Friday, 18 May 2007
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| Transfering big files Hamid 05:53:07 |
| | We launched a free new service called TransferBigFiles.com that allows
file transfers up to 1GB to be sent to anyone on the Internet. I
thought the people in this group might find it useful:
http://www.transferbigfiles.com
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007
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| Serial ATA power connector Mike 21:10:30 |
| | I am confused about the Serail ATA power connector
for hard drives I seems to me that there are two sata
power types, A real sata connector, and an adapted type.
I noticed that a sata hard drive has a different
looking power connector than the one for the old
style (Molex). And I have been reading some articles
that show a different Pinout for Sata. It shows an
extra 3.3 volt tap. But if you use a Molex to sata adapter
you do not get the 3.3. volt source. Yet the sata drive
still functions ok. I have even seen a good many power
supplies that do not have a true sata setup, just adapted
off the Molex leads Why does sata have the extra power
wires, if they are not needed ? Or have I missed something ?
Thanks for your advice
Mike
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Saturday, 12 May 2007
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| Low Voltage from the Central Air Crashes My Computer JRoughgarden 19:21:30 |
| | When our A/C comes on, it pulls a lot of power. The lights dim
momentarily, but all the computers in the house weather it fine, except
one: my homemade Asus 2.67 GHz dual-proc system.
I purchased a Belkin UPS and an APC Line-R voltage regulator. I can see
the indicator light on the APC regulator show low voltage on occasion
when the AC is on. But bottom line is that the APC device cannot make
up for the problem.
Does anyone think the problem is in the power supply on this computer?
If so, is there a model or type that could withstand the voltage drops
better? I can't recall the output of my current model, but I do recall
searching for a quiet one with adequate margin. Would a very much
oversized model do any better?
Any advice is much appreciated.
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Monday, 7 May 2007
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| USB troubles Ricky Romaya 06:40:46 |
| | Grrrrr, I have nothing but endless problems here. I have setup
successfully, without any hassle, Canon i255 printer. After that, I
disconnect the USB printer cable from the printer, but leave it attached
to the USB port. While I'm writing the vendor about my graphic adapter
problems in win98se, my win2k suddenly crash with endless beep on the pc
speaker. I tried to reboot, but unsuccessfull, then reset button to the
rescue.
After reboot, at the point where the system info box displayed (just
before entering OS selection menu) there are beeps on the pc speaker.
Then I found out that the keytboard isn't working. The beeps are several
fast beeps (couldn't count, too fast), a pause, then a single beep. I
remove the USB cable, then things are working normal again.
The USB port used is the one on the backpanel which is built onto the
mobo. I tried to switch port (the one directly on top of it, if the mobo
is laid down) and the same problem occurs. Strangely, if I connect the
cable to the ports on the extra backpanel (the one which attached to the
mobo by cables), the problem doesn't occur. I haven't tried to print from
that port yet.
2 additional things I've noticed. Even if I disable the USB controller
(from the BIOS), and attached the cable to the ports on the backpanel
which built onto the mobo, the problem persists.
Another, If I attached the cable, on any available USB ports, there are
now noticable delays in power up, specifically, between when I push the
power button and when the power kicks in. Before this problem, it's
almost simultaneous, even with the cable attached.
Plz Help
TIA
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007
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| IBM NetVista 8305-TWS Fan not working please help Guest 13:20:48 |
| | I opened my PC to update from 128 to 276 RAM memory and I noticed that
just the Power Supply fan is working, the system and CPU fans are not
working. I double checked connections but all seem to be OK.
Is normal for this PC to do that?
Will those fans work when needed?
Please help
Thanks in advance.
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Friday, 6 April 2007
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| Problem with PCMCIA 4 USB ports card P 15:10:09 |
| | Hi,
I bought a pcmcia card with 4 usb, but I have this problem:
On my Celeron 650mhz notebook with windows xp, I plugged it, windows
recognized it and it works well.
On my pentium 150mhz MMX notebook that does not have any usb port (it's a
Siemens Scenic mobile 700) with windows ME, I plugged it, but windows didn't
see it. I tried installing drivers but nothing.
In the hardware list nothing is changed, there isn't neither any ? yellow
item nor usb devices with a ! .
I also tried to connect a usb LED lamp to these ports and it didn't turn on.
The only thing I am sure that the pcmcia slot on the notebook are good,
because if I connect a LAN card or a modem they works well.
What could I do?
Please help me, thank you,bye.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2007
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| Extending use of Windows 98 Darkrats 18:15:07 |
| | Is it still possible to buy, or put together, a top of the line system that
will be able to run the original Windows 98? Seems like the latest chips
from Intel only support 98SE and above, and even newer chips will only
support XP.
