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[B][Moderator's note: post has been split from [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post36464.html#post36464"]this older thread[/URL]][/B] Have to write this again as the window apparantly closed out on me mid question....anywho.... I am having a similar problem where when the computer is loading up and after detecting the primary and slave drives it will state that …

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Hey guys, I'm for the most part a backend programmer but I'm taking a GUI class as a elective, and I'm haveing some problems with an applet. Part of the assigment is to create a logo design that displays a bunch of pentagons in a circle with different colors and …

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I hope some one can give me some advice. My computer was put into storage for near on three years. I got it out last march and it started no problems. I have recently pulled it out again and when I turn it on it starts to load then stops …

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Hi everybody...I'm not a big hardware guy, but I'll try my best to explain my dilemma... I seem to be having a problem with my new 40 pin 250 gig IDE Segate hard drive....Currently I already have a primary Serial ATA only Hard drive which is of course directly hooked …

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Hi All I am new to building PCs. Ihave installed a Gigabyte GA 81945p Pro board and bios does not seem to identify any hard drive or optical drive connected to IDE 2. If they are connected to IDE 1 they are identified. Can anyone help

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Hi All I am new to building PCs. Ihave installed a Gigabyte GA 81945p Pro board and bios does not seem to identify any hard drive or optical drive connected to IDE 2. If they are connected to IDE 1 they are identified. Can anyone help

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Hi all, Having yet more problems with my New Mobo and Win XP. I have now successfully installed SP2. But my PC crashes randomly. I suspected this to be due to me trying to Overclock the processor via the BIOS but having reset the values to default. The problem still …

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[COLOR=#000000]Hi,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I am adding a new SATA drive to my system which previously only had an IDE drive. The simple (doh) plan was to reinstall windows on the SATA drive and then to copy my work files etc across from my IDE drive which will then just act …

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Hi, I'm running on: P4 3.0Ghz ASRock 775i65GV mobo 1 x SATA Maxtor 6L080M0 HDD 1 x IDE DVD Benq Rewriter (Master on Secondary IDE channel) 1 x IDE DVD Samsung Reader (Slave on Secondary IDE channel) Geforce FX5200 Video The BIOS detects all hardware (SATA drive at UDMA 6) …

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Hey all Ive had an argument with my batch mates. They say that a floppy drive is an IDE drive. I say it is not. Can any of you guys confirm which of us is right? Thanks

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Hi, I have an assignment in school, please help me. here is the problem. Write a program that will read in a weight in ounces and pounds and will ouput the equivalent weight in kilograms and grams. I have already design the form using netbeans, but i don't know how …

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Hello all, I am hoping some will be able to help me. I have a system that I built over a year ago that has some problems now. First I will give you the system's information. Motherboard is A8N-SLI Deluxe, CPU is AMD FX-55 2600, 1x Asus EA800XL video card, …

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I am learing the book: Foundations of Python Network Programming - Apress 2004 When I tried this: [CODE] import socket, sys host = sys.argv[1] textport = sys.argv[2] #.... [/CODE] Then my IDE notify me this exception when debug: """IndexError: list index out of range: host = sys.argv[1] """ When I …

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Hello everyone. I have an AMD system I would like to sell, with the following specifications: *CPU: AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz (200 MHz FSB). *Memory: 512 MB (SDRAM, 133 MHz) -> see note. *Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 graphics card (250 MHz GPU clock, 250 MHz memory clock, 64 MB …

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Hi guys i have a problem with my computer. When i switch it on at the wall my computer boots up staight away without me pressing the on button?? it then brings up a black screen with the following message: Performing automatic IDE configuration... Drive 0: Disk drive Drive 2: …

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Hi all....... As you proberbly know i am a newbe here so please forgive me if im in the wrong place.... :?: What im wanting to do is make a homemade Ide - Usb converter but i dont know the specs or what wires go where...I know the easier option …

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Hello again: I seek assistance on what I believed would be an easy problem to solve, but, after much searching, I have not yet discovered a valid answer: I have a canvas which consists of a background GIF upon which (when triggered) at least one new (smaller) GIF will appear, …

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[B]WinX64 not seeing SATA drive[/B] Hope this is the place to ask. Just installed WinX64 and it sees all IDE drives but not the SATA. My mobo picks it up in the bios. I did not use the F6 command when i installed WinX64 seeing as i was going to …

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Hey i don't know a lot about computers. I have just bought a new WD 250G SATA HDD. I currently have a IDE HDD. I want to use the SATA HDD just for storage and no OS on it. Do i need to asign a MASTER/SLAVE to the SATA HDD??? …

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Yesterday I was using my Compaq v2030 laptop and I suddanly got the bluescreen error message "KERNAL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR" it said some other stuff that I didn't quite catch...maybe something about deleting physical memory...and "STOP: 0x00000077" and then it froze up. When I tried restarting it this morning the computer began starting …

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Hi Folks, I have a VB 2005 app (2.0 Framework) that I've published out to one of our fileservers in our company, so users can download/install and run it. It published fine, but when I go to install it on another PC (which I'm logged into with Admin rights), I …

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Hi all, I'm having this problem with my newly rebuilt computer. It's the CPU, I think it's getting too hot, Speedfan reports it around 40C idle and on full load I've seen it hit 76C (the room ambient temp is around 25C). I haven't overclocked it, that's beyond my knowledge. …

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Had a working PC with Windows XP, out of no where, the hard drive is not detected at startup (BIOS). The model of the hard drive is WD 160 IDE. This drive was on a Master setting of a Master-Slave setup. Tried playing with the jumper setting to see if …

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Why would someone buy a ide external case instead of a sata one? Wouldn't it be faster with a sata drive?

