I'm using the P5Q-SE2 for my Windows Home Server box. Got a half-dozen of Western Digital's Caviar Green drives in it. While trying to track down a flaky drive, it's dawned on me that SATA II is a lot faster than plain old Serial ATA - as in twice as fast. Being basically clueless, but looking...

We just got 3 Latitude 6510's at the Hospice I support. I wiped one out and started installing the necessary drivers. I've said many times on the net and my blog that one should always download drivers from hardware manufacturer rather than from Dell or Microsoft. I went to the NVidia web site...

Router with VoIP, connected to cable modem, one port is open for SIP service. ISP dont allow router. When do remote scan IP address with Nmap, it show router hardware name and version. Is there way to remove the router label from service running on open sip port?

I'm setting up a SATA RAID 5 array in an XP system (not the boot volume) and would like to expand it later. What's do you think of dynamic disks? I googled for their disadvantages, and there doesn't seem to be a serious drawback, but it's sort of a one-way street. -- Reply in group, but if...

Hello. A technician installed a new Antec Basiq 500 Watt ATX Power Supply/PSU (BP500U) on 1/23/2010 into my old PC to replace a dead previous, old PSU since I am not a computer hardware person. Lately, its PSU fan has been making loud noises. I have to hit/tap the PSU fan area to make it stop....

Heya.. I am working on a project "High Level Data Security from Pen drives" and just started it. So, I want to know the detail working of Flash Drive(Pen Drive) i.e when we insert/remove it into/from a particular port, how drivers get loaded/unloaded. Does File Structure...

I have been using Acronis True Image 2010 and most of the earlier versions for many years, and am finding the latest version to be buggy and the user interface to be cluttered. Is there any really good, very reliable disk imaging and recovery program out there to take the place of Acronis? In the...

The discussions on this software are several years old, but I recently found it. I used it for the trial period and like what it does. I have found nothing else that allows me to put the songs in the order I want. I was going to purchase a registration for MP3BR Imager but can not find the...

Goodbye ATI - AMD now the big name in graphics cards - News - PC Authority "Way back in 2006 AMD shocked the technology world by acquiring Canadian graphics company Array Technologies Inc (ATI). Since that time ATI's Radeon graphics cards have become one of AMD's major strengths, thanks largely...

Intel Guy wrote: Yousuf Khan wrote: AMD announces that the next generation of graphics from the company will not use the ATI branding. I don't know why these major brands are being killed like this. ATI has incredible marketing value. It takes years and lots of $$$ to build...

Was looking over Alienware laptops...anyone have any experience with that hardware? Larry

Hi All RFC 2665 defines "dot3StatsInternalMacReceiveErrors" as a implementation dependent counter for errors while receiving an ethernet frame. Intel defines this error as follows: RMII_FRM_ALN_ERROR || XTRA_BYTE || LEN_ERR || RX_LATE_COLL || (MII_FRM_ALN_ERR &&

Sad to see how few posts a.c.h.o gets these days. I certainly haven't done my part lately. I haven't even set up my desktop since I moved 18 months ago - and a fairly decent lthree-year-old laptop (T7300/3 GB/ 500 GB/nVidia 8600M GT/1680 x 1050) isn't a lot of overclocking fun (maybe 20% for the...

I was told that win 7 does not work well on P4 cpus unles they are at least dual core. All I have on my gx280 is a p4 800fsb 2.8, and similar on the dimension 8300 MB. Should I just stay with xp? mc

I have a GTX 280 that is behaving strangely, on start up it doesn't always send any signal to the monitor. I'm running windows xp and have a 1000 w power supply. I have tried loading the latest drivers and it still wont work right. Is there any diagnostic programs that I can run to see if the...