Any thoughts on this?
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Sunday, 1 April 2007
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| SDR SDRAM advice needed Bernhard Hortens 15:46:41 |
| | Hello there!
I have recently bought some 512 MB SDRAM sticks, using 8x Samsung
K4S511632C-TC60 modules. The modules were labled PC166 (of course not
officially, but using 6ns RAM from Samsung).
Trouble is, none of the 10 modules wants to work in any motherboard I
tried em in, 2x i845 chipsets (1x Asus P4B, 1x some other), 2x KT133A
(1xAbit KT7A 1.0, 1xMSI KT7 Turbo 2). This led me to believe that the
modules are fishy, but there seems to be another possible explanation
for this: the KT-133A seems to accept only 256Mbit density modules,
which the i845 should, however.
Is there a logical explanation for those modules not working (and if
there is, can anyone guess at a motherboard capable of running these
modules)?
Cheers,
Bernhard
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Sunday, 18 March 2007
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| Why Hitler is a Hero Daniel Joseph Min 23:36:52 |
| | Hitler was a leader who emulated divine love and we ought to go dig up
his corpse and clone him. He fought for the preservation of human
purity. We need to put dozens of Hitlers in charge of every nation on
the face of the earth so he can move forward and sweep the mud-tainted
scum off the face of this planet.
Everywhere you turn you've got primates, pansies, and other perverted
riff-raff screaming for their rights. Why the hell would we cast
pearls before swine, all they want to do is fornicate and sell each
other crack. Not on my watch, the hell with all of them.
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We are Many
Mark 5:9
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007
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| Jabra 250/Belkin/Skype Dave At K2computers 08:56:47 |
| | On a Windows 2000 pc I have Skype, and use a Jabra 250v connecting
through a Belkin F8T008 USB dongle.
It all works apart from one annoying problem. If the headset is in
Standby mode then nothing happens when I make a call, or for an
incoming call. I have to go into My Bluetooth places and manually
connect. I can leave the headset in Active mode but that eats the
battery.
I would like it so that the headset goes from Standby to Active when
needed, and drops back to Standby when no longer required.
Can this be done ?
Dave
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Sunday, 26 November 2006
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| Just a question Chera212 20:37:30 |
| | It's a stupid question,but I'm new at replacing parts of my computer.
If I replace my power supply do I lose anything? Like my os,and
anything in the memory?
Thanks,chera
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Friday, 24 November 2006
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Video Card Question!!  B0omstICK 13:05:50 |
| | Hey Guys and Gals!!
Question for yall, I have an HP Pavilion a1110n desktop, got it last year in september. I use it primarily for gaming and Call of Duty 2 is the game of choice. Because of the high graphic demands of this particular game and most of the newer games these days I ran out and picked up a new card. I got the BFG GeForce FX 5500 O/C pci, only because I was stunned to find that my motherboard only had 3 pci slots!! However, I am not a huge computer buff and only know enough about them to get me by. How is it possible that a computer, regardless of the brand name, has not setup there systems so that they can be upgraded? Why would they not put in an AGP slot or if not that at least a PCI-E slot, Which I might add I have seen the setup for somewhere, either in the BIOS or within windows hardware/device manager. For some reason if when I check system specs on the computer itself, opposed to what it says in the specs listed in the manual, it says that it has detected a Pci-e slot and 2 pci. I could only think that maybe the graphics card that I installed has something to do with this. I guess to make a long story short, I would love to believe that my board does have a pci-e slot as this would be a great chance for me to go out and but a "REAL" card.
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006
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| Video Card/Mobo compatability issue OR "A Tale of Two Notches" Rob 02:13:50 |
| | I bought a NOS Mobo (ECS- Elitegroup P4ITA2) for an old P4 my buddy
gave me. I am gutting an old Athlon system I have to use for parts for
the P4 system. In the AMD box there was a seemingly usable video card:
an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 (maybe a M64?), I believe 16 MB. It's hard to
tell b/c it's a COMPAQ part made by Nvidia...you know.
So anyway: the new Mobo says I MUST use a 1.5V video card. After
looking online I saw that if the card has 2 notches it is 1.5V,
however I ran across a post saying this rule is *usually* correct
except in cases of TNT2 and another card. The card has the 1.5V
tell-tale 2 notches.
A sticker on one side of the card reads:
I.T.E Accessory
180-p0009-000-c00-8,-16
E204896
+3.3Vdc@2.7A, +5Vdc@100mA
TWMIC001
Which leads me to believe this is indeed a 3.3V card. Does anyone have
the correct info on this card?!?!
