Monday, 14 August 2006
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| PCI Video card on PCI Express motherboad? Tungley@Spamfree.Bellsouth.Net 03:20:47 |
| | Quick question -- If I buy a new motherboard which has PCI Express video (no AGP
slot), will a regular PCI video card work in one of the other PCI slots as an
alternative to using the PCI Express slot (i,e, will I get video)? I'm thinking
of a way to avoid buying a new video card right away if I happen to buy a board
with no onboard video and no AGP slot for my current card)
Thanks
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| Manual Duplex Printing with a Brother Multifunction Printer Jack Gillis 03:20:35 |
| | I am thinking of buying a Brother MFC 210c, 420c or 640c multifunction
printer. I now have a Brother HL 1440 Laser Printer and its driver has a
manual duplex option which makes two sided printing a breeze. I have not
been able to find out from the Brother on-line documentation whether the
drivers for those printers offer the same type of manual duplex printing.
Brother has not responded to my email question on the subject.
Can anyone here tell me if the feature is offered by the drivers for any of
the printers?
Thank you.
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| low disk space message in Windows ME Gerry Wolf 03:19:24 |
| | Has anyone been faced with the message "low disk space" and the disk is not
even half full in Windows ME? Any idea how to free up the unused portions?
Defrag has been
done, and various programs have been deleted, but it still gives the
message, sometimes when the computer is just on with no activity.
Suggestions?
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| add another HD? Oldgit74 03:16:32 |
| | hi, only got 80gig HD, is it cheaper to buy larger say 160+ or another 80
and use the two together with 'raid' whatever that is . any advice welcome
thanx don
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| WOL - setting ip address to forward to Guest 02:52:27 |
| | Im trying to get wake-on-lan to work, Ive enabled it in my motherboard.
My NIC supports it and since the motherboard is PCI 2.2 compliant I
*dont* have a cable running from the NIC's WOL connector to the
motherboards WOL connector.
I know my NIC's MAC address.
In the router, I have selected to forward anything on PORT 9 (UDP), but
the problem is it doesnt allow me to forward to a MAC address only to
an IP address. Since the router automatically assigns a new ip
address to the computer I want to wake, I dont know what the ip address
will be. I can set my computer to a static ip address, but wont this
cause a conflict with the dhcp of the router?
Alterantively, I can assign an aribitrary IP address in the router
(within the local LAN IP range), but is there perhaps a default IP
address in the NIC itself that needs to be used?? If so, how can I find
my NICs IP address?
Im using this to test:
http://stephan.mestrona.net/wol/
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx
Thanks!
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| Western Digital controller board Johnnyzero 00:36:42 |
| | I'm trying to resurrect a "dead" Western Digital 40gb drive in order to
do some data recovery - it's a model WD400BB-00CLBO.
I was able to locate another controller board which has the exact same
part number as the original (2060-001092-006), but it's from the 20gb
"version" of the same drive - a WD200BB. When I install the new board,
the drive will now spin-up, but I only get the continuous
thrashing/clacking sound of the heads against the platters. I noticed
that XP's Device Mangler recognizes the drive as a WD*200*BB, so I know
that this is the problem.
Is there any way to make this board work with a WD400BB? Since it's the
same exact WD part number, I was thinking that they're must be a way of
configuring it for use with a 400 - perhaps a jumper, trace, or even a
resistor that you can change. Or is the drive type permamantly stored
in an EEPROM or whatever at the time of manufacture?
Any help will be MUCH appreciated. I can certainly buy another
controller board from a WD400BB, but I'd prefer to be able to use this
board if possible.
best,
JohnB
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| duplicate working devices in device manager Dave Xnet 00:31:45 |
| | Hello,
just did an XP repair install to a Biostar 6100 M9
motherboard / AMD 64 3200+.
It's an Nvidia chipset board.
