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So after listening to your guys advice i've decided to build my own computer. Here are the list of compents I intend on using: EPoX EP-8KDA3J Skt 754 Nvidia nforce3 AMD athlon 64 3000+ Newcastle Skt 754 Corsair Valueselect 1GB(2x512MB) DDR400 CHAINTECH SA6600 Geforce 6600 256MB AGP Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 …

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I recently added a "COMBO" PCI card to my Intel 845BG board. Card provides SATA, USB 2.0, & FIREWIRE ports. Windows XP was already installed. All drivers that came with card were loaded. I then added 120GB SAMSUNG SATA drive. Two issues: 1. Drive not recognized in BIOS set-up, but …

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I have been a Delphi user for 8 years and now migrated to C++ and have found the changeover quite taxing indeed. I am using Visual Studio .NET and have before that used MSVC 3 and MSVC 6 and always had the same problem: I code my classes and methods …

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This happened to this PC before but it strangely corrected itself after being unplugged several days and has worked fine for the past few months. This is a self-built. Turns on fine, all LED's light, fans start and drives spin up. Get a good load of video then POST continues …

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Hello, I recently bought a 250gb hard drive to use in a disk caddy as a removable back for my other two 120gb drives. When I went to format it, I could only get 127gb. I found out that this could be due to my BIOS and unable to find …

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Hi everyone, I have two ide cables one an ata 133 and the other an ata 100 cable. How do you guys tell the difference between them visually. I having looking at them and they both look the same. Can somone please explain to me in detail(if it is of …

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Here soon, I was hoping to buy an IDE for C++. However, I'm not sure which is the best to buy. I only know of Borland and Microsoft's as popular IDEs. Are there any other popular IDE's that are worth purchasing. I'll be heading off to college here soon, and …

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Hello. I'm just starting Assembly and I'm looking for both a good compiler/IDE or whatever is used and good tutorials to help me get started. Do you guys have any recommendations?

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Im wanting to know how many SATA cables I need and what kind if I want my entire system SATA ready. Im getting an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD mobo, so I know it is SATA compatible. Should I just count how many IDE ribbons …

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I am new to XML/XSLT and have taken a fascination to XSLT. Please take a look at the following and let me know. ========================================================== <?xml version="1.0"?> <FAMILY> <PERSON name="Freddy"/> <PERSON name="Maartje"/> <PERSON name="Gerard"/> <PERSON name="Peter"/> <PET name="Bonzo" type="dog"/> <PET name="Arnie" type="cat"/> </FAMILY> This file is saved as family.xml ========================================================== <?xml …

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I pasted all of the highjackthis report but Idont know if you can read it. I cant get my internet Explorer to download a single thing. I gat a message that IE cant find the file or the file doent exist. If someone could make heads or tails 0f this …

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Hi, I'm new here and wanting to learn C++ to a professional standard. I've been a programmer for 20 odd years mainly on mainframes using COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL etc, assembler and Databases. So some of you guys may appreciate that I like to see the code that does the manipulation. …

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Here is my problem : I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 16MB Cache SATA coupled with a Silicon Image 3112A SATA Controller. I was never able to install Windows XP on this drive as it always crashed before the end. I connect the hard drive to an existing Windows …

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Hi everybody. I am about to buy all these components to build my first computer specifically for recording. Will there be any compatability issues, is there anything else i have forgotten? Will i need to buy any cable's or anything or will they all be supplied? AMD (Newcastle) Athlon 64bit …

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Hi – new user here with a hard drive problem. I currently have a 20 GB Fujitsu hard drive (MPF3204AT) with an ATA-5 interface. All OK until….. I recently bought a used 20 GB Seagate hard drive – with an Ultra ATA/66 interface and can’t get it to work. Other …

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I have installed a second WD Hard drive in my Dell Dimension 4100. I had to use the 40 pin connector originally on my internal Zip drive. I now have nowhere to connect the Zip to the motherboard as all four connections are used up, two for CD drives, two …

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Hi there! I'm kinna new in all this stuff but i'll try to do my best! I have a Toshiba Tecra M1 Laptop and i wanted to exchange my current DVD drive for an slime DVD Writer. The writer is an official one from Toshiba but i didn't buy it …

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:sad: I am about to hall my hear out! Someone please Help. I have a new ASUS P5GD1 and a new SATA drive. The MB only has a Primary IDE controller (Blue), NO Secondary. It has a Primary and secondary RAID controler and 4 SATA controllers. I have 120mb Seagate …

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Does anyone know anything about an opensource C# IDE called SharpDevelop? I'm looking for something to learn with, and don't want to get something that's not going to do me much good. Thanks for any info!

