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 | I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the … |
| | Ok I just put in 2 new sticks of this 2gb memory for my computer: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141227[/url] But when I installed it when I first booted up my computer on the bootscreen it gave me this message: "Serial Presence Detect device data missing or inconclusive. Properly programmed SPD decive is required …  |
| | I literally pulled this laptop from the dumpster. Seems like an interesting project. The confuser displays symptoms similar to the no power issues and fixes listed all the web with some twists. Plug it up to AC with a battery I get the plugged in led and the battery charge … |
| | Have an HP Pavillion when I turn it on I get one short beep code then a chug from the processor then a flashing cursor on the screen, just reformated the hard drive and cannot get that to boot...any suggestions?  |
| | Ok I am fairly new at all this so bare with me. I recently just got a new DiamondMax 10 SATA hard drive, my old hard drive is IDE. I first attempted to pull out the old and stick in the new hard drive with my win xp cd to … |
| | Hi there, I've got a faulty Seagate Hard Drive, it's an 80GB, 7200RPM and has actually been faulty since I had it, I just didn't realise. It was very slow at file transfers but I just assumed it was the standard speed to transfer files between drives (my main one … |
| | I have a g4 ibook running OSX (Panther). After installing Norton System Works my system started running slow. I tried to remove the program, but when I tried to access my applications to do so everything kept freezing up. I restarted w/ the OS disk and ran Disk Utility. It …  |
| | Hello! I'm an IT support person with my own 40 year old indy production company. Bought G5 Oct 2004. We use FCP, Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 9CS and not much else on this G5. One external Western Digital 120G and LeCie DVD burner attached. No third party nor unauthorized software. No … |
| | I have a 6+ yr old HP Pavilion that has been giving me problems off & on for a year or so. The latest problem was with the power supply and that finally died last night. Unfortunately, I have not copied the My Documents folder to CD in the last … |
| | Im building my own custom pc and I just finished getting all the parts and putting it together. I turned it on for the first time today and...the cd rom will not open, or even look like it is powering up. Right now it's the only cd device in the … |
| | I bought a new hard drive, and i was trying to install WIndows XP pro, and when it finishes formatting the patition, it starts to copy files to the hard drive, and like when is like 43%, it says it cant copy a hid.dll file, etc... and i dont know … |
| | I have an older computer that won't boot up. It gets as far as 'Detecting HDD Primary Master' [Press F4 to Skip]. There is no response from the F4 Key. I've checked the CMOS and BIOS and they look fine. I haven't installed any new devices except to swap out … |
| | So I wanted to do a fresh install of Windows XP on my system as my system was getting clutered. When I went to install Windows, it always shuts itself down randomly during the format. If I do a Quick Format, it'll usually crash eitehr during format or when it … |
| | bought a new PC with WinXP, have another hard drive with Win98 I installed in this box on a seperate hard drive, Is there any way I can put both drives in ths tower and make it a dual boot system? I would prefer to keep both operating systems on … |
| | Hello! I'm a total dummy when it comes to programming, and now I have a heck of a data extracing job to do for my graduation thesis :cry: Hopefully somebody can help me in the right direction here, because a whole day of surfing didn't get me to the right … |
| | [B]I have a old computer i want to sell but don't have any idea what it is worth: CTX Computer: 266 MHZ K6 MMX enhanced Have Windows 95 disc, but not installed 32 MB memory 4.3 gigabyte hard drive 24XCD-ROM drive K56 Flex modem 512K pipeline burst cache 4 MB …  |
 | Has anyone used or worked with a [I]Logicube OmniClone 5u[/I] before? I have been asked to use one to clone one hard drive onto 5 drives. Anyone have any input? |
| | Hey I am new to the forum and ya all seem pretty helpful. My computer keeps freezing for no reason when I play FFXI I got an NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 updated with the newest drivers. Running Windows XP with Service pack 2, DirectX 9 is installed and have 30 … |
