I can't boot from CD but floopy drive is working. It is a Gateway machine. It starts with windows Xp logo and then goes to the screen with different choices to start up: Start windows normally, Last good known, safemode etc). In BIOS it is setup to boot from CD (light does come up on CD drive) then...

My computer is 7 years old but running just fine. I am using Win XP SP2. I use two 80 GB hard drives, one for the operating system and one for data. Each disk has several partitions. Both disks are formatted in Fat 32. I just bought a 500 GB SATA drive and will use it in conjunction with a...

Hello guys, This is my first post! Just got that proverbial computer upgrading question here. I've had a trusty old G4 Mac that sounding rough... it is no speed demon but it works. Running Adobe CS3 etc alright. This G4 has started to give me those death rattle sounds and REALLY starting to slow...

In simple terms, what is the difference between a switch and a router. What does one do that the other does not? Thanks -GECKO

Hi, currently i use a 4 Port RS232 PCI Card from moxa (CP-104UL) for time critical periperial controls. The latest driver version 1.15 solves a "2. Fixed Power mangement while reopening port" Problem. But i cannot install this driver on my WinXP SP2 machine (no driver found). So i need a...

I've got Athlona 64 3200+ (939) on Asus A8NE with 2GB Good RAM PC3200 (GR400D64L3). Lately I bought GF 8800GT, after which mainboard got broken. I'm thinking about buying new mainboard, processor and RAM. PC will be mainly used for gaming. I'd like to keep the price of those parts within about 300...

My system is XP Pro. I have a 500 GB Seagate SATA drive originally formatted in NTFS. This drive is for data storage, the operating system is on another drive. I have used a data recovery program to examine the contents of the drive, and it looks like all or almost all of the files are...

I created boot floppy on my SanDisk Cruzer 1G USB with the HP Drive Key Boot Utility. It's an image of a regular 98se boot floppy from bootdisk.com. It works on everything but my Dells. When I boot my Dell Dimension 4550 it says Disk I/O error Replace the disk, and press any key There is a...

Our next door neighbor has a kid who frequently turns up the car stereo all the way. The bass is strong enough to make the windows rattle. I wonder, will my hard drives be OK if the floor frequently vibrates?

"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message ... Hi, I am not to sure where to start but here goes. I while back I bought a realtek network card for and old computer to connect it to my new computer which runs XP, the new computer...

Hey everyone. I have an HP Pavillion zv5000 notebook computer. It's been fine for a while, but now it won't turn on. I've done some research and I have found that it may be the power jack that needs to be replaced? What happens is that when I plug it in, the power light on the front just blinks....

Hello I'm using HD Tune 2.10 to report the status of my hard drives. The following is a report for a 200gig SATA drive; HD Tune: ST3200822AS Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (01) Raw Read Error Rate 55 49 6 127199017 ...

http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=74 Just thought folks might be interested. I've enabled it and stopped Core Temp (as they were reading identically). I was using MBM for CPU load and Core Temp for temp (indication). Now MBM5 does both. Cheers, -- Shaun.

SERIAL NO: 00350008023 PHOENIX FIRST BIOS (™) DESKTOP V1.00 P03.P985G Feb01,05 6A79DAWDC-00 I have gateway pc with above specifications. It would not boot from CD, floopy or flash. How can I fix it? I would appreciate any help.

I need to replace the original hard disk in my notebook, an acer wlmi 1524, with a new one, but, I have a little problem, I don't know where to locate the hard disk. I have been able to locate memory chips, net devices, but, it seems that to remove old hard disk is almost impossible, unless...

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Hello I have a Jetway I31GM3 motherboard with a SATA boot drive and I need to attach another SATA drive (motherboard has 4 slots) and find the IOPort address (to have the ability do write directly to the ports). After I attach the second SATA drive and look in device manager and look at the...

Hello group Recently I was dismayed why my USB drive was not recognized anymore by window explorer. Therefore if I plug it on the USB slot it does nothing. I searched the web for some ideas and came from this fellow which states:\ 'A user of a company I know recently told me the following...

I tried to use an old computer today and it was diving drive errors, I had not used the comp for over a year, it is possible the drives have seized up? Neither drives work, I tried them on this computer as slaves, one did not show us and the other cause a boot-upp error.

Please don't knock me for asking such a simplistic question, but I've just had my eyes opened as to what a soundcard does, and I feel an utter buffoon! This is what I, rightly or wrongly, used to think:- 1. A soundcard is needed to produce all those beep and pings etc. that Windows does on certain...