Saturday, 5 August 2006
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| Cant use these two drives together SpreadTooThin 23:52:49 |
| | I have to older drives I'm trying to get to work together but won't...
On the Primary IDE channel...
Master: Maxtor 40.0 GB AT Model D740X-6L (On maxtor site it says 80
GB but the drive is 40 GB)
Slave: Maxtor 40.0 GM ATA Fireball 3
I've tried both as master and slave. The fireball allways seems to the
trouble...
both using Cable Select didn't work either...
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| ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 Olliejk 22:50:25 |
| | I've been having some trouble and I'm trying to track down if it is
could be related to my ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 mobo. On cold
boots I often get a blue screen of death with little info in the memory
dump. Basically it indicates there is SOME kind of hardware error.
Happening out of nowhere, it only happens on boot-up. It also happens,
however, when I connect certain USB devices. It doesn't happen with
everything. My old MP3 player (was a hard drive one) my joystick, and
my card reader are fine. My printer ( HP 2575 all in one) and new MP3
player (Creative ZEN Vison M) cause the BSoD. Also, it occasionally
will restart instead of shut down. It will go through the entire
shut-down sequence, but powers right back up again (and yes I did
choose shut-down not restart). I've had these problems through 2
different video cards. I've tried all sorts of chipset changes and USB
device changes, but to no avail. Before I spend more hours trying
different BIOS settings, does anyone know if this is a KNOWN problem
with these Mobo's? I suppose there is an outside chance it is the power
supply (I've heard of weirder).
---ollie
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| 1gb usb memory stick ezcool, really slow write speed Nathan 22:37:29 |
| | hi there
i was wondering if anyone has had any experience with the ezcool usb
memory stick. I picked one up for $30 from a computer store (1gb model)
but have found the write speeds are incrediable slow.
i have tried formatting the unit several times but this has not helped,
i have also tried plugging the unit into several usb ports on my
computer. my computer has a usb 2.0 card in it and i have previously
used usb keys from other places (such as the dse 256mb usb key) and my
psp and not experienced any slow transfer rates. The fastest write
speed is supose to be 11mb/s
for example to copy MobileFirefox1.5.0.4 16.8mb unzipped it took 4mins
please let me know if this is unusal
thanks
nathan
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| Still one more question about AMD processors Yugo 22:33:36 |
| | Me and Paul were having this discussion. (Quoted text is Paul's) But it seems
Paul is busy today... or maybe I made a complete fool of myself, but I still
don't understand. My question is at the very end of the text, but following
the discussion might help.
I would like to thank Paul for all the information he's provided so far.
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Cool N' Quiet is a feature of Athlon64 processors. When Windows > is idle, the "CPU driver" can write a FID (frequency) control > register, and drop the processor from 2400MHz, to 1000MHz. Since in many interactive (web surfing, email) situations, the > processor is idle most of the time, this saves electricity > and makes the processor run cooler. It immediately speeds up > as soon as you move the mouse.
It seems there's also a driver for Linux 2.6.10 and later kernels:
AMD Turionв„ў 64 Mobile Technology Processors,
AMD Opteronв„ў Processors, and
AMD Athlonв„ў 64 Processors Driver Version 1.60.01 for Linux 2.6. - Supports all
AMD Turionв„ў 64 Mobile Technology Processors, AMD Opteronв„ў Processors, and
Athlonв„ў 64 Processors released through 2006. Provides support for AMD
PowerNow!™ technology and, where appropriate, AMD’s Cool-n-Quiet™ technology
for Linux systems. Works with all kernels, version 2.6.10 or later. Requires
cpufreq-1.20, cpuspeed-1.20.1, or powersaved-0.8.19 or later to support SMP
and dual-core systems.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html
So, the same processor may run at different wattages. OK.
