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I built a new machine back in November: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ENERMAX EG651P-VE FM(24P) ATX 550W Power Supply Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard …

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Alright, my friend brang over his PC cause i mess around with mine and he thought i could maybe upgrade his PC, i dont know much about his PC, but so i upgraded it with some of my old parts, he had a 40GB hard drive, so i put in …

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Let me give a bit of background on this one. I ordered an external hard drive from newegg.com and have had it replaced a few times. Eventually the hard drive gave out (i.e. thrown across the room) and I had to get a new one. I went out and got …

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I installed a hard drive to use for a slave but it is locked. I have a program to unlock it but the computer do not show the slave hard drive any where. Every thing is pluged in good I am aelectrician so I know how to hook every thing …

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hello everyone -- i bought this new and barely used it. i suddenly got the urge to use my laptop and it didn't start. i was told to replace battery and hard drive -- i did both. still it doesn't boot. power goes on but only to a blank screen. …

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I replaced a hard drive in a 3 year old Tablet PC and when I use the restore disc it starts and asks for the language preference, looks like its going to start the restore and then eject....no reason given. I've tried 2 sets of the restore discs with the …

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I'm building a new computer with a SATA hard drive and want to transfer about 2 1/2 Gb of files from my old machine which has an IDE hard drive to the new one and was wondering if anyone has ideas on the best way to do this. I was …

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Well, I've tried everything I can think of so it looks like I need help. I have a computer that was running WinXP Pro. It started acting flaky. First it lost the BIOS settings, so I replaced the CMOS battery and re-set the BIOS settings. Within a day, it started …

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My computer wont boot. Im getting power to the MOBO but nothing is happening, fans are running Video card is getting power, im getting nothing on my screen (it goes to green then into hybernation Yellow) I cant get into BIOS. I replaced the battery and still nothing. the interesting …

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Hi all. Installed a nice clean fresh copy of WindowsXP at my friends house. When i got home and plugged it in, it went on, although no image on the monitor appeared. I also seem to remember that i cud not hear a hard drive or CDROM load. After about …

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Just a quick question. I've bought a SATA 2 harddrive with a SATA300 connection, speed 3Gb/s. Will it work on my motherboard which has a SATA controller? Apparently SATA 2 hard drive will not work in a SATA controller on the motherboard. ThankS, WEEFCORP

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[COLOR=#000000]:cool: I found this product from another forum and find it very useful for professionals like doctors and engineers who carry bulky laptop everywhere. I think this is really cool technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC.[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] …

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Hi there, don't know if anyone can help but I'm going beserk with this problem :- Basically when I turn on my computer it takes a long time to load up my windows and eventually after 5 mins or so the entry page appears requesting my password to enter my …

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I got started on the computer today. Here are the parts Asus P5B-E C2D- Conroe 6400 Lite-on DVD RW Lite-on DVD Rom Mitsumi floppy/card reader G.Skill DDR2 800 XFX 7600 visiontek tv tuner 2-320 gb seagate hard drive Running MCE 2005 I got it all set up and everything seemed …

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[COLOR=black]Hello, I just found this forum from a link and I must say it is really great and fully packed with valuable information. I have been DR enthusiast for about a year now. Most of the things I learned by trial and error. I am having a problem with a …

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hi any help would be appretiated. my mates hard drive just failed in his hp pavillion 423.uk so im helping him gettin his pc runin again. i installed a new hard drive and put on xp pro with no problem. The thing is that the computer didn't come with any …

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[B]Motherboard[/B]: Intel? Imperial GL VE 20020930 [B]Processor[/B]: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz [B]Memory[/B]: 512MB [B]Video Card # 1[/B]: ATI PCI 9250 256MB [B]Hard Drive # 1[/B]: 37.5 GB [B]Hard Drive # 2[/B]: 37.5 GB [B]Power Supply[/B]: 300W [B]Case[/B]: e-machine T2042 Heres the deal...Trying to build my roommate a computer but we …

