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do you have 4 SATA ports? If so, try ports 3 and 4. Any chance you have access to a PCI card with SATA plugins? My guess: your power supply spiked in voltage output and cooked your drives. Or you have a problem on your motherboard near/at the solder junctions where the pins stick out of the...

As I understand it, he said that all HIS OEM drives were under warranty, or at least that was the impression he had when he purchased the units. One of the 2 seagate drives he thusly purchased (distinctly marked OEM on the retailer's site) is listed as being under warranty by seagate. The...

Hate to wade into the middle of an argument, but sometimes I can't resist. What Seagate is doing appears to be underhanded. Rincal's 320GB drive purchased through ebuyer is covered by warranty by SeaGate. However, SeaGate will not honor a mfg warranty on an drive purchased through whatever...

ignore questions 1-4. There's really no point in me running an actual harddrive at half the data transfer as max, as I'm sure reads from a HDD are quicker than DVD. Thus, I have the CDs off the promise card (I had to move my PCI devices around a bit) and the harddrive (I had to swap 2 of those...

Not exactly a high priority topic, but wondering if someone has experience/knows of tools and techniques to aid me here. I have an old WD Caviar 160GB HDD partitioned into 5 chunks (all less than 127GB). Currently, all partitions except the first one are blank (as I backed up all files to...

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I guess I didn't realize that RAM prices were approximately $10/GB currently. I was figuring on about $30-$40. That shows you about how often I upgrade my systems. The low RAM price might bring a full i5/i7 system into play. Thanks for making my life a hell of a lot more complicated:P I still...

forgot to mention the prices that I've found so far (in $USD), presumably for CPU+HS+Fan: E6600 93 Q8300 133 E8500 183 Q8400S 253 ASUS P5N-D 77

I'm looking for any re-build advice you may have to offer. I'm planning on replacing my motherboard and CPU chip, due to the problems as detailed here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/312485-31-p5nsli-post I was planning on sticking with a socket 775 build (rather than going for a core...

A friend had one of those 2 pin speakers (two end pins connected to wires, grounds unconnected). No beep at all on startup. pulled my front chassis cables too (USB, speaker, front reset button) except for the main power. No beeps. I assume this means the board itself is toast?

I have a Asus P5NSLI with E6600 Processor (core2duo) with 2x2GB DDR2(?) RAM (replacing the initial crappy RAM cyberpower installed) and a SLI&CUDA-compatible single video card (eVGA brand...can't remember the number? maybe 8600GT?). This is the same system I previously had dust problems with...

I cracked open the case, and vacuumed and then manually dusted flat surfaces and the fans. The heatsink on the processor was under a pretty thick layer of dust. All my main fans (2 case fans, the power supply fan, the chip fan) were functioning properly, but I was unable to check the video...