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    Replacing a CD/DVD drive in laptop

    My sisters old HP Pavilion ze notebook the drive wouldn't read disks and I needed to wipe the drive due to her acquiring several hundred viruses on 3 different laptop drives. I had to temporarily buy a external DVD drive just to install fresh copies of XP and Win 7 on her 2 drives, but I think...
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    Transferring my Dell 4700C into a Ultra Aluminus case

    I have it all installed but now the problem of the front panel connections. The Dell has a single plug that plugged into the Dell MB for all the connections. I called Dell and they were less than helpful about giving me a schematic so I can know which pins the connectors go to (thankfully the...
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    Networking XP Home and 98SE

    Hi I just configured the 2 clients and they both can see each other. I enabled file sharing and that works to a degree. I thought with file sharing I'd be able to see a complete directory of the XP computer from the 98SE computer and vice versa. All I can share at this point is whatever is in...
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    Who sells cpu/board combos besides Tiger Direct?

    They have occasional good deals but the shipping is outrageous plus I get charged tax being in Florida. Most other retailers are selling combos based on old technology or their prices suck. New Egg only sells CPUs or Motherboards, but not as combos...
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    Help me with this DDR2 decision

    I bought a Dell Dimension 4700 with 256mb DDR2 (400mhz) and they are a pair for that setup, which I assume is 2-128mb modules. There are 4 slots available, and maxes out at 4gb. Can I just add single chips or will that throw everything out of balance? Crucial recommends MATCHING PAIRS on...
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    Post any deals on DDR2 memory here

    I bought in on the Dell Dimension 4700 deal listed here. It came with only 256mb DDR2 (400mhz) and their upgrade to 512mb was $50 which seems high to add just 256mb. That said can I use any speed DDR2? Seems the 400 mhz variety is harder to come by, and if I'd see any performance increase...
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    DDO on my Maxtor 60gb corrupted, non bootable...

    Somehow my Maxtor 60gb got corrupted and the DDO was needed to provide full capacity in WIN98 on my old system. Now the drive only shows the same 33,xxx that my old BIOS saw. The strange thing is, it only recognizes this same amount even on a new system. The drive shows up as unallocated space...
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    Getting DVD RW+/- drive to work in WIN98SE

    The box did say for Win2000 or XP, but I figured that was for optimal specs, not minimum requirements. Is there a generic DVD player / writer program that will work with WIN98SE? The BenQ Q-video software won't install the player program as it says it needs Win2000/XP, is there any way around...
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    Setting up a simple network to transfer NTFS files to FAT32

    I really just want to use this as a measure of transferring data to my older FAT32 system from XP. No need for IP or internet anything, this is just a stop gap instead of running Partition Magic and converting NTFS to FAT32. I already have a router, but I forget if that's even in the equation...
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    IDE to USB 2.0;1394a;SATA 3.5 HDD enclosures

    I saw these Syba Platinum 3.5 and 5.25 disk enclosures and considered that the interface converts standard IDE HDD's to either USB 2.0; Firewire or SATA and wondering if there would be any advantage than if it were strictly running IDE in the system? Syba Platinum 3.5 HDD Enclosure Syba...
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    Can't read data written in FAT32 XP system in WIN98

    Hi I had a new computer for 2 weeks and then returned it. It had WIN XP and it was formatted in FAT32 I believe. I ran a slave drive that had data previously from my WIN 98SE HD. Well while I used the XP system I had data saved and I copied that data to my slave drive. Well now I can't boot...
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    Will new Super-G 802.11G (108mb/s), work better than old 10/100 Netgear RT314?

    I have a 5-6 year old Netgear 10/100mb/s WIRED router. No trouble with it at all, but I would eventually want to go wireless and I understand I can still use it wired like my old router now. Just wondering if I will see any performance increase in using it wired with the newer technology or if...
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    Creating XP install CD from pre-installed HDD

    My Hp Pavilion a810n came with XP Home pre-installed, meaning there was no cd included, and my only way of a backup is through the restore feature. I thought there was an easy way of creating an XP install CD from the files already installed. If this is possible what XP cd would this be...
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    Booting ME HDD in an AMD 64 XP system

    I bought an HP AMD 3300+ 64 PC and it is running XP Home. My old drives have Win98/SE/ME on them. THe problem I run into is the drivers for these new components weren't geared for Win 9x OS's. I went to SIS website, as much of the drivers are for the integrated components built into the mobo...