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Ok I have a Dell Dimension 4500S, just over 3 years old, which consists of: 2.0 P4 256MB DDR RAM – upgradeable to 1Gb (1 free slot) 40Gb IDE Hard Drive Its been having a hard time recently having connected to a wireless network and dealing with internet & anti-virus …

Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron

I recently had a brief back and forth with nizzy1115 about IDE channel sharing and how to set up drives on the channels for maximum performance. Since there isn't a "right answer", I was curious what everyone's take was. My opinion is that harddrives are used more often than optical …

Rite now my com is in the state where it continue to loop at DOS....when i entered the bios mode it shows that the primary IDE doesnt detect my hard disk....So how do i go on about in fixing this problem.....and could anyone tell what the real problem is? please …

Hello, I am planning to add ide or sata pci controller card into my pc to break the bios barrier limitations. What I wish is to install the operating system on it and make it a boot drive. And the cdroms will be attached to the onboard ide. Is it …

Hello, I start learning Python GUI using Tkinter as IDE I'm using wing IDE 2.0.3 trial. I'm using Tkinter mainly because of very good debugger. Belive it or not I get exception in this code: [code] from Tkinter import * root = Tk ( ) my_container = Frame ( root …

well i figure my motherboard is messed up anyways, and pulling the amd thing from the other board wont workc ause it doesnt fit, so heres waht i did i pulled the motherboard + processor from an older computer (amd k something something) and put it in the newer shell. …

My Inspiron 8000 won't boot up. The Inspiron flash page with "press F2 for setup" and 'press F12 for boot page, comes up and then just a cursor. The flash page won't respond to the F2/F12 keys and the blank page that comes up after the flash page won't respond …

[color=navy]AFLAX [/color][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFLAX"][color=navy](Wikipedia Entry)[/color][/url][color=navy] is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash …

Afternoon folks, One of our Macs needs a hard drive upgrade from a 10gb to an 80gb hdd. I have never done this on a mac before and would like to know the best way to go about this. I have made an image of the HDD using Carbon Copy …

Hi, I'm building a RAID array with 5 SATA drives (WD250gb). I'm using the broadcom RAIDcore 8 port adapter. I have a brand new Antec 530W power supply. For some reason, I can't get all the drives to spin up. I generally get the controller to recognize 2 drives okay, …

I need a little help trying to setup a backup process. I cant seem to figure out the best way todo it. I was hoping if I explained my setup you might be able to give me ideas. Ok here it is: PC1) Win XP w/ 2 160 SATA drives. …

I'm wondering if they make such a thing. I just got a new computer with a SATA hard drive, but i have 2 fine IDE hard drives that aren't being used. One has all of my music, and the other has files on it that I would like to retrieve. …

Hi, I just recently bought a new computer from customperfection.com they installed a WD rapter 74gb 10 000rpm drive and installed windows on it. It shows up in bios and works wonderfully. The problem i am having is installing my old HD from my old computer which isnt working properly …

Hi My CD-writer (HP CD-writer plus 9150i) is not detected by the BIOS. I have had it for several years (since I got the computer) and have not used it much. The problem where there from the beginning I think. However during short periods (typically a week) it has been …

yes i have an emachines 1.8 GHz Intel celeron PC and I am trying to add a second hard drive. when i plug it in (power and IDE cable) and try to boot it says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND". When i unplug the new drive my first drive boots into …

I ran all antivirus software and spyware prevention software I could, but nothing worked. I really appreciate any help I could get. Here is my hackthis startuplist: StartupList report, 10/24/2005, 1:23:24 AM StartupList version: 1.52.2 Started from : C:\Documents and Settings\Mr X\Desktop\HijackThis.EXE Detected: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Detected: Internet …

Help!! I'm having loads of popups and I don't know why, I've scanned loads of times but nothing gets rid of them. PLease help...please.... StartupList report, 23/10/2005, 01:59:01 StartupList version: 1.52.2 Started from : C:\Documents and Settings\Jamie Lowry\My Documents\hijackthis\hijackthis\HijackThis.EXE Detected: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Detected: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 …

So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and …

Alright I have a Giga-Byte mother board (Duo Pro) that supports SATA. I have two SATA hard drives, on is the Existing Western Digital 80G (this one windows is messed up on and in order to fix I need to setup my old drive is a Slave so that I …

Since no one ever replied to my previous post [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33862.html[/url] , I am rephrasing and refining my q....plz ans this time ULTIMATE HARD DISK SETTINGS - brain racking question Respected Tech gurus and dear forum members Here goes the situation: I have one INTEL 865 GBF motherboard As far as …

Okay I have copy and pasted the code from the tutorial on the jpg image [url]http://daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33791.html[/url] onto my IDE editor. This time no problem with indents! Now I need to know how to instal required wxPython. I have Windows XP, also Python 2.4. Where do I best get free wxPython …

I'm trying to pass arguments to my program so that I can store them into an array. For some reason my IDE/compiler is treating the blank space in between arguments as an argument. I'm using bloodshed, but it doesn't say anything about a seperation character. Can anyone tell me what …