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Hi, newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years old and the XP Device Manager show my …

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I am wondering if someone could tell me what tools I will need to compile and build and executable of Dev-C++ for Fedora Core 3 to install it and run it. I have never worked with Delphi source code and I would appreciate any help with the process and what …

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I need to find out what issues others have been having with their 939 motherboards. I need to find a stable board that is proven and compatible. The last two boards I have used has had an issue with either the ide drivers or something. My first board I had …

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Just built my own computer. Has a Intel Desktop Board D865GBF, Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3eGHz, 800 System Bus, 1MB L2 Cache, MM # 868015 The computer turns on, all the fans come up, and I believe the Hard Drives start. However, When I plug in the Monitor nothing happens. …

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Working on an HP pavilion 4445. (celeron 333). Friend was having weird visual glitches when he plays freecell. Figured just a graphics problem or Windows98 needed updated. Did all that, still problems. Switched cables on the cdrom because that wasn't working. Reformated to install 98se instead, but the cdrom isn't …

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Hi, I'm using MS visual studio 6 for a C++ program. I am able to run the program from IDE, but when I've attempted to run it from the command line, I get a message the program name is unrecognizable. I've included the following code: [CODE]int main(int argc, char *argv[])[/CODE] …

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Ok, Now windows nor my Bios, are seeing my 2 DVD Drives (ones a burner and ones a reader). They both worked 2 days ago, so I know jumpers and things are right, the only thing is, could it be a dead IDE port on my M/B? Plz help me! …

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This has happened before, but was easily fixed. When I turn my computer on everything boots nicely (after a full nights rest) After Windows XP fully boots, it locks up tight (no mouse movements or anything) for about 10-20 seconds and then when I open My Computer, my CD-Rom drives …

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Sorry if this has been covered previously.... Have an Gateway Essential 500 with DVD, burner, zip drive. I have a 20 gig HD in it and have purchased a 120 gig HD. I would like to use thw 20 gig as a slave but there a no additional connections on …

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[B]A Little Rant[/B] I love [URL=http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]ThunderBird[/URL], I really do. I only have one problem with it. I have not yet found an e-mail client as good as thunderbird, and every e-mail client that I have entertained have all come short of one specific attribute that I really like. You can …

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I recently thought that I had a hard drive problem because when I went in and did dskchk it said it had errors. I did a fix but the problem still existed. Many times when I would reboot it would take me to the safe mode, start normally page. Sometimes …

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Hi On my computer: IDE: Primary master :HDD (and the OS win98SE) Secondary Master: HDD Secondary Slave: CDROM The computer sippped recognizing the both HDD (It still can recognize the CDROM) I tried automatic detection via the bios but, nada. I tried using only one cpmponnet at a time,and changing …

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I am not shamelessly promoting this book, I just happen to like it and use it a lot! "Standard C++ Bible" by Stevens and Walnum, published by Hungry Minds. This 800 page plus book is loaded with samples and comes with a CD-ROM containing all the samples and a nifty …

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Ok, I used to have my pc all nice and happy, then when I reformated my PC today, (Which I do about once a month due to lots of issues) Windows is showing up with only 2 harddrives, yet I have 4. Please help me, all my reformatting tools are …

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I currently purchased the following devices to build my new PC and am havin alot of trouble tring to connect. ASUS P5AD2-E Mother board Wester Digital WD2000 Serail ATA HD with SATA connection PLEXTOR PX-716A cd/dvd ATAPI drive IDE I will not be using any of the RAID fuctions. I …

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I have a WD 160 GB 7200 rpm hd on primary IDE channel set as master, its the only thing on that channel. an optical disk is on secondary ide channel. looking in device manager, under ide ata/atpi controllers under primary ide channel advanced properties the transfer mode for both …

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Planning on building a community, be it in the form of a forum or web chat or blog, and planning on being big? Do you invest in shared hosting until you can't hold it any longer, or do you invest in big hardware which should be able to handle the …

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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?

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Hi Everyone, I've read some threads on this forum and found some good hints already :) I'm having trouble writing a script and would appreciate all input, advice, info, or tips. I'd like to write a script that does the following; - identifies current recognized partitions - flags those with …

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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? …

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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: …

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Just reinstalled Xp on my C drive.On startup both Hard drives are found but the drive on Ide 2 does not show up in My Computer or in device manager? The Maxtor 40G drive is quite new and as only been used for backup. Any help Please

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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. …

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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 …

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Hi all, does anyone know of a good compiler I can download for java? It would be nice if it was an IDE but it does not have to be. I currently have the j2sdk-1_4 compiler [url]http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html[/url] and it does not seem to work that well. Also I know that …

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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My CD R/W, working for 2 years, suddenly says all discs are blank But the winbdows troubleshooter says "This device is working fine" The disc goes round The laser lights (for 6 secs while searching the disc) And My Computer, drive E, says the disc is empty Please suggest some …

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It all happened so sudden! I'm not sure about the problem here, but both my CD Roms are dead. My only guess is virus. When I turn my computer on after about 20 minutes of cooling time the cd roms are detected, after the computer is running in Windows XP …

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