Here is my problem whenever i start up my computer it freezes at startup all it says is GRUB in the upper left hand corner. My computer was working fine. I had it setup for a dual boot for linux and windows xp. Everything worked ok now for 3 months and all of a sudden this happened. If anyone...

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Well, I couldn't find the drive you mentioned on the Quantum website (http://www.quantum.com), but you can look if you want, likely under "Support." I would recommend just using "standard" jumper settings. A lot of harddrives are the same, I would especially think that if you could find another...

Here is a non-typical hardware question: What do you recommend for writing on CD-RW (or DVD-+RW, I suppose) disks? I would like something erasable, because the data changes. Permanent marker works good on CD-R, but is permanent (duh). Remember, can't scratch, because the writing side is the film...

How can I resolve an "out of scan range" issue without access to the BIOS, let alone Windows? It's a new motherboard, I transplanted most of the parts from my old motherboard, where everything worked fine. I reformatted the hard drive. I want to use an AGP video card, was previously using a PCI...

I'm messing around with an old Pentium II 233Mhz PC, and put a Seagate Barracuda 20GB harddrive in it. The problem is, it will only recognize 2 GB of it. I read in another post that this could be the result of having a FAT16 file system vs. FAT32, but I'm pretty sure it's FAT32. Am I wrong, or...

I recently purchased an XFX Mach 4 Ultra motherboard along with an Athlon processor. I added a stick of 512 DDR RAM that is compatible. I transplanted many parts from my old motherboard/case. This includes CD/RW drive, CD-ROM drive, hard drive, and video card. The video card is an older Voodoo...

I am having some hard drive issues. Let me explain. I have two different physical hard drives labeled C, and D. I have been having some problems so I decided to reformat and reinstall windows. It (windows) is running from C, but since the D drive is smaller and would run XP more effieciently, I...

any known problems with the MSI Mother board above or with the MSI GeForce FX 5600 by MSI?

The specs of my computer are : ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard VIA KT400 SktA AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Powercolor Radeon 9200 SE AGP 8X 128MB DDR (ATI Powered) Western Digital 120GB Ultra ATA/100 HDD PC 2700 DDR 1x512+1x256 MB RAM Sony CDRW/DVD drive When first I had set it up, I installed WinXP Pro and...

Must have the following configuration: 2 LAN Ports 1 Full ISA slot SCSI on-board (any) at least 2 PCI on-board video can anyone please let me know if there is something out there with this configuration.

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What computer hardware is required to set up a Local Area Network?

Hi, I am a newbie so please be considerate. I recently bought a NEC 1300a with firmware 1.08. Initially everything was working fine with Mirror Platinum X4 DVD-R media using intervideo DVD copy. Then after a while suddenly i started getting coasters with invalid media message. I upgraded the...

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hello there everyone my comp harware config is as follows: Motherboard This module contains information about your motherboard. Motherboard Information Motherboard Model 6A69ML1E Motherboard Vendor Lucky Star Chipset Model 82810e 810e Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller