Theres a program called "Active SMART" that monitors your drive during windows. Another one is SIGuardian, which monitors your drives and displays each drive's temperature on the Systray. "kony" wrote in message

Thanks one and all. You have certainly pointed me in the right direction. I've been hearing strange noises coming from the CPU fan. Suspected this, but wasn't sure. Power supply fan appears to ok. Will advise results. Thanks again RJ "Richard John" wrote in message

Something went wrong while I was merging a 6Gb NTFS patition with the 50Gb NTFS primary partition it had originally come from...(PM had frozen and I had to reboot half way thru the process...yikes). Now there is 6Gb of space missing on the disk that doesn't even show up as unallocated space... The...

On 1 Jul 2003 13:19:16 -0700, (Silence Seeker) wrote: Can a Mini-ITX mobo fit an ATX case **without modifications** to the ATX case? Thanks, Sam "Usually", but if the mini-ITX board needs a proprietary I/O backplate be sure you get/have it.

Hi there, I switched on my computer last night to find that my BIOS was not recognising any of my drives. After narrowing it down to a fault on the secondary IDE channel, i removed the cd drive from the secondary channel and the cable from the port. everything now works fine, except i can't use...

A friend of mine has the NVIDIA GeForce 2 and he can switch from TV to his CPU monitor. He likes to be able to see both the TV and the monitor and the same time. This is NOT TV program, but the output from his computer to the large screen TV. In other words, he likes to see the SAME output of...

If you don't want to read this somewhat long post, here's a question you can answer (but does not solve the answer which is in the rest of the post): Can you provide me with a document or website or something that has a lookup table, so I can reference the hexidecimal numbers in the STOP message on...

Put together a machine for a mate yesterday. Abit NF7 512mb ddr Ati 9500 120gb Seagate etc etc. All went together fine.

Hello, does anyone know if the Audigy 2 player has any pins to connect a second audio out and microphone in. Cheers. -- Morgan. ---- * When Call my Bluff becomes too racy for you then there's something wrong really isn't there.

Hey all! Gigabit ethernet cards are fairly cheap these days, but I don't see much in the way of Gigabit switches, hubs or routers. Anyone know where they are reasonably available? Preferably a Canadian site, but anyplace is good to start with.

TresWBL enlightened us all with these words of wisdom: I have a Plextor 52x burner. I also have some CD-RW disc I'm just dying to use. What I want to do is this: Format the disc so that it can be used just like a floppy. For instance, let's say I have computer A and B. Computer A has...

I would try the power supply first. I'm guessing it can't handle everything starting at once anymore. Once the fans and drives are spinning, you press the reset button and there is just enough power left for the motherboard to react to the reset. -- Wayne Morgan "Some One" ...

"Some One" wrote in message ... I swear... computers are spying on us. Not 60 seconds after I post about my wife's PC acting up my own PC freezes. Upon reboot it complains about CMOS settings and crashes within...

"So, Mr Slumpy you *really* are the perpetual comedian, aren't you ?" I threw back my head and roared with laughter as *** HAWK continued: Hi, I am looking to buy a new bundle as my PC is in need of an upgrade, I am looking at this one below currently £185.35 inc...

Oh, you mean this? I didn't even know there was a problem! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815227 Why on earth don't they let people download it? If it's performance related, I would think it would be publically available for anyone to download. ~ Adrian ~

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 17:56:47 +0200, Anton Gustafsson wrote: I'm considering buying a PS/2 Labtec optical mouse with scroll wheel, but I'm wondering whether the scroll wheel will work in win95, and also if the mouse will work in DOS with my old DOS drivers for...

Hi. I've got an abit BE6 (not II) slot1, with celeron 800Mhz (370 with an adapter) and 256MB of ram. for some unknown reason, my computer gets stuck something like 2-5 times a day. I'm running Win98SE, which sometimes gives me a "Windows Protection Error" and sometimes just gets stuck in the middle...

eBay seems to reveal everything but a plain ole ATX case. I don't want it to be clear, or filled with lights, or look like a 1950's concept car. Just a plain box! Any sources where I can browse photos?

Just swopped my CD writer for an OEM Panasonic 106. I can play audio and burn CDR but not DVD within XP, however I managed to do a Nortons Ghost backup succesfully onto DVD media. So DOS see's the drive but not XP(v5.1)? I imagine I need a driver or patch for XP, but I can't find...

Running XP2700+ 1GB OCZ Gold PC2700 RAM SOYO DRAGON KT400 Platinum Ultra (BIOS revision unknown) Radeon 9700 Pro WDC 200GB (on RAID) Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 40GB Seagate 40GB Audigy 2 Platinum Ex