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I have two hard drives on an Dell Optiplex 150 but only one is shown when you open the system to check. When you open the Computer up you are faced with two hard drives installed. Any answers? THX Eddie

Hello, i want to block some websites please explain how?? thank you in advance,,,

I am having a problem. Our DBA is using SQL Server 2005 running an Access front end because the systems were developed in Access and migrated later to SQL Server. The SQL Server uses Windows Authentication but will fail through out the day and the user has to log out and back in (on some...

Hi there! Freshman getting a first build done for campus life ^^ Uses are...Photoshop (dealing with huge animations), tad bit of video-editing, heavy ripping of lossless and dvds for backup, and some light gaming, not too hardcore. if this can hit ultra settings then hey, it's a bonus, haha...

Which mobo is better.Which will go better FSB with Intel E2140 ?

I'm baffled at what I encountered yesterday at home. The home I moved to has Cat5e prewired. I added an RJ45 plug to the end in the basement, and RJ45 jack to the other end that is at the study room. Now when I connected my router to the basement end of the cable and connect the other end to...

EITHER: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wdmz OR http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vi9g This is what I have so far... I'm wondering if there is ANY upgrades, or anything else that can happen in the build without raising the price by much! I don't know really much about computers at all - keep this in...

I have a PC without a hard drive and am wondering if there is any way to boot from another PC that has an operating system. The other PC is running Windows XP pro. Is there any way to do this? Thanks in advance

is it possible to connect two different subnets without using router?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) when I go to the command prompt and say type in chkdsk, or ipconfig/all it tells me these are not recognized as an internal or external command. I dont know what is causing this, I did have an issue where I had no group...

Current Setup Alienware M17xR3: http://imgur.com/4UqmlNm http://imgur.com/Yq2VSgj Looking at Origin PC: http://imgur.com/env34zW I dont think im capable of building a pc so buying online is probably my only option. Id rather have way too much power then slightly not enough. Approximate...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?) Hey all Since I added a secong Hard Drive to my PC Windows Start up has been very slow. The screen stays black for a bit then the Windows start up screen comes up. Any ideas on why this may be ? Dan

I don't know whats wrong. I've bought bf2 today. I've installed it. Upgraded it. My video settings were detected to medium. I changed them to high. And the game worked fine. Then when I quit the game and I wanted to enter it again i got an error saying bf2.exe encountered a problem. Everytime i...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?) The only thing I liked about mt Windows ME was an option that I had of high lighten a word and right clicking for spelling or other word options. Does anyone have an idea of how I can accomplish this with XP?

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I have Comcast for broadband and I live in Fort Wayne, IN. They recently added their 50mbps package to compete with Fios and as a result doubled all of our connection speeds...for free! My problem lies with bit torrent - specifically uTorrent. Before the upgrade my downloads would always...

So this is my first ever computer build so I may have missed anything at all while setting it up. I put together my computer. I installed Windows 7 on a SDD. I am now looking to add my 3tb HDD to this set up. The Bios detects the drive under SATA, My device Manager Detects it under disk drives...

Hello. In order to make sure our client pc's are updated via windows update, I need to make sure pc's are powered up friday afternoon (when deepfreeze goes into maintanance). In order to do so I thought to use wolcmd.exe, which however requires me to know the mac address of any given client I...

I'm not sure if this is in the right forum but I figured it is hardware related. I just built my first computerand now I have a slight problem / annoyance. I bought an ASUS PCE N13 Card for internet. My router is one the main floor and my computer is in the basement so ethernet is not possible...

Hello I m a newcomer to this forum but not to Tomshardware.com, been watching/getting info for over a year now. I thought i might ask you guys here since i m a bit troubled about the following: I m an owner of an internet cafe. I am not using a server but 13 independent pc's which get locked by...

I have this gpu http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Radeon-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-R7770-PMD1GD5/dp/tech-data/B0089KJRLG/ref=de_a_smtd and this motherboard http://www.asus.com/Motherboard/M5A78L/ the problem is that the motherboard pci 2.0 and the gpu supports pci-e 3.0. What i should do?

