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    Why is there NO SCSI DVD Burners??

    More of a curiosity than anything. Just wondering if anyone knows why there seems to be no SCSI DVD Burners manufactured? Thanks. Mike.
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    USB won't work correctly

    Hi all. Hopefully someone will be able to help my situation. I have (and have had) several USB devices connected to my computer (ie. hp inkjet, hp scanner, modem). I also connect a san disk compact flash reader to my front usb jack to download pictures from my digital camera. Everything was...
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    Windows XP and the handspring visor

    I have had a visor for several years without problem. I just installed XP and can't get it to sync. It's like XP don't recognize the visor. I'm using a usb cradle and the visor deluxe. any suggestions would be helpful. thanks. Mikeyd
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    SCSI Hard Disk install problem.

    I think the adapter is fine. It sees the drive as U160. I tried the low level format and got 2 different kinds of errors. First I got serveral bad block errors and clicked ok to reassign. After several of those erros, I got a scsi command error. I think the drive is toast. Any other...
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    SCSI Hard Disk install problem.

    I've been working with a maxtor 10k III with an adaptec 29160 without a problem. I went and picked up a ibm 160/10k drive on ebay. It had the 80pin sca adapter so I purchased a converted and installed it. The 29160 saw the drive correctly, but I've been having nothing but problems with it. I...
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    If I install XP on new HD, can I access my old Win ME files on my old drive?

    Works great - you can even set it up as a dual boot system.
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    Recommendations on Audio Setup.

    Using a home stereo is allways the better choice, but at a much greater cost. There is almost no limit on what you can spend on an amp/receiver and speakers. A good home setup with dolby digital will probably be in the range of $2000.00 with ok speakers. You would need a receiver which is an...
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    A good SCSI burner?

    I have that same Plextor 12/10/32S burner and love it. It works with everything and is fast and won't burn coasters.
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    What piece of hardware has caused you the MOST headaches in the past year or two?

    Abit KA7 Motherboard. Constant crashes and blue screens until it finally died. Abit is off my christmas card list!!!!
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    booting up in dos from windows XP

    I've made a boot disk in WinXP without a problem and booted from it several times. The only problem is there are no dos utilities on the boot disk. It just gets you to a dos prompt and you're on your own. If I need a bunch of dos utilities, I still use my win98 boot disk.
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    Anyone using a PC to do TV Recording?

    I have a similar setup. Instead of the logitech stuff, I have an airboard. Works great and is cordless. The all in wonder is a good choice for this. All the software is included. I would recommend however a much bigger hard drive.
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    What brands do you shun?

    ABIT - Had a KA7 that sucked. Completely unstable and I wasn't even overclocking it. It finally fried and took the CPU with it. I'm done with ABIT. Sinse I've had an ASUS and a Shuttle board with no problems at all. I have a couple of ATI cards. I love the features but have had some...
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    What was your first PC like?

    Don't want to show my age, but: The first computer I used were trs80's at school. I did some BASIC programming. My first was a TI994A with a cass. drive. and speech synth adapter (real cool). I learned a lot on that thing. I also had a Tandy TRS80 Model 1. It had 2 floppies (no hd) and a...
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    How can I hook up two comps to use Cable.

    I have a phoneline home network and it works great. I have 10mb pci pna cards in both machines and I get over 8mb consistently. Which is fast enough for anything I'm doing over the network. I share certain drives, a printer, and of course my cable modem internet connection. Works great for...
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    Best KT266a mobo?

    I have to agree. The Shuttle AK31v3 is an excellent board. I've put together 3 systems so far with this board and have had no problems at all with great performace and tweaks.
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    Can I hook up my TB Santa Cruz to my Home Theater reciever and get 5.1 sound????

    I have a similar setup. Santa Cruz hooked to a Denon AVR3600. Make sure you are connecting the top miniplug(yellow) on the Santa Cruz to the coax digital input on your receiver. It's one cable. You will need to convert the single rca to miniplug for your sound card. Also make sure to go to...
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    Where to get 2 color case led.

    I'm looking to customize my case and need to find 2 color led to replace my hard drive led on the case. I want to show the different hard drive lights. Does anyone know where to get this stuff???
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    Best aluminum case

    I have the Lian-Li PC68 - Same as PC60, but with different front fan guard. The attention to detail is amazing. This is by far the best case I've ever owned. It was as if everything was thought out and had a specific fuction. It is very well put together and has a lot of nice touches.
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    Problem with my AMD XP1600 and Videocard

    There are some issues I've heard of with the Geforce 2 and WinXP. I don't think there is a fix out yet. I would just make sure to stay current with your nvidia drivers and check their website often for updates. Maybe someone else has an immediate fix out there???
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    Delta Fan Heatsink Recommendation

    I have the Thermalright SK6 w/delta fan. It's load, but does a great job. My Athlon 1700+ oc'ed to 1800+ is running at a cool 40 deg. cen.
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    Which thermal pad to use with my SK6?