When the processor is running at full speed (say you are shrinking > a DVD before writing a movie to a blank DVD), then the power difference > between the high power and low power processors takes > effect. Maybe if you kept your processor busy all the time, > the lower power rated processor would give you a cooler running > computer. But for interactive style usage, the Cool N' Quiet feature > saves plenty of power.
I see... but I'm afraid I'll have a question below.
As an example, look at PDF page 17 of this document. It shows the processor > ADA3500DEP4AS, a 3500+. > The allowed operating conditions, tested at the factory are: > Name Power Frequency > Max Pstate 89W 2200MHz > Intermediate Pstate #1 69W 2000MHz > Intermediate Pstate #2 50W 1800MHz > Min Pstate 22W 1000MHz
Ok. Now, here's the SAME processor at:
http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/default.aspx
Processor: AMD Athlonв„ў 64
Model Number: 3500+
Frequency (MHz): 2200
L2 Cache Size: 512KB
Socket: AM2
Stepping: F2
Manufacturing Tech (CMOS): 90nm SOI
Wattage (W):
System Bus (MHz): 2000
As you can see, there's nothing beside Wattage. At this stage, the choice is
between 35 or 62. Isn't this to operate at 2200 MHz, the maximum frequency?
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| POST ok, but Device Mgr shows yellow exclamations for CD drives Ritter197 22:26:09 |
| | I have a CD and a DVD drive and they show up in the POST and the Device
Manager, but in the latter with a yellow exclamation mark.
They always worked before and during startup I see the lights on booth
drives working.
Uninstalling from the Device Manager and letting Windows XP Pro find them is
ok, it finds and identifies them but never says the hardware is now
installed and can be used.
What can possibly cause this, especially since no new hardware was added and
both worked fine for months.
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| Concerned About Upcoming Drive Copy Tom 21:10:23 |
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Hi,
I have a 120GB Western Digital drive that was split down the middle, so
it has two partitions (C: and D . I have WinXP sp1 in the C: partition.
I just purchased a new Western Digital 320GB drive where I would like to
move the C: partition. The 320GB drive will likely just be one big
partition (C. I'm not concerned about D: as that is just data and I
can do a normal explorer Cut and Paste later to move the data to the
320GB drive once the OS has been moved.
In the past I've made backup images with Disk Image 2002 and while I
have NEVER had to do a complete restore from the backups, the images
have always reported no errors when verifying, even months later. Pulled
a file out of the image maybe once or twice, but nothing major. So I
feel somewhat comfortable with that software only to that degree.
Thinking that Drive Image 2002 was, perhaps, a little long in the tooth,
I started to look around for newer software.
I am scared as hell after reading about Ghost and True Image!
Another option would be to use Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools
drive copy, but I don't know how well that works. Seems a bit too
simple.
I just don't feel confident about these four software packages (Drive
Image 2002, Ghost, True Image and Data Lifeguard) that the end results
will work 100 percent after the move and I won't find out that something
is messed up until after I reformat the 120 GB drive.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks,
--
Tom
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| Forcing a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio on a LCD CFran 21:09:55 |
| | I now own a 5:4 LCD screen (a 17" Samsung SyncMaster 740n) and although
I managed to have a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio on every 1280xXXXX
resolution, or also on 1088x612, I have it stretched for 800x600 and
1024x768, and I can't find a way to resize that.
I have tried with PowerStrip's advanced timings with no luck, is there
some utility or some thing to do to achieve that? I'm sure I'm not the
only one to run into that type of problem, and I'm pretty sure that
someone must have found/made a solution to that, I just need to be
pointed to it
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| RAM upgrade TecWiz 20:16:11 |
| | I've usually been a software person but I'm not sure about much in the
way of hardware and I had a question that hopefully one of you can
answer. I'm looking to upgrade the RAM on my machine but I'm not sure
what to get. I have a Medion Titanium MD 8084XL PC with two slots for
RAM (right now there are two 256mb sticks for a total of 512MB of RAM)
but I'm not sure what kind I can get. Anybody's help would be greatly
appreciated.
