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| | ok so i bought this Dell Latitude D266XT it is a Pentium 2 266mhx MMC-1 processor I bought a P2400MHX MMC-1 processor to put in it, the processor works great but now i get an error message when windows wants to boot up that a file was corrupted and i … |
| | So.. Here's my series of insanely unfortunate events... I have had this machine for three years - never a problem besides the fact that the fan? something always ran and made a noise when it was on. I have an T2685 emachine.. It's finals week and I have 5 days … |
| | I am new to the [URL="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=456060&pid=587455566&st=0&#"]hard drive[/URL] world, but would like to purchase a [URL="http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=456060&pid=587455566&st=0&#"]portable[/URL] external hard drive to store music and video files. I will be on the road for long stretches (work related) and thought this would be the best way to take my entire cd collection with … |
| | Hi all, I am getting this error Data Error (cyclic redundancy check) while trying to copy stuff from a dvd to my hard drive on all dvds. I have also replaced the DVD Write and still get the same error. I can read info and copy cds etc. Please reply … |
| | Two of my G5 started acting weird all at a sudden. Not want to open apps or flashing windows. I then upgraded both to 10.4. (tiger) The installation starts and then crashes. Tried different install discs and it still happens. Then installed new drive thinking that it might be a … |
| | Hi everybody, I am having quite a problem with my new laptop HPdv1625. It came with win XP home and I wanted to intall XP pro. First thing I did was to burn the recovery DVD's and then proceed to XP installation. Turns out that when after loading all the … |
| | I have just upgraded my PC. I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard and an AMD 64 3700+. The problem is with my hard drive (SATA2 western digital 250Gb). When I first booted up it didnt recognise the hard drive at all. I have solved that problem but now when … |
| | Having read several partitioning [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]strategies[/URL] I keep seeing different opinions on the matter of location of the [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]program[/URL] files folder and or swap files. The need and essence of proper and smart partitioning of drives is clear to me. However I can't figure out where to place the more demanding … |
| | Am having difficulty installing some Picture Package software from a CD-Rom (came with digital camera) when i click on the disc on hard drive i have a list of files (which make particular sense to me) and i need to select an 'application' to open them. when i try i … |
| | Hi Folks, I just installed a New Western Digital 80GB HD in my Toshiba Tecra A1. To test it, I started to load up Fedora Linux as an OS. Linux saw the drive ok and everything seemed to be ok. I halted the install as I need to load it … |
 | Hey. :) I've been wanting to play some of my old games for a long time, but haven't been able to because they aren't compatible with XP. Currently, I have Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, each on their own 80gig hard drive. The … |
| | Hi everyone, I'm planning on building a new computer (this will be my first build) and I was wondering if everything was compatible. Also if you have any reommendations that would be helpful as well. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103547"]AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150139"]XFX Geforce 7900 GT[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227067"]RAM[/URL] [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811208004"]Case with 450 watt power … |
| | old drive crashed installed new drive (Seagate 160GB 7200rpm) have XP Home Edition installation CD (includes SP2) get error message that windows cannot start because <windows root>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt, reinstall the file How do I do that from a new drive???! I've deleted everything on the drive and … |
| | Hi ! I got this Data error (cyclic redundancy check) message when I tried copying over movies from a data dvd disc that my friend burned off for me. I mean.... I was able to get like 90% of the movies into my hard drive but that last part wasn't … |
| | I've seen a few of these threads regarding dvd drives and the pin soldering technique. I have a new 'cable select' hard drive (used to be my secondary) that I need to use to replace a dead drive in my Toshiba laptop (Satellite 5205-S705). It seems that this type of … |
