Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor 36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard. I created...

I've been looking at this motherboard for one of my test machines, but one thing concerns me. The VIA firewire chip. Has anyone (1) Got this board? (2) Have you used the FireWire aspect of this board and experienced any problems? Thanks. @drian.

Can anyone recommend a quality black case with 120mm fan mounts and provisions to cool two fast hard drives? Full or mid tower is fine. I've tried the Antec Sonata but didn't like it as it didn't provide sufficient cooling for the hard drives. Thanks. @drian.

I highly doubt this matters much, but if you had a CD burner and a DVD burner, which would you put on the Primary Master and Secondary Master? I'm considering installing these in a test machine I have and plan to install the DVD burner on the Primary Master and the CD burner on the...

Are replacement motherboards, say, from Intel, usually ones that have been repaired from other customers or are they brand new? I contacted Intel regarding a faulty motherboard I have and they told me when they get my board, they'll send another one out within two business days. @drian.

Can anyone recommend a reliable, quick and feature-packed PCI RAID controller for use with a pair of WD Raptor (WD360GD) drives? I cannot get my Raptors to boot to Windows XP using a RAID 0 array with the ICH5-R on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard. Considering it refuses to boot the O.S., I've...

I've been reading the newsgroups via Google for a few hours, and Maxtor seems to get a bad name for reliability. One person after the next made comments like "bought a Maxtor brand-new and within two months it died". Are they *that* bad? I only ask because Western Digital, who seem to get a good...

For a spare PC, I'm considering setting up a RAID 0 array. Which make of drive would be best for the array? I'm looking at 120GB, Serial ATA, 8MB cache drives. The makes I'm considering a o Seagate / $108.00 o Maxtor / $110.00 o Western Digital / $118.00 Is any one make better for the...

Hello, Instead of running a 40 foot telephone cable from the socket on the wall to the back of my dial-up modem, and running it around the skirting board on the floor, is there a wireless device available that can cut out the cable? Maybe something that transmits the signal to an ethernet adapter...

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I'm considering buying the Sony CD-RW burner mentioned in the subject line. Question is, does Sony actually make their own drives, or am I buying a Sony case with some other manufacturer making the internals? @drian.

Does anyone know if the hard-drive in the Pavilion 7920 is easily upgradeable? I wish to upgrade the HDD to something larger, say an 80GB. I checked HP's site and all it said, was it's a 3.5" unit. Thanks. @drian.

I'm considering upgrading my computer speakers and have the following choices: a) Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 b) Creative MegaWorks THX 2.1 250D I've seen reviews of the Klipsch and it's generally received a good rating, however, not a lot of reviews exist for the MegaWorks. Does anyone have experience...

I'm considering a USR V.92 56K modem (no jokes, please!). They have two versions, a "Performance Pro" internal version and a regular external version requiring the serial cable. In the past I usually steer to an external device for minimal setup problems (used to have problems with internal...

Legion wrote: Replaced the CMOS battery...didn't help..so...HELP please. Old Dell 500Mzh Celeron, one big partition. Me have you tried partition majic?

Hello I'm looking at this hard drive Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB UIDE 100 7200rpm 8mb Cache - OEM http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=94D458DE-B61F-40A0-A35B-F07B1A7BBA92 and I'm trying to work out if I will be able to connect it to my mother board which is an ASUS...

ciao a tutti, ho ggiornato il bios della mia motherboard con l'utility per windows, pur aggiornandola ancora non mi spunta dal bios la configurazione Q-FAN... Vorrei comprare delle ventole tachimetriche e così avere meno rumore quando il pc non lavora a pieno carico, sulle specifiche questa...

Ciao a tutti, sto decidendo di comprareuna scheda video nuova geForce... il moltiplicatore agp della mia motherboard asus A7V8X-X dovrebbe essere 8x, ma dal bios mi identifica solo 2x o 4x. Non si capisce se legge la freq che supporta la mia scheda video oppure la mia motherboard supporta solo fino...

I have a fairly new Maxtor ata 133, 30GB HD, that I just received a few months ago as a replacement for an older HD that went to heaven. On boot up, the HD shows as the secondary slave, but when Windows comes on, the drives letters (E, F, G, H) do not appear. Does anyone have any suggestions? ...

Hi all, I have the chance to buy a system with a dual processor MB, but only with one processor installed, a P3 katmai 500Mhz. I have a processor of the same kind, may I mount it on that system or P3 for SMP are different from those for Uni-Processor? Thank you