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[COLOR=#000000]I was on my laptop, Inspiron 8100, and everything was fine, no errors or anything. Took a break and when I came back my computer had a black screen. I tried to restart and it goes to the dell load page and windows XP pro page but that’s it. It …

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I feel pretty silly posting this message, as I've been a firmware engineer since 1984! I have plenty of experience going inside a desktop PC. My laptop experience is quite limited though. I've got an old laptop, a Gateway Solo P3C, 133 MHZ, that I am putting into a condition …

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Before I go ahead and buy my [URL=http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014&depa=1]hard drive[/URL] , I have one quick question. Will there be a performance increase if I went with SATA once I have actually opened an application? (Faster rendering times, or a higher frame rate in games) Thanks, and sorry for the silly question …

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[COLOR=#000000]Thanks to all who have taken time from their precious lives to read this.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]1st the problem (briefly) will be listed, then how I may have gotten it and finally all the steps I’ve taken thus far. [Since this here below is long I have omitted all the googling I …

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I had a power outage last night, and my pc shut down. Now when I restart it I get the blue screen with this stop message: Stop:0x0000007a (0xc0384068, 0xc000000e, 0xe101aa06, 0x00d1b880) Kernel_Data_Inpage_Error So i am wondering if my hard drive has died or if it is just some data corruption …

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Hello people...my first post and i'm sure its not gona be the last. I've spent the last two days looking for and reading the entire www for a solution to this problem, (not very well i might add, im sure the problem would've been solved then:-| ). I've just bought …

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Hi, I'm still learning and WOW is this site GREAT! I am so happy to have found it. Some IT forums are so bad. I happen to think of it as the people who make it. So I guess you people must be the BEST! Wow, I haven't been in …

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I run XP Pro and have been getting random blue screen crashes over the last few weeks and didn't know how to solve them. I decided the best bet was to format the hard drive (having backed up all my data) and reinstall everything. Now as I boot up from …

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Hello. I have a little problem. I recently formated my hard drive and planned on dual booting XP and linux (probably Debian), however my XP will not connect to the internet. Everything worked great before the format. I know it's not the ISP, NIC, or cabling because if I install …

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my mouse often won't start at boot, and takes multiple reboots to start it off, and when the cpu usage is over 50% it starts acting erratically, sometimes it would die if the cpu usage is too high, I've tried norton antivirus and regcure to fix it, I tried turning …

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[COLOR=black]Well, my hard drive died on me... and XP won't boot. Interestingly, when I pop the drive into an external enclosure, and turn it on inside of XP, it causes the computer to crash, and restart. I spent some time searching these forums for some help, but figured after about …

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Hi, Hope someone can shed some light on this problem...... While trying to install a second HDD (sucessfully, at first!), when I came to restart the PC I got a blank screen, with no sign of the hard drive(s) booting up. I sourced an alternate motherboard (same make - P4 …

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The original problem was after restart. When I restarted my laptop, the computer brought up a PXE boot screen. It prompty failed to load and then displayed "No Operating System Detected". Since the hard drive was old, I figured I would upgrade the drive and backup data since I could …

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Hey everyone, I hope this is in the right forum, I'm not sure where to place it. I'm just looking for a free app to backup my website to my local hard drive. I do alot of work on it, and there are times I wish I had previous versions …

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I learned about this site a few days ago, and it has already helped solve one of my problems, so I thought I'd ask another question. I am looking for an external hard drive. I found a great buy on amazon.com, its a SimpleTech 250gb external hard drive for $104. …

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I have just installed Norton GoBack 4.2 and it takes up a considerable chunk on my hard drive. Then again I have MS's System Restore which is set to take up 4.2 Gb on my hard drive My question is: Do I need both? If not which one should it …

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Hello everyone. My son sent me hardware several yrs ago and I assembled a tower, 17"monitor and printer. I am a retired Mechanical & Civil Engineer in SW FL. I have been using win98SE for some time. Son sent me a Win2kPro CD for my B/D, and I have been …