| | have a new hard drive, no os on it . have xp media edition, win 98 2nd ed, disc for board drivers, ect but don't how to start. Have access to win xp home, another computer. This computer has Vlos 1.1 on one hard drive and 2nd is blank........ boot … |
| | Hi, If anyone could help me I would appreciate it. I just had my hard drive replaced in my computer and I was reinstalling everything on it. I reinstalled Music Match Jukebox 10.0 and I keep getting this error message. mmjb.exe-application error The instruction at "0x7c2821b2" referenced memory at "0x0000001c". … |
| | I can't start from a CD (OS XP, nor NT). It just restarts over and over. I managed to stop it from restarting after the usual flash of blue-screen that --until that time I could not read it--gives me the C000021a Stop Error Message. Before it restarts it does say, … |
| | This Compaq Presario 2580us Notebook PC (Product # DM758A) runs for about 1 minute from "power on" until the display shows the XP window for choosing a user, then, it clicks off, everything shuts down and goes to black screen. HP support says that my hard drive is bad and … |
| | I'm looking for a cheep portable hard drive with about 40-60 GB for a notebook with Windows XP SP2. Any good thoughts as to where I could get one? ares |
| | Hi, excuse me if I am a bit vague but I am not a wizz on computers!! I have a new e-machines pc, when I first brought it in January I set it up to test it and all was fine, I then sent it to friends in france, they … |
| | hi i have recently just built a new computer.the specs are Gigabyte K8N-sli motherboard amd athon 64 3200 skt939 venice 2 sticks of 512mb ddr 400 40gb and 160gb ide hard drives cheapo 500watt omni power supply msi radeon x1300pro vid card pioneer dvd burner so wat happened was that … |
| | I have an issue where a recently purchased Maxtor 160GB IDE hard drive is not allowing a [B][I]specific PC[/I][/B] to start. When the power wire is plugged into the Maxtor drive and the PC is started, the tower starts to power up for about 1 to 3 seconds, then the … |
| | Well, we have the hard drive reformated, but have developed a new problem. As I mentioned, my mother's computer has Windows ME. We can't get the resolution to change. It's at 16 colors and the 640 yadda yadda resolution. How would I go about fixing this? Thanks for any help … |
| | I have an older computer with XP SP1. It has recently started taking a long time to boot up the floppy drive after windows loads and desktop appears. I thought it was because I had a lot of files but I deleted several programs, defragged, etc and it didn't help. … |
| | I have a Power Mac 8500 with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G4/PSI upgrade Processor card running Mac OS 8.6. I installed a IOGear USB 2.0 PCI Card-GIC220UW1 which says it works with OS 8.6. I installed the recommended software "USB Support 1.4.1 smi " from apple.com. The card shows … |
| | Hi, I have a bit of a problem I just built a computer for my brother and well I can not install any operating system on it. I've been pulling my hair out over this up half the night and thus far all day trying to figure something out. My … |
| | Hi everyone, Here my problem, When I boot up computer windows starts and works for a while then I get blue screen saying a process or thread crucial to system has unexpectly exited or been terminated. Computer restarts but now bios can't find my hard drive. Primary SATA not found. … |
| | Does anybody know how you can check to see what kind of hard-drive you can get for your computer? Thanks |
| | hi got a porblem....pluged everything in all the other fans work everything lights up but the cpu fan does not spin i also tried a new cpu fan but still no luck...what could be the problem?? spec: asus premium mobo p4 3.2ghz 800fsb pnny 1gh ram 250 gb maxtor hard … |
 | [COLOR=DarkRed]HI ppl: Well I was trying to find an article or guide that'd show me how to Format my current Slave Hard Drive (MAXTOR 36147H8) and then Re-Install it without having any reboot or Recognizion issue but i can't see to find any... so Would u please Help me out? …  |
| | Seems complicated, but I'll try my best to explain. I was having some overheating problems, so I opened up the PC, sucked out the dust and rearranged my SATA and Power cables. Then when I booted my PC up, my BIOS HD Detection gave me a message of "No hard … |
| | What is the best hard drive company out there? Is there really a best? |
| | I am looking for CD copier software which copies directly to CD, without first going onto hard-drive. My PC has Windows Me. Have heard good stuff about Ashampoo Burning Sutdio 6 ... anyone comment on this? At present, I have Musicmatch Jukebox installed...want to replace it, since I find it … |
