I have an Acer 3680 laptop that I am rebuilding and I can get a 160 gb drive for under $50. Is it practical to use this laptop as a means of backing up my two 80 gb desktops? Really, I have only 100 gb of data to backup. Thanks. How might I best do this? Will it be too slow? -- Grendal

I have WD400bb. On label of this drive is wrote 40.0GB with date 23-sep-2004. There alsaw settings of jumpers, master, slave and cabel select. There is alsaw, what is strange: IBM warrenty void if removed. (???) I think, that this drive is from service part from IBM for old computers. Problem is...

For some reason my mom's computer keeps resetting randomly, even when it's idle. I don't know what, and I even removed a second hard drive that I had put in it hoping that it would give more power to the rest of the hardware, but that didn't change a thing, it still resets. Any suggestions? I'm...

I've been installing CD/DVD reader/writer units in the PCs of friends and family for a while now (easy once I'd sussed "master" and "slave" ha ha) but I'm intrigued as to why sometimes they come with a tiny "audio cable". It looks like one end goes in the unit and the other in either the sound...

My HP Pavillion dv6150us does all of a sudden not recognize the CD/DVD drive. I deleted the driver, re-installed it. Did not work. I went back to Windows XP Restore and restored it to 1/20/2007, when I bought the otherwise wonderful laptop. It still did not recognize the drive. In Device...

Not even 2 years old yet, but I got the infamous green vertical line running down my 17" lcd from top to bottom on my hp zd8000 notebook. From what I've read on the Net, I should expect at least 10 more lines within the next 3 months. 1) Can't I just completely remove this lcd screen so I can...

Looking to buy an external hard drive. I see some use USB to power the drive. Some have AC adapters. Is there an advantage to AC adapters? What i really want is a Hard drive that i can take to a friends house to transfer files to there PC & not have to install software on there PC. I also don't...

My tower has started producing an annoying high pitched humming noise. Not too big of a deal but its annoying as heck. Does anyone have any advice as to what might be causing this? (Its not the monitor.) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nittaku wrote: ...or is passive cooling enough. I want to reuse my old motherboard for something else, but it can't make a lot of noise... =MAYBE= if you unclock/undervolt it a bunch? -- Stacey

I am running Win 98 on a amd 500 with 196mb mem. When I turned the computer on the other day it would come up to the desktop and hang. I could see two icons that did not fully show, one was the a drive and the other was my cdrom. When I unhooked the cdrom everything boots up fine. What could be...

hi everyone, my hd has two partitions (c:\,d:\) I would like to expand c: into d:\, if possible without losing data. Appreciate any help! Andreas

I have an AVITRON AV-195T KDS MONITOR. I have to degauss it continuosly (10 to 15 minutes interval) because otherwise it gets a little weird (not too much). The side borders get very curved and the image starts to shake a little bit. I don´t know how to repair this permanently and it looks the...

I've recently swapped in a Duron 650 to replace a burned-out Duron 750 in an old-ish computer. Since this, I've been experiencing a lot of unreliability; random crashes, XP blue screens of death in seemingly random modules - sometimes the computer won't even boot past the BIOS screen. I'm at a...

hi all somedays back i installed both Win98 and win2000 on my PC. (40 GB harddisk).. but there arouse some problem in win98 and i reformatted only that part (c drive only) keeping the win2000 untouched. now the problem is the bios only recognizes only one os on my machine and that is the recently...

Hi guys, Does anybody have any idea or any link or code for Additive White Gaussian Noise in VHDL ? Or any body have written it or not ? Also how to generate Random Number's in VHDL? Thanks

Hi: I want to code up a realistically large memory unit with registers made of D-flipflops. The Palnitkar book is my main reference and the D-flipflop code I can get there. And I see in Ch. 7 he discusses the generate/endgenerate construct which I see as the way to save on typing in all of the...

Hi Guys I am trying to read 36 signal one by one from FPGA using different addresses and these signal are of 3 bits length. My address bus is bidirectional (32 bit length)and it's on tristate while not performing read operations. I am using PCI API fucntion to perform open , read and...

(jamotto) wrote in message ... (Jason Anton) wrote in message ... My processor, at bootup (after an 2 hours or so of use) idles at 66 ...

I cannot get the full 20MB from my hard drive (Maxtor ATA)...running Windoze98 first edition. Here is Fdisk's report: Current fixed disk drive: 1 Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage 1 EXT DOS 13476 69% C: 2 A PRI...

I've heard that a 2500+ Barton Core does not need a heatsink/fan is this true and why? or where can I find out. I'm sure the heatsink/fan would be a good thing to have but is it safe and effective to have a 2500+ Barton core wuthout them? Thanks, JJ