Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003  Apr 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,005 using multiple disks with photoshop
Hello
I am getting set up to use photoshop elements and i am thinking of getting two sata drives to use as a striped array to handle the data files. If i do that do I need to install a seperate... |
| Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Mar 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 18,406 |
| Forum: Storage Feb 12th, 2005 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 1,505 cdrw updates
I have a cdrw which is causing some problems. when i am playing music from the harddrive and recording a cd to the hd from the cdrw, the cursor freezes up and the whole computer spazes out for a... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
ok
right now i am zeroing out the drive with the wd program, swo i can set up maybe three partitions : 10 jfor the os; 40 for the programs and about 100 for data. it was showing a total of about... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
teh partition was ntfs and was basically the whole drive - 152 something.
I'm starting to think it must be the drive, since when I put the 4.3 gig on at least it triewd to read the drive. it also... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
I tried to boot the comp on an old 4.3 hard drive with windows 98 first edition on it.
It threw a bunch of errors and went to a startup menu so i selected safe mode and hit enter and it went to a... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
well i tried that. i set the boot order to hdd, disabled, and disabled. same result.
I wonder if the prolonged posting has anything to do with what is going on. grasping at straws. Could it be... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
ok did that. same result
very long post routine, detects ide devices, shows a llistingof primary andsecondary devices, shows the pci device listing andtehn says
"verifying dmi pool data......"
"boot... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
I have tried to install windows a couple of times since the promise and sata raid were disabled, with the same result. basically i think you are right that the comp is confused, i just don't know... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
also:
i had to disable the sata and promise options, because it was trying to detect an array.
It has a single wd 160 eide hd. after changing those parameters, it stopped looking for the array, so... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 Re: boot issues with new build
thanks for your response
I went through the bios again and reset tehr priority parameter just to make sure, and then tried to reboot with the same result. I have also tried to direct the computer to... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Feb 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,923 boot issues with new build
ok i've got a soltek k8tpro 939 mobo with a amd athlon 64 3500+ cpu, and two gigs of memory. the problems is that it won't boot.
it goes very slowly though the post routine, and then says "boot from... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jan 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 18,186 |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,742 Re: dual optical setup
I may have rresolved the issue. apparently xp uses dae which makes tehe four pin connector superflous. problemm solved |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,742 Re: dual optical setup
a cd rom has another four pin connector to the motherboard(or a cound card).
in the case where you have two optical drives (a cd and a dvd burner) there has to be a way to run the sound to the mobo,... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 29th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,742 dual optical setup
hello
I am setting up a new comp with a SL-K8TPro-939. looking at the specs, I see that there is only one socket for the cd rom in. can anyone tell me where I could find an adapter to hook both... |
| Forum: Storage Jan 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,358 Re: ide raid?
Thanks for the info!
one question leads to another:
you said you could have a raid array defined by software. does that mean that you don't need the onboard system? just trying to visualize how that... |
| Forum: Storage Jan 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,358 ide raid?
hey
I am planning a new comp and i came across this info about a soltek board:
SL-K8TPro-939
IDE: 2x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices, 1x ATA 133 up to 2 Devices by Promise 20579 with RAID 0/1/0+1
SATA: 2x... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jan 23rd, 2005 |
| Replies: 74 Views: 64,661 |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,658 new mohterboard
hello
I am thinking of building a new system and i have a question about the setup process. do you install the windows os before or after the drivers that come with the board. I was looking through... |
| Forum: Cases, Fans and Power Supplies Jan 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 4,794 Re: CPU Cooling
thanks cat, that was exactly the information that i was looking for!
dan |
| Forum: Windows Software Jan 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 5,243 Re: norton problems?!
what actually is the problem? if you need to see a popup, you can unblock it. I'm just not sure what the problem actually is. |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jan 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 74 Views: 64,661 |
| Forum: Storage Jan 19th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,683 Re: eide?
also as an after thought:
i have a seagate which came with some utilities that can be used to copy, format etc.
any chance that that somftware would be usable on a different brand of drive?
wondering... |
| Forum: Storage Jan 19th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,683 eide?
hello
I want to build a computer and i'm afraid i have an abundance of ignorance about some basic things. Looking at hard drives, will an eide drive work or does it need to be specified as an ide... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 17th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,987 Re: MERGED: ram upgrade/help installing
hello everybody
speaking of memory, how big an advantage , if any is dual channel memory?
it sounds good, but i wonder if anyone has had any experience with it?
thanks |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 15th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 Re: speakers
http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=2003101
Features
* Meets performance requirements for audio on PC99/2001 systems
* Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 15th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 Re: speakers
I stilll haven't been able to resolve the speaker issue. basically the affordable system that i have seen had the amplifier in the subwoofer and the sattelite speakers connect into that. the... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 15th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 Re: speakers
hawke
not interested in overclocking, nor do i really have a particular reason to go with the asus. but I want to find a 939 socket board with a gigabit lan. I would actually prefer
not to have... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 14th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 Re: speakers
{ Use with Sound Blaster® Audigy™ 2 ZS sound cards for breathtaking 7.1 results with Dolby® Digital EX and DTS-ES movies and EAX ADVANCED HD games. }
the reason that i'm wary is that it says... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 14th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 14th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 Re: speakers
hawkviper
yea but those are 5.1 (six speakers). the mother boards that i have been looking at have four jacks for eight speakers. I have seen an eight speker system designed for an audigy sound... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jan 14th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,598 |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Jan 12th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,598 shopping cart problems - xp sp 2
hello folks
I have a problem with a laptop with windows xp sp 2.
whenever I try to add something to the cart and go to checkout,
I find out that there is nothing in the cart. I have the pop up... |
| Forum: PCI and Add-In Cards Jan 12th, 2005 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,271 speakers
hello everybody
I am thinking of building a pc and have some silly questions.
On some of the better mother boards, there are jacks for an eight channel speaker system. I can't find anyone on the... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 1st, 2004 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 3,180 ram upgrade questions
I am thinking of upgrading the ram in my laptop. it has 256k in it and i think that it is a pc2100 module that operates at 266 megahertz.
The computer has an empty slot, so i can add a module... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Nov 13th, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 7,798 |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Nov 13th, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 7,798 Re: DLL file missing?
well- i got the dll installed, the realpayer uninstalled, and now the windows cd player no longer pops up the missing pncrt.dll message, but teh cd player doesn't work. it doesn't seem to... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Nov 12th, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 7,798 Re: DLL file missing?
oops forgot the details - windows 98 downloaded realplayer and didn't like it . when i uninstalled the real player, the regular cd player wouldn't work, kicked up the missing pncrt.dll message. ... |
| Forum: Windows 9x / Me Nov 12th, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 7,798 Re: DLL file missing?
i dont seem to be able to get the download to unzip. Is extract the right function?
help |
