Sunday, 6 August 2006
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| HDD quit working InOverMyHead 23:07:27 |
| | What does this mean?
Hard drive (Maxtor 80GB int.) is recognized on bootup POST but not by
windows. Computer can't boot from it, and does not recognize it from a DOS
floppy boot.
Removed and installed as a slave in another machine: POST does properly
identify it as before but windows (Explorer or Disk Mgr) does not see the
drive.
Using GetDataBack-NTFS, this program sees drives '0' and '1' and can attempt
data recovery, but with tons of errors. So I know it is properly seated and
spins up okay. Now - what are my options and which is recommended? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
1) Bad MBR - rebuild with ?? or
2) Bad MBR - impossible to rebuild lacking a saved copy which I don't have
or
3) Forget fixing it - just attempt data recovery or
Bob
Background: eMachine had been working fine for 2+ years. No known physical
trauma. Constant eTrust Antivirus protection. Have no OS installation disk,
but do have the standard "Recovery" (Ghost) disk, but of course it is
useless if computer can't see the drive. Also have made fdd set containing
Recovery Console. Tech support is only semi helpful - to the point we're
now dancing in circles.
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| Front Side Bus bandwidth matching memory bandwidth... Kilowatt 22:55:13 |
| | Hi...thanks to read.
I wish to build a new computer based on the ASUS P5LD2. The cpu that will be
installed will run on 800MHz FSB. Yet, i've read that the memory bandwidth,
as much as possible, must match the fsb bandwidth. The maximum DDR2 speed
that the P5LD2 accepts is 667MHz. It is a waste to install more that two
DDR2 400MHz in dual-channel, considering that the theorical bandwidth of
those modules together is 6400MB/sec wich is the bandwith of the 800MHz fsb?
In the mean time i'm still googling to get more info. T IA for your reply.
--
Alain(alias:Kilowatt)
Montrйal Quйbec
PS: 1000 excuses for grammatical errors or
omissions, i'm a "pure" french canadian! 
(If replying also by e-mail, remove
"no spam" from the adress.)
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| Athlon 64 dual-core question Hackworth 22:46:42 |
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I've just taken advantage of the recent dramatic price drops and installed
an Athlon 64 X2 4400+.
I installed the latest AMD CPU driver for CnQ. I also installed the
dual-core patch from Microsoft (and created the new Throttle key for the
registry and inside there, the PerfEnablePackageIdle DWORD set to 1).
My question: Is it still necessary to install Microsoft's dual-core fix and
do the registry hack now that the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is available at
AMD's site?
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html
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| Athlon XP underclocking Ton Vermeulen 22:22:05 |
| | Hi folks,
Most of you are busy with overclocking; my Athlon XP 2800+ went
underclocking all by itself.
The system consists mainly of the following:
MB MSI K4V-L (MS-6712), FSB 333 Mhz, BIOS AMI Version 07.00T
Ram 512MB Kingston PC2700 CL=2.5
Video ATI Radeon 9600 Pro etc.
It worked for almost 2 years at normal CPU clock speed of 2083 Mhz with
base clock 167 Mhz and multiplier 12.5x.
Some time ago the processor clock fell back to 1090 Mhz; in first
instance I noticed the multiplier had gone to 6.5x and could not be
adjusted in the BIOS settings. It is locked.
Recently I looked further and found that the CPUID data of the processor
has been changed or maybe erased partly.
Earlier the CPUID gave the processor type and model as:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ ('amdcpuid.exe' or comparable program).
Now it is:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP (without speed indication).
This can also be seen in the CPUID register 80000003, which is empty
except for the 'X' character (50) in eax of 80000003.
The checksum (or whatever it may be) MSR C0010015 has been changed as
well from 0000-0000-0303-1008 originally to 0000-0000-0703-1008.
I flashed the BIOS with the latest available with no effect.
Can anybody give me a hint about the possibility of
resetting/reprogramming the CPUID data?