Hi guys & gals first post newbie here, found the forum on good old google. I posted this first under an existing thread from Garandan of 5th sep and its been pointed out to me better to start a new thread to get answers so here goes. I have almost …

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! I have the following hardware: Intel D865PERL Board SATA 0: Maxtor 6B200M0 SATA 1: (empty) Primary IDE (Master): Westren Digital WD400BB Primary IDE (Slave): (empty) Secondary IDE (Master): Yamaha CDR2200E Secondary IDE (Slave): Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-115 Now, hewre are some shots: Simple Device Manager: [img]http://www.imagewhiz.com/images/DoomerDGR8/1main.jpg[/img] Detail of Primary IDE …

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 2 200 gig hard drives (ata133 7200 rpm 8mg cash). in simple terms, would putting the os on one drive and and other files like music/videos etc on the other actually increase the speed of the computers read/write? My question is because they are both ide on the …

Hi, I just put together my new comp. Asus P5Ld2 Pentium prescott LGA775 3 ghz Samsung 160 gig sata Zalman CNPS7700-Cu I have a couple of questions and i hope i can ask them all here. First is instead of buying a new HDD, I took my old one that …

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hi im using VS .net, MS Access and c# language. basically i tried to do an update command using oleDbDataAdapter and commandbuilder. i also searched for tutorials but i still cant get things going. could someone please tell me how come i couldnt generate update and delete commands using oleDbDataAdapter? …

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 …

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 …

am having a problem and feel I have tried everything to fix it. I just re-installed XP and updated my BIOS. And I am still having this problem: When I attempt to install a program from CD, for example Adobe Photoshop 6 the following screen appears to go normally: [url]http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/7765/screen18sj.jpg[/url] …

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 …

Hi I have a Toshiba 1410 laptop and i bought a Toshiba SD-R2212 dvd-cd/rw drive for it. When i installed it i got the IDE#1 error, so i read some threads on here about changing the firmware and how its best to use another laptop etc. Problem is i dont …

Hi Can anyone help please I have recently installed a new HD, setup XP Pro SP2 and all seemed to be working well. Recently when I plugged in my USB Memory Sticks, the stick shows up in my Computer, (will not autoplay) but when I doulbe click to open it, …

For my simple programs I have wirtten, I have just been using a simple editer with syntax highlighting. This seems sufficient. What kinds of thing can a good IDE do for me?

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me out please. I am trying to replace a faulty DVD/CD-RW drive in a Toshiba Satellite A-10. The original drive is a SD-R2412. I am trying to replace it with a TS-L462 by Toshiba/Samsung. The drive fits fine and light flashes when …

Right, I have a dual PII 266mhz each Compaq Proliant 1600r Rackmount Server with 512mb of ram, IDE CD, 2gb IDE HDD, and 3 2gb SCSI HDD'S. Should I install GRUB for fedora on had1 or sda1. The IDE HDD is new by the way. I know the server is …

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 …

Hello all, I'm trying to track the source of a number of problems that have started occuring: Computer won't shut down, restarts instead. Sometimes restarting approx 5min. after booting. A: drive will only allow 2 or three files to be saved from ANY program and then locks up. Gives virtual …

I'm having an issue with an application connected to a database, where when I open the application it seems there is a blank record that cannot be edited or saved. The user can't just start entering data into blank fields, but MUST click a button to add a new record …

Hello, I've been experimenting with different Python IDEs since I started to learn Python. I must say that WingIDE is the best I tried, but unfortunately it's not free and that 10 minutes use is killing me. So I decide to write my Python programs in DrPython which was recommended …

I have an oldish machine but it runs fedora (just). However, i got a new but old HDD so I could install more packages and decided just to reinstall. My rig is a server with 3 scsi drives (2gb each) and a 2gb IDE HDD. (new). I am installing from …

Hello, I'm trying to execute this simple code: [code] class Person: population = 0 def __init__(self, name): print 'Creating % s peron' % name self.name = name Person.population += 1 def __del__(self): print 'Destroying %s person' % self.name Person.population -= 1 prvi = Person('Asimi') drugi = Person('Mici') [/code] I'm using …

Ok, so here is my problem. I'm re-building an old computer, probably an early P2, not too sure, and when I boot it up the CPU fan turns on, but the hard drive doesn't boot. However if I unplug the hard drive's IDE cable, then it starts to spin. I …

Those proliant 1600 hdd drive at 2.1 gig each - can you buy them anywhere still as it wont take a standard IDE one and other SCSI drives dont fit into the rails.

Hey fellow geniuses I've got 2 RAM sticks --> 512 mb @ 400MHz --> 512 mb @ 333MHz Here's the problem. When I install the RAM sticks individually one at a time, the computer starts up fine. But, when I install both of them, the BIOS gives me three long …

My PC has problems booting sometimes, as of recently. It gets past the BIOS stage, but then I just have a flashing cursor in the top-left. [I]I have tried removing:[/I] All USB devices HD IDE and floppy cables The new PCI card I had, and sent back, as I thought …