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    Giving up on folders now - software for organizing files by tags

    Guys, Being an oldtime PC user from the DOS days I've grown to become rather paranoic with my folder structure and file organization. I use multiple programs to keep things in order, and I find it hard to trust my files' organization to programs that want to do that "automatically", for...
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    Asus A8V Deluxe and AHCI

    Hi guys.. The topic pretty much says it all. I've read in a few forums people with Asus A8V deluxe boards who seem to have managed to enable AHCI on their systems (the mb comes with a Promise PDC20378 RAID controller). Yet I can't find this option anywhere, neither on the BIOS nor on the...
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    Is eSATA really hot-swapable?

    Hi, guys. I run Windows XP Professional, and recently bought a Thermaltake MAX 4 N0003US Aluminum & Plastic 3.5" USB2.0 & eSATA external case for a 200 gb WD SATA hd of mine. The case works great, but for some reason when I try to use it through eSATA Windows won't recognize the HD unless...
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    Making XP automatically install USB Devices

    Hi guys. I run Windows XP Professional in my laptop. Whenever I'm using it at home I plug a lot of USB peripherals to it (keyboard, mouse, external sound card, etc). It REALLY annoys me that everytime I do that i have to deal with the "Found New Hardware Wizard"... The drivers are already...
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    750gb HD - Seagate AS x NS

    Hey guys. I'm shopping for a large HD that'll mostly be used for storage (audio and video). I already have 3 hd's on my case (200 gb, 300 gb, 320 gb), and it can't hold an extra one. I'll put the 750 gb where the 200 gb now stands. Here's what I'm looking for (in that order): 1 - reliability...
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    750gb HD - Seagate AS x NS

    Hey guys. I'm shopping for a large HD that'll mostly be used for storage (audio and video). I already have 3 hd's on my case (200 gb, 300 gb, 320 gb), and it can't hold an extra one. I'll put the 750 gb where the 200 gb now stands. Here's what I'm looking for (in that order): 1 - reliability...
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    x2 4200 + asus a8v deluxe == unknown cpu

    hi guys.. bought an asus a8v deluxe to host my athlon x2 4200+, but the damn motheboard isnt doing the job. it says "unknown cpu" - no bios installed, and then just asks me to reboot. i can´t even get in the bios! but everything seems to be working, apart from that. the raid controller...
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    Shopping for a 250gb (or larger) HD

    Hi, everybody. I'm in desperate need of more storage space here, for I deal heavily with audio and video recording, processing and archiving. I need a drive that's reasonably fast, but what matters the most to me is definitely reliability and quietness (i HATE really loud/intensively...
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    ASUS P4PE + SATA = Slow?!

    hey guys.. I have an Asus P4PE for quite sometime now, and I just recently purchased 2 new 200 gb hds from western digital, one PATA and one SATA. I'm gonna reinstall XP, so I figured I should do it on the SATA drive, since it's faster. To my surprise, though, the SATA hd is performing slower...
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    Serial Ata Question

    Hey guys.. I have an Asus P4PE motherboard, and it came with onboard raid and serial ata controllers. I currently have 2 hd's on my ide0 and 2 cdrs on my ide1. I have a 3rd hd connected to the raid controller (I just use it as if it were an extra ide port). I gotta buy another hd now, and...
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    Pairs of DDR Ram

    Hey guys.. I have a P4 2.4B and an Asus P4PE motherboard, and I currently have 512 mb of RAM (Samsung Original DDR333 PC-2700 512mb CAS2.5). I wanna add another 512 mb now, and I can't find this exact same memory on newegg. So my question is: will any ddr memory (I'm getting an extra 512 mb)...