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| PC locks w/ added memory - what next? Zach 17:57:25 |
| | Asrock mb with a Pentium 2.8 Northwood 800 Mhz. Radeon 9800Pro. Had 512 mb ddr
PC3200 with no probs over last couple of years. Put in another 512 and get lots
of locking up (using any 2 of the 3 slots). Memtest showed nothing wrong running
with both sticks, and a single 512 of either stick installed exhibited no
problems either.
Borrowed two matching 512's (Geil) thinking there may be some timing issue but
same problem.
At this point: can it be anything other than a flaky mamaboard? (ps? weird video
card / 1 Gb memory interaction? or ?)
Thanks -
zach
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zach@nospamforme.com
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| BIOS setup Marker 17:15:54 |
| | Hi all,
is it possible to get current BIOS setup in some form like .txt or
something.
Best regards
CD
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| pcmcia no cards detected Alexander Linkenbach 13:40:06 |
| | Hi
I have got a vaio pcg-fx401 with Opensuse 10.1 installed and my pccard
controller does not detect any cards. I haven't been using any of the for
quite a while now but I do remember using them (one is an scsi controller
and the other is a modem) successfully with earlier versions of SuSE (maybe
9.x, 8.x or even 7.x; Definitely worked four and a half years ago, which
version was that then?).
Controller is detected fine but when I query for cards I get:
vaio:~ # pccardctl status
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
no card
And yes, they are both slotted in firmly. Same if I make a pccardctl insert
before.
Anybody have got the same problem (solved)?
alex
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(Sir Peter Ustinov)
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| low power from 12v rail Guest 12:11:22 |
| | Hi, i've had this problem for a while and it's survived through two
power supplies....
My first power supply I had for a year and the only problems my
computer was having was that it would freeze every once in a while. I
don't know what caused this problem, and I never bothered to check the
power supply. Recently, I reformatted and reinstalled windows and all
of a sudden my computer started going into standby at random times
(usually when there was a lot of HD activity or CPU activity, but not
always). My CPU temp peaked at about 50c. My power supply was only
giving 11.8~ amps on the 12v rail. I replaced the PSU, and same thing.
Then I replaced it again with a 400W PSU, and same thing. My 12v rail
won't give more than 11a even though it's rated at 20a....
Motherboard: ABIT KV7
CPU: Sempron 2500 1.77 GHz
RAM: 512 DDR400 Mushkin
Video Card: RAGE 128 PRO Ultra GL
Power Supply: Athenatech 400W
3.3V:28A
5V: 40A
12V1: 20A
12V2: 20A
-12V: 1A
-5V: 0.8A
CPU Temp is 54C
SYS Temp is 56C
AUX Temp is 42C
CPU Fan is running at 3309
Voltages:
VCoreA 1.6
3.3 3.31
5 5.08
12 11.9
-5 .63
-12 -7.01
5VSB 4.85
VBAT 3.23
When I run off of a live linux OS (running only off of a CD everything
seems to be fine)...my problems only happen when running XP
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| Linkstation 250Gb runs out of space when directories show 140Gb? Pete 12:09:10 |
| | Hi
My Linkstation has a share, with two subdirectories, that get backups
via Pheonix backup, from two machines that are networked. One
subdirectory shows 80Gb the other shows 60GB, however, the linkstation
is saying its nearly full with 220Gb of the 250Gb available being used.
The only other folder is the info folder that only appears to have a
few Mb in it.
I dont understand why the linkstation is saying 220Gb has been used
when doing windows properties on each folder shows significantly less
space being used.
I have used the linkstation diagnostics to run a scan but it reported
everythign fine.
This has happened to 2 seperate linkstations (the first one did it too,
but also started making nasty noises and got replaced) but now the new
one has apparently run out of space too.#
Anybody have any ideas?
