I am running Win XP Pro and previously, my Sony 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive is working perfectly until recently, I wondered what or why is causing my inability to read or assessing my FDD. There is always this message prompting; Disk is not formatted The disk in drive A is not formatted. Do you want...

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Can I enable to use RAID 1 function on i865PE chipset motherboard with Celeron (Northwood-128) CPU ?? Can I use the RAID 1 function on Win2k Server ?? Thanks

I went to the AMD website looking for the recommended power supply list, and it looks like AMD just publishes links to the manufacturer's websites now. Doesn't look like it's doing the PS lab testing anymore. Anyone know anything about this? Yousuf Khan

The Athlon XP supports SSE, but is coding to SSE as efficient as coding to 3DNow? Among other things, it seems you might be able to take advantage of the extra floating point registers supported by 3dnow (the floating point clones of the mmx registers) as well as the SSE registers to hold more...

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=112 Unless this is way off the mark, what advantage is a 64bit chip going to have for desktop performance? I can see where a server/database/large number crunching with a bunch of ram it would be great but for typical desktop use it doesn't seem like...

Hi I got a system with dual Athlon MP 2800+ CPUs, under Win XP Pro, and during boot the BIOS says that the system has "Unknown CPU type", but does give the 2800+ designation. Is this normal? VB

On Tue, 27 May 2003 00:52:06 +1200, TheCompsafe quoth: what are my chances of installing linux instead I think the spec of the machine are 486 DX 66 - 8mb RAM, 340 MB HD, 16 colour screen, to be used with extrernal microlink modem. Linux is extreamly bloated and runs very slowly on...

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:13:38 +0530, "Sabyasachi Basu" sabya_01 AT hot mail DOTcom wrote: I have just put together a PC with the following configuration: 1. U8668D-Z4 VIA P4 M266A + VT8235 Motherboard 2. ATI Radeon 7500 128MB Graphics card 3. 512 MB Simmtronics 266MHz DDR RAM 4. Seagate 80GB...

* Can anyone program a bios flash rom for me ? If so, I'd be exceedingly grateful. The task consists in flashing a motherboard bios into is prom. let me know !! thanks

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:13:38 +0530, "Sabyasachi Basu" sabya_01 AT hot mail DOTcom wrote: Both 98 and XP keep freezing constantly, sometimes even minutes after booting. I have installed the VIA 4-in-1 driver but things havent improved. Download memtest86 and check that your RAM are working...

I have a PC Chips motherboard (M810LR) fitted with an AMD Duron 1.1g processor. I am looking to upgrade the processor to an AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor. Will my board be compatible and/or will I have to flash the BIOS. Help!

On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:17:08 GMT, "Felger Carbon" wrote: snip. Interesting papers, if you're interested in supercomputing and vector machines. The dollar amounts of the awards ($43.1 million to Cray) are given by

I have vexing and very annoying problems that I've encountered these few days with my abt 1yr old Sony Floppy Disk Drive 1.44MB. My O/S is using Win XP Pro and AOpen AX-3SP mobo. Each time, I insert any new or copied files on my diskettes, I would experienced this dialog prompting me this; " the...

wrote in message ... I am having some trouble with random CRC and md5sum mismatches and other random errors on my PC, and I am wondering if it could be because I have 3 DIMMS, 83 MHz, 100 MHz, and 133 MHz, and the ...

Hi everyone, I got a small problem, & was hoping anyone could help me solve it. I have an old HIS motherboard. It is a PIII 1.0Ghz system, with 128MB RAM. My RAM module has 8 chips on it. I wanted to add another 128MB, of RAM, but all the RAM modules in the market have 4 chips on them. When I put...

On 4 Aug 2003 15:33:58 -0700, (MB) wrote: Okay, my system melted down so now I am looking to replace the motherboard and CPU. I have decided to go the Athlon XP route. I have tentatively narrowed down the motherboard choices to the Chaintech 7NIL1 and Asus A7N8X (deluxe??)....

HP Pavilion 8765c Amd Athlon Thunderbird 900 mhz Microsoft Windows XP Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 bios - PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.G date: 03/27/00 (ptltd - 6040000) chipset - AMD 751 rev 37 (irongate) super i/o - VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 4h (vt82c686a) If you have a Hp solutions...

My desktop machine has a very strange power up problem ever since I put it together about 3 months ago. When I power the machine down and power it up again, it gives 3 or 4 very quick beeps and the power LED flashes continuosly (1 second flash frequency). The monitor is blank and there is no HD...