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Are you sure about this? I believe you can format fat32 from within XP. It may take opening up a commmand prompt window and typing the command, but I'm pretty sure it can be done.

I just bought Acer TravelMate 2423WXCi Notebook for $500. http://www.buy.com/prod/LX_TB205_077/q/loc/212/202192869.html I added a 1gig stick of ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227110 for $80. Made a big difference in performance. For a budget laptop, I'm very...

I'm sure partition manager will do the job. But if you want to try shareware, I suggest Gnome Partition Editor, or GParted. I just got a laptop that came with 2 fat32 partitions. I converted them to ntfs, then merged with GParted. You can download it for freee as an ISO, burn it to a CD...

I did the burn CD option when I got the lapton (it took 4 CD's). There are 2 17gig partitions on the hd, and a 3rd samller partition. I susptect the 3rd partition is for recovery purposes, combined with the CD's I burned. I'm just surprised that with all the talk about the superiority of...

Thanks man. Didn't know the conversion was that easy. I guess though I'll have to convert before I merge the partitions. Seems like FAT32 has a 32gig limit, and my hd is 40gig, so I can't make a full FAT32 partition (that's probably why they partitioned the drive). Guess I'll have to check...

I guess this OS forum is the best for this question. I just bought a new Acer laptop, with XP Home preinstalled. The MS sticker is on the back of the laptop, with the cola and activation key. BUT THERE WAS NO XP HOME CD PROVIDED! I guess they can save like 5 cents by doing this (not too...

What I want to do is replace the current mb, socket 754. Via K8T800 chipset, with a different mb, socket 754, nvidia nforce3 250 chipset. I want to do this and preserve the existing XP install. In the past when I did such a swap I had to reinstall XP from scratch. I'm wondering if I can...

I used to use UPS's. When the battery goes, the replacements are expensive. I'm switching to high quality surge protectors.

Now I find that very strange. To my knowledge, the SI sata controllers are one of the few that can support such drives. From the horse's mouth. SiI 3114

Antec NeoPower 480 working fine with that board here.

It sounds like the pc is trying to boot off the IDE drive. What's the boot order set to in the bios?

MicroCenter, if you have one locally.

The newer plasma sets have improved life expectancies. The original ones would suffer from fade over time, but they've made improvements so longevity is not really an issue any more (as others have said). As for brightness and contrast, that's important. But it's really something that has...

Thanks man for the help. Not really sure what was going on, but that process was definitely related to the nvidia display somehow. I uninstalled the nvidia drivers (ver. 81.94), rebooted and installed a slightly newer version (81.95). Now the errant process is not running, and the problem has...

If I open Windows Task Manager and click on the Processes tab, I can see a list of the processes that are running. A few of them have the name of the file, followed by a "*32", for example "rundll32.exe *32". Just what does this *32 signify? It can't just be a 32 bit executable, because I...