Pete
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| Re: Ignoring Rod Speedless Phat Bytestard 12:00:51 |
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I would suggest that all perform this simple operation of not
responding to this immature dolt known here in Usenet as "Rod Speed".
The only thing he has been speedy about is an incorrect answer to all
challenges.
I am done with you, boy.
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| Ram Speed question Joe 11:39:43 |
| | I have just put together a new system AM2 X2 3800 on an Asus M2NPV-VM mb. I
ordered two stickes of Corsair DDR2 667 ram which acording to corsair was
suitable for this board. Well this computer will just flat out not run with
both sticks of ram in it and them set to 667 speed. It will not even get
booted.It will work with one stick of Ram at 667. In trouble shooting this I
decided to try the ram at 533. Well the computer will run and is rock solid
with both sticks of RAM in it when it is set to 533 instead of 667 where the
ram is supposed to be.
So my question, How much performance am I really loosing by running the
Ram at 533 as aposed to 667 after all the X2 3800 is also available in the
939 soket in which ccase it would only be running DDR400 RAM. Are we talking
1 or 2 percent here or 10 or 20 percent because if we are only talking a
few percent here I am not going to go to the trouble of returning the RAM
but if we are talking significat diference I will swap the RAM
Joe
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| Computer Error Guest 09:46:15 |
| | Ok, so today I was using both of my computers as normal - and Computer
1 had just been logged off with the monitor turned off. I was trying
to print from Computer 2, and it wasn't working, so I began checking
connections on both computers. After pressing in the cables on the
back of computer 1, the computer started beeping, and when i went to
log back in - there was no display on the monitor. So I restarted, and
on start up it was just beeping again with no monitor display. It's
beeping like this:
2 very short beeps (almost sounds like one)
-pause-
8 short beeps
-pause-
2 short beeps
-pause-
1 short beep
I've looked at many different websites about the error beep codes, but
I cannot find any that can explain what the problem is.
Any help is appreciated.
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| Office Depot bait and switch Hal Greenlee 09:20:46 |
| | Office Depot advertises this week in their Sunday newspaper suppliment, on the
front page, a laptop for $279.99. Price good until 8/05/06.
This ad is deceptive in that there is a $70 hidden fee. It states in the
fineprint that shipping and handling are additional, but the amount is not
given. And that while the item must be ordered instore, it is available by
delivery only.
It mis-states that one can save $480 with the discounts offered. That is
plainly untrue; the savings cannot be more than $410.
The ad plainly states that the base configuration price is $279.99. The
local store manager explained that most of the $70 was for configuration,
which in fact is not even required.
This ad is designed to draw people to the local store, only at which time
they are told of the 25% add-on.
This is a level of deception I have not seen from Office Depot until recently.
I will no longer do business with them as they have wasted my time, gas and
patience.
Hal
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| How to test IDE cable Kimiraikkonen 04:25:11 |
| | Hi,
Is there a software that check rounded or ribbon IDE cables health and
show results that it's damaged or not?
As you know, it's very difficult to say IDE problems occur because of
IDE cables, but it's possible.
Or is there another way to test as hardware as cheap?
Regards...
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| Pentium 965EE multiplier x16 Wolfgang 04:24:45 |
| | Hello,
I bought a pentium 965EE 3733Ghz/1066FSB CPU for an ASUS P5N32 SLI
deluxe mainboard with 0310 bios. In the bios is the option to set the
multiplier from x12 min. to x60 max. also in everest and sandra shows
the same option. I was aghast to see, that the multiplier can be
changed, but doesn't make effect when I save the change in bios. When
the multiplier is set to x16, the CPU should run with 4300Mhz, but it
still shows 3733Mhz.
Does some body know this CPU and the possibility to change the
multiplier? Intel doesn't respond, ASUS doesn't know, some people say
this, some people say that... Is there some body who really knows about
this stuff?
