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    How do you setup SCSI Drives?

    SCSI supports up to 8 drives per channel minus one for the controller, most SCSI adapters are 2 channel and I know that you can have 15 drives with 2 channel. Don't quote me on that but I know that you can have 15 drives on a 2 channel controller. Anyway You can get Ultra 320 SCSI controllers...
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    SATA MS DOS or PC DOS Drivers

    Greetings all, I have the gigabyte GA-8INXP motherboard with Silicon Image Serial SATA raid on board. I am not using the raid function, but I am using the control for my one hard drive. I would like to be able to access this drive in MS DOS or PC DOS so that I can ghost to/from it using a boot...
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    CounterStrike: Xp 1800 and Geforce 4 ti200 CHOPPY

    The problem is OS releated, download this, install it, and you will be fine. nVidia Refresh Rate Fix MKII 2.11 E here is a url: http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=1547&cat=22
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    Acer AL732 LCD monitor, 16ms

    Why do you want an LCD? You can get a flat screen CRT that displays twice as many colors, looks crisper, doesn't have the blur effect, and can hit higher resolutions. AND for alot less money... Here ya go, a monitor for less then $200 that is superior to any sub $1000 LCD other then the fact...
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    good computer for under $200?

    Here ya go this is exactally what I use: AMD XP-1600 BAREBONE SYSTEM W/ ECS K7S5A, & ATX MID TOWER w/powersupply http://www.econopc.com/applications/search/itemdetails.asp?sku=BBECXP1600 Price = 139.95 + 37 for 256mb of ddr 2100 crucial memory Here is some advice, ignore people telling you...
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    Should i get a computer now or wait?

    If you need a monitor id recommend a 19" KDS xtreme flat CRT monitor, an awesome monitor, especially for $200 shipped. http://www.micropro.com/item.htm?item_id=MRKDSXF9
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    Should i get a computer now or wait?

    As a general rule When buying computer hardware, always analyze the price curve and try to spend the least ammount of money while still remaining near the middle of the price/performance ratio. Im sure plenty of people will disagree but I look at computer hardware as a sunk cost...money in the...
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    RAID question, combining slow disks w/fast disks

    Hi, I am going to set up a RAID 0 stripe and currently am thinking about 2 possibilities.... (2) harddrives, both are 7,200 rpm ata 133 40 gb hard disks or (3) harddrives, 2 are 7,200 rpm ata 133 40gb while the other drive is 7,200 rpm ata 100 40gb So my question is will having 3 drives in a...
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    Abit's SR7-8X Motherboard drivers

    Howdy I recently purchased an Abit SR7-8X motherboard for a system im putting together and I can't seem to find windows xp drivers anywhere for it. The cd provided with the motherboard didnt work in windows xp and the microsoft drivers it installed by default are over a year old. Are there any...
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    New P4 system running like crap

    Also id like to add that the final part of windows xp installation "saving settings" takes over an hour and a half to complete alone making the entire installation require over 2 hours. Its like its writing superslow to the disk
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    New P4 system running like crap

    Thanks all for the suggestions, I belive I have tried pretty much everything now however the problem seems to have gotten worse. I have removed all the expansion cards and just have the video card in the cojmputer, while installing windows xp I get a message saying that some software is not...
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    P4 ddr 333 support on gigabyte motherboard?

    HI all, I have the Gigabyte P4 titan 845E (533 mhz fsb, 3 ddr slots, ide raid) Officially this board supports ddr 266 but is there a bios flash that adds "unofficial" support for ddr 333? Thanks!
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    New P4 system running like crap

    Howdy folks! Please allow me to explain my situation. I am putting together a new system using the following hardware Pentium4 2.26 ghz cpu (0.13 micron 533 fsb) gigabyte motherboard model number GA-8IHXP P4 Socket 478(P4/533fsb/4 rimm/6pci/promise ata 133 raid) Gforce4 ti4200 videocard...