Hello, I totally got lost when I read specs for motherboard about serial ATA and RAID. Are serial ATA and RAID interrelated so that if I want to set up RAID configuration, do I need to get serial ATA hard drive, or can I set up RAID with regular ATA drives? And how does serial ATA work? Hard...

I need to connect a device with a computer over RS232, distance about 50m. I have tried connecting directly, doesn't work. I'm thinking of trying a repeater. So I searched the web I found other means as well: like converting to RS432. Which would be better.

Hi All, Mine is 13users Network. I have shared 4 printers over the Network. But in one client, sometimes, i do have to install again for printing(printer hpdeskjet 520c series). It's showing 'user intervention occured' . what may be the possible cause ??? can anyone help me out ? I have checked...

Im installing a new hard drive. After setting it up as a slave to copy everything to the new drive, I set the new hdd to master, booted up and bios said that it has a invaild partition table. How would I fix this?

Becci, can you explain a little more as I'm puzzled. Are you in actual fact implying that the CDRom drive is eating your discs? I suspect, you might want to check who is around you at the time and maybe ask them a couple of questions regarding stealing or "borrowing" you cd's. I think computers...

Hi everyone--ok, here's my problem. I have a emachine that was running win98. The other day I took out the cdrom physically, then removed it in the device manager. When i put a new (creative) cdrom drive, the os did not detect and install it. so, after horsing around with the cd and drivers a bit,...

I have just bought a new cd rw drive, on entering a cd the drive intermittently make a loud running noise,is there anythink i can do about this,thanks.

Whilst recently formating a new maxtor diamondmax 30gb drive,4% into formatting it i got the message "trying to recover allocation unit" followed by the number it was trying to allocate ,it then proceeded to format the drive after about four of these,does this indicate a problem with the...

Hello, In recent time, I've discovered a little file on my computer called Winkkbk.exe that occasionally consumes 100% of my CPU usage. I've tried searching for info on this particular file over the Internet, only to receive no results. It's a Prefetch file, too, and I've tried deleting it, only...

Which motherboard(s) has a DVI port? Is this port necessary for LCD monitor?

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"lashkari_eng" wrote in message ... Is a HDD with ATA-133 faster than ATA-100 in practice Nope. ATA100 and ATA133 refer to how fast the interface is (they can move 100 megabytes per second and 133 megabytes per second...

Hello. I've been having a lot of computer problems lately and one of them has been my bootloader (GRUB). So I followed somebodies advice and created a bootdisk and used "fdisk /mbr". Now it just says "Missing Operating System". How do I fix this with having to reformat my hard drive or lose any...

I have a Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro video card and I downloaded the Hercules 3D Tweaker 3.0 (Build 25). The problem is when I change the core and memory speeds and click "Test" and "Apply" the settings just revert back to their defaults and don't take the new settings i just put in it...does...

Hello, Is there any resource that describes the approximately lifetime of PC hardware and whatnot? I'm building a case for my IT department for implementing new hardware, specifically CPU's. I'd like to do it in 33% increments, meaning, i would replace the bottom-third of the PC's in the company...

Have a IBM thinkpad, there are some problems with the power connector, want to open the back cover to have a look what is going on there; have taken all the srews off the back cover, but not sure where to pry to open the back cover. Any suggestions are welcome.

(Wes) wrote in message ... does anyone know of plans for a diy ide to usb adapter for an external drive enclosure? i know its really easy to go buy one, but i would like to do it myself and possibly save a little cash in...

I have a custom keypad desinged to work just like a regular keyboard but with fewer keys that works fine when I plug it into my desktop ps/2 port meaning that the characters are displayed, the tab key cycles between the windows, etc. When I try it in the ps/2 port of the laptop nothing happens. It...

John wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 04:45:49 GMT, Cyde Weys wrote: I don't think the 9100 is powerful enough for my tastes. I think I can get a bit better videocard still below the $150 mark, right? Should I consider going with an nVidia card?

Issue: Unable to install SB16 or Live Value in FIC VA-503+ with Windows 2000 Background: Can see issue history in previous news posts "SB Live Value (CT4830) in FIC VA-503+ on W2k" and "SB16 PCI (CT4740) on FIC VA-503+ running W2K" System Board: FIC VA-503+ v. 1.1a (Via VP3 586B chipsets) System...