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Problem Installing XP on a Serial ATA Drive

geforce27
I recently purchased a Maxtor 200 GB Serial ATA drive and a Silicon Image 3112a PCI controller card. I am able to get the computer to see the drive, create partitions, and install Windows XP on it. However, when the machine reboots after installing XP, nothing happens.
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DVD CD-RW won't burn CD's (for a NEC VERSA LX notebook)

dereksh
Hi all. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give. I just got a DVD CD-RW drive (part no. OP-270-73502) for my NEC VERSA LX notebook running W2K. It plugs in right where the old CD-ROM used to be, so there are no issues with cables or anything of that sort.
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New cpu.....problems

Volcomicity
Hello everyone, I recently bought a celeron 335 (533fsb 256 Cache 2. 8ghz) and I know u ppl think theyre awful, but im stuck for cash lol. Anyway. . . . . i tried installin it, taking HSF off and etc etc like normal, then when i came to turn the power on.
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Help with 3.3v for 9600 XT

TPJ2988
Well i just got my 9600 XT from ASUS and now it is in my computer and the ASUS smart doctor says i need more voltage bcause my mother board is only giving it 1. 5. It tells me to go to the manufactures website, and my mother board right now is from a del opliplex gx260, i know it sucks but owell.
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Managed to fix Geforce4 Mx 440 SE problems

Charnel
Yah, for a long time I've been plagued with ugly colored streaks whilst playing games on my geforce4 mx440 (PCI interface) with windows XP and Abit KT7A-RAID mobo. It looks like a huge chunk of the wall would just be sticking out in some games, while in others these colored squares would just appear out of nowhere.
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Geforce or Radeon?

2k_freak!
I am i gamer and i wanted to noe whether i should go for Geforce or Radoen my budget is quite tight. .
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New Hard Drive ATAPI Incompatible message

McMaster
Hi, I recently installed a new 200 gig Ultra ATA Maxtor drive as my main drive and whenever I boot it comes up saying that it's ATAPI Incompatible. I enter the bios, immediately hit escape and exit and then the PC boots as normal.
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My CDROM and DVD ROM drives are not working

ravorn
I have no clue whats going on one day my cdrom and dvd drive were working and the next my dvd drive was saying an error that was a paragragh long that says this. D:\refers to a location that is unavaliable.
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problem with logitech ifeel mouse

DeftKnot
hi guys. perhaps u can help me. since yesterday i ve got an error on my desktop after the start up! it shows mouse ware registry acces error what can i do to fix that error? thanks for help.
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Iomega Zip zoom SCSI card, how to install it in W2k?

k4
Anyone can tell me how to install ISA Iomege zip zoom card for SCSI ZIP 100 in W2K? Do i just run Ioware 2. 0? I tried installing the generic AHA-Adaptec scsi controller driver(equivalent to zip zoom in W98) from W2K CD and it gives me a blue screen.
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Does GeForce Card is good to play movies?

mercury
Hi, I have a P4 2. 4 GHz and Intel 865 GBF chipset machine. Not impressed by the quality of the video's(VCD's) and games, i bought a Geforce FX 5200 card. The Game quality of the card is good with almost all the games like Maxpayne2, quake3, HalfLife2 etc.
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Computer restarting unexpectedly

ninjapirate
The power supply on my PC recently broke down. Luckily I had another computer which had a power supply with similar specs, so I replaced the broken one with the one from the other computer. After plugging in all the bits and bobs inside the computer exactly as they were before, (apart from the new power supply, obv ...
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Problems with ECS N2U400-A ....

immersionx
I am having problems with this board. . . ECS N2U400-A. . . There are 2 problems 1) It doesn't like the pci soundcard. . . it comes up an exclamation mark on the gameport and on the another setting within the device manager.
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Maxtor HD stopped working !!!

JenC
Hi, I left my PC on (as normal) before I go to work, when I came back a few hours later my PC had fallen over and was restarting. The problem being is that it will go to the point when you have the Win XP boot screen and then it falls over and restarts the PC and will not go any further.
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usb PROBLEM

l33t-g4m3r
my usb devices are not working and i dont really know why. i have 2 gamepads that are different brands and if i plug in either it does nothing. nothing happens unless i unplug them, then it finds the hardware and says an error occurred during the installation of the device.
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share a scanner

robertspycher
Is it possible to share a scanner across a home network as u do a printer??. . i dont see anywhere to set a share for it in XP. . i have a MICROTEK Phantom 336 CX. We need to share it to offer a full service for our charity custommers in each PC.
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