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Setting up wireless network
Hi, My friend has enlisted my help recently so that he can set up a wireless network. While I've had experience with cabled Ethernet networks, I'm new to wireless networking and would appreciate your help. His computer has 1 network card. It is linked with a crossover cable to his Playstation...- hitman012
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- Forum: Wireless Data and Devices
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Hard drive - odd noises ("whistling" sort of noise)
Recently, my hard drive has begun making some odd noises. It's a 120GB Seagate Barracuda. You may recall me making a previous thread) about its behaviour. Initially (when installed in my old case) it worked fine - I couldn't hear it and it ran nice and fast. After I changed it over to my new...- hitman012
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Seagate drive failing?
A few months ago, I purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB to replace my old Maxtor drive. All seemed well, but I then installed ActiveSMART and was worried by the attribute values there. The "Raw Read Error Rate" and "ECC On The Fly Count" were initially around 60 but since then they've...- hitman012
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