I may also unlock the multiplier, but I rather avoid this.
Thanks in advance, Ton (Gorinchem, Netherlands)
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| WD Rendezvous Express Backup Questions Gary 22:20:33 |
| | A am asking for a friend who is not technically knowledgeable:
Re: WD External Hard Drive One-Button Backup using Rendezvous (EMC/DANTZ)
Express 6.5. You hit a button the WD external drive and Dantz backup
automatically backs up incrementally.
I personally use Ghost 9 on my PC, and it takes me less than 20 minutes to
backup two partitions, with verify. I am interested in working with
Rendezvous Express and getting it to work on my friend's PC, because it came
with his WD drive. However, he is more interested in disaster recovery in
which you boot a CD/DVD and completely restore your system to a known
previous state after a HD failure.
QUESTIONS:
(1) Why does Rendezvous Express backup actual files and not one compressed
file representing your partition, like Ghost?
(2) Following Rendezvous Express instructions, I could not find a backup set
name to create a disaster recover bootable CD. I am wondering if the "Out of
the Box" profile configured by WD is to just do incremental backups and not
make a backup set. Why?
(3) Is Rendezvous Express less a disaster recovery backup, like Ghost 9, and
more of a daily incremental backup strategy?
(4) Based on my limited experience with Rendezvous Express, it feels like a
mainframe computer backup utility that Dantz shoe-horned into the world of
personal computers. Is that true?
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| Possible to upgrade system without re-installing XP? Larc 21:41:49 |
| | I'm changing motherboard and CPU on my second system. Going from an MSI 845GE
board to an ASUS 865PE and from a Pentium 4 (single core) to a Pentium D (dual
core) CPU. All other hardware will remain the same. I've heard of a few people
who had luck doing nothing except booting with a new board installed. Others
have claimed an XP repair install with the new board in place makes all the
necessary driver and setting changes. But I've never seemed to be able to get
by without wiping my system drive clean and installing everything from scratch.
Any secrets to making the switch without having to completely re-install every
bit of software?
Thanks for any help!
Larc
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| What is the recommended HTT speed for the AMD 4200+ X2 939 pin CPU? John Smith 20:25:18 |
| | Just got this baby in yesterday. I have it oc'd to HTT 220 and Mulitplied
to 11. I get a speed of 2420.0 MHZ Is that good, or should I tweak it
differently? I have an ASROCK K8 Combo-Z motherboard, and 2 OCZ 1GB sticks
of CAS 2 DDRAM PC3200
Newbie to overclocking.
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| 1 or 2 sticks of Memory? Dansker 18:57:03 |
| | Does it matter speedwise if i buy 1 stick of 1GB og 2 of 512MB ??
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| New system will not post Beoweolf 17:56:47 |
| | I decided to update my Intel 1.6cpu...it is,was the last Intel box in my
network. Decided to update to AMD2 socket, DDR, 3800+... Thent he fun began!
All the M/B required PCI express card, Ka-ching, Next, all the boards
requried DDR2,Ka-ching, Ka-ching. None of the "inexpensive" boards had more
than 2 IDE slots, so new M/B, Ka-ching, Ka-ching, Ka-ching! Format doesn't
fit the old case... OK, bottom line, I have a new system, new case, New
power supply (old 20 pin is not replaced with New 24 pin, ....just in case).
System will not post no matter what. The system is on a KVM, so that is my
next magical trick, to see if it will boot/post with old tech CRT, Keyboard
and wired mouse.
symptom: everything spins up, no video display (using either on-board video
or PCI-e card, check memory and re-seated it several times...beep at
start-up can be either memory not recognised or Video not being recognise.
I did try a SATA drive as well as the previous drives from the old system
(WD caviar's 40Gb - 2001 and 2003...they are still running strong since 2001
and 2003 on the second). I have stripped everything not totally necessary
for boot up, still no post and that same damned, mocking beep. new case is
Antec, new M/B is Gigabyte.
