Recent content by rett448

Yesterday I was using my laptop (Toshiba A105-S2712, about 5 years old) and the power completely cut off. Since then the laptop has shown no activity, I cant even boot to BIOS. Additionally none of the LED light (power, ac adapter connected, battery charging, ect) turn on. I have removed the...

I swapped the original IDE cable that worked on the previous motherboard with the IDE cable included in the new motherboard. I looked at the connector and there are no missing or bent pins. My motherboard uses BIOS verison 1.5, which is the latest on the ASRock website. The original in 1.0...

I recently replaced the motherboard in my raid 5 server (Gigabyte 570 SLI) with an ASRock K10N78. The rest of my system is as follows AMD Sepron 1.8 GHz 2 x 2 GB DDR2 Ram 1 Maxtor 40 GB IDE HD (Windows XP Pro SP3) NVRaid 5 array (3 x Seagate 320 GB, 1 x WD 300 GB, 2 x 500 GB WD) for about...

I know that I am better off with a raid edition hard drives, however they are significantly more expensive and out of my current price range. I have been using segate 7200.9/7200.10 in a six disk raid 5, 24/7 for over 2 years without any problems. I feel the current seagate 7200.11 have too...

The motherboard in my current file server just bit the dust so its time for an upgrade. I was using an nVidia 570 motherboard with 6 x 300GB in a Raid-5 on the nVidia controller. The array was almost full so I am looking to overhaul the entire server. Performance is not really an issue...

I am looking to upgrade my current raid-5 file server because it is about 2 years old and running out of space. I keep the OS on a separate hard drive, so the array does not need to be bootable. I currently use NV Raid to manage the array. The server will only be used as a media server, so speed...