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I thought of the additional controller as well, but very likely, if the BIOS is THAT old (and I did check for the manufacturers website, and J-Bond no longer exists, BTW) it is pretty likely it will not support booting from a SCSI or secondary IDE controller, which is how those pieces of...

The manufacturer of the hard drive should have a Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) for the drive. This does BIOS translations so the OS recognizes the entire capacity. The BIOS will STILL only see 8G, but the entire capacity will be available for use, after the DDO loads into memory on boot. e-mail...

I already did that. The manufacturer is RaLink. Tried all of their driver packages - and they are dedicated packages for EACH OS I have tried to install - from 98 on up. There are no native drivers in any of these operating systems - I am forced to use either Averatec's set, or RaLink's set...

I just finished building a machine on the MSI board, with 512MB of dual channel, and I must say, I have NEVER built a faster PC. That thing was so fast, it hurt my feelings! :) Talk about a GAMER! Generally speaking tho', I have always preferred the MSI boards over the ABIT boards. e-mail...

Thanks for that suggestion, but this, I think, is really a hardware issue, and that article really addresses software issues. There is no registry in Linux, and the NIC behaves EXACTLY the same in all operating systems I have installed. And yes, there were formats between every attempted...

Yes. The OS is telling you that you are plugging a hi-speed (USB2) deveice into a non hi-speed (USB1) port. e-mail me at ddraper at igalaxy dot net

I bought an Averatec laptop, and I am really happy with it, EXCEPT - I broke my own rule, and flashed the BIOS. I say "broke my own rule" because I never flash unless I am goig to gain something from it. This time I thought "What the heck..." (OH, and now I can't go back to the original BIOS...

If you are getting thst message (the one about improving the performancr of USB2.0 devices) then the USB ports you have are NOT USB2 e-mail me at ddraper at igalaxy dot net

Still possible. *IF* in the manufacturing process, the headers are installed backwards, this COULD and (would pretty likely happen) happen. I would have Velocity Micro check with Asus DIRECTLY, and have *them* look into it. e-mail me at ddraper at igalaxy dot net

Reboot the computer in safe mode with networking support. This should allow you some internet (if ugly) access. Run it like that for a while, and see if it does the same thing. Was the SP2 slipstreamed, or did you apply it after the install? If applied after, did you allow yourself an out...

What OS are you running? XP requires SP1a or later to access anything larger than 137G, and 2K requires SP3 or later. OR, (and I had this very same thing happen on a new computer I had JUST built) have your memory tested, or replace all of your memory with new sticks. (It is not a low-level...

Welcome to Windows (M)any (E)rrors! Does it behave this way in safe mode? What is your hardware complement? What drivers are you using (latest versions)? Otherwise, that sounds like a virus to me. Have you installed a GOOD anti-virus? And by "good", I mean pretty much anything you PAID for...

Perhaps adding a /q after the executable command (if in a batch file)? Your application should be able to tell you if there is a way to do this, check the help function or the support team for the software. e-mail me at ddraper at igalaxy dot net

That should be plenty of machine. If using as a file server, I would triple up on the drives, run a hardware RAID5, and dump a tape backup in there as well. Also, as cheap as drive space is today, I would make those drives a bit bigger - say 72G each - this'll give you 144G of storage for your...

I saw something like this just recently. It turned out to be a virus. 1: Does notepad.exe actually exist, or is it notepad.com? 2: Check for note.exe or note.com in your system folder or drive. I can't say for sure this is your issue, it just rang a bell for me. e-mail me at ddraper at...