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My Emachines t2482 has problems (PSU, motherboard, + who knows what else) and I want to slave the 80gb hard drive (which runs WindowsXP) on my son's older Micron Millennia (which run's Windows98se) to get my data off the 80gb. Can someone please give me some direction on what to …

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I purchased a PC that originally had Windows Me on it. I later installed th XP Home Upgrade Edition. I plan on installing a new hard drive and doing a fresh install of XP Home Edition. Since this is only the Upgrade version, does this mean that I will have …

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Problem : My computer restarts every time its turned on right after the windows xp screen is finished. (the black screen with the little bar at the bottom) It's been like this for like 4 months and its just really startin to make me mad. I'm not a big computer …

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Ok, this is my first post here. I am not a computer guy at all, I just use the internet and MS Word for my schoolwork. I have an emachines T4510 computer, and have had it for about 3 years. I moved into another home about 8 months ago. In …

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[COLOR=#000000]I found this in download.com and thought of sharing with you.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I think this is really cool technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. It works for all office applications.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It’s FREE for 30 days.[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1"][COLOR=#006699]http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1[/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#000000]Good luck [/COLOR] …

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[COLOR=#000000]Hi [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Am new in daniweb.com, and pleased that I found this community, am also new in Networking, and hope that ill increase my knowledge.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I was checking servers specification on Dell's web site and I found an option "Flex Bay Hard Drive Cage", you can go to :[/COLOR] [URL="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=pe2900-max&s=bsd"][COLOR=windowtext]http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=pe2900-max&s=bsd[/COLOR][/URL] …

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[COLOR=black]My 12' apple power book’s hard drive has crashed and 2 other data recovery companies have been unable to recovery my data which includes business apps and about 3000 digital pics of my 13 month old son... ech...that will teach me to verify backup data.. Anyone have an opinion if …

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[COLOR=#000000]:cool: [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I found this in download.com and thought of sharing with you.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I think this is really cool technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. It’s FREE for 30 days. [/COLOR] [URL="http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1"][COLOR=#800080]http://www.download.com/Mojopac/3000-2094_4-10618350.html?tag=lst-0-1[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Good luck [/COLOR] Paul

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Hello after searching on google with my problem this seemed the place to ask. So yesterday there was a power cut which turned off my computer, so 5 minutes later i go to fire it back up and there is another power cut during the boot up i think. Now …

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[B]Can anyone recommend a data Recovery Company? Like anyone who's had a hard drive crash, I don't want to trust the recovery of my image files to an inexperienced outfit. I have/had a LaCie d2 Big Disk 500GB with about 400GB of files on it. Evidently, the problem is most …

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I have a 7 year old Dell Inspiron 5000 running W2000. The system intermittently boots. Normally I get a double beep signal. Over the past 2 months I upgraded trhe memory from 256MB to 512MB and periodically run Registry Mechanic. When the problem first occurred I thought it was the …

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Hi all, I use Partition Magic to create partition but after pc is restarted, an error occured and windows can`t load. I took this hdd and make it slave with other pc. The hd can now recognized by windows but when I click to enter the partition this message [B]"Disk …

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Currently running Server 2003 and would like to delete 2000 tried bootcfg/delete/ID# through CMD prompt but no luck "2000" shows up as the second OS on my boot.ini file. But most of all its taking up much needed space on my hard drive. Thanks in advance for the input

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I just bought an old wallstreet powerbook. It came with 32mb of ram and a 4gb harddrive running os 8.5. I installed 512mb of ram, and everything worked fine. Then I got a 60gb hard drive and put it in. When I turn it on I get a gray screen …

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Hi there I have one of these well known Inspiron 1150 poor designed Laptops. Apparently same issues as the 5150's. So last night I took the whole thing apart looked over MB and put back together (also cut off the tabs on the "C" plate like the 5150's. You could …

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[COLOR=#000000]I have a bit of a dilemma and was hoping some of you guys could maybe help me out. I am switching a hard drive out on a laptop that I have determined to be faulty. I was able to backup the needed data onto a usb thumb drive, but …

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