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I have a front facing 3.5inch drive bay, which is connected to a PCIe SATA card based on a ASMedia ASM1061 chip. Under Windows 7, when I insert a drive into the bay it is automatically detected and shows up in My Computer. The Safely Remove Hardware icon also appears in the system tray so the...

I got an email from Dabs with an offer on a 4TB Seagate external drive (it's £89.99 when I click through the email but for some reason shows as £99.99 if I click through that link). I actually wanted an internal drive but the the cheapest 4TB Seagate internal drive is £25 more expensive at...

After copying a large amount of data to a Western Digital WD20EARX or WD20EARS the drive heads will be constantly active for some considerable time. Even if you safely stop the drive and remove the SATA connection the heads will continue churning, so it's not something the operating system is...

What's currently considered to be the best budget Core 2 overclocking board? It used to be the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 which gave me some fantastic overclocks but unfortunately it's no longer available. I'd prefer to go with another Gigabyte after being so satisfied with the 965P-DS3. Is...

To try and save myself from having to upgrade my whole PC I bought an Opteron 170 CCCBBE 0615 with the intention of overclocking it by following a guide on Mad Shrimps. The first stage is to see what HTT speed the motherboard is capable of as instructed here...

I was looking into the possibility of building a fanless low end 939 Athlon 64 PC. It seems it’s completely possible, with fanless CPU coolers like the Termaltake Sonic Tower: http://www.thermaltake.com/product/cooler/retail/cl-p0071/cl-p0071.asp or Scythe Ninja Plus which is apparently...

I was going to buy an ASUS T2-AE1 barebones system for use as a home file server. I was going to put a 300GB Maxtor Maxline III and a 200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 into but it only has a 200W power supply. Will the power supply be sufficient for two hard disks and a low spec AGP graphics (one...

Every time I start Windows XP it insists that “one of your drives has to be checked for consistency.” If I let it doe the check it finds nothing wrong, but it wants to do it every single time I start Windows. I had this problem once before and in the end I had to copy everything off the...

I’ve been having problems with my PC crashing and I believe the problem is a result of a Sitecom KV-011 USB KVM. This sounds unlikely so I’ve written a background of what has lead me to this conclusion. However, it’s a bit long so if you can probably skip to where I’ve put a line of dashes if...