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Well I was installing the new firmware for my Sony DRU500A burner...and it instructed me to disable DMA. I did this through the Device Manager -> IDE Channel (primary and secondary) -> Advanced and then changed the "DMA if available" setting to "PIO." Well the installation went fine and...

The problem is fixed now..it was the jumper definitely. The BIOS would see it..although it hesitated a bit before it did...but after the jumper removal it's pretty instant. I had just gotten a new P4PE mobo with a P4 and installing XP. When I inserted the bootable XP disc..it would go through...

Well I think I may have found the answer but I'm not at the location to test it right now so I'll ask this anyway out of curiosity. I was building a new system and when booting up the bios would detect the harddrive when I went INTO the bios..but when it went to boot up and load the OS it...

it's RENDERING (since you spelled it rending twice i figured it wasn't a typo) and it's when the program has to take it from one format and render it to another format for comaptibility with said program.

k that's what i thought...thanks.....i figured they were different...shite...thanks again! edit: was also looking at that case since i see a lot of modders use it..it is a bit big but i like the swing out door...thanks! oh i already have a psu for him...so no biggie there.

sweet! that was the initial one I picked (aka in my basket at newegg...man i've spent so much money there the past two days)....the 2100 xp "palomino?" that correct? it's selling for $90 there now! sweet! thanks for the advice! what about a good case? I just have this case picked out for him...

Well I have an old Athlon 1Ghz I'm upgrading for my brother and trying to find the best Athlon XP proc to get him. I'm getting the Asus A7n8X nforce2 board for him. I want to keep it preferably under $150 ($200 at the most). What's all this noise about the Tbred [x] core processors that are...

well i wanted to get something cheap whilst I waited to see the marks on the GF FX. and that would determine whether I'd get the 9700 pro or the GF FX. like I said the reason i'm getting two cards is b/c once i make my decision on the higher end card I'm giving this one to my brother who needs...

Well I have just purchased a lot of new stuff including a P4 3.06 Ghz and 1 GB DDR 3200 RAM (Corsair XMS Twinpack). I was waiting on two things...a Granite Bay motherboard and the GeForce FX to come out. Well I've just gotten impatient as I don't need the fastest card right now and just want to...

Circuit City still has some in stock (advertised on the front page) and Chumbo.com does as well.

I'm having the exact same problem. It crackles and slowsdown, especially if I'm doing anything on the computer that's even the slightest bit cpu intensive. As far as changing it to DMA mode. That's what I figured the problem was so I went and checked and Device 0 is in DMA mode but Device 1...

^^^^^^ Thanks for the info!!

Excellent advice! I had heard bad things about the IBM's but somebody recommended them earlier in this thread. I guess I'll stay away. I guess what I'll do now is just go with 2 WD 120gig 8mb cache drives (all i can afford) and not stripe them. Then when I can afford it I'll get a SCSI Seagate...

Alrighty I'll go with faster RAM and see about getting a 3rd drive Thanks guys! If you see a P4G8X floating around give me a heads up :)!

Thanks for the info! The only reason I'm sticking with Viewsonic and Logitech was to get a bit of a discount. I have found the viewsonic monitors to be great economical solutions and the logitech z680s have equal performance to the klipsch's for cheaper. So that's the only reason I'm getting...