When I play video games my graphics card is only at 25% usage. Before this started I had a stable FPS of 60 or 80 in one game. Now I'm getting 20 or so fps on these graphics settings. Even on super low my fps is bad. The odd thing is even on the lowest setting where I could usually get a little...

:?: I looking to upgrade my MOBO/ CPU. I currently have an ASUS P5AD2 Premium (going from memory here on the model) and a 3.4 ghz Intel CPU and one gig of RAM, Corsair DDR 400 XMS. Video card is an 850XT. I've never been one to be on the bleeding edge, so I'm not going to even consider an...

Does anyone think they will make a Gtx Titan with 12gb on board? They always seem to come out with special cards with double the ram. I rally need a TItan for GPU rendering, but 6gb will not cut it with my scenes.

Hello, I have a computer with an AMD radeon HD7670. I have BSOD and display drivers somewhat frequently. I read that one of most probable problem is TDR(Timeout detection and recovery). I fixed one issue that might cause this PSU, but it still happens. I tried to find out about my graphics card...

Does "access-list permit ip any any" permit ping ? or I have to issue : "ping icmp any any" ? Because as far as I remember (right now I do not any router handy) when i had configured a router long time ago, I used to use: permit ip any any Any comment will be appreciated. Thanks

Hi everyone. I can't decide if I should buy a Belkin F5D7632 ADSL Modem/Wireless Router or a D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DI-624 ADSL Modem/Wireless Router...which one you think is the best? Thanks in advance for any help given :D RS

Hi guys, so today i was about to order a 660ti and i thought i better check my psu, i was thinking oh it will be ok this pc cost £800 from pc world (LOL! worst idea ever but then i was forced to buy from there) expecting to have the bare minimum of a 500w psu. now i opened it and found these...

Hey I have my Internet setup through a modem to a router but want to setup a connection between the Modem and just my Laptop. How do I go about doing that. When I just hook it up and it's on "Obtain IP" it says Limited or no connectivity which it would. How do I go about setting up a...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?) I try to Launch the little Web Messenger version of Yahoo Messenger... through yahoo mail... and it brings up the window and the java thing runs, but then a red X appears in the upper left corner. The little...

My friends and I are moving out and renting a house this summer. I'm more or less the most tech savy person out of the bunch. I've read a little about N and it's having patent issues still and a couple of other issues I can't think of right now, and that the current routers available are...

Good morning all. I'm currently trying to decide if I should upgrade my graphics card and if so to what. Here is my system right now: ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard Core 2 Duo E6600 2 GB OCZ Ram GeForce 8800 GTS 320 Would it be worthwhile to updgrade my card or should I just hold off right now and...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?) Whenever I insert a DVD into my player on any player, the disc will load and my computer will recognize it. But then while it tries to play it, the screen goes black and I have to reboot for the computer to work. Thanks for...

Heya, Sorry for the noob question, but. I'm trying to find out if having a quality cable modem, is going to increase the speed of my cable connection thru Earthlink. I believe my connection has a cap of like 4mbps, so how could any better of a router or the dual-gigabit configuration offer...

ok i got another computer and i want to connect it to the linsys router do i use regular cat5 cable or cat6 or crossover. here is a image i made to describe. the sad computer wants to be connected but doesnt know what cable to use. (the green is the cable that i want to add).

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) Hi all, I found an article showing the registry entries that show the my documents icon on the desktop in XP. I want to run a registry script to put the icon back on the desktop for my users. I have setup a .reg file...

Archived from groups: comp.security.firewalls (More info?) Hi, because I was mentioning this as a good topic some times already, I want to start the discussion ;-) I think, to prevent malware running on your PC, you should close the attack vectors, with which malware is distributed onto your...

Anyone have a gigabit router, and what brand/do you like it? I use pc anywhere to control multiple pc's on my lan and I want to make the step up to 1000 for speed, just wanted to see if anyone has any pros/cons? I'm looking to get: cable modem in (10/100) to 4 or more 10/100/1000 ports...

Archived from groups: comp.dcom.voice-over-ip (More info?) eBay to buy Skype in $2.6bn deal Online auction site eBay has agreed to buy internet telephone company Skype Technologies in a $2.6bn (£1.4bn) deal. eBay said it would pay half the amount in cash and the other half in stocks to create...