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Hi all, Has anyone got an old DD (1Mb unformatted/720K formatted) floppy drive for which you have no use any more? Or has anyone got an older PC (Acorn, Amiga, etc..) which may house one of these? I am asking as I really want to find one of these. If anyone has access to one or knows where I can...

Hello, The whole point of this is just for fun and to get an idea of what people are really running these days, so tell us: How big is YOUR hard drive(s)? I have A WD 200GB plus two raided (RAID-0) 60GB making 320 GB total on my main computer. My second computer uses a WD 40GB, my server has a...

PS/2 mouse movement hacking I need to interface some sensors through PS/2 interface, so it was easy to simulate a mouse. My first idea was to hack a mouse... since all the PS/2protocol would be already prgrammed. Substituting the IR receivers, by the signal they produce I thought my objective...

Got a user who is losing his mouse functionality on his laptop. When he reboots, the pointer will not move with the attached mouse or the pad on the laptop. He shuts down, takes his battery out and reboots again and everything works. I also got it working one time by doing a Windows Update which...

I have Supermicro X5DPR-TG2+ motherboard and Supermicro DAC-ZCRINT zero channel raid controller. I have strange performance problem with this combo: Using onboard Si3112 controllers (SATA) I've got sequential transfer rates on my wd740gd drives: 70Mb/s on single disk and 140Mb/s on RAID 0...

Is there a scanner that allows me to share on both a PC laptop with Windows XP and a G5 powermac?

OK, the background first: Long story short, windows crashed and I couldn't repair it. So now I'm trying to do a fresh install from CD on a brand new HD. However, during the first phase of the installation (blue screen), setup complains about files not being correctly copied from CD. I press retry...

I put in a new 40gig Maxtor HDD in September and it's worked fine...This afternoon my comp was acting a little cranky and I decided to reboot it. It was going fine, the drive needed a check disk, so I let that go. I checked back and it had a blue screen "INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DISK" error. Rebooted. Got...

Hello everyone I have a custom built machine with a 420 watt power supply. This morning I had a large power surge go throughout my house. It fried the two power strips my computer was hooked up to as well as shutting off my machine. I tried to press the power button - nothing. I look inside and...

About a month ago I upgraded my system with a new BIOS, a 40Gb Maxtor 6E040L0 hard drive and Windows XP Professional. The upgrade went smooth with no problems. I then decided to add a second Maxtor 6E040L0 hard drive. I configured the drive as "slave" and attached it to the second connector on...

I just bought a second user system which has inside it: Jetway J-7BXAN Rev 2.1 board (2M Flash ROM V.7BXAS_2/7BXAN_2 L01 08-17-1999 BIOS v4.51PG + P&P Extension V1.0A) Pentium III 450 256MB RAM (64+64+128)

I use presently a Netgear Router and it works fine with Comcast.cable My daughter has a different cable provider in Hagerstown, MD and wants me to get eithert a router or hub. She wants only something between her Motorola Cable modem and the computer to keep back Spam and Viruses. I need to know...

I'm having a duh moment. I haven't built a machine in quite a few years... long enough ago that the FSB wasn't usually a concern. I just bought a bunch of components, including a Intel 2.8GHz processor with a 800MHz FSB. The motherboard I grabbed only supports upto a 533MHz FSB. I'm guessing...

I was wondering how hard the bumps and such while driving are on an operating laptop computer. My main concern is possibly damaging the hard drive. I would like to attach my GPS with it's itty bitty little screen to the computer and use the computer's big screen but I worry about the hard...

Hello I am going to be replacing my WDC 1200AB 120 GB/5400 RPM EIDE hard drive, likely with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7. My question is what hardware (cables, screws, etc) do I need in addition to the new hard drive? Will the new one replace the old one with minimal problems? Any other tips or...

I have recently purchased an ASROCK M266A MAtx motherboard to go into an antec minuet case. I have a question regarding the installation of the board into the systefm. Heres the question - How do you mount the motherboard on to the case using brass stand offs. When I put the stand offs in the case...

I have a procom CDT-21 21 bay scsi cd tower. I would like to change it into a file server by removing the scsi cd drives an replacing them with scsi hard drives. can this be done? I already have 14 scsi hard drives laying around and also have server 2000 os to put on it. any answers would...

1. The Serial ATA hard drives I've seen on Newegg have the same basic stats (Average Seek Time: 8.5 ms, Buffer: 8MB, Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM) as most other drives, yet people say they are faster... why? 2. Does one need a special motherboard to use them? Exactly how does that work?

i have a dvd player in my laptop. was wondering how to get it to play to a real television. i've seen some laptops with built in AV outs. i was wondering if there is a pcmcia (or any other type of port-adapter) that allows video to be transmitted to television...also is it super expensive? i'd...