I bought it used on EBay. I wanted to build a cheap system for my grandson. I already have an old system, but it was really old. Anyway, I installed the MOBO/CPU/RAM, and powered it up just fine. But it behaves in a crazy way. It seems that the BIOS will not recognize the floppy drive (A:) as...

I've few servers TYAN GX28 (2881) with adaptec 2410SA SATA RAID and 3 disks WDC joined in raid5. From time to time one drive disappear. Last time in 2 servers I've IO Errors and BUS error messages. One of them was succesfully rebuilded and the other one have lost all information about logical drive...

I bought a PCI SCSI card on EBay that came with no software (drivers). The card is Adaptec's 2906. I am running WXP. I have tried downloading the few drivers that I can find, but none seem to work under WXP. I want to use this card with the UMAX Powerlook II scanner. EZ-SCSI is suggested in...

Hi, I have a compaq evo n600c notebook with 2 x 256 ram. The crucial configurator says I need 133mhz sodims. Can I buy 2 x 512 266mhz (much cheaper) and everything work ok? Thanks very much,

Ok folks, I have a project where I need to make the BIOS recognize the floppy drive as a hard drive. I can only alter the hardware and can't add any software to the mix. I am sure someone around here can explain how to do it lickety split. This will be done on a generic desktop x86 system. Thanks...

Hi all What is faster, a single Xeon 3Ghz or a Pentium D 3Ghz to be used in a low traffic online web server (with database)? I have a low budget at the moment so the Pentium D is cheaper but less upgradable than a system that can accept dual xeons. Any thoughts? This is the main difference...

Hello all, Does anyone have an idea of the order of magnitude of the leakage current of DDR rams ? According to the specs of a randomly-chosen DDR RAM, the IO pin max "INPUT LEAKAGE CURRENT" can vary from -5 to +5 uA. I imagine it has to do with if the pin is sourcing or sinking current. The...

I have an Award Bios v6.00PG the bios ID is 12/06/2000-8363-686A-K7VZAC-00. Does anyone know where I can find an upgrade for this bios?

Hey :) I'm looking into buying a new laptop, and looking around, it seems there's been a lot of speed progress since my last big purchase, which was a 3.2 GHz P4 HT system awhile back. So, I'm suddenly thinking, maybe a new laptop with a Centrino Duo in it could actually outperform this old...

Just curious. A PC with 8 channel audio should be capable of producing four seperate stereo output, and make an audio hub for my home, as I have four audio zones wired throughout the house. Are there any drivers/software/etc. that would allow me to have four independant stereo streams though a...

http://tinyurl.com/ezzjt This is the link to a Western Digital 40GB hard drive. How can I tell if it supports DMA transfer? My motherboard IDE controller advanced options is forcing it into PIO mode and I'm trying to find out where the problem is. I have a 80GB WD in that computer also and it...

Hi, Can someone tell me if I have installed this fan correctly? I know it's upside-down (so the wire will reach) but is it the correct way round? It's not blowing hot air into the case, is it? Pictu http://i2.tinypic.com/vi18xg.jpg

Hi, I'm installing a Maxtor 200GB hard drive into my compaq presario model S4210NX. My old one crashed so i thought i would upgrade the hard drive at this point in time. I have already installed it in the computer and ran netbios which is reading it as a 200GB drive etc. Just want to make sure...

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I want to buy new LCD and here is my sub-list, can someone give me some recommendations? Viewsonic vx922 19" 650:1 2ms Viewsonic vx2025 20" 800:1 8ms (16:10) Viewsonic vp920b 19" 500:1 4ms viewsonic vp930b 19" 599:1 8ms Samsung 940BF 19" 700:1 2ms

Is there any chance to get dvd +or -r dl support on this drive? I recently flashed the firmware to 0102 version(latest found) but couldn't get my drive to read correctly dl dvd-rom... Help appreciated

Hi everybody My computer has a PCChips M925LR mobo with VIA VT8751 Apollo P4M266 (Nth)/VIA VT8233C (Sth) chipset and an Intel Pentium 4 CPU running at 1.8GHZ and 100MHz frequency. Two RAM sticks (128MB PC133 SDRAM but running at 100MHz) are in place and the mobo has an integrated S3 ProSavageDDR...

Hello, I am trying to connect a Digi Deck (cassette player) to my sound card. The cables let the unit connect to my sound card are about 6 inches in length. I need to buy one longer cable about 4 or 5 feet in length. I need a single cable with 1 output and one input, if that matters. I can't find...

A guy at work upgraded his computer recently and gave me the old motherboard with his assurance that it still works fine, just that he's gotten a better one. There is no manual or docs with it. The only identification on it is silkscreened on the board... "ASROCK" "ATA133" "5.1CH" "USB2.0" and...

I have an LG GCE-8520B CD writer drive, which is MRW compliant and up to now has been working fine as a cdrom drive. Today I downloaded some software, CDWrite which is supposed to work well with MRW drives. After installing it I noticed that the drive is no longer listed with my other drives in My ...