I'm a little unfamliar with it, and there's a few things I
noticed, one of them is duplicates in the device manager:
http://home.comcast.net/~davetest/dm2.JPG
They're all working, according to device manager/
properties. Only one occurrence of the primary and
secondary controller gives the active dma mode,
the other says "not applicable"
However, all the general tabs say "this device is working
properly"
Thanks for any enlightenment.
Dave
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| 24/7 rated 2.5" laptop hard disk GRios 00:18:55 |
| | Dear friends,
right now, i am having to build a small system that shall provide
firewall service for a local network. This computer is a specialized
box that support 2.5" laptop hard disks. Since, it will be running
nonstop, i am in need to buy a 2.5" 44 pin IDE ATA 100 hard disk for
such task. But i have a hard requirement: this disk must be rated 24/7
operation.
I have heard of two device: HITACHI E7K100 and E5K100. Other
brands/models are welcomed.
The prime question: where can i find a honest/reliable reseller that
deliver worlwide.
Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
Best regards.
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| Performance with two drives on the same SATA controller. Fj 00:11:47 |
| | Is it correct that a SATA controller has the same limitation as a PATA
controller with two drives? I.e., the controller can only handle data flow
to one drive at a time?
So, for example, creating a RAID 0 array on two SATA drives on the same
controller will impact the performance of the array? [vs creating the array
with two drives on different controllers].
Thanks
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Sunday, 13 August 2006
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| Promise TX4000- two striped drives a goner or.... Fotoobscura 23:21:42 |
| | Hi.
I have a Promise TX4000 and had a drive that went dark (intentionally,
unplugged) for a few months. One day I went into the bios and noticed
I only had one drive and remember I unplugged it. I had also since
removed the drive.
Here's the dumb part:
Forgetting this wasn't a mirrored array for some reason I "initialized"
or maybe better put "made online" but did NOT format one of the two
drives in the stripe. I did *not* do anything, at least knowingly that
would hurt anything. No to all "are you sure you want to do this?"
sort of thing.
I then realised the err in my ways and plugged the second drive in. I
went back into the Promise BIOS and noticed both drives recognized as
striped and the right size. I booted into Windows and went to computer
manager to "mount" it. It was there but was acting as if both drives
were empty and unformatted.
This means, obviously, I did something stupid.
The question is- the data on both drives is technically still there but
of course written across separate disks in 64byte blocks. Is there a
way to "save" this stripe or rebuild the MBR for the stripe so I can
get this data back?
It seems to me that even a program like Ontrack to recover data (raw,
formatted, etc) may not work if it doesn't recognize the stripe.
Without recognizing the stripe I presume Ontrack will not know that
64bytes is on one drive, 64 on the other (or so I believe the striping
works).
I have a feeling that i'm not SOL providing I can re-create the stripe.
It seems to me that because the striping is a reoccurring process that
you can infer the stripe that needs to "span" the files on the drive.
So, before I wipe the two drives and make a new stripe and let things
fall as they may, can anyone suggest a way to recover this lost stripe?
Thanks for all info.
p.s. and no I don't have a backup but its not end-of-the-world if I
lose the data. (hence the stripe in the first place) 
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| Western Digital My Book 250 - formatting in XP Guest 22:36:34 |
| | I have a Western Digital My Book 250 GB external harddrive connected
via USB 2.0 to an XP SP2 system. It came formatted via FAT32 from the
vendor with a footnote in the instruction manual that I might want to
re-format it in NTFS mode.
This is the second drive I purchased, the first had to be returned
before 30 days were up due to numerous problems shown in the event
viewer and the fact that the drive would disapper and I had to reboot
to get it back. I re-formatted this 1st drive as NTFS which seemed to
make it much faster, but I wonder was this the cause of my problems.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
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| Intel to open-source its graphics drivers Yousuf Khan 21:50:25 |
| | It seems that Intel and AMD are so competitive with each other that they
even come up with the same thoughts at the same time. Now that's
hyper-competition. AMD was musing about this too just a few days ago
about ATI's drivers.
