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    Using two hard drives in one computer, both with an OS

    I have an old beater computer that has a 12 GB hard drive in it, but I recently sold another computer that I had with an 80 Gb in it. The 12 Gb has WME and the other has XP service Pack 2. I want to use the 12 Gb as the master and the 80Gb as the slave but I dont want to have to reformat the...
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    Soundblaster live! Value driver problems

    I just installed a soundblaster live value into my compy and am trying to install the drivers....I installed the ones from the disk and they have no affect....I install the ones from the website and they make my computer lock up once it is detected...I get a copy off of drivers.com and I still...
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    Is a Barton 2500+ factory unlocked?

    I've heard that AMD is now locking their Barton core processors on the higher mhz range....does that mean that their lower Barton Core procs are (like the 2500+) factory locked? As well, is it worth the extra money from the 2400+ to the Barton 2500+?...thanks Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted...
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    Has anyone heard of or tried this mobo "ECS L7VMM3" ?

    I was browsing around on my local computer shops webpage and came across the ECS L7VMM3 motherboard. It has an on-board "supposidly" Athlon 2800Pro processor, AGP slot, USB 2.0, sound, on-board video etc. It has a Via KM266/VT8235 Chipset and I know that this board isn't made for...
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    40 GB Hard Drive being detected as 4.1 GB

    I have this hard drive that is being detected as a 4Gb hard drive even though there is a 80GB connected and detected...I tried to partition and re-format the 4Gb hard drive and it screwed up my C drive...anyways someone could help me that would be great...also it's being detected in Windows ME...
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    Formated D drive now C drive isn't working!

    I had a computer where my friend wanted his D drive formated, I booted up a floppy disk checked to make sure I wasn't about to fdisk drive C, fdisked drive D then the computer said FDISK finish drive letter change..instead of letting me pick what I wanted to call drive D, I rebooted the computer...
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    Same motherboard, another problem ( Memory Range Conflicts)

    Here's the problem: Installed Radeon 7500 as well as drivers into slot 1 motherboard (GA-6BXC) went to boot up windows ME gave me this error: This device cannot find any free memory range resources to use (code 12) Then I went into the video problem and pulled off this info so that someone could...
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    Bios flashing problems....

    Im trying to flash my gigabyte motherboard GA-6BXC V.F3 (via dos) yet when I go to do that and tell the flash program which bios I want (the one gigabyte had on their website) 6BXC.F4c it says bios ID Error...I have followed the outlined manual by Gigabyte (the one on their website) yet it...
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    Hard Drive detection porblem with BIOS, Seems to detect only junk HD's

    I have this gigabyte slot one motherboard that a friend gave to me, I tested it out, worked went and installed it into my case. I just assumed that a Maxtor 80 GB would boot. Anyways long story short, the motherboard seems to be picky about HD's, the computer wont detect my Western Digital...
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    Difference between Asus A7N8X and A7N8X-X

    Was browsing on my local parts shop webiste and saw these -X mobo's by Asus. They seem quite cheaper than the non -X mobo's yet they come with all the same features (not the same features of the Deluxe Model but the non deluxe non -X models) Does anybody know what the veriances are between...
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    CD-Rom not detected in Windows 98?

    Hey! I have a friend who I'm trying to get their cd-rom to work but it's impossible... Whenever I boot the computer up BIOS detects it but it doesn't show up in windows...I have tried other cd-rom drives.. thanks! Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted "Another day, another problem"
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    Multipliers locked on a 433 mhz celeron?!

    I didn't think that a 433mhz Celeron had locked jumpers...does it??? Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted "Another day, another problem"
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    Windows Protection Error

    G'Day...Yesterday morning when I started up my computer after shuting it down from playing baseball on it the screen resolution was changed. I hit restart and now it will only hit a blue screen that says "windows protection error..you must restart" It can boot up into safe mode but...
  14. smaxted

    Time to buy a new video card...opinions on a wallett friendly card

    Well it's that time again to buy a new video card, though I am really cheap so I was wondering what the best budget video card is...here is what I am looking at. 1) GeForce 4 mx-440SE 64 mb 2) GeForce 4 ti-4200 128 mb (a bit to pricey for me) 3)ATI Radeon 9100 128 mb 4) ATI radeon 9000 128 mb...
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    Overclocking with a PC Chips M715

    I want to overclock my P2-300mhz but I cant seem to find any jumpers on-board, all there is, it this stupid utility in the bios that lets you select which CPU you have (it's called "CPU plus and play") but no matter which one you select it detects your "real" processor speed...
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    Overclocking with a Jumperless mobo...

    I have a PCChips socket 1 motherboard (I know it's sad, but it's for my dad). The motherboard hosts a lovely PII-300mhz processor, I want to squeeze every penny out of this computer so I decided to overclock it but, the board doesn't have any jumpers, it just has this ugly feature in the bios...
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    File Password Protector....

    Sorry but I didn't know what category this would be under so I just picked which OS my question involved. Does anybody know of a Password Protection software that you can use so you can prevent people from going into your files on Windows and if you try to get into them you have to enter a...
  18. smaxted

    ECS K7S5A on-board sound driver error....

    I have an AMD XP 1700+, ECS K7S5A mobo, radeon 7500, this mobo has on-board sound. Something happened to my sound and one day it just wouldn't work, as in it said the driver wasn't properly installed. I inserted the cd and tried to install the audio driver (c-media) and a big red X came on the...
  19. smaxted

    Riging up 2 hard drives...

    I have never hooked up 2 hard drives in 1 computer and I have tried it but I don't understand how to make it work...umm I connected 2 hard drives to my computer installed WinME on the 1st one and just formated the second one but I can't get it to work...I also set the jumpers correctly.. Scotty...
  20. smaxted

    Flashing the Bios

    After my previous post about my reset problem I have decided that I have to flash my bios (thats the only thing I haven't tried yet) I have never flashed the bios before and I have heard some horror stories when things go wrong. I wondered if anyone could tell me how exactly to flash the bios...

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