| | hi, admittedly, i'm a only an intermediate with computers.... and i'm attempting to make my own external hard drive. i just bought a 250 gb hard drive for backup. it's a hitachi sata hdd and i have a nexstar 3 sata enclosure. with such a big hard drive, do i … |
| | hello all, i'm a newbie. and i'm really frustrated and looking for help. recently purchased a dell optiplex gx280 from a local retailer at the mall that was going out of business, so they formatted the hard drive. I loaded an old copy of xp professional that i had and …  |
 | How is hard drive installation? From some people, I hear that it's easy...and from others, it's not. I'm wanting to install a brand new hard drive. Does that mean I'd have to reinstall Windows? If so, that's no problem.. And...how to I access the BIOS information? I think it must … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 8400 with two 250gb Maxtor hard drives in a RAID array. I will call the two hard drives in the machine 0 & 2; those were the positions given to them by the RAID application. One of the drives (0) started to fail (as confirmed … |
| | When I try to boot up my machine this is what I get:-------- Award BootBlock Bios v1.0 Copright(c)2000, Award Software Inc Detecting floppy drive A media Scanning Bios image in hard drive Scanning Bios image in floppy diskette Can not find Bios image in hard drive or floppy diskette! This … |
| | I have a sony vaio laptop and the hard drive died I want to get a new one . Do I have to buy the same harddrive or can I just get any 2.5" hard drive and pop it in. |
| | Hi, My sony PCG-K66P (I don't found this model in many sites) won't boot. History : I have truned on my notebook and after entering user/password in Windows XP Pro, there was the blue screen and the system restarted automatically. I don't have time to view the message. After that, … |
| | Hi, I just got the game Oblivion and i barely met the hardware requirements. I have a Radeon 9800pro which didnt come with my computer, i got it off a friend a few years ago for 100 dollars out of his alienware. My computer only has about 1-2 fans and … |
| | Hi All, Well where I work they are having a problem and I had a solution. Well I was reading on this [URL]http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/HowtoOepnandReadanExcelSpreadsheetinaListViewin.NET11282005034134AM/HowtoOepnandReadanExcelSpreadsheetinaListViewin.NET.aspx?ArticleID=45ca62cf-fb3e-4f0b-b9a4-031b641aae3c[/URL] Well what it does is pull a named range, sticks the data in an array, my software does it's thing, then puts the changed data back into … |
| | If anyone would look through what I have and point out any issues that arise in how it will work with some of the stuff I'm getting to upgrade/replace, I'd be forever greatful :eek: This is what I have as of now: *[URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811164004]Case[/URL] *KINGMAX SuperRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin … |
| | Hi, I am relatively new to Linux and I have inherited a working Linux / Samba server with 13 Win XP users. All is well except that the hard drive is filling very rapidly, about 150 MB a day. I found that every user has a /.recycle/profiles directory on the … |
| | New to this, not tried many forums, do not have the patients to type much. I just ordered Win xp media and a new hard drive. This computer runs Linux vlos 1.1, and would like to know what is required to install this on this no Win. computer using 2 … |
| | I can get this for $1900 How good of a deal is it. Should I jump all over it....is it just moderately ok.......not a deal at all, or a ripoff? Thinkpad T60 Processor Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2500 2.0GHz Operating System Windows® XP Professional Display size, type & resolution 15.1" … |
| | Hi I recently made my desktop folders private through an WindowsXP option.I travelled a long way from home and I hadn't realise what private meaned until I connected my hard drive to an other PC and tried to open my account named folder in Documents and settings in order to … |
| | Hi, My computer recently overheated and after I rebooted it, it wouldn't load properly. So I first checked the BIOS and noticed that the Primary IDE Master, which is my Hard drive, and my Primary IDE Slave, which is my second hard drive, which is my second harddrive, is not … |
| | Hello, I'm new here...great site... Anyway...so I have this problem with a Compaq Presario 5304... It used to have some trouble starting up (ie. you'd plug it in and turn it on, and all the LED lights would blink but it wouldn't actually start) I think someone came and repaired …  |
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