| | New join, here. I have found myself increasingly interested in DriveCrypt and Encryption lately. I'm sure it has much to do with the fact that I'm currently having a hard-drive encrypted with DriveCrypt put to a "real life" test. My question is, does anyone here know much about this software? … |
| | Okay. I have an old hard drive that needs restoring which needs to put into my computer as a slave drive, restored and then switched to master. Am i right in thinking that all i need to do is chuck the toggle on my my primary drive from cs to … |
| | I have two hard drives: 80 GB with Windows XP installed and 20GB. I took off my 80 GB hard drive and let only 20GB plugged in(I didn't want to mess with my Windows XP system). I then repartitioned the 20GB hard drive and installed Windows 2003 server on it. … |
| | I hope you don't mind rookie posts, but that is what I am. I want to add a 200 gig Maxtor HDD to 2 existing 30 gig Maxtor HDDs. I am running XP Home SP 2 ( Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.2180 ). I have an Asus a7v133 MB w/ 2 ide … |
| | Hola, I'm working on a personal-organizer applet and I'm having trouble saving my to-do lists. I want to save a vector that contains my table data as an object (don't feel like playing with text) and I'd like to save to the folder in my webspace where all of the … |
 | [font=Century Gothic][b]Seven Tips To Keep Your Pc Running At Peak Performance.[/b] By Dave Fraser [/font][url="http://www.pcsandthings.com/"][font=Century Gothic]http://www.pcsandthings.com/[/font][/url] [font=Century Gothic](c) Copyright 2004 [/font] [font=Century Gothic]Did you know that very soon after you start using your computer it begins to slow down and loses that responsive, "fresh out of the box" sort of … |
| | i got a new hard rive installed, but i now have no sound. I went throught the troubleshooting, and nothing seems to work. when i go to the control panel and open sounds and audio devices it is all greyed out and i cant open anything. The trouble shooting that … |
| | I just purchased a Seagate 200gb hard drive. I am trying to install windows xp. I am receiving the following error message: kernel_data_inpage-error. It goes on to read: stop: 0x0000007A (0xe124f3f4,0xc000000e, 0xbf8ed7dd, 0x0c01d860 win32k.sys- address bf8ed7dd base at bf8000000, date stamp 3b7de698. Does anyone know what this means? Please HELP …  |
| | I am using a pentium 4 2.66ghz processor, windows XP professional, 512mb ram 80 gig hard drive etc........... I am using nero 6 to burn a movie file to my dvd rewriter. As soon as I have added the file and click burn (although nero 6 will transcode the file … |
| | Ok, I have an external Hard Drive, I already format it and I have some files in it, I want to divide the Hard Drive into two different partitions, can I do it without losing any of the data I have in it? and also what happens if I select … |
 | the title leading to this post is a typo, the title should read: "DMA disabled" someone please correct it, or delete this post. Hi Everytime I start up linux it gives me a message that the dma is disabled, and I cant figure out how to enable it. Hard drive … |
| | just booting up the pc for the first time, loading up the windows disk but then says unable to find hard drive press enter to reboot. everything is connected up, but my only concern is that i think the disk is not spinning but i am unsure to tell. anyone … |
| | Ok, so I ended up reinstalling Windows XP on my system with my Compaq QuickRestore CD's. The install didn't reset my computer to the factory presets though. None of the bundled software was installed. And, my internet is still acting strange. Some pages load very quickly, while others just hang, … |
| | Hi, I am doing it again, let me start at the end game: I put my old harware in my wife's case, and now it boots with my old SATA drive. But I can not see her original (IDE) drive, which was of course also a bootable XP. [B]WHAT TO … |
| | Greetings, I was hoping that there is somebody that can tell me how to configure a Dual Boot system with Windows XP on one hard drive and SuSe Linux on the other. Most of the support I've seen has been for dual booting from the same hard drive. If anyone … |
