Recent content by Sharpie

Did you write the master boot record? The first 512 bytes of the disk needs to be written. Im not sure which tool you are using for the clone, I remeber having a problem with this once before.

I setup a new RAID1 and it seems to be working well, I'm using a pair of seagate 7200.12 1TB drives on a Rosewill RC-201 controller (Sil3512). The problem is every once in awhile (seems every hour or so) I will get the message from vista saying "Windows detected a hard disk problem" asking to...

I thought surely the topic would have come up but couldn't find it searching the forums... anyways what is a good drive to use for RAID 1? I'm looking to buy a 1TB drive, it seems from most of the customer reviews i read on newegg the cheap hitachi's and most of the western digital's drop...

Does anyone own this monitor? How do you like it?

I'm a linux noob that wants to install debian. I have resorted to FC4 first however my ethernet does not work for some reason. After isntalling Debian i was able to get ethernet to work (I know because it downloaded updates). So with that said i would like to finish installing debian. I have...

Has anyone tried using this keyboard to access bios settings and such? I heard the keyboard is bugged in this sense and people are using two keyboards!!

Im using a ATI 9800 pro on a Nforce2 chipset with a system that has 512 of ram and in Half Life/ CS i get about 20 fps when there is a lot of action. All other games run fine. I ran benchmarks (3D Mark) and it shows normal stats compared to others with the same rig. Any ideas of whats going on?

Okay this is got to be the most helpful thread ever created. It seems to work now. I installed that via latency patch before and it didnt seem to work but that was long ago and an older version. THe beta one is working perfectly. However i also muted all the other sound inputs i didnt need...

at least im not the only one...

I searched every site on the planet and I cant find a solution to fix my problem, to say the least I'm getting frusterated. The problem is this: anytime there is IDE activity the sound will screech. If I listen to mp3s while defraging (I know not recommended) or doing file transfers over the...

Well my computer is pretty much jacked up as much as it can get and still boot up, so i want to format it (well i actaually already did) i saved my "wpa.dbl" file on a zip disk. How do i properly install this file so I cont have to reactivate? I tried to go into safe mode and replace the file...

I can't believe people are posting to this, there are many articles on this site here for reading that answer this very question even with pretty charts! Is it an ego thing?

I read the raid article on this site and it's quite good. However I'm looking to do a raid 0 setup with the highpoint 372 chipset. In the article a highpoint 370a chipset was tested and maxed out at a 64kb stripe size and it was suggested that a higher stripe size may work better judging from...

I know this question has probably been asked before but im having some issues with my soundblaster audigy 2. I think i read something about it being a VIA problem with soundblaster products but I'm not sure and i cant find anything on the web to remedy the problem. The problem is that sound is...

I have two 60 gig hard drives and am debating if i should go raid0. The issue is the hard drives are not identical in performance... Even though nero isnt the perfect hard drive benchmarking utility it does show ballpark figures. Nero reported my old drive as being 40,800 Kb/s and the new one...