    I wouldn't use either pad. I would get some artic silver compound instead. Just apply the compound to the cpu core and install the heatsink. I have the same setup and have the fan label showing. It works great! My Athlon XP 1700 runs at 39 deg. cent.
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    Help! Installing a SCSI drive

    Like DaveK said make sure everythink in ok in the scsi bios. If all is well then try to manually install the latest win95 drivers manually in windows. (download from adaptec's website). Adaptec Website I have an adaptec 29160 installed in WinXP. WinXP saw the scsi card and installed the...
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    Do you recommand the new Athlon XP series???

    XP is the best processor. I have a 1700+ and have been able to post at 1.9GHz (havn't tested it yet, but it posted). Also, the XP runs a lot cooler than the 1.4GHz Athlon-C. I have both and the 1.4 runs at about 55deg.cen. and the XP w/same hs/fan runs at about 38deg.cen.
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    What mainboard do you recommand with AMD XP series???

    I have the Shuttle AK31v3 and love it. It's rock solid and very fast - not to mention cheaper than the Epox board. Why not save the $$. I've also heard of some minor issues with the Epox board, but none with the Shuttle board. Also my personal experience has made me a shuttle fan.
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    n/m

    Make sure you have pin 1 on motherboard to pin 1 on cable - same goes for cable and drive. Also make sure you are hooking the drive to the end of the cable with the twist. If you have 2 connectors for floppy drives and 1 for the motherboard (ie. 3 connectors) use the one on the end - not the...
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    Newbie Overclocker - need advice. - please

    I want to get the most out of my system, but don't want to sacrifice too much stability for performance. What can I tweak easily and what precautions should I take. I keep hearing that the athlon is very operclockable - want to see how fast I can get it. I have: Athlon XP 1700 Shuttle AK31v3...
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    Virtual Memory in Windows - Question???

    I have 512mb ram, running winXP and winME (dual boot). I do a lot of different things from games, internet, office apps, etc...
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    I need a soundcard which would give me 5.1 CHannel Optical out.

    I know that there are currently no sound cards that will encode dolby digital out to the receiver, but will output dolby digital dvd playback. The sblive 5.1 should do this. Are you sure that windvd is 5.1 compatable? I know some dvd software players are not. I've been able to do this with...
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    Virtual Memory in Windows - Question???

    I'm tweaking a system and keep hearing different opinions as to virtual memory settings in windows. Should you let windows do its thing or set the min and max virtual memory manually? I've heard that a good setting is 6 times your ram for both the min and the max settings. Does this sound...
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    Round Internal Cables: Are the worth it??

    I'm thinking of getting some round cables - are they worth it and do they perform as well as the regular ribbon cables. I would be getting floppy, ide, scsi (lvd & idc) thanks
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    Floppy Drive Problem - Please help!!!

    I have the cable installed correctly. The drive is working but seems like it cannot read a certain part of every disk. When I usually have problems with floppy drives they either work or don't work at all - not this middle of the road stuff.
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    Floppy Drive Problem - Please help!!!

    I just recently installed a new motherboard and am having problems with my floppy drive. When trying to boot from a win98 startup disk, it goes through the whole process and then at almost the end I get a cannot read from drive a: error. Also when formating a floppy in windows it tells me I...
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    Bios boot sequence question - confused

    Not sure. Every bios I've ever seen have never diferentiated between drive letters, they have allways just referenced physical hard drives in the system and floppy, scsi, cdrom, etc... I have never seen a bios that lets you pick a drive letter. - In fact I don't think the bios can see drive...
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    Bios boot sequence question - confused

    The bios boot sequence is just determining which device to boot from (ie. hard disk, cdrom, floppy, etc...) not different partitions on a single drive.
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    New System, NEED HELP. AMD XP NOT WORKING!

    Flash your bios dude!!!! The same thing happened to me with an Athlon XP 1700 and new shuttle kt266a motherboard. At boot up it said I had an Athlon 1100GHz. I went to shuttle's website and downloaded the latest bioes (which by the way listed Athlon XP compatabilitiy as one of the fixes in the...
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    CD in/out on AIW Radeon???

    I have the sound blaster live! value w/ several internal audio inputs. Would it make sence to just hook my cd directly to cdin on the soundcard and the aiw radeon to the aux input on soundcard also leaving my external line in on my soundcard available for something else and leaving the cdin on...
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    CD in/out on AIW Radeon???

    Has anyone used the CD in/out connectors on the AIW Radeon?? They are 2 internal sound connectors. The manuel gives very basic/vague information. What are these used for???
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    I need some KT266A (epox ?) and XP 1700/1800 owner's experiences

    I have the Shuttle kt266a and Athlon 1700. Not problems at all. Had to flash the shuttle bios so that it would recognize my athlon 1700 (before the flash it saw a athlon 1.1ghz - weird). Other than that no problem at all. WinMe runs fine along with WinXP. I have a dual boot with those two...
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    Which upgrade would be best?

    I have the AIW Radeon and it works great. You will definately see a performance increase from your old video card and you also get all the cook AIW features built in.
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    Won't Boot to Windows XP...

    I just upgraded my computer. I installed a new motherboard (shuttle ak31 v3) and processor (Athlon XP 1700) w/512mb pc2100 ram. I am dual booting to Windows XP and Me. After installing the upgrade I can't boot into XP. WinMe booting fine and loaded all the new drivers for the board...