I shall now attempt to install Windows XP with AHCI enabled. Using nLite. Nicely written tutorial here. Hopefully it's technically correct and implemented correctly (by me). http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/107504-integration-of-intels-sata-ahci-and-raid-drivers/

If you look on Amazon, you can see hard drive benchmark results comparing two SSD drives of perhaps similar technology. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61AIiSbaUjL.png My new Intel 520 Series SSD has performance results much closer to the OCZ. Could there be something wrong with the AS...

Is there a way to bypass the Windows XP login prompt? I tried this. http://thepcteks.com/node/10 But now I get the same prompt except with "Administrator" in the name field, plus an error message... "Unable to log you on because of an account restriction"

I do have an emulator on my other machine that's a virtual OS, without looking I think it's VMWare freeware. (This machine, a laptop, will not run a virtual OS unless I do something to the BIOS as I recall--too lazy to do so) Question: can I run Windows 7 as a virtual OS there? I just need to...

Customer returned a Linksys 8-port Gigabit switch which clearly had something rattling around inside it. When I open up the unit, I discovered a heat-sync had dislodged from the board. Problem is, it clearly wasn't connected with anything more than some sort of thermal cement. No clip screws or...

I have an ESATA/SATA PCI Express board in my XP computer. The board has two connectors: 1. ESATA external. 2. SATA internal. The ESATA connection works fine. The SATA doesn't do anything. Please help. Anton.

From ENG Quiet PC Foxconn Nano: up to 40 times smaller than a standard PC The company Foxconn, a leading manufacturer of electronics and computer components, announces the release of the quietest nettop line NanoPC. Two new models of AT-5250 and AT-5600 is based on the Intel

Intel has an "Acronis AlignTool" for correction an NTFS formatting problem in Windows XP. Something about the starting sector being 63 causing every read to access the disk twice. If I recall correctly, my Macrium Reflect backup took 58 seconds before using that tool. It took 30 seconds after....

What's the deal with SSDs and THIN? I tried following up on one site and got lost. -- Robin Bignall Herts, England

My present working configuration has two physical ATA drives. The master is a WD 500GB drive partitioned at C:, E:, F:, H:, and I:. The slave is a Seagate 160GB partitioned as D: and G:. (There are also two SATA optical drives.) I added a WD 1TB Caviar Blue SATA drive, partitioned into five. I...

I went to the website and filled out a support form to find out if a bad PS is still under warranty last week sometime. Still no response. Anyone know how to contact them by phone? I didn't find a contact number.

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(The following was mistakenly first posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.) My present working configuration has two physical ATA drives. The master is a WD 500GB drive partitioned at C:, E:, F:, H:, and I:. The slave is a Seagate 160GB partitioned as D: and G:. (There are also two SATA...

One of a zillion good uses for YouTube. You can find practically anything on it, in high-resolution graphics.

I seem to recall reading that most motherboards (SATA ports?) cannot handle the speed of current SSD drives? I'm wondering whether there are add-in cards for that. Of course I can look...

Multicore, i5 machine, lots of RAM, 32 bit, and with the Sandy Bridge video card (that is, the built in video card in the quad core uP) it will not open a complex but not unduly so Autocad file. My ThinkPad laptop which has some sort of videocard and on a less fast uP renders the AutoCad file...

This looks like an interesting review, comparing Intel's 330 Series to their 520 Series. Note the theory on page one about why the 330 is less expensive than the 520. And lots of pretty pictures. http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=625&pagenumber=1

I've been trying to remember this, and I honestly can't remember it anymore. In MS-DOS, where were the standard external commands located? The only thing I remember about MS-DOS was that the command.com was located in the root directory (along with autoexec.bat, config.sys, and the hidden files...

I found a good one that Newegg has for less than Amazon. Not sure if it's the fastest, but it's probably the most reliable end-user type. And after my first/last experience with an SSD drive, I wanted reliable. Don't really need 120 GB, but the price was right for this Intel 520 Series SSD...

Is that easily doable? I have the service pack slipstreamed into the Windows XP installation disk. But, can you slipstream the current updates (or at least some of them) as well? Thanks.