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Recent content by DocStone
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How to determine existing RAID mode
Update: Discs are showing as follows: Disc 1 has 20 Gb free and is FAT32 Disc 2 is showing as unused and is in an unknown format. So, if he has striped the discs he is screwed, am I right? Next step please!!! hehe! The Doc- DocStone
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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How to determine existing RAID mode
I am working on a MSI MS-6741 Motherboard running the VIA VT8237 SATA RAID controller with 2 x 200Gb Maxtor drives. Now, the drives are not currently in an array, the system will not boot, and going by what I can see it will not boot until I set up the two drives either in RAID 0 or RAID 1...- DocStone
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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How to run a PSU without a Mobo?
Might seem a strange question, but I want to display some lights on a case but do not want to use any other parts except for the case, PSU and lights/fans. Any idea how I go about this? The Doc- DocStone
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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"Your sytem allows only 8 instance(s) of NDISWAN"
Yep, 27 WAN mini ports installed in System evices. Why it was doing this I have no idea, managed to sort it, dont ask how though! Thanks, The Doc- DocStone
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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"Your sytem allows only 8 instance(s) of NDISWAN"
Your sytem allows only 8 instance(s) of NDISWAN" is the rror message I receive when trying to install AOL 8 or AOL 9 onto a laptop running 98SE. The system then states that it is "Installing network adapter files. Please wait" before rebooting. After reboot it states again that it is...- DocStone
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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hal.dll missing and ntldr boot error messages
Having read throught the posts on the subject of hal.dll missing (a clients PC has just started showing this message, the search function is a wildly overlooked tool) as well as the ntldr not detected messages sometimes reported I have asked myself the question... Why? What causes this to...- DocStone
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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HDD causing Boot Failure
Thought that was what I might have to do, just hoped that someone else had experienced this and could go "Oh yes, this is what you do" lol! Will try it next time I get some free time, Thanks for the reply, The Doc- DocStone
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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HDD causing Boot Failure
OK, here is a nice wee problem that I encountered yesterday, just perfect for a monday gone wrong. Just finished building a system, 3.2 Athlon 64, 1Gb Geil DDR400, Asus A8V-E SE mobo and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 160Gb ATA133 HDD. The customer supplied a copy of XP, retail in box, 2002 version...- DocStone
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