Just in case you need it:
the part number is: 316903600002-ROB
There is another serial below that: PWA-G4000PRO/GRAPHIC CARD
Please help me out if you can & Thanks ahead of time,
Rob in NJ
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Friday, 10 November 2006
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| Total Failure Nik Diablo 10:57:36 |
| | Hi
I suddenly had a "mouse freeze" on me. The whole PC locked up and I
rebooted, to Nothing!
I have a 8m old p4 3.2 with 512MB Ram, Win Xp Home SP2, 200MB MAXTOR (Yes
Maxtor..I know what you're thinking) Hard Drive that has been making a
Grating sound for about a week. It's a Diamond Plus 9, SATA and I'm assuming
it's this that has "Gone". Also NVidia 256mb FX5700 AGP graphics.
When I reboot I get all the fans, power to the mobo etc, but no signal at
all to the Viewsonic VE710b monitor. The H/D light comes on (Constant light,
not flickering) for about a minute, then switches off. I get NO bootup
screen or anything. Is this the H/D, MoBo, Memory or what? Any ideas Greatly
appreciated.
Nik
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Monday, 23 October 2006
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| Dialing Problem - Netzero Jim T . 01:50:27 |
| | I maintain a NetZero free dialup subscription just in case ---
I can dial up OK from my laptop connected to my phone line and get a
good connection. I can then access Comcast for mail, etc.
Trying to do the same from my Desktop with what I think is the same
setup I get a message "Can't start dialing" Not sure if its from XP or
Netzero.
Using the Windows dialer to call any number it works OK, so line is
connected and ports etc must be OK. Assume some incompatibility
between the modem (Dell on MB) and the NetZero dialer. XP claims
drivers are OK and modem checks out.
Will welcome any and all suggestions.
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Tuesday, 17 October 2006
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| laptop buying advice Rusli 10:28:40 |
| | Hi all
I am considering buying a laptop for regular use such as internet use,
occasionally AutoCAD 2006, MS Office, Roxio video editing, picture touch-ups
but confused with the choices. Which is the way to go: AMD Turion or Athlon?
Mobility is not a crucial factor for most of the work will be done in front
of TV. Thanks a lot.
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Monday, 9 October 2006
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| ECS L7VMM2 Motherboard Replacement Lenja 07:09:52 |
| | I am looking for a replacement mobo for eMachines T2200. The original
one is ECS L7VMM2. It doesn't boot, no any POST beeps. I couldn't find
this model, it was discontinued.
What could be a good replacement? I want to keep original CPU Athlon XP
2200+, DIMM, hard drive, etc.
Thank you in advance,
Leonid
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Monday, 2 October 2006
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| Wireless Router Dsl Modem Combination Jack Gillis 19:38:09 |
| | Does any manufacturer make a Wireless/Router/Dsl modem combination? I
believe Zoom has a Router/Modem combination but it does not have
wireless.
I would simply like to have the convenience of just one box. I've to
many cables and power adapters as it is.
Thank you.
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006
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| Vista Richard Miller 00:26:19 |
| | Does anyone know where I can get the 64 bit Vista Beta OS?
Richard
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Monday, 11 September 2006
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| Re: Norton Disk Doctor Andrew Rossmann 06:54:11 |
| | [This followup was posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]
In article <cmvgjc$4gp$05$1@news.t-online.com>, inseke-news@yahoo.de
says...> which newer version of Norton Utilities rsp. Norton System Works is> containing the Norton Disk Doctor (ndd.exe) and Diskedit, to repair older> FAT16 hard disks?
The current version should be able to repair all formats: FAT12 (only
used by floppies today), FAT16, FAT32, NTFS.
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Tuesday, 5 September 2006
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| Recovering Lost Data From A Corrupted HDD - findpart David 14:11:15 |
| | Hi all, & Svend Olaf if you are out there... ;)
/STARTINTRO - Non technical background dribble paragraph here...
I am trying to recover some data from a corrupted Western Digital
120GB HDD that I have been using with my "trusty" old Abit BP6
motherboard. For those of you that aren't aware this 8+ year old
machine uses the Highpoint HPT366 chipset that brings & enables the
"amazingly fast" (well it was for its time) ATA-66 technology.
However, apparently, there have been may reports of these disk
controllers failing. I suppose after 8 years of service, many
computer components will fail. 
After 8 years of faithful service, my HDD controller decided to "join
the team" & along the way it also very quickly managed to corrupt a
large amount of data on my HDD. Yes, I do backups, but unfortunately,
not regularly enough.
After failing to boot, I decided to see what was wrong... here follows
the techical bit...
