an old floppy drive (CHINON FR-506) that is supposed to be a 1.2Mb drive. If I set it up as 1.2Mb in the BIOS, I get the FLOPPY DISK(S) FAIL (40) error at boot. If I leave it...

"Jim" wrote in message ... I have a lot of 5 1/4" floppy disks I would like to copy to CD-R. These are mostly Quickbasic and PDS 7.1 libraries and source code and such, and are not generally around any more. I do not currently...

Hello, How do I get a setup with five displays? I would like four TFT's all mounted on an arm, all the same model, and I want a fifth CRT. I am in the UK, Scotland - and realise this will cost the earth. Does Windows XP support 5 displays? What about video cards, I presume I will need at least...

I'm looking for what should be a simple mounting bracket that will hold five 3.5" hard drives in three drive bays. http://wantitnow.ebay.com/5-in-3-drive-bay-mount_W0QQadidZ250210634784QQssPageNameZSTRKQ3aMEWINQ3aPOST Or, for those who don't like eBay. A link directly to the...

Has anyone had experience with one of those 5 inch hard drive bays, that goes under the CD for example, that have fans in the front? If there already is a reasonably sufficient fan in the front already, would the extra fans be overkill?

why is this fraud being committed upon humanity? why wont these sheisters learn that any 4gb media selling for $72 simply wont sell. 5-1/4" Optical Disks are doomed to failure just as Zip, Jaz, Syquest drives such as SparQ & Syjest, Shark, Orb, LS-120, etc. They seem to come in different capacities...

I'm thinking of getting an external enclosure for my laptop so that I can add extra hard drives with ease, and leave me the option of buying a dvd-rw drive at a later date if I have the need. I discovered aluminium versions are available and I thought since it might get a fair bit of stick...

where can I find a 5.25" SATA drive enclosure with a 1394b output and a fan? (extra points for eSATA outputs, ditto 1394 and USB2 outputs) I've searched the universe, and I'd found one but it smells really bad. it's ttp://fire-wire-1394-ilink.stores.yahoo.net/sa5alfi80esc.html but email and...

Has anyone noticed that CompUSA has 500 GB drives for a reasonable price in today's paper? They say it is an exclusive. Why buy a 300 gb drive when you can make that a 500 GB upgrade for the same price?

I've got this WD 500 gb Firewire external My Book drive I've been using to store mostly video files for a big video project. It doesn't have an on/off switch, it powers up when power is first applied, goes dormant after a period of inactivity and restarts when you try to access it. It's worked...

I have two 500GB Samsung SATA drives, both formatted, show up as 500GB drives (372GB after NTFS formatting in WindowsXP, in Admin:Storage of Control Panel). The first SATA is oddly showing as only 127GB capacity though when I right click and look at its properties in MyComputer. The second SATA is...

Can 50pin conectors with two devices and 68pin konektor with 4disk devices work together ? I.e. that controller DC-390F boots alltogether on ? How to find that out ? Thanks mm

Will a Northwood 533FSB CPU and an 4X AGP video card and Samsung DDR 333 ram work in Aopen AX4C Motherboard? I have chance to get a board at a good price, and won't change over my other items until later if these will work together. Thanks