Recent content by CletusTheDwarf

Do you know any online studies that can show a good direct real-world comparison between drives of the two speeds?

Right now I have a 60gb 7200 hard drive in my laptop and i need more space. I'm finding lots of great deals on bigger hard drives, but they are 5400rpm drives. Will i see a noticeable slowdown from switching to a bigger, slower hard drive?

i started my vista install with a reformat of the partition, so it doesn't seem like anything would be corrupt. i did install net framework, i could try re-installing that...

yeah, i had no error messages, just says disabled due to an error in the device manager afterwards. The wierd thing is, I installed vista in a dual boot about a month and a half ago with the Vista RTM copy, and the drivers worked then...

did you do anything special to install? or simply ran the executable and that was it...

yes, i'm talking about the 7.1 drivers for vista. the site says that the 9500 is supported by vista. anyone else?

bump?

I have Vista Business x86 and have tried to install the Radeon drivers for my system. I downloaded the x86 vista drivers and ran the installation. There were no error messages reported in the process, and I rebooted as instructed. After the reboot, when I go to the display properties, and under...

bump...if i can't figure this out i'm gonna have to reformat :-(

yeah, i checked into that. the only possibility is norton, because I have Norton Systemworks 2005, but that doesn't include any firewall. I don't have any firewall software installed on here.

how can i check on this? what ports would it be blocking?

So my local network consists of several computers connected through a netgear wireless hub. For some reason, it all works fine, except I can't ping my computer from my roommate's computer on the local net. I can get online, chat on aim, all that stuff just fine. But if I set up an ftp server...

most exe files have an icon built into it. that part isn't an issue

Is there any way to have a program on a usb drive run automatically when it is inserted in any computer? I put an autorun.inf file in the root directory with: [Autorun] Open=PStart.exe Action=Open PStart Icon=PStart.exe but it doesn't seem to do anything at all.

how do i check that?