/ENDINTRO
I ran Svend Olaf's findpart utility first on my corrupted NTFS 120GB
dynamic disk - drive (number 2)
-- findpart 2
Disk: 2 Cylinders: 14593 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 114470
--PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB --Start CHS- ---End CHS-- BS
CHS
0 - 07 63234420417114463 0 1 1 14591 254 63 B
OK
No FATs found.
There were sectors, which could not be read.
First read error in this search CHS: 5432 0 33
Last read error in this search CHS: 5432 0 33
Partitions according to partition tables on second harddisk:
--PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB --Start CHS- ---End CHS-- BS
CHS
0 1*42 63234420417114463 0 1 1 14591*254 63
OK
0 2 42234420480 16065 7 14592* 0 1 14592*254 63
OK
****************************************************************************
I didn't like the look of the message above telling me that there were
"sectors that could not be read", so I thought I would try to see how
much (MB) of files could be by running the following both in DOS mode
& in Windows - to be sure there was not any Windows driver issues
-- findntfs 2 summary
FindNTFS, version 1.54.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2005.
OS: DOS 8.00
Disk: 2 Cylinders: 14593 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 114471
CHS 0/1/1 LBA: 63
Directories: 3114
Files: 37651
Trees: 84
Exe/dll files: 2357
Exe/dll files signature: 2354
Not referenced files: 350
Cluster KB: 4
MFT cluster no: 786432
MFT size: 199704576
MFT cluster bytes: 4096
Listed files MB: 12647
Code page used: 437
****************************************************************************
This was also not good to see. Only 12647 MB of listed files, when I
know that my 120GB drive was around 80% full, it should be closer to
around 100000 MB.
So, my questions:
- Is the corruption on this drive so bad that I can only see 12% of
what is there?
- Is there something else I can do to find the remainder of these
files?
- Being a Dynamic Windows Disk, is there something unusual with the
MFT records that I need to adjust for to find the remaining data on
the disk?
I have run a findpart findfile 2 0 14591 fp-a.txt, but I am not sure
on how to interpret these results & how I get findntfs to recover more
than just the original 12647 MB & what I should try next. I am happy
to compress this file & send it.
Can anyone out there help me.
Many Thanks.
David.
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Sunday, 3 September 2006
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| Medal of Honor Pacific Assault Jim 00:12:18 |
| | Hi
I will be getting a new video card next week, probably a nVidia 6600.
Does this card work with Medal of Honor Pacific Assault ?
The back of the case says nVidia 6800 but this is more expensive.
Thanks.
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Friday, 1 September 2006
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| Intel IOAT technology Yousuf Khan 22:17:16 |
| | Not sure what exactly this does except it somehow allows you to build a
TCP/IP Offload Engine right into a processor (just read the articles,
I'm sure you'll be as confused as I am).
InfoWorld: Intel to show improved server I/O technology: February 18,
2005: By : HARDWARE
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/18/HNintelserver_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/18/HNintelserver_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/5dft5
Intel Chip to Drive TCP/IP
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3484511
Yousuf Khan
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006
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| The average temperature of Celeron D 320, 2.4 GHz Scorpius 14:53:08 |
| | What is supposed to be the average temperature range of Celeron D 320,
2.4 GHz, using ZALMAN CNPS7000B-Cu fan, with room temperature at about 25'C?
I'm getting 46-49'C (it gets to 54'C after 20 minutes of burn-in test)
for average workload. Isn't this kind of too high? Namely, I also have a
P4 2.6 GHz with a 'nothing-special' fan, and its temperature is 42'C.
Shouldn't the aforementioned Zalman cool the whole thing down better
(btw, its rpm is set to max)? Or are these Celeron D's just hotter in
general?
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Monday, 14 August 2006
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| Case Advice Wanted Guest 19:03:36 |
| | I'm looking for a home pc case offering decent active cooling and low
noise. However, I don't care about shiney paint, flashy lights, or
windows that let you see inside. In otherwords, I want funciton and
don't want to have to pay for cosmetics. I also don't require a lot of
bays, but I would like front ports for USB and maybe audio. Of cousre
I don't want something flimsy, but I don't need a tank either because I
don't intend on moving it around much. If power supply comes with
case, 450watt minimum.
I've found a few cases (power supply included) in the $70 that are
close to what I want, but not quite. I've found some cases I like in
the $110 (and over) range, but in most cases there is no power supply
and, as mentioned, I'm just paying for cosmetics. I'm hoping to find
some middle ground.
Any links for online case reviews would also be very helpful. What
I've found so far isn't very inclusive.
Thanks if you can help!
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