Recent content by GEC

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    Case audio port

    Hi All Yes I know about how a sound card can be hooked up with a "Y" adaptor as thats how I am doing it but as stated in my original post, I would like to use the case audio port. The connection from the case port to the motherboard is a standard configuration and would be a very simple add to...
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    Case audio port

    Hi All Most computer cases come with audio ports up front. I use a sound card and would like to hook up the case port for earphones and still use the card for speakers. It would seem that the card manufactures could add a simple hookup for these prewired case audio ports. I use the utilities...
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    SATA to IDE

    Hi all I just got an external Seagate Free Agent Pro hard drive that has USB or Esata connections. I want to use the Esata because because USB is very slow for large backups. I got the Esata working but can not clone a IDE drive to the Esata drive. Ghost or Seagate disk copy will not do it...
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    Hard Drive Temps - what are yours reading?

    Hi All As long as we agree a Harddrive is a Harddrive, the reports on the Harddrives in DIRECTV'S DVRS, has shown that 52 to 54 deg C is common. These drives are 160 meg 7200 RPM and run 24/7 until they fail. Normal life has been 4 to 5 years. The temperature info in the DVRS setup menu is...
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    vista and speedfan

    Hi All I am dual booting XP and Vista and both are working very well. I installed SPEEDFAN 4.28 in Vista and it worked OK. I was going to install SPEEDFAN 4.28 in XP so I rebooted and I could no longer dual boot. The system would only boot to Vista. I uninstalled SPEEDFAN 4.28 and the problem...
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    Properly installing a HD

    Hi All Look at this from a different angle. We all know HDD run hot. By screwing the HDD to the case, the case becomes a HEAT SINK for the HDD. I have observed a temperature drop after mounting the HDD solid , all four screws, in the case. Any addtional cooling on a hot component is good and...
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    Where can I find USB to PS/2 adapters?

    Hi All I think what you are looking for is in todays FRY'S newspaper add. It is a USB to two PS2 ports. The PS2 ports are on "pigtails". The cost is .99 cents after rebate. GEC
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    Why is my LCD Monitor blanking out?

    Hi All If the power info you posted is correct, your power supply is to small. 1 amp is 1000ma. If your monitor requires 4 amps the power supply must be 4000ma. You are 75% to small. GEC
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    XP Defrag

    HI ALL The patches was for "NO CD". Need for speed porsche, Combat flight sym, Crimson skies would not accept the no cd patch in XP. So I installed the games in Win98 and put a short cut on the XP desktop and everything works fine. GEC
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    XP Defrag

    Hi all The XP defrag is very good when using NTFS, but is stinko with Fat 32. A 15 to 30 minute defrag is common using Xp defrag and Fat 32 and you will not be completely defraged when completed. I ran some tests and found that Win 98 defrag does a complete defrag on a XP partition in about 3...
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    XP Defrag

    Hi All I use a dual boot system of Win98SE and XP Pro. Both are fat 32. The defrag in XP is the pits so I wonder if any one has used the defrager in win 98 on a XP partition or heard of any problems doing this? Thanks for reading ......GEC
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    Iam gonna shoot this thing

    Yes I have tried the modem alone on every usb port. Heres a odd bit of info, I borrowed a USR pci modem and it would get knocked off line just like the usb USR modem. Thinking it might be a USR problem, I bought a cheap pci modem and everything works OK. No drop outs or usb failure. I have...
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    Iam gonna shoot this thing

    Hi all This is a new system consisting of a Epox 8K9A7I mobo, AMD XP 2600+ cpu, 512 meg of tested ram, SB Live sound card,GF4 video card,external USB usb modem and a Belkin self powered usb hub. The latest drivers were downloaded from the Epox site and installed as the disk that came with the...
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    XP: HDD to HDD

    Because I thought that support for Win 98 was going away, I switched to XP. XP is running fine but I miss the ability to copy a HDD to HDD using a simple program. I have used MAX BLAST 3 and it copies OK but the copy will not boot because the operating system can not be found. The original...
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    Oldie but goodie

    Thanks WW, thats what I was looking for!!!!! GEC