I got a problem with a RAID-5 System (Adaptec 2100S Controller, 4 SCSI-160 Drives 35GB: 3x Fujitsu Siemens, 1x Seagate) There is a Win2000 Popup with the Message (German) that the Writing on HarddiskVolume8 failed (Lost Data while writing buffered Data.)

Hi there, I am putting together a computer system for a friend. I am stuck on a few questions, the first and most important being what is the best 4.1 speaker system I can get for around $75 US from one of these 3 manufacturer's? Creative Labs Altec Lansing Logitech What is the best printer among...

Hi! Since two weeks i've built a new machine with the following: ASUS p4p800-vm,Celeron 1700Mhz,256Mb ddr400MHz, Windows98SE.Everything seems fine except for a few minor problems that you may have seen in my other posts.But i've just noticed tonight that by looking at the Windows Ressource Meter...

Asking this on behalf of a friend: This problem occured after a blackout in the area. When power came back on, here's the deal: He's using a surge strip for all his pc peripherals. Monitor works. Desktop doesn't. He hits the pc power button and the cpu doesn't even turn on. The pc light also...

How many SATA drives can you attach per channel please? Is it possible to daisy-chain them as per parallel IDE drives? Would I be able to run; IDE CHAN 1 1xCDRW 1xDVD IDE CHAN 2 2xIDE HDD SATA CHAN 1xSATA HDD

Hi, I've just got a QDi P4I865 mobo and a SATA 120Gb HDD. Do I have to loose a whole IDE channel (master & slave) to use the SATA drive? I would like to have the SATA drive as primary boot (WinXP) with an IDE as slave, then DVD and CDRW drives on the secondary IDE......is this possible? Cheers!

I am currently running Windows XP, and i read somewhere ( before i had to format the drive ) that Windows XP only uses 80% of the modems/internet ability. 1. Is that true 2. If so, how can i change it that it would use 100% 3. Is there a way to boost the connection ( meaning not by any program...

Hi all, Apologies if this is the wrong group. What I would like to know is this - if I have an ADSL connection from home of, say, 512kb, what does the contention ration of 50:1 mean? Does it mean that I could end up sharing the 512kb/s bandwidth 50 ways? And getting 10kb/s? If this is the case,...

hi, what determins BIOS vcore voltage settings? i HAD a 1.75v palomino core AMD chip on an asus a7v333 board which would go upto 1.85/1.9v in the bios. i have now moved to a thoroughbred-B 1.5v core AMD chip on another asus a7n8x board. the most i can get is 1.75v. (0.25v upper limit) now...

Hi can someone tell me if an AMD 1800+ based computer is a reasonable buy for a family computer. It is being sold in a local paper for £325. Full specs:- 256 RAM 40GIG H/D 52 x CD Writer DVD Rom Windows XP PRO Office XP

Hi there, was just wondering, if anyone know if this is compatible: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X2 92ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=46513 which ive chosen, which is fine with the memory im looking...

Two days ago I noticed when I opened 'My Computer' for no reason I had an additional drive:- Winbond MS Drive (I: ) So I went into Device Manager and uninstalled it, but when I restart windows, the drive re-appears. It says the drive is a removable drive. Then today another drive has magically...

Hi Everyone .. I am trying to connecting a Proview LCD PL566s 15" 1024x768 to my laptop so that i can use it as my primary display ... I am getting a " VGA MODE NOT SUPPORT" signal .. How do i fix this problem ? .. Please help .... - Emma

Hi, Hope somone here can help me. I've got a new system with this mobo and though the install seemed to go fine and I have nice sound playback, I am having trouble recording sound from my pc microphone. When using Windows Sound Recorder or Nero's Wave Editor, I can record some sound but it is...

I've seen a couple of articles for adapting an 80mm fan to a 60mm heatsink, but it seems to me that the most effective way to do this would be to turn a rear fan around and duct the air flow to the heatsink. It seems to me that this setup would supply more air and cooler air to the sink. It also...

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:06:43 +0100, In this world we created S.B. wrote : I bought a Q-TEC 751H USB2 2.5" HDD case: http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13214 It works OK in WinXP, but not in W98SE. In Device Mangler, I get either: 1. 'Generic USB Storage...

Hi The subject says it all. Heres the info on my motherboard: System Manufacturer : VIA Technologies, Inc. Model : VT8363 ID : FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF Mainboard Manufacturer : Jetway

I have a laptop. I want a DVD burner, but am not clear if the models sold are internal are external. Some explicitly say "Internal", some don't mention internal of external. Do they actually make external, and are they of good quality?

Zins enige tijd geeft mijn HP laserjet 4+ vertikale balken over de gehele lengte van mn papier. Vanmorgen heb ik de stofzuiger er door gehaald, het ging toen 3 vellen stukken beter (balken waren veel smaller) maar nu zijn de balken weer even breed als voorheen. Weet iemand hoe ik mijn zieke printer...

I wrote a program to measure the "end to end" latency for reading a random 32-bit word in RAM. Basically, it works like this: 1. It creates a circular list of pointers in memory in which each pointer points at random to another pointer in the list. The list occupies 256MB of memory. 2. Then, by...