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Awesome idea. I hadn't thought of that. That even solves the volatility problem of using RAM. No need for a UPS in the event that the power goes out for more than 12 hours. Thanks Ayah!

But of course, IDE hard drives will eventually disappear as well. That's only a temporary solution. Virtualization solves the software problem, but not the hardware problem. I use DOSBox to run DOS games on my Windows XP computer every day, and I've toyed with Virtual PC 2004 and hope to get...

Sounds safe to me, but how much information are you talking about recording? Personally, I'd grab a pen and write down everything that's written on it, and then there'd be no risk at all.

Many older motherboards won't recognize hard drives larger than 520M/8G/32G. Soon all hard drives will be hundreds of gigabytes and require SATA, then they'll all be multi-terabyte Super SATA, then they'll go wireless except for the power connector, before finally being replaced by solid-state...

Wouldn't it be easier to prevent him from getting viruses and spyware in the first place? Go get a free virus scanner like AVG Free Edition, a free spyware detector like Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition, and give him a basic course on how to avoid trojans by not running attachments or downloading...

Gigabyte's i-RAM has gotten a lot of attention for the promise of extremely fast access time, but the 4 GB maximum capacity is a limiting factor on a modern computer. My first thought when I heard about it was that it could be used to replace aging hard drives on old DOS computers. I maintain...

The Zork Trilogy is NOT freeware. Activision made downloads of the games available as a promotion following the release of Zork Nemesis. The downloads contained the following license: GRANT. Activision, Inc. ("Activision") hereby grants you a non-exclusive license to use the accompanying...

Oh, AN8! Sorry, I forgot about Abit. The Fatal1ty AN8-SLI and AN8-SLI do support dual floppy drives, though neither comes with parallel or serial ports, so make sure you have a USB printer or add a PCI card. Unfortunately, after hearing about the SLI X16, I really can't see myself buying...

I just downloaded the PDF versions of the manuals for the A8N-E, SLI, SLI Deluxe and SLI Premium and all of them showed only "Legacy Diskette A:" in the BIOS and didn't mention dual floppy support anywhere that I could see. That's exactly how it is with my K7V880, and an ASUS support tech...

The MSI K8N-Neo4 supports only 1 floppy, so the DFI LanParty may be the last of a dying breed. That's too bad since my last MSI board still supported two floppies. I did, however, find one PCI floppy disk controller. It's expensive, but it's designed to read almost every disk format ever. The...

Awesome, that's a good board. It's nice to know that DFI still cares.

The BIOS only has one entry for "Legacy floppy drive A:", and I can't get Windows to detect the second floppy. ASUS replied to me that their current motherboards only support one floppy drive. I don't understand why. If a motherboard has a floppy connector, why wouldn't the BIOS support two...

Yeah, that's a thought. They may eventually stop putting a floppy drive connector on motherboards at all, and there isn't going to be a 5.25" USB floppy drive. PCI should stick around for a while, though. Do they make FDC PCI cards?

Yeah, my Plextor 716SA can do that. Unfortunately, it refuses to play Commander Keen floppy disks. What's up with that? :P

I'm an old DOS guy and I even have my own DOS games website (www.classicdosgames.com), so I still use 5.25" floppies on a regular basis. I have always had both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies in all of my computers, which was never a problem until I got burned on my last motherboard purchase, an ASUS...