Recent content by GEC

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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