Yousuf Khan
Intel aims for open-source graphics advantage | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_3-6103941.html?tag=nefd.lede
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| Any other way to recover a HDD which is freezing the system? Spinrite says it will take 584 hours! Jonathan 21:43:01 |
| | Dead Maxtor HDD. Powermax confirms it can see it, says there's drive error.
Oddly, SMART reports OK. But I have only been able to get tools to see this
drive by booting PC, then removing cable from HDD *just* after the POST
beep, then reconnecting cable as soon as CD spins.
Otherwise, the HDD activity light stays on and nothing happens.
Spinrite wants 584 hours (584 hours = 3.47619048 weeks - thanks google!) and
counting, Disk Commander freezes for 10 minutes at a time.
Is there any more "rough and ready" recovery tool? The data isn't valuable
enough to pay Ј100's to a specialist firm, but we'd like as much of it back
as possible for historical reasons!
Chkdsk strangely doesn't see the drive, nor does fdsk or indeed anything
except spinrite and Disk Commander, mainly because it seems the drive
doesn't have a letter. However, I CAN see correctly named directories and
files, in amongst the guff, via some browsing (but not recovering) tool.
Thanks
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| Computer Headaches Adam Leinss 19:20:06 |
| | Hi guys.
I recently installed a watercooling kit from Danger Den that leaked
coolant all over my motherboard and adapter cards. This kit kept
leaking, so I pulled it all out. In the process of trying to remove
the waterblock from the CPU, I bent the pins off the CPU. So I went to
Newegg and ordered another CPU chip (P4-478-3GHZ). Put the chip in and
powered the system on...only powers on for 2 seconds and shuts off.
Narrowed the problem down to being the motherboard so I ordered a new
Asus P4S800D-X from Newegg.
Got the system all together last night and booted it up...worked great
for 3 hours and then the video all went to hell. I updated the video
drivers and once I rebooted the system never POSTed again. Grabbed
another AGP card from my other system and it booted just fine. I figure
the coolant burned this card out as well (it is a Asus 128 MB 9280S AGP
card).
So....I went to CompUSA this morning and got a cheap Geforce 5200FX AGP
card, 128MB. Throw in it my machine and it will POST ok. However,
when it gets past the BIOS I get either a "Out of Range" message, a
black system (system doesn't boot) or the graphics are all distorted.
I put this 5200FX AGP card into my other system and it works fine. I
took the 64MB Geforce2 card and placed it into my system and it works
fine?!?! However, it is no where as crisp as my other card as I was
hooking it up via DVI and now I'm using VGA.
Any ideas? BIOS appears to be flashed to the latest version.
Adam
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| Remember Software coolers like Rain and CPUIdle? Dogboy 17:42:08 |
| | I know Windows XP and whatnot has the effect built in. But do they still
work on Athlon XP CPUs if your running say Windows ME (I know, I know,
the GF likes it for some reason)
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| Configing Barton Mobile for HTPC. Need some help. Home Theatre Guy 17:39:58 |
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Ive got it at 2 ghz at 200fsb. But i want to knock the voltage down
abit to reduce the cpu temp.
At the moment its 45c and Ambient in case of 25. Its got a nice big
Zalman cooler on it. But i think the 1.7 colts iv'e got it at is
alittle to much.
Anyone care to suggest some voltages to try that would be stable on
that setup. Please fell free to throw some other ideas or voltages for
other bits at me
Thanks.
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| Aopen ax6bc r2.59& 250GB harddisk Paul 15:11:52 |
| | I have a question: Can I connect a 250GB harddisk to my Aopen ax6bc
motherboard flashed to 2.59 & Award Bios 4.60 PGMA?
On the Aopen site they say that harddisks larger than 136GB are supported
since release 2.41. ("Supports IDE detection of HDD size over 136GB")
Is there another limit after the 136GB limit?
Does anyopen had any experience with this setup?
Paul
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| Quiet Hard Drive Cooling for Raptor Synapse Syndrome 11:18:01 |
| | What's the best way to quieten a WD Raptor without making it overheat?
