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| | Hey, Ive seen people post about this today before after hours of research lol how to spend my day trying to find a cure, i thought i had one from this site untill i found it didnt work for me so i wondered if anyone could bother to help me, … |
 | 1. I don't have any special concern, but I was just wondering if my system/computer is overheated? 2.Is there any way of checking this out? 3.And what is the recommended temperatur for a regular system. I don't have any additional cooling/fans, only the ones that came with the system as …  |
| | I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows … |
| | On boot up my comp doesn't recognise my 'D' drive. :cry: I have two Hard drives. One of which is partiotioned making the hard drive into two (C,E) The second hard drive is 'D' This has happened before and usually I just reboot the system and all is ok, but …  |
| | I have an asus mobo with athalon 1.4ghz thunderbird. i'm running a maxtor 200gb sata hd with sata card and another maxtor 80gb ide hard drive. both drives work fine, but the sata runs extremely slow. booting up on the sata takes about 15 minutes. what's going on?  |
| | As of the past two months I cannot get my TiBook to go for 2 days without it crashing. I'm not sure if crashing is the appropriate word but the computer will either freeze and need a restart or I will go to turn it on and in both instances …  |
| | In 1999, I bought a computer from a company called Midwest Micro. When I bought the computer, it had Windows 98 installed and came with a 200 GB hard drive. I never had any trouble with it until last year. Something caused the hard drive to shrink from a 200 …  |
| | Hello - I am a new user I have a dual boot Windows XP system running two hard drives - one for Linux and another for Windows XP. I would like to wipe my Linux operating system and claim the other hard drive for Windows XP. I would like to … |
| | ok...so my last mobo & chip & audio card took a dump.... so i bought all new gear. 2.8 intel & mobo, 200gig hd, 1gig memory & audio card is coming. here is my problems.... 1. the new hd is sata...the old one is ata.... and when i try to … |
| | The hard drive on my Presario R3000 crashed last night, and I'm trying to get a handle on how screwed I am. Compaq's sending me a new drive, but I'm going to try to recover what I can, first. The error when booting is PXE-E61, and it says to check …  |
| | I need more storage space for my digital video collection and I am trying to figure out the best option. I currently have two hard drives. One is dedicated to Windows and my applications. The other is dedicated to my digital collection and is full. I could try to add …  |
| | Hi I hope all you wonderful people out there can help me I have just built my computer and it has two SATA drives fitted. I installed an O/S and the system has been running fine for the last two days. However this morning I turned it on and received … |
| | I would like to install two hard drives. One is a 200gb maxtor and the other a 160gb seagate. What would be the best way to do this? thanks. |
| | Hi I hope you guys an help me. I have just built a PC and put two SATA Seagate hard drives in (ST3160827AS) both 160 GBs. The thing is in “my computers |
| | Hey guys, I have spent about a week now trying to install Windows on my old machine, which originally had Windows 95 installed. The problem is, I can get into installation through the setup.exe commands when the PC boots up, but after it asks me if I agree the Microsoft …  |
| | Does anyone know any tips on recalling files, folders etc. from your computers hard drive, even from 2 years ago? I know it can be done with special tools/programs - i think. It sounds interesting? I would like to know how. |
| | Hello -- I am new to this forum... I have a dual boot machine with one hard drive dedicated to Linux, but I would like to undo that and claim the drive for Windows XP and make the system exclusively Windows XP. How can I do that? |
| | A little history.... I had built a computer for the first time about 6 months ago. Last week my daughter dropped the tower on the floor and the motherboard somehow got messed up. I was using an EPOX 8RDA3+. The new motherboard is an ABIT NF7S. When I replaced the … |
| | first of all like to thank everybody for the help with the wiring of the motherboard to get it back up and running, but now i have a different problem i turn on the unit and i get a white screen with a floppy icon and a blinking question mark? …  |
| | Hi there, I am running windows ME and just recently my keyboard started not responding properly. When you type nothing comes up but you can hear a "beeping/clicking" sound from inside the hard drive. All of a sudden loads of characters appear (presumably the ones you have pressed) and then … |
| | I have no idea if I am in the right place since this is my first time here. My problem is this: I reformatted my computer and when I was booting it up to load windows and all that my computer just stops with a flashing cursor at this message: … |
 | Here is a thread I posted earlier in the Windows forums. I have continued my questions in the Linux forum because this is becoming more Linux related. [url]http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?p=95084&posted=1#post95084[/url] Now don't get me wrong here, I love Linux (even though I am still very new to it), but I can't feel … |
| | I just bought a Soltek SL-K8TPro-939. I also bought a new serial ATA hard drive. In my old computer I had an 80gb ide bought a few months ago. I put both in the new computer and the Motherboard recognizes the serial ATA but does not see the IDE drive. … |
| | Hi, I've had a few varieties of this general problem for a while now but it's gotten to the point where I'm kind of at a standstill with it. When I first built my computer everything worked fine. After about a year and a half (just recently), though, I've started … |
| | We have a friend's computer. It's a really old HP and a desktop, not a tower. We cannot remove the hard drive. It seems to be on a slide out tray but the tray gets hung up on something we cannot see. Vectra VL is on the power switch box. … |
