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Partition Hard Drive? by ~misfit~
"radon" wrote in message ... I didn't know that a FAT32 drive for the swap file would be faster. By how much? There's not a lot in it, maybe 10%. If the drive's on a slow controller it can be noticable. -- ~misfit~
June 23rd 03 06:58 AM
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Rack Mount Cases by Zën
Thanks for that. Mine has 7 slots so is obviously a ATX style case "Alien Zord" wrote in message ... "Pablo" wrote in message ...
June 24th 03 04:55 PM
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Power supply help by michael
O.K.,I've given up trying to get this information from Compaq,since everything they've told me so far has been wrong. Maybe someone here can help.I'm trying to find the part number for a 250 watt psu for my Presario 5423US.I'd really prefer a bigger supply,but Compaq only made 235 and 250 watt...
June 24th 03 05:59 PM
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Error in WIN 2K Server by Paul \(Erie\)
I got this error today when I exited Disk Manager: I also get something like this when I open and look at my ASUS Probe just before shutting down, then when I try to shut down it gives me an error like this only says "read" where this says "written". This says mmc.exe in the blue title bar, ...
June 24th 03 06:55 PM
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HLEP !! Athlon XP 2400 by David
Yes I know I spelt help wrong - but it got you curious !!! Built a system a while ago works fine but CMOS seems to keep forgetting that its a 2400 (said so on the box chip etc) and keeps saying its a XP 1800. Probably to blame a Motherboard/chipset SiS730 BIOS AMI ...
June 24th 03 09:44 PM
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I've decided to get a 9700 over a 9500 pro... by Grendel
you can get a Powercolor 9700 (non pro) for about $20 more than a 9500 pro right now. I can't seem to find a 9500 pro for lower than $180 or so and they are getting tougher to find. Best Buy, CompUSA and Circuit City no longer have em. The PowerColor Evil Commando 9700 can be gotten for $198. The...
June 24th 03 09:58 PM
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Too many USB ports? by Ben Fullerton
-- Ben F. benf @ chebucto . ca ============================================================ Current fleet: 1966 Jaguar 3.8 MkII, 1974 MGB Roadster Previous LBCs: 9 MGs, 6 Jaguars, 1 British built BMW Isetta plus about 22 other British cars and 1 - 1955 Norton See *www.batans.ca* for more...
June 25th 03 01:16 AM
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SLR100 DATA CARTRIDGE - OFFER by MarkNTL
Hello there, I have the following tapes available for resale. They are brand new, sealed. Here are the details... Make & Model QUANTITY Imation SLR100 (41069) X35 Imation SLR60 (41115) ...
June 25th 03 11:18 AM
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OT? installation prob? by nibbles
hi all, inot sure where to post this, but here goes.... have a prob concerning a win2000 pro installation. when i have installed win 2000 onto a freshly formatted drive, all seems to be ok untill i use the mainboard cd to install the chipset drivers/usb ports etc. what happens then is that i loose...
June 25th 03 11:48 AM
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soundcart by Lord
is there any difference about soundcarts? ( i think this is the name for a cart that controls the sound) and what is the best there is? Could you also name others so i can compere these. Thank you.
June 24th 03 03:04 PM
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REQ: Help - My machine has stopped running. by [email protected]
I have an AMD ATX system that has quit running. I was restoring its 13G HD to what it was before pretty much. I completely erased it. I had it 99% finished, and all was running just fine. I even did a scandisk and defrag on it. I turned the system off, and cut my grass. When I came back, I...
June 24th 03 10:45 AM
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How does a USB 2.0 HDD compare to a internal IDE drive? by Alien Zord
"radon" wrote in message ... I just bought a USB 2 drive kit that converted a regular HDD (Maxtor 7700rpm 20GB) to an external USB 2 drive. It is blazingly fast for an external drive. I was wondering which is faster, internal drives or USB...
June 23rd 03 08:35 AM
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Opinions on 120GB HDD, DVD writer and dual p3 motherboard by Alien Zord
"Dr Joolz" wrote in message ... Hi guys, I have an Asus CUSL2 motherboard and a 80GB HDD, and am thinking of getting a 120GB HDD as a 2nd drive in the system, first of all does anyone know if the CUSL2 will take 200GB of storage...
June 23rd 03 08:50 AM
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Multi displays - onboard and seperate? by -
If you are running XP or 2K.... Set the PC to boot off of the AGP card, and when in Windows, set the PCI card to the primary in the display properties dialog. Good idea, unfortunately as soon as windows boots up win2k), the monitor switches itself off - maybe its loading the wrong drivers -...
June 23rd 03 09:21 AM
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TV out without rebooting by -
Creative Blaster 4 MX420 PCI (64mb) works fine....
June 23rd 03 09:22 AM
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Graphics card with RGB out? by -
So what the hell can I do? I saw a cool gadget that takes an s-video in and then allows you to play out via two or three scarts. Its possible and is a lot cheaper than a new graphics card.
June 23rd 03 04:32 PM
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reboot fails by Joshua Klehm
"Frederik" wrote in message I'm patching up an old pc I got (p1-100, soyo mobo). First it didn't boot and as it reported a faulty bios cmos checksum I flashed the bios. I also had to replace the memory as it was faulty. (The person I got the pc from claims that it fell over in the boot...
June 23rd 03 06:07 PM
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Error code 10. exterior disk & Firewire by Karl
I have a new 80GB HD which is external and in a Newtion Technology Corp, 1035-00 IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device. It has 1 USB output and 3 Firewire outputs. It works fine in USB, but I cannot see the drive in Firewire output, even though I can hear the MS sound wqhen I connect the Firewire to the...
June 23rd 03 06:02 PM
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advice for Maxtor 120GB please. Do I choose 2MB cache or 8 MB cache ???? by Nick
what sort of price can you get them for in English pounds? -- ----------- Nick "Tony" wrote in message ... Hi all, I want to buy a 120 GB Maxtor HDD.
June 23rd 03 09:38 PM
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!!!HELP!!! Mobo stoped working by Chris Simmons
i had a look at the site, but it didn't help. i have an award bios. i have managed to work out that the 1st set of beeps mean the there is a problem with the vga adapter, but it is working fine in other machines, and i have used different adapters. as for the other beeps, i cannot find anything...
June 25th 03 02:37 PM
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