Any diagnostic help will be appreciated.
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| Intel takes back lead in U.S. retail Yousuf Khan 16:33:17 |
| | Looks like the price cuts that Intel did have worked for it. Not too
bad, but it's certainly not back at the 90%+ marketshares it had in
retail in the not too distant past. It's never going to get to those
levels ever again, not with the anti-trust lawsuit hanging over it.
Intel takes back lead in U.S. retail | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/Intel+takes+back+lead+in+U.S.+retail/2100-1006_3-6092226.html?tag=nl
Yousuf Khan
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| AMD might indeed be considering open-sourcing ATI drivers Yousuf Khan 14:17:28 |
| | Just as we've been discussing in other threads about whether AMD would
open-source the ATI drivers, it looks like it will. It looks like
they're talking about a "functional subset" of the ATI drivers, which
probably means all of the game cheats are being exorcised before release
into the OS community.
Yousuf Khan
"Lastly, and remember you heard it here, AMD is strongly considering
open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATI’s graphics drivers.
It’s time for X Window System, OpenGL, and client virtualization for
which ATI binary drivers aren’t available to escape the ghetto of the
1980s-era framebuffer. And what a boon for PR. If AMD’s graphics cards
were the only ones with open device drivers, it might affect a buying
decision or two."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/32OPcurve_1.html
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| Problem with flash drive - slow data transfer Guest 09:30:53 |
| | My flash drive (Imation, 1GB) has off late been behaving strangely.
Have been trying to transfer data from my PC (Win XP) onto it and it
takes 102 minutes to transfer 236 MB of data.
I remember connecting it to a Windows 98 PC sometime back and trying to
transfer data. It was not detected on the Win 98 PC. However, could it
have been corrupted the FAT due to this?
I tried formatting it and then copying, however it did not help
matters. After formatting, it shows the status as healthy. However,
data transfer still takes ages!
How do I get the flash drive back in good running condition. Any help
from this forum is helpfull.
Thanks in advance,
MA
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| Make Hard Drive "C" Joe 07:34:01 |
| | I just rebuilt my computer and My raid array ended up as Drive F My Zip
drive C and my two DVD burners D and E. How can I make The Hard Drive
(Drives) be C? I had this once before and it seems like I reinstalled
everything without the Zip plugged in and The Hard Drives became "C" but I
would really rather not reinstall everything.
Joe
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| AMD's marketshare did still manage to go up Bbbl67 06:58:24 |
| | Despite the onset of the major price war, and Intel sabotaging its own
sales and inventory levels, along with those of AMD's by pre-hyping the
Core 2 processors, AMD still managed to get a 1% point increase in
marketshare in this past quarter. That's according to Mercury Research.
There are other research firms that will report later too, which will
have their own data.
International Business Times - AMD Market Share Increases in Midst of
Competition
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060727/intel-amd-marketshare.htm
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| Intel doctors Conroe slides Yousuf Khan 06:19:04 |
| | max wrote:> This article is full of errors. I guess he didn't have his tape> recorder going. He totally bungled every quote in the article,> paraphrasing everyone in a way that supported the article's theme.
Okay, be that as it may, if reporters are taking liberties with their
stories, then do you have an explanation for this story?
PC World PC World's Techlog
http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/002494.html
PC World's Harry McCracken:> "For me, though, the most memorable moment of the morning was a completely unexpected one. The event kicked off with a speech by Intel CEO Paul Ottelini in which he talked, among other things, about the era in which the CPU wars were about clockspeed. To make his point, he had a slide in which he showed covers of old computer magazines, going all the way back to the days when a 90-MHz machine was a hot rod.> Here's the slide (which is a bit fuzzy because it's a still from a video I shot with my little Canon Elph)> I wasn't surprised by the old covers, since we'd given Intel some images of old PCWs to help them out. But I was startled, to say the least, by that PC World on the far right, showing the January, 2003 issue with its great big "First 3-GHz PCs for 2003" line.> How come I was flummoxed by a PCW cover? Well, we never did that one. Here's the real January, 2003 issue, which did mention 3-Ghz PCs, but as a text-only line above our logo."