Without getting into watercooling, this is the best thing I found so far,
but not so sure if it is any good.
http://www.logisyscomputer.com/viewsku.asp?SKUID=HS102BL&DID=Main
Any other ideas?
Cheers
ss.
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| Unable to format a hard disk, is it dead? Guest 09:33:33 |
| | Hi everyone,
I'm having a serious problem with my hard disk drive (20 Gb, brand
Maxtor). Recently I made several things on it, like installing Ubuntu
4.01 Warty (with Grub as bootloader), removing Ubuntu, partitioning it
using FreeFDISK from a boot diskette and so on. But right now, I can't
format it. The formatting correctly begins, but around 15% I get the
message ''Not ready'' (in fact, ''non pret'' in French) and the
formatting process aborts. I tried to make several partitions in order
to isolate this location, but it seems that there are other places with
the same problem.
Windows Millenium refuses to install, explaining that the formatting
doesn't work. My question is: What could be the origin of the problem ?
Can I save the hard disk, and if it's possible could you please explain
how?
Right now, the only solution I found to post this message is to boot
from the live CD of Ubuntu and to post from Google...
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| nubs Guest 08:34:45 |
| | Someone told me that people usually get nubs for putting into a
motherboard before placing on a flat surface.
Anyone know where to get these?
Thanks.
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| Low Power dual dvi video card. Guest 08:30:13 |
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I want a video card that:
1. Doesn't consume a lot of power and/or doesn't have big noisy fan on
it.
2. Has dual DVI outs for my two flat panel monitors.
right now I have a nvidia quadro fx2000 but it's LOUD and hot...
anyone recommend? thanks
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| Dell Dimension XPS B933 Motherboard PIII 933mhz Guest 06:57:19 |
| | I won this on ebay:
Dell Dimension XPS B933 Motherboard PIII 933mhz 128mb
Anyone have experience with this or something similar?
I'm trying to figure out if there's a power switch pair of pins or how
that works.
Thanks.
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| Athlon Mike 06:29:56 |
| | AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
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| new malware info Willbill 01:57:13 |
| | new malware info
see:
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1976159,00.asp
www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400457&subSection=Viruses+and+Patches
www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4612/53/
fwiw, i clearly have something on my
Win XP SP2 machine. 
i noticed it 2 weeks ago (during a 100GB d/l
day via dial-up modem)
and again this past weekend
which got me around (finally) to using
a h/w router (that i bought 18 months
ago but never got around to using it)
for the moment, the router has saved
the day
- - - - - -
i've yet to do an update with microsoft
for XP SP2. i mean, the whole thing has
looked beyond daunting to me
any suggestions on how to *best*
(without screwing everything up,
and with minimizing future update
download volume and times) will be
VERY much appreciated!!
thank you in advance, bill
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| Help me keep this drive working long enough to rescue data from it... Brian Kendig 01:32:21 |
| | I've got a Seagate ST3200822AS SATA drive in an HP Media Center PC
m1170n. The drive's controller is ailing - when the drive works it
works slowly, but after it's in use for one or two minutes it suddenly
disappears from the bus, and the PC can no longer detect it (not even
in the BIOS menus) until I power off / power on. I've tried this drive
in two different PCs, and it has the same symptoms in each.
It's infuriating to have it work long enough for me to see the contents
of the drive, but not long enough for me to copy them off...
What's especially maddening is that when I boot from the SeaTools
(Seagate diagnostics) CD, it analyzes the drive for an hour or more,
and the drive remains online throughout. So I know the drive is capable
of working; I just don't know why it works for the diagnostics but not
for me!
I've tried setting PIO and DMA to their lowest settings, in the hopes
that maybe slowing down the data transfer rate would keep the drive
from going offline, but that hasn't worked.
I could use some ideas on this. Anyone have any suggestions on things I
could try to nurse the drive along long enough to pull data off it?
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