| | Hello all. I own a G4 with a 10 gig hard drive, and just got a 290 gig hard drive for iTunes. Unfortuately, I opted to go the external harddrive route via firewire and it freezes up ALL THE TIME. I can't enjoy my music like this, so I figured … |
| | Recently we've been getting a lot of questions from people who basically have the same problem - they've assembled a PC but it won't start up correctly! There is a standard troubleshooting procedure for that scenario which everyone should follow, and I'll describe it to you in a moment. But …  |
| | Can I take my old hard drive, install it in the new computer, uninstall everything on the new computer's hard drive and transfer the operating system and files from my old hard drive? |
 | Ok heres my problem, i get stuck at the boot screen before loading windows. It wont load up because it sais that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I can get on my computer and use that hard-drive, by booting up on this old 8GB Quantum i have with XP installed. … |
 | OK, very long story, so I'll try to make it quick (I've posted a lot of questions lately...sorry!) Computer is: Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-LA (AGP 8x, 3 PCI) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.16GHz RAM: 512 MB Power Supply: (just added) Seasonic Supersilencer 350W Current Video Card, Added: BMG (NVidia) GeForce4 … |
| | Ok, here's the story... I reformatted my computer today, I was getting my drivers (still can't find a damn audio driver :\) I rebooted, and all of the sudden my second hard drive isnt showing up? Its not registering at all anymore, what can I do, what happened, etc..? |
| | First off I will start with my system. Dell Dimension 8400 3.4 Ghz Pentium 4 550 w/HT Seagate Barricuda 160 GB HD (ST3160023AS) 1 GB Dual Channel PC3200 (2 DIMMs) 400Mhz NVidia GeForce 6800 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Now when I use this PC, doing things that require a … |
| | CDR101: Not ready reading drive N Abort, Retry, Fail? |
| | I'm trying to delete a .avi file that I have on an external hard drive in the limewire incomplete downloads folder. I've tried every option I know of and everytime I try to delete it says it's being used by a different program. I've tried restarting, shutting down, closing programs … |
| | I'm ready to buy a plug-n-play external hard drive for a USB 2.0-compatible machine. I live about a mile from Frye's, but don't have a clue once I get in the store. Would appreciate a specific recommendation. Thanks. |
| | Hello all, I've recently put together an older computer for my mother. The computer will POST, and it recognizes the sound card, hard drive and recognizes the video card. However, after post when it is going to load it goes to a blank screen that says: "Press A Key To … |
| | Hi I have been given a free 500Mhz socket 7 computer Ultra DMA 33;DMA Mode 2 support I want to make a cheap file server, but since I'm not able to put any hard drive over 8.4 gigs I am looking at ATA add-in cards to solve my problem. Will … |
| | Hey guys, my old PC's motherboard firied! but I wanted to save my files that were on my hard drive, so I made it a slave on another computer. now I cannot acesses the files on the slave due to them being password protected. I have tryed setting the jumpers … |
| | Hi everyone i need ur help in solving problem of my PC. I PC was working fine with windows xp professional but after installing SP2 on it it keep rebooting. It is giving me following error stop : c0000221 unknown hard error %systemroot%/system32/ntdll.dll i call microsoft and dell both but …  |
| | Here is my hard disk. [color=black]It's a Western Digital Raptor WD740GD. It is the world's fastest SATA HDD and is absolutely stunning! Unfortunately, its only 74 GB and now I have to choose between lots of games and dual booting Fedora core... [/color] [QUOTE][b]Western Digital Raptor (wd740gd) 74 GB Hard … |
| | My old hdd died last week and I found a good deal on a 200GB Maxtor. The broblem is that I'm using Windows 2k Pro which will normally only recognize 137GB, it came with software that will enable the OS to recognize the larger hdd as long as the W2k … |
| | I saw similar thread but none were identical to my problem. here goes my stats: IBM thinkpad a20m (older model) MS Windows XP SP2 192 MB 6 GB Hard drive I recently installed panda anti-virus and noticed hard drive space was low (around 1 gig free before installation) heres what … |
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