I've got a HDD fantec external enclosure with esata II port and its own power supply. I've bought an esata-sata cable to connect this enclosure to one of my mobo's 6 sata III ports. Firstly I connected the fantec power supply, then its esata-sata cable and then I've started an ubuntu live session....

I bough a cheap network card 10/100 NIC PCI ethernet card and a cross over cable with the intent of conecting 2 PC's. Anyway I had some problem's installing it with the supplied installation disk. At some point during the installation disk it would say 'insert your windows98SE CDROM', I have just...

I am in the UK. I have a battery tester from years ago which is still available. It may also be sold in the US. http://www.avenuesupplies.co.uk/getimage.php?id=98&type=1&format=2 My multimeter shows that this battery tester puts a load of 500 mA on the 1.5v battery under test. I have...

Hi, all. Since there are postings here all the time with questions about what kind of system to put together, I thought I'd share my pretty good experience. After tons of research, I realized I had no idea exactly which parts to buy, so I went to a local computer store, MicroCenter, and worked...

Was patitioning 160gb maxtor disk through maxtor utility. NTFS formating was getting allowed only when dial reached 34gb mark. Then same size disk was partitioned with size of primary set at 20gb while installing OS. But in the second instance lost something like 10gb disk space. So wonder if...

Might be a dumb question, but the expensive part of a UPS is converting the AC to DC for storage, then back to AC for use. Why not put the UPS *after* the PSU... three (?) mini UPS's actually - 5v, 12v and 3.3v... and the -5v, etc if necessary. It could possibly even mount into a 5.25" drive...

To give a little background, I am running Win98se. The computer is a 1GH PIII Ibm computer which I have modified somewhat, and have 384 megs ram. I have two harddrives, partitioned as follows, C D on drive 1, and E F G H on drive 2. Drive C is my OS and programs. D: is where I keep the...

I was looking at Hitachi drives (like what came in my ThinkPad). A 120GB drive at 5400 rpm costs twice as much ($120 - $63) as a 120GB with virtually the exact same specs except in 4200 rpm. I see a better throughput when used internally as opposed to externally. Is that what makes it worth...

Hello I have connected the 1 Gigabit TP-Link switch and get odd results! I have a Windows 7 Home Premium and a Windows XP Pro PC connected to the switch and the ADSL modem/router also connected to it. The Internet connections seems OK - download/upload speeds as normal for both PCs.

I will be away from home for a while. Just a few days ago there was a break in in a house down the street from my place. My hard disks at home contain confidential research work. It is unlikely a thief would be able to make heads or tails of it but I simply can not bear the thought of it ending up...

So my computer's running fine, and BAM, it suddenly becomes nonfunctional. It repeatedly insta-reboots from inside Windows. Windows will start successfully, but try using it for a minute or two and the insta-reboot occurs. I figured maybe it's a problem with Windows, so I tried my Gentoo Linux...

Am I correct in assuming every computer sold should be as quiet as possible? Yes or no. -- Please do not top-post.

Are they both built by Asustek, I never knew that. I have used both and the Asus was far superior in my opinion. Graeme "Piotr Makley" wrote in message ... Asrock and Asus motherboards are both made by Asustek. So what is

Andy in NJ wrote: I am in the market to do a little upgrading of my computer and I was wondering if I could get some advice. A reply directly to my email would be prefered, but you can reply here if you want. I have $500 to spend. I want to get a new case, motherboard, CPU and memory (1 gig)....

I have just updated the drivers for my MSI K8T Neo mobo, updated my BIOS and updated the MSI "CoreCenter" monitoring software. CoreCenter and the BIOS both give me temperature readings for my CPU. Before the updates the BIOS and CoreCenter reported my CPU as having temperatures of between 39C and...

I got this email purporting to come from eBay inviting me to become a "Titanium Power Seller". I'll Forward it as the first reply to this. They almost had me, had they not used the wrong font on their fake signing in page. When I noticed that I realised that the address looked dodgy too. ss.

Yesterday I came to the machine, which is always on, but when idle, cuts off the monitor, and nothing would happen (nothing would display) when I used the mouse or keyboard. The first two attempted reboots didn't get Windows to load, but on the third, Windows started the system performed normally....

Got a dead 7200 Western Digital drive (9 months old) I want to get repaired. Just physically repaired. I will do the data recovery. It is not being recognized by the bios and makes clicking/scratching sounds. Too far gone for software recovery without the physical problem being repaired. So,...

Hi Guys, I am planning to build a high performance workstation. So I know I want a dual chip system with SCSI. Form Intel's site it appears that Xeon is a better chip BUT the current Xeon available here in Toronto is mainly 533 MHz FSB. These days the P4 with 800 FSB AND higher clock rate is...

Hi I have a Dell Dimension 8300 on which I want to improve the cooling. I want to do this because I know the PC overheats after about 1 hr and is quite unstable. There is currently the fan in the PSU and a fan on the back which is vented to act as the CPU fan. I also added a PCI fan to cool the...