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So I am trying to install a new hard drive into my brothers computer, here is the low down: SATA 74gb IDE1 dvd drive IDE2 nothing He bought a 400gb ide drive and so I installed it on it's own IDE cable and connector. SATA 74gb IDE1 dvd drive IDE2 400gb drive The computer...

I have always wondered what the inherent difference is between all the g4 processors. My sister recently recieved a 1.42ghz mac mini for christmas. It has a 5400rpm hard drive, 1gb ram, 10.4. I have played around with it and it is noticably slower and less responsive than my friend's 1.25 ghz...

I have looked around in faqs about what to do and haven't found any yet. I am installing a harddrive (sata) and windows disk management is not finding it. It is on and spinning atleast, but that is about the most I can do diagnostics wise with my limited knowledge. I have sucessfully...

I have a quiet 320w powersupply that I forgot was in a machine of mine. I am about to add a third hard drive to it and was wonderinf if that would mean needing to get a new Powersupply. 3.0 "c" ghz p4 one cd drive one 74gb raptor, one sata 250gb 6600GT Those are the most power...

Is there a simple free program for os10 that will record audio from a standard 1/8 input? Is there one already on here?

Last time I was in the market, the 250gb drive was the "hot drive" of the time, costing only about $130 or so. Now it is about a year later and I need some larger drives (300+), what is the best to buy? 2x 300gb? 1x 400gb? Do all of these drives share the same reliability? basically I...

I have been playing around with this g5 my friend lent me and I am trying to connect it to a shared folder on another PC. I have been told this is really simple but I cannot figure it out. "go" -> "connect to server" -> "ip of windows machine" doesn't seem to work. I wouldnt be so angry...

I am in the market for a new display, somewhere in the 30"+ LCD range. I have a bunch of HDTV media (TV shows, movies, etc...well i gues no etc) and I want to be able to display them on a large scale at the correct resolution. But does this mean that my non HDTV media will look like shit...

Are all the g4 processors directly comparable? Are a 1.25ghz powerbook, ibook, and mac mini going to perform the same (with the same hard drive speed and amount of memory)? I don't know much about macs but I am curious. If I had to choose between a mac mini, powerbook, and an ibook (for...

I am interested in buying an ibook to replace my current portable but I want to know if I can easily communicate with my desktop PC. I will use my ibook on campus to take notes and surf the internet but I also want to be able to freely update it from my PC's video library for inbetween...

Many people own both a desktop and a laptop at home and use the laptop for school/work/travel and use their desktop for everything while at home. I have a little ibm x series that I use strictly for aim, email, word processing, etc, wirelessly. When I am at home lounging in front of the TV...

So I have a simpe raid 5 setup in an old lian li 65. As you can imagine it is getting crowded in there with 3 drives + system drive. I want to add another two hard drives to the mix but I want something bigger to store them in. Additionally, it would be nice to get those hard drive enclosure...

I recently lost a windows server 2xxx install that had running a RAID 5 of ~500gb of junk. I didn't have a copy of server handy but I needed some files on the RAID 5 so I installed XP really quickly and got the array recognized in windows. Now as you probably already guessed I had some funky...

I just installed XP on an old IT-7 with no legacy. This means I need to install USB drivers for the mouse and keyboard to work. Right now I can use a USB keyboard in bios but once i get into windows i'm stuck and I can't do anything because it won't recognize the USB devices. I installed...

I recently updated to iTunes 4.8.0.32 (windows) and my 4th gen 20gb ipod stopped being recognized by itunes. Window's sees it just fine and my iPod displays the "Do not Disconnect" dialogue on the screen. hooked up via firewire. My friend suggested that I "reset" the ipod by holding MENU...

How do I extract a row from a matrix and make it its own (1xm) matrix? Given a 3x3 matrix I need to plot the first row vs the second row and I can't figure out for the life of my any other way to do it besides plotting two separate matrices. any advice?

I have an IBM x20 and the screen hinge is giving a little. When it is "set" there is 5-10 degrees of flux forward or backwards depending ont he orientation of the base (gravity). This seems to happen to all laptops of this style hinge eventually. Is there a way to tighten it myself?

Alright, long story short, I have a desktop PC now, all the bells and whistles. I am in college and am thinking about switching to a laptop and want it to be a mac. I have some questions first. I have a lot of data, mostly a video library, that I want with me in college. with a T3...

