I have a new SanDisk 8 in 1 reader. When booting with this plugged in my CPU utiliztion sits at between 75 & 100%. If I unplug it my utilization drops to near 0%. If I boot with out the device plugged in my CPU is near 0% and I can then plug in with no problem - CPU use may rise a couple points...

I have two removable drive bays which I have connected to the primary IDE channel. This allows me to switch disks around at will, which is necessary for cloning backups, using archive disks, etc. There is a problem, however, because Windows gets confused. Usually I can clean things up by removing...

Back in February 2006, I posted the following: +++ Almost every time I reboot my Win2K/SP4 system, CHKDSK runs because Win2K detected a "corrupt ntfs filesystem" on the boot disk. Every once in a while I get a BSOD instead, in which case I have to move the bad disk to D: and run CHKDSK manually...

I am running Win2K/SP4. I have an 80 GB IDE drive connected as chanell 0 master. It is the boot disk with only one NTFS partition spanning the entire disk. The label is "Sysyem". When I look at My Computer, I see only 1 disk icon. The same is when I look at Disk Manager. But when I use Win2K...

Does anyone have any experience with a product called PerfectDisk? -- "There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress." --Mark Twain

All my newsgroups, not only this one, have old dates, no messages, dates are screwed up all over page. Used to, newest posts were at bottom. Get next 300 headers does nothing. How can I reset these groups and get back to normal. IP is roadrunner cable. Thanks, if anyone gets this

Can someone tell me where the RAM is on this thing? http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/122911001524.jpg I know top right is battery and top left is hard drive.

So, I'm about to take the screw off the RAM cover on my laptop: http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/123111011159.jpg However, I need to make sure I get the right screwdriver. Anyone know what goes with that screw? That's not a Phillips head, is it?

I opened the RAM compartment on my laptop and took these pics: http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/010412105212.jpg http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/010412105329.jpg http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z449/m75214/010412105443.jpg It looks like there's only 2GB of ram...

Does anyone have any experience with these controllers? If so, please comment.

If you have 1 GB of RAM with a 3.2 GHz P4 Prescott CPU, how do you get WinXP Pro to use as much of that memory as possible? For example are there tweaks which will increase the disk cache sizes, and other things like that? RAM is a terrible thing to waste.

Are PIII motherboards still available? My son, a college student, bought a mini-tower system from CompUSA several years ago. It's a PIII 500 on a mini-ATX motherboard. Recently, it wouldn't POST. My son took it to the pc doctor who diagnosed a blown capacitor on the motherboard. My son explained...

I burned 2 DVD's with software on my harddrive to make room for other stuff. The odd thing is that one of the DVD's is accessible, whereas the other isn't. If I take the inaccessible DVD to another system with a DVD reader - it works. Any ideas? Running Windows XP SP1 Plextor DVD Burner 1 Gig...

I have following doubt.. I am using intel 845 motherboard with inbuilt sound and graphics properties. but now i want to add separate graphics and sound cards.? so after installing the separate sound and graphics card, do my system have duplicate sound and graphics port(one from inbuilt and other...

I have a ISA modem that I would like to use again if I up grade to a new socket 478 motherboard. The only ISA boards that I can find are around $200. Is there such a thing as an adapter that would alow a ISA modem to plug into a PCI slot? Thanks

What is this BSOD error? It comes with STOP:0X000...09F.

Partition Magic 8 is worthless for my system. I have two HD installed and both have the Active bit set. The BIOS is smart enough to know that and allows me to choose which one I want to boot from. Windows is not as smart - it issues a STOP0x9F POWER_FAILURE error when I shut down, presumably...

I installed a DVD burner and it is not configured for DMA. How do I configure it for DMA? I tried to do it in Device Manager but I cannot find the place to do it. I am running Win2K / SP4. --

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10163_7-5620889-1.html?tag=cnetfd.ld This CNet article will walk you thru some of the issues surrounding dual monitor installations. -- Map of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/vrwc.html

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/nvidia-promotes-new-chip-crop-circle-0 bob