Recent content by jimmyj0668

I very seldom see any mention of Foxconn motherboards. At one time I thought I read somewhere that they were the producer of Intel motherboards. Intel boards are AOK, that's what I've used on the last three systems I've built. Mostly out of curiosity I'm considering a Foxconn board for my...

mechbgon --- I've wanted to tell you for a long time - there is such joy in the name of Jesus

John, are you saying I can have all those programs on my system at one time? I figured there would be all kinds of conflict if too manay programs doing the same thing were on a system. .....and why run in safe mode?

I've been using the Beta Microsoft Spyware for a week or two, and just today it told me that my system was clean. Out of curiosity I downloaded a program called Spyware Doctor from PC Tools Software. The downloaded pogram will only scan your system until you pay to "register' the full program...

I startd not to tell anybody but i thought it only fair to clear the air.

Wanna hear an old soldiers story? Back in the early 50's I was an Air Force junior airman, two stripes, and worked in airborne communications and navigation equipment on the F 86D at the time. Before the days of transistors, an aircraft radio transmitter/reciever wa a pretty hefty unit with a...

After zillions of tries at all kinds of hard drive settings, cable select and everything in between. Tearing apart and rebuilding three times, running the system outside the case on pieces of cardboard, I've solved the problem and her computer is humming along with WIN XP. With head hung low...

Thanks Zepper, I'll try the cable select setup and if no result, I'll go to tech support. Thanks to all who responded.

Thanks propellorhead, I went to Maxtor earlier and found the subject hard drive and the settings of the jumpers are correct for master function as are the settings for the WD as set for slave. BIOS reads out the drives perfecty as the maxtor on primary ide master and the wd as the primary ide...

What I meant was, -- not on the motherboard. I did change the WD jumper to slave. I didn't change anything on the Maxtor - mainly because I didn't know if changes were necessary and the drive does not have jumper diagrams on it. When I first built this unit back in 2001, I had something that...

Thanks andypress , but I didn't change any jumpers.

This is older equipment. My mother-in-law wanted WIN XP on her computer to replace WIN ME. She has an MSI 815E Pro (MS-6337) mobo with 256 meg memory and an 866 meg pentium III. I thought it a good idea to boost her machine a little so I put in a 1 gig pentium III and 512 meg of memory. I...

I recently came into an AT case and WIN 95 system I built for my brother almost 6 years ago. I frankly don't remember much about the unit though I built it. It has an Intergraph video card (PCI), a huge creative sound card and 3com modem that are in the old pre-PCI slots. I have no idea what...

I was prepared for the loss of 1/2 my drive space but I hoped to avoid a start from scratch rebuild of my OS and files. Oh well, when the very first sign of something amiss in either drive occurs - I'll take that major plunge. Thanks for your input.

The comments I've read concerning the loss of data if your raid 1 losses a drive is making me nervous. Can I switch my setup to raid 1 with little or no problems? I've got two Hitachi 80 gig SATA's running raid 0 on an intel D865PERL mobo with XP Pro SP 2. Thanks