Thanks for answering,
regards, Wolfgang
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| Display Issues With Gigabyte Motherboard-Please Help! Guest 02:21:52 |
| | Hello, I am having a pretty frustrating issue with a new Gigabyte
motherboard. I built an entire system on NewEgg, as specified below.
For some reason, cannot figure out why absolutely NOTHING will display
on the screen, despite fresh, brand new parts and OEM stuff. Pretty
high quality parts, but, sucks when you can't take advantage of them
due to no display!
Just as a run down, we have attempted to flash the bios/CMOS reset, and
are quite positive the display (monitors) are working we are trying to
use.
No beeps come from the system.
Please, please help! Am anxious to use my new machine!
-andrew
Antec SUPER LANBOY Silver anodized aluminum ATX Mini Tower Computer
Case - Retail
Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
- Retail
MSI NX7600GS-T2D256E Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video
Card - Retail
ENERMAX Liberty ELT400AWT ATX12V 400W Power Supply - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Dual Core
Processor Model ADA3800IAA5CU - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- OEM
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| Name of this power connector and cord ? Guest 01:55:03 |
| | What is the proper name of the power cord that's sometimes
used when AC power for the monitor is taken from the
computer's PSU box ? Power goes into the PSU via a male
3-pin connector, and the monitor is supplied via a female
counterpart. For that matter, what's the name of this type
of power connector with three flat pins, male or female ?
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| Help! Hidden partition taking up half my hard drive space! Slugbug 01:11:13 |
| | We got our Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop recently, and one of the first
things I did was to try uninstalling all the junk. It still seemed
slow, so I downloaded all the drivers, located my Windows install disk,
and then went to work. The system shipped with a 60 GB hard drive, so
I expected to see about 55 GB of space available. Instead, I see about
30.
First thing I tried was my trusty old Maxtor CD that shipped with one
of my drives. It has a utility for changing partition information.
(deleting, creating new, and low level formatting) This utility was
able to do a low level format, but it only seemed able to see half of
the drive.
Then I tried another utility from a Seagate CD, "Zero Fill". Zero
fill is supposed to write all zeroes to the entire hard drive. It
takes forever, but usually gets rid of everything on the drive. This
time, it took most of the day, and got stuck at about 50%.
I do remember that this thing shipped with "Norton Ghost", or at
least I saw it in the list of programs. I am guessing that this
program was used to create some sort of hidden partition, which was
used to back up the system and all the junk it had on it as shipped.
Of course, I already have a Windows install CD, and a backup of all the
drivers, so I really don't need this backup. What I really want is to
be able to access the entire 55 GB of storage that I bought.
There is no Ghost install CD, so I can't reinstall and then try to
figure this out through the software. I tried downloading "Partition
Logic", which is supposedly a clone of "Partition Magic", but even it
couldn't seem to see the Ghost partition.
What I want to do is eliminate the other partition altogether, or at
least shrink it down to next to nothing. Is buying a retail copy of
Norton Ghost my only option at this point?
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| Display Issues--New Homebuilt Machine--Your Help Is Appreciated! Guest 00:34:08 |
| | Hello, I am having a pretty frustrating issue with a new Gigabyte
motherboard. I built an entire system on NewEgg, as specified below.
For some reason, cannot figure out why absolutely NOTHING will display
on the screen, despite fresh, brand new parts and OEM stuff. Pretty
high quality parts, but, sucks when you can't take advantage of them
due to no display!
Just as a run down, we have attempted to flash the bios/CMOS reset, and
are quite positive the display (monitors) are working we are trying to
use.
No beeps come from the system.
Please, please help! Am anxious to use my new machine!
-andrew
Antec SUPER LANBOY Silver anodized aluminum ATX Mini Tower Computer
Case - Retail
Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
- Retail
MSI NX7600GS-T2D256E Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video
Card - Retail
ENERMAX Liberty ELT400AWT ATX12V 400W Power Supply - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Dual Core
Processor Model ADA3800IAA5CU - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- OEM
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