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Hard-drive speed not at maximum?
Hey, I was looking through device manager and when looking at the IDE controllers both the primary and secondary channel show as using "Ultra DMA 2" as the current transfer mode... But, from looking at the SIS (my chipset) IDE_Utility, I find that my DVD+RW drive works at udma-2 and the...- teken894
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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69 degs cpu temperature???
I recently assembled a computer: ABIT sg-72 mobo w/ onboard sis video Celeron D 2.93Ghz CPU 512 mb Viking pc2700 memory 300W antec PSU Seagate IDE barracude 80GB hard-drive Maxtor IDE 160GB HD Memorex IDE DVD+-RW I had some problems installing XP: It would get to the "Setup is starting...- teken894
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Computer turns off during xp installation
I recently assembled a computer: Abit SG-72mobo CeleronD 2.93 ghz cpu 512 mb pc2700 memory seagate 80gb hd memorex DVD+-RW and 300w antec PSU. All are new except hd, memory, and cd/dvd drive. All old parts are known working. BIOS POST shows up, with all correct info, with halt on no errors...- teken894
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
