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I'm having real trouble installing Win XP Pro on a single SATA drive. I provide the third party Promise drivers for the HD at the start of the XP install but when it gets to the install screen that shows the available drives my SATA drive shows up as a 0 MB drive. If I continue anyway I get a...

I'm going for my first water cooled rig here shortly. What is the consensus on coolant? Most of the time I see simple distilled water but I have heard of some using deionized water. Thanks for any input, Dane R. Vinson

I'm looking to build my first water cooled system here soon and I was curious what people's experiences were with the various water cooling setups. Any recommendations or feedback from those in the know would be greatly appreciated. I know Tom really likes the Innovatek system but there are a...

When I right clicked on an image and selected save as IE5 used to allow me to save images as either bmp or jpg files. Something I installed or removed along the way has removed the jpg funtionality and now I can only save as a bmp file. Does anyone know where that setting is at? Thanks, Dane...

I installed Nero and when I next checked my CD-RW no longer shows up under explorer. I've uninstalled Nero but its still gone. New hardware searches don't find it. Any ideas on how to get it back?

That 3com card is one cool looking card. I wish I had seen that before I bought my US Robotics one.

krakken: I don't feel that simply asking a question about this is exactly whining. I just wanted to know if there were cases out there or if others has different solutions. toshiba3020: I didn't see the 3com card when I was shopping for them. That sucks. I would have gotten that one for...

The idea is to have a hard case surrounding the hardware. Bags are too soft for my comfort and leaving it completely exposed is asking to get something like a single grain of sand into the card contacts which could have very bad consequences. And ktwebb if "This is really much ado about...

When I purchased my first laptop I immediately went out and got a 10/100 PCMCIA PC Card (Linksys I think it was). That card came with a small clear plastic case much like a CD jewel case, which was made to hold the PCMCIA card when it was not in the laptop. I never used it much because I left...

Thanks for the posts guys. n0cmonkey: Yes, I had my IP for the VPN connection set to a xxxxxx.com address outside my LAN. And yes I believe DMZ is supposed to pass through all ports that is why I was so confused about the lack of success. IgorTS: I also had tried several of the different...

Here are the particulars: Linksys BEFW11S4 Wireless Cable/DSL Router, set to obtain an IP address automatically, DHCP enabled starting at 192.168.1.100, internal subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, and a DMZ Host set at 192.168.1.2. Two Win2k systems set to obtain IP addresses automatically. One Win2k...

1.5?

I've been putting systems together now for a number of years but this one has me stumped. I just purchased my father a new Abit KT7A MB, an Athlon 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, a new case, and a 300 W power supply to go along with several componets he allready had. The problem I am having is such that...

I ran a CPU ID utility last night and found out that indeed the CPU was running at 1.4 despite what the post shows at start up. It looks like it is a problem in the BIOS as several have suggested. I've flashed BIOS on boards several times in the past but it always makes me nervous none the...

The board reports that the BIOS are 1003 and the latest is 1004. I wondered about this but I wanted to get some confirmation before I flash considering the inherent danger involved. Dane R. Vinson