Sounds like liberties with the truth are being taken all around here,
doesn't it?
Yousuf Khan
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| Set-up Maxtor One-Touch button to backup 2 logical drives? Fred Finisterre 04:59:13 |
| | Can someone tell me how to do this?
I'd like a button press to backup C:\ & D:\ (Using the supplied Dantz
Retrospect Express) but can't figure how to do it.
Thanks,
Fred.
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| Hitachi Seagate periodic calibration noises Guest 03:55:19 |
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Hitachi Seagate periodic calibration noises
I hear these drives make weird noises at regular intervals due to
some kind of calibration procedure.
What up with that ?
People want quiet drives and they add weird noises ? I also read
where DVD burner manufacturers specifically state not to use a hard
drive that uses disruptive calibrations with their burners.
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| Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and DDR2 800 Ram Arr 03:03:49 |
| | Having done some reading and research, I am trying to find the best
combination to put together the following system:
Motherboard: M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless AM2 Nvidia nForce 590
RAM: Corsair XMS2 2-GB (2x 1 gb) 240 pin ddr2 SDram DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Cas 5 Timing 5-5-5-12 (2 sets of 2 4 gb total)
Hard Drive: WD 320 gb 7200 SATA
Video Card: MSI NX7600GT Geforce 7600GT 256 MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x 16
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2000mhz HT
Optical Drives: Lite-on IDE Dvd Drive; Lite On 16x DVD+-R
PowerSupply: COOLER MASTER RS-550-ACLY-SLI ATX12V/ EPS12V 550W Power
Supply
Case: Cooler Master Mystique 631 RC-631 KKn1-GP ATX Mid Tower
Will a system with 4200 processor deal with the 800 ddr2 sdram?
If anyone has a system similar to this one, please give a shout and let
me know if I am forgetting about something or making any mistakes...
Suggestions are welcomed and appreciated!
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| CPU Question Mr. Mustang 03:02:19 |
| | With the price drop, I am looking at the 64 Ath 4000 and the 4600 X2.
Compaing the two on Tom's Hardware.com CPU comparing charts, the Ath 4000 is
far superior to any X2 (exception 4800 and FX 60).
Thoughts?
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| Best optical mouse with long battery life? BatteryLife 01:55:00 |
| | I currently use a Dell optical mouse that came with my Dell WinXP
media center. Unfortunately the mouse uses up batteries very fast! My
computer is left on 24 hours day, and usually the mouse needs two new
AA batteries every 2 - 3 weeks.
A mouse with rechargeable batteries would be a better solution, but is
there not an optical mouse available that uses regular batteries but
doesn't drain them so fast?
Thanks for all suggestions.
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| power switch connectors Guest 01:53:49 |
| | I have a case with two power switch connectors coming off it.
Does it matter which way this connects to the pins on the
motherboard? There are two possible ways.
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| Bios setup Marker 00:05:21 |
| | Hi all,
is it possible to get current BIOS setup in some form like .txt or
something.
Best regards
CD
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| laptop hard drive compatibility Guest 00:01:24 |
| | Hi,
I need to find a replacement for this 1.8" hitachi c4k40 hard drive:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.c3a19fd2cb7342d3c15ebaa3eac4f0a0
But it appears to have been discontinued. The closest replacement I
can get hold of is the c4k60:
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.c3a19fd2cb7342d3c15ebaa3eac4f0a0
However, this appears to have 50 pins whereas the other has 44 pins.
The connector in the laptop is 44 pins. Will it somehow be compatible
still? Oar does anyone know of another alternative?
many thanks
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