Just wondering if there's such a thing as an adaptor for a SATA hdd which will allow it to be run from an IDE only motherboard? I need a new hdd and want to get a SATA hdd, but I don't want to change my mobo yet. Thanks.

hi i have a dvd and a cd writer on the sane ide cable dvd set as master cd set as slave. problem is some times if i put a dvd in to the dvd drive i get a no cd error and when i go in to my computer the cd and dvd dive have gone. the drives seem to work ok then they are there can you help please i...

I'm trying to get the SeaTools program referred to below to run (HDD check) but in the meantime can anyone give me any idea how 'serious' the results below really are? Can't a HDD have a few bad sectors? "Run: 12/06/2005 11:27:50 Primary IDE Channel : ST380020A Model: ST380020A Serial...

Hey everyone I wanna migrate to a new HDD, and can't bothered with the whole win xp install thing, and sort out this that and the other. Whats the cheap easy way to make and copy HDD Images. In case it helps i'm going from a 20GB and a 15GB to a 80Gb. Any suggestions are welcome

I leave my PC on continuously because of this problem, but when I have to turn it off then it is difficult to start. When I turn on my PC it makes as if to start (CPU and case fan jump) but immediately stops. Then the start button does nothing unless I hold it in for a period and when I release it...

Hello, I've uploaded a pic of my desktop :) http://www.geocities.com/nonexistent2032/desktop_marked.jpg You can barely see the red vertical lines I added with Paint (I, II, III), but they mark my SB Audigy, PCI/IDE controller and my Radeon 9800 Pro. I tried to leave as much space under my Radeon...

To All Cognoscenti, Greeting! I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system...

Hi, I've got a seagate 80 gb drive that shows a capacity of only 76317 megabytes when booting (74.53 Gbytes thrugh disk/drive manager) but if I go to the device manager / Silicon Image / Drive info it says: drive capacity 80026 mbytes ! Can please anybody tell me where the 3709 mbytes have gone...

I don't know what is going on with my DDR Ram memory here. Earlier this week, I have run a memtest86 in the office and found out that the memory was bad (lots of red error messages on the screen). I took it to the computer store, they tested it, and they found the same errors. The guy said he...

I'm getting ready to have a pc built and need to know which will give a crisper performance - a 10,000 RPM drive or a RAID 0 configuration. Thanks

i`ve had this Asrock P4VT8+ m/b for a while but no cpu to install. Got a 3GHz prescott P4 recently and fitted it. Everything seems to boot up, all fans spin, optical drives light up, hdd initialises but nothing outputs to the monitor. I`ve tried various gfx cards (all radeon cards - 9700,...

Hi, I am trying enable the USB ports Packard Bell PB 9533, Windows 98SE with all the updates USB is enabled in the BIOS. I have installed the drivers for 2 USB devices. The "Intel 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller" is listed in device manager as is one "USB Root Hub" I have tried lots of...

Whats the cheapest way of using raid 5. all the pci cards i've seen so far are scsi, and those drives cost a mint, i would prefer sata. Are there any motherboard that support it onboard? thanks -- "Blu-Ray"

My fully patched UT2004 crashes whenever there's too many dynamic-light-generating objects around. Whenever it crashes, the screen cycles a while between grey and blue, then turns to black and returns to BIOS POST. There's no BSOD, just plain blue. Whatever sounds were playing before the crash...

Hello all, I've recently had a serious HD crash using an external caddy via Firewire - basically the disc cannot be read though the drive and partitions can be seen by XP and I'm able to format the drive (if I wanted to). The drive is a Maxtor 120GB and is over 2 years old - unfortunately it...

Hi all, Recently my mouse has started misbehaving. Currently the pointer will happily move left/right (or horizontal), but when moving it up/down (vertical) it doesn't respond properly. Sometimes the pointer will slowly move upwards (whether I'm moving the mouse up OR down), sometimes it'll...

PeeVee_Hermann wrote in news:1112726228.08897ed3b9c5ddb1cc8bf2c9a8119d4b@bubbanews: Hi we're trying to decide what kind of new computer to get. Looking at Dell stuff. Anybody here have a Dell? Good or bad experience?

Hi, I have an ASUS A7v8X-X, amd 2500. About a month or so ago my computer got struck by lightning. It came in through the cable modem and blew up the modem and my NIC card on the Motherboard (same motherboard model). Back then, the CPU would run about 39C - 43C. Now, a month later, the new...

In a few years we'll all have boxes with like... 8-12 USB ports. Hopefully, all native to the board. I'm sick of installing those little PCI USB cards, and looking for the perfect USB hub. It doesn't make sense that all our peripherals have gone to USB interface, yet most motherboards still ship...

I want to raid a system so that 2 drives store the exact same data, so a pair of 80gigs would come out to a capacity of 80gig, not 160. Is that raid 1? Thanks, Michael