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ghosting an ide drive to a sata drive

PhillB
i have used norton ghost to transfer all of the contents of my ide drive over to a new sata drive i have recently bought. however, once the sata drive boots up after the ghost, it fails to get past the windows logo screen before it gets to the desktop.
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Need help with RAM questions

tool_462
I was just wondering if someone could answer a couple quick questions about RAM. Right now I have Samsung DDR PC2700/DDR333 RAM. I have one stick of 512mb. I was wondering if I was to purchase another stick of PC2700/DDR333 RAM of 512mb, but a different brand, would it work? And if it does work, would it cause my s ...
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twinhan dtv pci card and pinnacle & ulead software compatibiltiy

emored
i have a twinhandtv pci tv card which is excellent and a better product than my old pctv pinnacle pci card however unlike the pinnacle one i am finding no software i use for editing like pinnacle studio or ulead factory recognises or picks up this tv card , why is this and does anyone know if i can work around this ...
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Intel Raid

steeleb
I have an Intel Raid controller with 4 drives set in Raid 5. Unfortunately one of the drives showed to have an error when the computer was reset and the operating system would not load. Having installed a new drive the system still refuses to find the operating system or to recognise the new drive Any help would be ...
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A7N8X-E Deluxe spontanious rebooting

sequenced
Hi there, I have the following system A7N8X-E Deluxe AMD Athlon XP 3200 (Barton) 2 x Kingston 512MB 184Pin DIMM PC3200 DDR RAM Non-Parity CL2. 5 Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis 256mb Graphics Card Whenever I try and run the machine at 200MHz dual channel no sooner than the machine boots into XP then it reboots itself.
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CPU Temperature

jporter4
Okay system: AMD Duron 1. 6 Windows XP 256 Ram ( soon to be 512 ) just bought another Stick 2 80mm Fans side and rear ( Both @ 2812 rpms ) Cpu fan is an Aero 7 Turbine blower ( 3500 rpms ) GeForce 5700e 256Ram Graphics card ( with gpu cooler ) Western Digital 20 & 40 Gig Hard drives System Temp is 23c / 73f CPU Tem ...
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New Desktop?

jmy350z
I am looking to buy a new desktop. I am very much into gaming,digital music,dvd's and digital photography. I want something that would be very fast and something set up for ultimate sound. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what computers to look at? Thanks for the info.
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Windows XP Drivers...i think...

skulz
I have recently re-installed windows XP on my laptop and I have been having some issues, most of which I've fixed, but I cannot figure out my USB's. I have a 300GB external hard drive and it is pluged in through a usb port.
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Pauses With Raid

ESisley
I have a Promise Fast-Track100 TX2 PCI card with 2 maxtor 40 gig drives they are striped (im a gamer) but ever since i got this computer it pauses for about 6sec give or take every little while. this happens most when games/video/audio are running but it may be that this is the only time i notice it all my drivers ...
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Install win XP Pro over Win XP home

Hank619
I am going to install win xp pro onto a pc that is running win xp home. At the same time, I want it to get rid of all the junk on my hard drive (format). Are there any precaution I need to take, or will the CD for win xp pro ask this during installation.
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Water Cooling

Wicked101
Does anyone here run Water Cooling in their PC's, I'm interested in getting my PC Aquafied and would like to know if it is really worth it? And how mch it will cost more or less and where I can get. Thanks Wicked PS: I live in Germany (Can't speak German though).
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Dell Motherboard Compatible Cases

linguizic
I've got all the innerds of a Dell Precision Workstation 340 (including power supply). All I need is a case to put it in. I have tried looking for a used case of the same model, but have had no luck so far.
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3com homeconnect webcam deteriorates?

Elliot jones
I used to be able to get a good picture with this webcam and now even with the same settings and everything it will not focus even though I have adjusted the focus and tryed all different lightings and have nothing but 1 blurred out color.
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Dual Xeon proc with HT enabled but only 1 processor works??!

znewsokoban
hi all, i have a dual xeon processors 2. 4G and Hyperthreading enabled, every thing was working fine , 4 graphs in the task manager,i installed S pack 2 and now i find my pc so SLOW and when i check the task manager i find only 1 graph, i checked the device manager and under computers it is: ACPI Multiprocessor PC, ...
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Why is my laptop faster than desktop to resume windows?

sk
Hello, I've an Asus M3425CH laptop and a Shuttle SS51G pc both with WindowsXP. I've been samewhat surprised to note that my laptop is quite faster to Resume windows (after hibernation) than the pc. Can anyone explain why is that ? Here are the details: Laptop: Centrino 1.
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HP 3100i

bickeler
Hi, I have several of these HP 3100i DVD-rws they are 1. 5x/2. 5x/20x and use the SCSI interface. They were made by HP in 1999 and never sold at all. I can get this to read Cds and DVDs in 2k/XP/2k3 but not write as they are not seen as writers by any program.
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Tape drive.

jazzdrive
We are looking at getting a server with a RAID 1 config. with 73 GB drives. Would a 36/72 Tape drive suffice, or should we go with the 80/160. I'm asking because I'm not really sure what the disadvantages are to compressing the data before backup.
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ECS N2U400 AND INN0 3D GFORCE2 400MX 64MB

bjei
WINDOWS PROTECTION ERROR IS ALWAYS DISPLAYED ON MONITOR EVERYTIME I INSTALL MY COUNTERSTRIKE 1. 3 AND RAGNAROK ONLINE IN MY PC W/ N2U400-A AND GFORCE2 400 AS ITS MOTHERBOARD AND VIDEOCARD RESPECTIVELY BUT IF I REPLACE THE VIDEOCARD W/ MY ATI 9800 RADEON CARD I CAN INSTALL BOTH GAMES WITH NO PROBLEM.
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