Hi, I have a problem booting my PC. I have two hard disks, both with XP. They are installed on the same ide channel. I have still not configured the boot.ini, but I cannot understand why the system boots the XP installed on the slave hd. The hard disks are set with cable select (I checked the BIOS...

Hi, Does anyone know who makes the 172pin microDIMM memory sockets Thanks

Any ideas? Theres nothing on the manufacturers website. Is there a generic one I can use? Didnt come with anything in the box :\ Nath

I know I know.....I'm probably doomed but just in case, Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might recover data from a hard drive that is clicking?? I've tried it as Master as well as slaving it. Tried it in a different computer and tried it in a removable hard drive device all with no...

Has anybody had trouble with bit errors with AMCC S5935? We have only started having trouble with them in the last few months. Older motherboards do not produce errors, newer ones do. Can any one help?

Per the manufacturers website (ABIT), it states one should clear the CMOS (by moving the jumper off for a couple seconds) after updating the BIOS. I never found this necessary in the past, and have updated the BIOS without doing so. All of the additional features in the new BIOS are available. Am I...

Would a Radeon 9800 Pro (non-PCI Express card) work with, say, the Abit AA8XE motherboard?

-Because it didn't work last time.

Questions: Am tight on money but need a new PC sometime soon. Should I should wait a few months until I can get a good price (perhaps much lower $) due to (guessing) excess inventor/4th qtr for a cheap P4 3.2 GHZ PC due to new dual cores coming out... -OR- Buy something now

Hey, did anyone have an idea why i get the mgs: "Functioninstanz driver not found"... thanks philipp

Hello All, I have a small but mixed environment with Win XP Pro, Mac OS 9.x & Mac OS 10.x and I am considering putting in a Snap Server 1100 or 2200 (an Adaptec product) just for file sharing. I'm seeking any comments / thoughts / recommendations regarding: - Reliability - Client issues

I bought a new videocard yesterday. But after installing it Medal of honor and Call of Duty and Army men and... it seems that windows works great with the new card but when you start up a game I get a black screen or a screen that is almost impossible to see what is on it. I've downloaded the...

Hello, I've got a NetVista 6350-33U with win2k pro, and the onboard audio suddenly stopped working, however if I disable then re-enable the SoundMax audio driver in the device manager it works fine, but that has to be done every time the computer is rebooted. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really...

Ok I have had a situation proposed to me and I haven't the slightest idea where to start. I thought the wealth of knowledge here was a good place so here goes. I'm looking for a way, either software or hardware, to allow a lab full of PC's (up to 35 machines) to be able to utalize a single...

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Hello, I am planning to buy an external DVD burner for my computer. Some of my disk partitions are 7 GB and are about 60% to 80% full. Now I want to burn the drive contents to a DVD. There seems to be lot of DVD burning technologies. Most of them say "dual sided". Do this mean that both sides...

In 8086 real mode addressing the 16 bit segment register is added with 16 bit offset and 20 bit address is generated. Eg: Case 1: ******** Segment Reg: B230 Offset Reg: 2052 Now the resulting 20 bit address is generated as Segment reg+ B230+

Hi there, I'm quite new to this groups thing, but decided to give it a go, and any help anyone can give would be much appreciated. Here is my 'issue' I have recently filled up my second 30Gb drive in my computer, the other is reserved for work files only and the OS. Hence I tjhought, splash out...

Does anyone know how to adjust the display size in the settings menu. I use a TFT screen 15.4 " which can bare 1280x800. In the winxp32 version no problem, but in the xp64 version 1024x768 is the max for keeping a display filling desktop. Higher resolutions result in a desktop larger than my...

Any ideas what is happening ? Using an Adaptec 2 Port SATA but read and write are extremely terribly slow. From a ATA 200GB drive to a SATA Connected 250 Hitachi it is so slow.. copying a 4 gb file takes an hour. There are no settings I can check to see what is going on like Ultra DMA is on or...