Hello. I have 2 HD mirrored. One went critical, although when I tried it the second time (like now) it works OK. There was a soft ticking sound. Obviously I need to replace the drive. The problem is, which drive? Since they are both now showing as working, I don't want to risk removing the wrong...

Here is a link for my mobo's manual: http://www.giga-byte.com/Download/Download.asp?DownloadPath=/MotherBoard/FileList/Manual/manual_sata_raid_os_nforce3_e.pdf For anyone that is familiar with mobo's, if I disconnect the "Front Audio"(meaning the audio jacks that are on the front top of the case...

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I want to replace my flat ribbon IDE cables with round ones. The two round cables I bought have a grounding (earth) wire at both the motherboard end and device end of the cable. Do both wires have to be grounded or just one, and where is the best place to attach them? Thanks, Mark at {mcl AT...

I am unable to boot a new ASRock K7VM3 motherboard that I am installing in an e-machines H2482 computer case. I am using an Athlon XP 2400 CPU and 512-meg of DDR RAM, which both were working correctly in another computer. After installing the RAM, CPU and CPU fan, and connecting a 300 watt...

I am considering which to but. One issue which concerns me is the power consumption, somoething most people probably don't even think about when buying because they think it is insignigicant. Anyway a quick calculation, I am assuming my PC will be on about 16 hours a day on average (probablyon...

by inexpensive i mean under 700$. All i really need to recover is 200 MB PST file. THE HD is spinning up but i can't access any data on it. It's a Fujitsu 80 GB SATA laptop drive. Thanx

The cable has a blue and a black end, Which side goes on to the motherboard?

I have just bought a used Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB HDD and loaded WinXP on it inc setting an extended partition using partition Magic. I wanted to transfer the data on my old IBM Desktar 30.7GB HDD so decided to boot from the old HDD and set the Maxtor to slave. All jumper setting were correct. When...

Hi everyone, I have a 6835 Hp pavilion , that has only 2 memory slots , originally there was 2 pc100 , 64mb sticks of ram, I have done research and found the crucial.com is good for determining what memory is compatible with my pc , according to crucial, it says it will accept pc133 ram alright ,...

"ICE" wrote in message ... Is there any hope to get data from a HDD that makes a ticking noise while booting? The HDD is detected by BIOS, but not by dos or windows

Could someone tell me whether my Asrock K7S41GX motherboard (SIS 741GX chipset) can accept high-density ram? Been Googling all over the place & can't seem to find the answer. Thanks Joe

Your computer CPU is it's brain...... Just as when riding a motorcycle, do you really want to protect your brain with the cheapest product available? Spend the money, get a good one. Your local computer store will be able to match up a fair priced one with your CPU. -If a new fan is required,...

Hi all, My laptop, running xp sp2, has num lk turned on when I start up my pc. I have to turn it off before I can put in my password. Can someone advise how I turn this off so it stays off please. Thanks Debbie

It seems like my 9800 Pro is dying. The problems first started roughly when I updated to Catalyst 5.8 drivers. Textures would simply start disappearing or warping to really strange colors starting at around 10 minutes of gameplay. Quitting the game and reloading seemed to fix that, but who only...

Hey guys I was wondering if I can get a bit of info. I am currently looking at the XFX Geforce 6600GT and the XFX Geforce 6800. The only difference between the 6600's is one has 128bit GDDR3 and one has 256bit GDDR3. The plain 6800 however has 22.4GB of bandwidth. The 6800 is cheaper though...

v4t9hy3d8 wrote: if i put my old 10 gig hard drive which had win98 into my new computer with a 60 gig with win xp will there be conficts? and must i keep my large windows98 folder with all its files on the smaller drive? What programs must i keep onthe old smaller drive or can they...

Hello everybody, In a review, I have read that at equal frequency, the DDR2 have a transfert rate two times faster than DDR but in the same time, the global performance of the DDR2 is just above the DDR one. What about that ? In France, the price of the DDR2 is just 10 to 15% above the DDR...

Hi! I wonder whether the remote control and all cables / boxes are fully interchangeable between ati all in wonder various models 7500, 8500, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9700? Does anyone know? Cheers! andy

New Abit VT-7 motherboard, Western Digital WD-1600 SATA First Generation drive. Cannot install W2K. Setup program says there is no drive to install on. BIOS doesn't show drive as existing. Western Digital diagnostic from floppy shows drive as good and able to write 1/0 to it. Why...