Recent content by delussional77

thanks swampmaster, I didn't know that about the slower IDE drive causing issues. I did, however, realize that my 4Gb's is pretty much "wasted" on my 32bit system. I am still hoping to upgrade to 64bit someday..

I have 4Gbs of ram (and only a 32bit system) on XP...I should have plenty of ram.

interesting update: I tried to think of any computer changes that I had made recently which could have caused this weird anomaly. I had recently installed a Logitech Quick Cam and let windows install the necessary related software. Un-plugging the USB input from my USB hub and...

i've considered the power supply (it's a bit overworked for whats in my system). I have a spare power supply that I have been meaning to wire in. Another thought. On the same IDE cable is an NEC DVD burner that is set to "cable select". The suspect IDE drive is set to "master". Both of...

I do actually have SMART enabled and the temperatures have normally read fine. I'm assuming that the drive has gone south, but I'd like to hear a few other people's comments before I splurge on the 300Gb Raptor! It is strange though how the drive acts perfectly fine when I'm at the...

I'll try to keep this short: AMD 4800+ Gigabyte AM2 mobo Windows XP Pro OS/Program Drive: 6 year old 80Gb IDE! 4Gb's of ram ATI 3450 Video Card Approx age of latest build: 2.5 months Ok, So a few months ago I consolidated a pair of decent computers into one uber-computer. I...

rebatemonger, I tried putting the drive back into the main pc and it wouldn't boot and I couldn't repair it either it claimed there was no windows partition on it... I'm going to try the USB adapter and see if that works thanks!

seems like most new cards offered from ATI utilize surroundview it allows you to have more than the standard 2 monitors active when using a PCI video card...

I just installed a new mobo that has HDMI onboard. I had initially intended on hooking up my LCD TV to this mobo's onboard HDMI and then using a video card to get signals to my dual LCD monitors. Well it turns out the only easy way to get 3 displays present while using this mobo is to use...

Blunc, I forgot to mention, but Yes, I have tried to boot into safe mode. It loads the safe-mode drivers and then a few seconds later BSOD's. Gonna try the external enclosure route tonight along with the UBCD and see if it works all my data is backed up (more or less) so i'm not too...

prodigy, that was exactly what I was planning on doing unless the HD has fatally borked I should assume that all of my data is still there, right?

thanks for the advice everyone thankfully, I do have all of this information backed up. It just sucks that I'll be losing a lot of my good programs and all of my custom settings. I will give the UBCD a try tonight and hopefully that works. I was also told to just stick the borked main...

are there any steps I can take after the fact to try to recover any info from this HD? i'm going to just completely reformat the HTPC's windows drive and start over from scratch on there

Okay, I figured myself to be somewhat computer competent over the years but I guess I was way wrong. I was in the process of taking all my good hardware out of my main rig and installing it into a new HTPC (which would soon become my one and only computer). At this point I had been using...

Hi everyone, I am considering purchasing this mobo to go with my AMD 4800+ CPU. I plan on using the onboard HDMI output to a hi-def (1080p) Samsung LCD. I will use the single PCI-E (x16) slot for my main video card (ASUS EN8500GT) to control my two computer monitors. Will the onboard...