| | I've been trying to get a triple-boot set up with Windows 98, Windows XP, and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. Here is the setup I had BEFORHAND: Hard Drive 1: - Partition 1, FAT32, 80gb, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Hard Drive 2 - Partition 1, NTFS, 80gb, Microsoft Windows XP … |
| | [FONT=Century Gothic]Man I hope someone can come to my aid! Here is what happened to interrupt the flow of my hard-working, productive g4 15" Powerbook status quo... and then what happened/is happening as a result (which some might see as simple Karmic retribution)(but help with the advice anyway): I was … |
| | I would like to create a disk image to use for Network Install on my network, but every time I try to create the image in Disk Utility I get the error "Device busy" and it doesn't let me create the image. I've tried saving it to a different hard … |
| | Hi, My hard drive is slow to access (can be 60s). Before I buy a new drive would you take a look at this HijackThis log and see if you can spot any malware. Thanks, JGC Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 15:07:59, on 15/02/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 … |
| | Hi I just bought a new Seagate 40GB ST94811A [url]http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st94811a.html[/url] for my Toshiba Satellite 3000 x4 I installed the new drive as master, then booted it said no operating system as I missed the BIOS setup so I restarted then did F2 to get into BIOS (Phoenix 4 build 6.0) … |
| | I'm new to this so please be gentle with me :confused: I want to fit a new motherboard to get more performance from my PC. It is currently 1GHz, 128Mb RAM. I can only fit a maximum of 512 RAM so I want to get a better processor and more … |
| | I work at a salon, and am opening my own soon. All my customers names etc are on work computer. Can I just put a disc into the hard drive and copy them? |
| | I get this error. I reformatted my hard drive this morning. I used winsockfix. Earlier my internet worked, now it does not. I can connect to aim, but when I try to view webpages, this message comes up. Firefox doesn't have any results either. What else should I do? I … |
| | Hello all. Not sure who can help here, but I have a major problem with a hard drive. Now I am not sure about all the details. I am aware of the fact though that my hard drive does not work right for some reason. When hooking up to the … |
| | I have been busy this past week or two looking at all of the different distributions. I must say I am very impressed. The most amazing is the Live CD. For those that do not know it is an entire OS that is on one CD and loads and configures … |
| | Okay, this is driving me crazy. I recently purchased a segate 200 gig hard drive for my windows 98 second edition system (I am using a pentium III computer with a asus cusl2 motherboard). When I first installed the segate hard drive, I only could access the first 132 GIG. … |
| | Hi all, Hope that somebody can help me with this as I am really at my wits end! I've just been rebuilding my system from scratch. One minor point, the new Windows XP install insists on formatting both my HDs to 18.6 GIG, where as previously it did not have … |
 | i recently got the gmail hard drive thingy that lets you store upto a gb on your gmail account as if it was a hard drive. no i know this is probably impossible to do but could you somehow combine the space from all your gmail accounts (i have 51 … |
| | New to forum. I have several computers in my house online with my cable company as ISP, via a Belkin router. No problems getting online with any of the PC's, either hardwired or by wireless connection, except one PC which happens to be via an ethernet cable. Cannot get online … |
| | I have two hard drives on my primary IDE and two CD/DVD ROM drives on my secondary IDE. I would like to add another hard drive. Is this possible with this configuration? Thanks. -Jim |
| | Alright...I hope i can explain my little problem here without confusing anyone because for the most part I am a big dummy when it comes to computers. Lets start by saying that I was, and still am, interested in running a dual boot system on my pc and somewhere along …  |
| | Need your help please i have a 97 apple power mac G3 model m4405 with floppy drive ,cd drive and single hard drive the problem started sunday i went out with a few friends to a club to watch the superbowl game and my son thought he would help his … |
| | Help the other day i went to a superbowl party and my kid go into my apple computer He pulled out all the power and ribbon cables and i dont have a clue where they connect on the board??? its an apple powermac G3 tower 97 vintage ,it contains a … |
| | ok guys first time poster here so ill try give you much detail as i can hopefully someone can solve this ok am trying to installing XP onto a new hard drive Maxtor 80gb 7200 8mb catche (its only for testing appz on) ok on boot up i click F8 … |
| | Can applets display images on the viewers hard drive somehow? If so how would I do that? And if I dont know the filenames but I know the directory, is there a way to do it?  |
| | I have an extra hard drive for my laptop. Is there a way that I can modify this hard drive to be an external hard drive to work with the hard drive that I already have? Thanks |
| | i just installed a new hd (6.4g). i think it's all hooked up right so when i try to install wondows 98, it freezes up in the same spot, just after the initial prep..any suggestions?? |
| | My computer's Windows XP OS recently "crashed" so I put in a new hard drive with Windows ME OS. I've installed everything with the replacement hard drive, but for some reason I can't get it to recognize my other hard drives that have information written from the XP OS. The … |
| | 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 cd" and then "boot failure please insert disk and press … |
| | I have a desktop computer with windows Xp Professionnal sp2. When my computer has been turned off for the night or for an hour or so, windows Xp won't boot. I see the bios and everything goes well. Then just before the windows logo is supposed to appear, it just … |
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