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I an researching HDDs in the 250-300GB range and figured I'd ask for the forum members assistance.
The only purpose of the drive will be for DVD playback from an External Firewire 400 enclosure. Since I don't watch movies often the HDD use would be less than an average computer...
I have recently purchased an 8-bay (w/mobile HDD racks) External Firewire 400 Enclosure (50MB/s bandwidth). This box has four Oxford 911 Firewire to IDE controllers installed, which I have daisy-chained (w/ three 6pin-6pin Firewire cables) and ran a single cable (6pin-4pin) to my laptop.
I...
I have an older system as follows:
P4 1.8 (Northwood > will probably o/c to 2.4)
1.5GB RAM
SCSI Seagate X15 18GB HDD
80GB IDE HDD
60GB IDE HDD
DVD-ROM
CD-WR
AIW 9600XT (AGP)
Matrox G450
Adaptec 19160
TBSC
Gb NIC PCI Card
USB 2.0 PCI Card
56k PCI modem
Antec 550...
I have an older system as follows:
P4 1.8 (Northwood > will probably o/c to 2.4)
1.5GB RAM
SCSI Seagate X15 18GB HDD
80GB IDE HDD
60GB IDE HDD
DVD-ROM
CD-WR
AIW 9600XT (AGP)
Matrox G450
Adaptec 19160
TBSC
Gb NIC PCI Card
USB 2.0 PCI Card
56k PCI modem
Antec 550...
I have an older system as follows:
P4 1.8 (Northwood > will probably o/c to 2.4)
1.5GB RAM
SCSI Seagate X15 18GB HDD
80GB IDE HDD
60GB IDE HDD
DVD-ROM
CD-WR
AIW 9600XT (AGP)
Matrox G450
Adaptec 19160
TBSC
Gb NIC PCI Card
USB 2.0 PCI Card
56k PCI modem
Antec 550 True Power PSU
+...
I want to build or upgrade a PC to play games & DVD's in surround sound & on a LCD TV.
Should I upgrade this current system?
1.8GHz P4
1.5GB PC133 RAM
15000rpm 18GB SCSI HDD
ATI AIW 9600XT
TBSC
Antec True550 PSU
Chieftech DX-01BLD case
Or build this system?
2.4GHz Athlon64...
Hello,
I am setup a home network in preparation for the Cable Internet access installation.
The following hardware is in use:
D-Link DI-604 Residential Gateway
D-Link DGS-1005D Gigabit Switch
1 WinMe PC
1 W2K PCs
The configuration of the hardware is the Cable modem will be in one room with...
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I am having some trouble with my system and it logging errors during any ROM use. My system is setup up in the current manner:
IDE Primary Master: Seagate Cuda IV (40GB)
IDE Primary Slave: Toshiba 12xDVD-ROM - transfer mode UDMA
IDE Secondary Master: Seagate Cuda IV (80GB) - transfer...
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I've been having a problem with a hard drive and am beginning to suspect bad clusters, I've run all the diagnostics and everything comes out with no errors.
Is there a way to determine if there are bad clusters. I've had a similar experience and had to RMA that drive which fixed that...
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I am having some difficulty configuring my hard drive setup on my new computer. This is how I have it setup:
Mobo boot to Floppy, SCSI, CDROM
Adaptec 19160 Host with Seagate 18.4GB X15 36LP
Primary IDE Master - Western Digital 80GB WD800JB
Primary IDE Slave - Toshiba 12xDVD-ROM...
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I have a Seagate X15-36LP HDD running off an Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller, and I am unable to install an OS no matter what I try (direct/indirect install).
I have checked everything and it is all setup correctly but it just seems like the SCSI HDD keeps loosing communication somehow...
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I have a Seagate 18.4GB X15-36LP running on an Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller, and I have not had very good success with installing an operating system on this drive no matter if I try installing it directly or indirectly (install OS on IDE HDD then copied to SCSI HDD). The Adaptec...
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I was wondering if there is any software out there that can package an already installed program to a setup.exe file so I can reformat and reinstall the program (from the created setup.exe file), because I since lost the install disk and I don't want buy another copy if at all possible...
I've been in the process of making the move to Windows Me over the last couple of weeks testing and ironing out whether or not things I used on 98 would work in Me and so now I'm down to my last problem. I have established that my modem (An ISA V.90 56K Voice modem w/fax internal w/Rockwell...
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My parents just bought a computer that has the following key components that I think pretain to this question:
Celeron 900 (950?)
128MB PC100 SDRAM
20GB 5400 RPM HDD
Windows Me
*Not too many programs on startup
*Single Monitor @ 1024x768
My computer on the other had has:
Pentium 3 500...
I just bougt a 19" CRT monitor a little over a month ago and I just now noticed what appears to be a dead pixel. It doesn't move with the resizing of the screen or change place when set to different resolutions. I called the resaler and he said that it was probably a dead pixel and that they...
I just recently had my Ricoh 6x4x24 CD-WR go out after a little under 2 years. I will be replacing it but would like to know which manufacturer produces the most reliable and LONGEST LASTING :) CD-R or CD-WR. I don't burn too many Re-Write Discs. So any words of experience will be very...
I have a Ricoh 6x4x24 CD burner and am using Adaptec EZ CD Creator with Win98 original. First off it started to not be able to burn Cd's at 6x anymore then it dropped again from 4x to 2x and burns fine at 2x but after the burn I can't see anything on the disc either thru the burner or my...
I've researched TFT Flat Panel displays and the biggest thing against buying one, (other than its not good for 3D gaming & native resolution stuff) is that companies won't replace then unless like 8 or more pixels have burnt out? I was wondering if burnt out pixels are still a concern these...
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