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I recently purchased an 150GB Sumsung SATA HD because my current 60GB IDE Maxtor drive is nearly full and quite old. I hooked everything the SATA HD up and started my system. It was still running of my old HD so I went to Computer Manager etc and formatted the …

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Hi--Built a new PC using: ECS NFORCE3-A motherboard AMD Sempron 3100+ processor with Coolmaster heatsink Corsair memory (DDR 1GB PC-3200)-single module ATI Radeon 9200 video card (128M) Raidmax Scorpio 868 case - 420W power supply 6GB Maxtor hard drive LG CRD-8400B CD-ROM Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG Eventually got everything working perfectly …

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A friend of mine just introduced me to the Eclipse IDE, which may or may not end up replacing IDLE for me. Anyway, one of the features of Eclipse is error warnings as the code is *displayed*, rather than waiting for errors to pop up at runtime. This code got …

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Hi, I want to create an application like character map, for only specific characters, and extra features. There is quite a large problem in doing this though. I want to have controls whos captions have these special characters. However when I am creating this using my IDE, Pasting these characters …

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Hello, all. About two years ago, I built myself a nice system. Last month, during record-setting heat, I turned it off one night, and it wouldn't work when I next powered it on. The first time, it got through POST then said that the registry was corrupt and rebooted. It …

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i bought a motherborad for my dell dimension desktop it is a biostar I865GV-M7 motherboard i installed xp but when i boot the system after detecting my ide drives it asks me to press F1 always to continue but i think it should not be like that . do u …

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I bought an I/O Magic USB 2.0 Enclosure for 3.5" Hard Drive to use with my new HP running Windows XP Pro. My old W2000 machine died last week and it was time for a proper burial. The old machine was IDE and the new is S-ATA. This enclosure worked …

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I was initially setting my master and slave drives but when I rebooted the slave was not being recognized so I checked the IDE cable to see if there was an issue. I did this a couple of times only to find it was not working, I also got no …

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I just installed a new Asus Premium SLI motherboard.... I have been having the usual problems, but just when I thought I had it figured out and I was installing my programs, the computer decided not to recognize my DVD or CD drives. I have four dvd drives. two of …

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I have been taking some web component courses from Sun to help with the cert exam. I have to say that I really do not understand what is so hard about learning Java/JSP web development and how much weight is given to a certification. I'm not at all ripping on …

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I have a secondary computer that refuses to recognize a slave drive on the primary IDE channel. I have changed the cable, and also tried different drives, jumpered Cable Select or slave. But the bios does not see that slave, although the master is OK in all cases. I also …

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Greetings! I can't get my CD drive to work. Perhaps after reading the issue someone could either help me out or point me in the direction of a previous post answering the question. When I put a CD in the drive, the system tries to read it but fails, and …

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I've had this problem before, but hit reset and it worked fine. This afternoon I can't get past this screen. It says detecting IDE drives... and just sits. I can't even hit Delete to enter BIOS. I've had overclock failures before and I go into BIOS and hit loda optimized …

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hello, I read all the applicable threads for my question but I can't seem to solve it. My old drive is SATA from which my PC boots. I installed a new 80gb IDE drive and my troubles began. 1) I have Separate ribbon cables for IDE drive and DVD-ROM. At …

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I always welcome to suggest me about this post I heard that SATA harddisk and IDE harddisk can't use same, isn't it? I have both of drives, but i have no courage to use same time, any problems occur? or will work properly?:?:

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newbie here.... I have a Dell dimension 2400. My old hard drive is IDE. I just bought a Western 250 gig SATA (stupid me....did not pay attention). Is there anyway I can use it on an IDE motherboard ? what is the best/cheapest way to convert ? :eek:

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hello, i recently built a computer for someone I know, and it was working flawlessly, installed windows, drivers, etc. No problems at all! Then, my girlfriend wanted me to set up her computer where the other computer was plugged in, and when I moved the computer to the other side …

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I have been working on getting a RAID 1 working on a Dell desktop computer. I have the IDE card installed and working. I was able to mirror the master drive to the slave while testing if it would work. Everything has worked out just fine, except one big problem. …

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I made a simple chat program and file send (server/client) type. everything works fine when i run them in the IDE but after i make them EXE and test them when i do the file send the program that the file is being sent to just closes. the chat part …

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I have an IDE drive (200 GB) connected to my motherboard, set to master, with an SATA drive (320 GB) as well. I am trying to install Windows XP on the IDE drive so that can be my primary drive and my secondary drive (SATA) can be used to store …

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Basically, I hooked up a new Western Digital EIDE 160 gig hard drive(WD Caviar SE - 7200 RPM, if that matters at all) I put the disk into the CD drive that includes software to help partition the hard drive and such, and it works fine. I restart the computer, …

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Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when …

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Hello all.... Just learnt VB .NET yesterday and would like to continue to the ASP .NET book using the VB .NET IDE to program. The thing is... when I start a new project in VB .NET there are no templates for ASP .NET Web Application. Do I need to download …

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Hello, I am an advanced computer user, yet new with laptop hardware; I am wondering if a hard drive upgrade procedure would differ on a laptop than pc, as it seems straight forward-- or am I ignorant? I pulled my 5gb from my Toshiba Tecra 8100 and cloned it to …

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Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows …

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