Any of you guys ever use video games as a drinking game? I am talking mainly about older simpler games: Mario, Street Figter, Mortal Kombat, Mario Kart, F-zero, etc. If you have, which were the most fun? How do you alter the rules to make it more interesting (as in playing blind, two people...

I just installed a 6600GT (upgrading from a ti200!) and I am having some issues. I right away hooked it up to my nice samsung 21.3T and (pre-drivers) it looked beautiful with the DVI connection. I used driver cleaner and rebooted and decided to install whatever nvidia's website told me too...

I just updated to sp2 from sp1 and now I have this yellow caution sign everywhere saying I have limited or no connectivity to the internet (in this case, no connectivity). This is really frustrating, espeically because the update should make me happy but it is not. I tried manually...

I am having this weird issue with the audio on my abit ic7-g onboard sound card and windowsXP. Audio will just stop working in the middle of a movie or video, but the video will keep going. If I open winamp to play a song (once i have discovered that the audio has stopped working), winamp will...

I dont want a full blown HTPC solution for radio, tv, music, etc...yet All I am looking for is a program that I can use to find and play videos on my computer. All it would need to do really is be a library for the videos, and then just play them with the default third party player (wmp...

I have installed Windows XP SP1 4 times in the last 2 hours because of the same reoccuring problem: Programs just wont fucking work. blah. namely small apps like GAIM, VLC media player, etc. I install them, they work perfectly, then all of a sudden they just stop working. With GAIM...

I just put together a new computer with an Abit IC7-G and it wont power on. Below are the list of possible problems I have identified and tried to solve: Faulty Power Switch I made sure my power switch connector was on the right pins and it still didn't work. I tried using the reset switch...

I am about to build a completely new system from the ground up, and I want a nice case that will accomodate 2 120mm fans. Obviously my goal is quiet, but effective air cooling. I am deciding between the Sonata, a case well spoken for, and the Tsunami, relatively new to the market. Your...

P4 2.4b is what I have now. I will be going to college in a month and want to fully upgrade my computer with all new everything. So really its not an upgrade, it is just a new computer. I have about $400 to spend on the CPU and Motherboard and have recently been out of the loop processor...

I am in the market for a new video card and want to know what the most powerful card is that can still be passively cooled with one of the heatpipe kits. I dont need it to be super top top of the line, if it can play the standard Doom3/HL2 junk thats all I care about. note: i am buidling a...

I have a p4 2.4b right now on an Abit IT-7 from about two years ago just about. Since I put that rig together I have been out of the whole loop for processors because I am not really an enthusiast and I wasn't in the market. I am going to college in about a month and want to build a new...

I want to get a digital camera for this summer (last summer at home with friends) and i am debating between the A75 and the SD110 The A75 is an awesome camera, i would get it if it werent for its size and the AA batteries. I know many people like to use AA batteries because theoretically you...

I am very interested in a SFF PC for college next year but i need it to run very quiet. I know that relative to most PC's they are quiet but can you make then as quiet as you can make regular ATX? right now i have passive cooling on my ati card, a zalman 7000 copper cooler thinger running at...

I am looking to replace my ibm x20's super super super super whiney loud hard drive tonight (some time in next 2 hours) but i want to know that i am getting a quiet drive. is it safe to assume that any 4200rpm drive at the local Fry's will be quiet (silent) ? if i recall the ones there...

i accidently installed this patch: http://www.msfn.org/modules.php?modid=2&action=show&id=75 to patch xp for theme (i was in a rush, and fucked up) now it has overwritten some crucial file and windows will not boot. I have the system drive loaded in another machine now and i have a copy...

i just bought a second 512 stick of ram for my ABIT IT-7. both this new one and my old one are pc2700, and both sticks of ram work perfectly by themselves. once i install both at the same time, only one of the sticks (i dont know which one) is recognized by the system. Is there something...

Ive been playing vice city for the last 2 weeks perfectly fine and then all of a sudden it just wont start up. They only thing i changed was i updated my drivers to catalyst 4.2. After several restarts it still wasn't working so i uninstalled and reinstalled GTA. It still does not start...

I have been using multiple monitors witha 17" and 15" LCD for the last few months and there have been no problems. Recently i acquired an 18.1" LCD and installed it in my system. I made the 18.1" my PRIMARY monitor and my 17" my SECONDARY monitor. the 17" used to be the primary. i donated...