I'm having a problem with a pc I built 6 months ago. Epox 8RDA mobo AMD XP1800 cpu enlight case DDR 2100 Asus Geforce4 Ti4200 AGX video card No mods or overclocking. It will not boot. The fans run and I can hear the hard drive spin and chatter normally on boot. Onboard display reads ff which...

My mainboard only supports USB 1.1, but I have a 2.0 external drive. For convenience, I'd like to connect the drive to the port on the front of the case, but that port is connected via pins to the mainboard. I've founf USB 2.0 PCI cards which have an internal USB connector, but the connector is a...

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"Werner Huysmans"wrote: ASROCK K7V2 (AMD) I had problems installing Windows 2000 / 2000 Server on this Board ! Perhaps you could be a little more specific as to the problem you had. Drivers ? Hardware ? Some thing else ? Drivers can be downloaded...

is there a dedicated good bios update web site anywhere? thanks

Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued...

I am using a Hewlett Packard Pavilion, with Windows 98. When I boot up, I get an error message that says: "The C:\windows\iedll.exe appears to be corrupt. Reinstall the file and try again." What is this file for? How can I reinstall it? Or get rid of it, assuming it is not a necessary file. --

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Hi, I have recently installed two Maxtor 80gig's as a RAID 0 array. Everything has been fine, but I just noticed in an information window that DMA is turned off on the RAID devices. Is it actually possible to enable it 'coz i cant find it in the usual places in hardware manager (DMA for IDE1/2 is...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20010917/ Hey, this is a pretty interesting article I came accross..... There's also a video in there some where. It requires I think 4. or 5. something codecs of divx.....I think the link they provide for the codec is broken.......just go to the divx website and...

Hi group, after one of my disks went on extended holiday, the ide0 primary HD (a WDC 80Gb) isn't showing up in the bios. Well, if I wait about 1 minute or so, it finally decides to activate and start up, and showing it self in the bios as well. But I cant set this drive to boot in the boot...

For the past month or longer, I've had a hard time burning any CD. I thought maybe my discs had gone bad from leaving them in the sun too long, but now I have a new set and they won't work either. It never gets past 3% completion under Nero; while HP Record Now, CDRWin, and the CD wizard...

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:56:53 GMT, John wrote: Ive had tons of problems with these boards. I think it would be more fair to menton specific board makes, revisions, and system configs, since obviously something is unique and causing this, but NOT lumped all together like a rant,...

Hi, I have a very old P120MHz processor which is cooled by a heat sink and fan. Due to it's age after recently transporting the machine the heat sink and fan fell off the processor. As a result the fan no longer works and needs replacing, the question is, where can I get hold of a socket 7 fan and...

Sometimes when I open my HP laptop, the screen goes dim. I can see the desktop if I look closely. Sometimes if I close the lid halfway, then open it, it goes back to normal. Usually I just have to restart. Also sometimes when I restart and touch the keyboard to type, the screen goes dim again. ...

The box is an old IBM PC 300PL with a 300 MHz PII processor, 256MB RAM and a Maxtor 60GB drive. Also has CD burner, 56KB PCI modem, generic soundblaster. Seems like whenever there is an automatic reboot, I get a 1780 HD error message in the BIOS diagnostics e.g. during the original Win98 install,...

"D'Vint" wrote in message ... Is it posible to use a laptop like a remote controll, like for the TV, DVD, Stereo etc. etc. ? It would be perfect if I could controll every application with one controll. I know theres...

I have had 2 hard drives go bad in the same computer in 6 months. Other than just faulty drives, does anyone have any ideas on what may be causing this? Thanks, John

Where can I get a 6" IDE drive cable extender (male on one end, female on the other)? I want to add a second drive and the drive mounts are further than 6" apart (the normal spacing). Thanks. Jack

Help! I bought a new set of computer using SATA 80GB hard disk and found the following problem: 1. boot up with Win98 boot disk, using FDISK, connot create patition. Then, I use Patition manager, create partition and try to copy file into it, it show me "writing error" 2. Then I use Win XP...