Recent content by arrgon

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    A few questions on onboard ide and pci raid card setup

    As I've said the hard drives store no important data, just video recodings from a tv tuner, dvd backups etc. which i later encode to mpeg2 and dump on a dvd. The raid card is a cheapie, and I'm well aware of the software/hardware raid card differences. However, I only got it when i needed...
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    A few questions on onboard ide and pci raid card setup

    Whats the best way to set up a dvdrw, dvdrom, cdrw, zip drive, a main boot drive, and two identical storage drives over integrated ide and a pci ide raid card? Currently it is set up as follows: primary master: boot hdd primary slave: dvd rom secondary master: dvdrw secondary slave: cdrw...
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    Need new motherboard advice

    Since my last mobo (Gigabyte GA8ST667) developed some sort of a USB problem where it no longer recognized usb 2.0 devices, i am looking for a replacement. The budget is around $100-200 Australian, which is about $80-160 US) I would prefer an intel chipset as i've read that sis and via...
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    Anyone seen this usb problem before?

    thanks guys, but i've tried different PCs not identical motherboards and i've read that the usb controller on this one isnt the greatest either, so if worse comes to worse i was planning on a new mobo in the near future anyway. What's weird is that it worked fine the day before. And Arcanedeath...
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    Anyone seen this usb problem before?

    Ok guys, thanks in advance. I'm a long-time lurker but a first-time poster so bear with me. Anyway, long story short about a week ago my usb ports stopped working properly (both front and back ones). When i plug in a usb 2.0 card reader or scanner i get a windows balloon that says "usb...