Hi, I am about to purchase an Intel Extreme X25-E SSD drive. However, given that it is a 2.5" form factor, and I would like to be able to use it on a desktop with a 3.5" drive bay, I presume I need some kind of adapter kit ?? Furthermore, if I understood correctly, my desktop uses SATA...

Hello everybody. I am looking for a Pentium III, 1.0 GHz, socket 370, for my old computer. I would prefer the retail version which includes heatsink and fan. A search through the Internet brings up several places selling the OEM version only, most of them used and/or refurbished. Does anyone...

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Hi all, My HP Pavilion laptop has started making a whining noise through the speakers. It is most annoying when the CPU fan starts spinning, but I can also hear it when the CPU fan is off, the difference is the noise is intermittent, maybe when the hard drive arm moves to read something or when...

I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 7955 and after the drive died, I installed an old one until I can figure out how to get another working with the system. This drive is pretty much useless for anything, and I'm lucky to be able to connect to the internet, but I don't know for how long.(I...

Machine boots Server 2008 fine. As soon as I set BIOS SATA Controller Mode Option to 'Enhanced' and set the BIOS SATA RAID Enable to 'Enable' the machine will no longer boot. The Server 2008 program goes through about the first 20 seconds of the boot procedure and then fails. The computer...

hi all, i've a compaq serial skimmer but i don't have idea the model and how to configure it. Can suggest me something? thanks -- http://www.skywebsys.net/photos

Hello all, I have an ASUS A8V-E SE motherboard with an AMD athlon 64 processor and 2 GB DDR RAM in 4 modules. More info about the mobo at: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=143&l4=0&model=576&modelmenu=1 Installed on the system is Windows XP x64. The problem is that if I turn off...

I have an eMachine T3085 with NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated video hardware. I can not get the desktop (icons, windows, bars, etc.) balanced with pictures (jpgs, pictures on web pages, DVD video, etc.). If I adjust the display setting for video or pictures, the desktop is way too bright and washed...

Hi. When changing a graphics card, is it advisable to first uninstall the old driver and then remove the old graphics card, or vice-versa? Thanks. -- tb

I'm setting up my first rack servers (Dell PowerEdge 1950 III), using Raid 1 and I had a few questions I haven't figured out, nor could find the answers to. Any hep getting the answers would be appreciated. Ok these are "HotPlug" drives, I assume that means the same as hotswap. So if I swap out...

Which are the best forums for discussing portable solid state recorders? For example, an MP3 recorder or perhaps an MP4 multimedia recorder.

This morning when I powered up one of my computers, it loaded things rather crazy. I am running XP SP2. The hard drive is the only hard drive - wired as Primary Master. When power-up is completed, I find the boot drive created as E drive. There are no C and D drives (My Computer). What on...

Hi. I have 2 hard drives in raid O and divided in 2 partitions. Could I use partition magic and make one partition and clear install windows XP without touching raid configuration. Please, give me more detail explanation. Boba Vankufer

I have a pc when i shutdown, he do this, but imediatly power on automatically. I had change de power supply, change memory, verify cables but my problem persist. I read cpu fan rpm, mobo temperature, etc.. All ok! What can i do ? Thanks.

Dear guys, I have searching around the room, none of the answers seem right for me. So here is the news: My PC: core 2, vista ultimate, 01 ASUS DVDROM using IDE cable set in Master 01 HP RW DVDROM using IDE cable set in Slave (but the system say both them using SCSI) 01 40G HHD SATA AHCI for...

I have a major problem here... Machine is a Windows 2003 Server with an Adaptech 21610SA RAID controller. This is a PCI controller card with 16 SATA ports. Connected to the controller are eight 500gig SATA drives. There are two RAID 5 arrays, with four drives each. Recently, we had a drive...

Hello, I recently bought 4gig of corsair ram (5-5-10) and installed it into my pc, running on windows xp X64, but the PC is showing me that it's seeing only 3.25gb (or 3328mb in the bios) of ram. Now I'm running it on a Asus P5B SE motherboard, which is fairly old, but this shouldnt be the...

This may be dumb but I'm a rookie, please forgive me. I have a computer that I believe has been upgraded to it's maximum memory (2 GB). When printing out my "system information report" it says: Installed system memory (RAM): 512 MB Total Physical Memory 501 MB Available Physical Memory 107...

Hello... I've been stumped about a method to clear the BIOS on my HDD to the correct setting. I don't know how it happened, but somehow my WD800 drive tries to boot, and clatters, then ID's as a WD600 and of course that stops the bootup. I switched the HDD into another system, and the...