I have 2 Quantum fireball lct 30 gig hard drives (same problem on both) that only be detected by the motherboard bios as 9 MB (yes, MB, not GB). Windows 98 can see them as 9 MB in FDISK. I have tried many motherboards (old and recent) with different kind of bios (Award, phoenix, etc) and they all...

I have installed a salvaged HDD on the secondary channel. How do I tell Windows 2000 it is there?

Hi, I'm having a 6.1 Gb Fujitsu HDD. This drive was given to me by a friend stating that it was not being detected by the BIOS or the OS (Windows98se). After using HDD regenerator I was able to recover the drive. I, later used the Fdisk, Format and the Scandisk commands to further test the drive....

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Hello! I have a 40G Western Digital HDD as MASTER, with no jumpers attached...per WD, and it's the only drive in my PC. Bios reads it as Master Hard Drive. OK!. I also have a NEC CD Rom drive, jumpered as MASTER, and the only CD drive in my PC. Bios reads it as SECONDARY MASTER. OK! When I boot...

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I have a hard drive that has gone on the blink. It began having problems as a result of so many spywares that downloaded onto my system. My computer began to take longer and longer to boot-up. Finally, nothing was working as it should. I have since cleaned my system of its spyware using SpyBot...

Hello all, I am considering purchasing an external 3.5" usb 40gig hard-drive (5400 rpm)(rather than a thumbdrive). The manufacturer says it is 'possible' to power the HD from the usb bus alone, but the hd comes with an ac adapter. I have doubts about the usb ports on the comps at my university. ...

This is probably going to be a lengthy email, so please be patient. I received a new iDeq 200N (http://www.biostar-usa.com/ideqdetails.asp?model=ideq+200n) Small-Form Factor PC two weeks ago. Here are the specs of the system I am trying to build: iDeq 200N (nVIDIA nForce2 IGP + MCP-T) Athlon...

Any experienze with the new AMD Athlon 64FX Processor ? Does someone own a one of these motherboards ? Gigabyte: GA-K8VT800 Pro ASUS: K8V SE-DeLuxe -- http://www.zeroone.ch

Hi, I bought a Compaq 3045 US Laptop and it has an integrated wireless card. I have installed Linux (Redhat 9.0) on the Laptop but it does not detect the Wireless card. All I know about the wireless card is that it is a Linksys 54g card. Compaq customer support has been of no help and all attempts...

Dear all, For a while now, I have a PC with Epox D3VA motherboard, and I could always get the extra highpoint controller to work, untill I upgraded to win XP. Ever since I have been trying drivers from a large amount of sources, but all of them seem to fail saying that the driver could not be...

greetingzz to all... the situation (as always) ========================= i went our to buy my self a Radeon graphic card and found that they are wuite expensive and hence i came up with only one ! the radeon 9200 SE with 128MB DDR ram ...

I have a Sitecom 4-Port KVM and a Wireless MS Intellimouse Optical that I want to use. I have tried using a USB to PS/2 converter but the KVM does not seem to power the wireless base. The KVM is self-powered and does not rely on power from my PC's Has anyone else been able to do this ???? Any...

Hi, I have change my motherboard an A6N266-VM for a A7N8X-E Deluxe, and ever since the system is rebooting all by itself, I have made every upgrade possible including a BIOS upgrade to the latest version. What could cause these problems BTW. I'm using XP Pro with all Windows Updates installed

I was pondering the other day why gaming systems and other rigs built for speed never have SCSI drives in them. Isn't a 15,000rpm drive with a higher bandwidth connection (I'm not sure exactly what it's called, U320 or something?) going to be faster than any SATA 10,000rpm drive? Maybe there is a...

I have a Compaq Presario 5441 with an AMD-3K processor. I upgraded the memory to 128 and would like to install a burner on it. If anyone knows the speed of burner (like, S-L-O-W) I could use and where I could find new-old burners, I'd appreciate hearing from you here. (I've burned CDs on another...

When games I run crash, my dxdiag changes from "all tests successful" to "hardware accelerated directx 9+ is not available.....not supported by hardware....new driver" using the newest catalyst drivers. anyone out there experience this??? What do I do????

When I look for a computer, What RAM speed is the best to have?