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I have a hitachi 1 tb (931 gb) external hard drive, and before a month I had 70 gb free, and now I have only 58, and I didn't put any games or movies on it. I also selected all the files on the hard drive and it said it were 851 gb, which should mean that I have 80 gb of free space, and by the...

I just recently built my PC. It has 3 fan slots and only 2 are being used. The fans are pretty noisy and when I touch my PC its warm. My old PC never was warm to the touch. I want 3 120mm fans for cheap that are quiet and work good.

I will do my best to try and explain my problems. My computer stopped working quite a while back with constant BSOD error of "Memory_Management." Anyways, I've recently been trying to see if I can fix it. As of now when I start my computer up with BOTH ram sticks in it will either load up...

Wow, Just wrote a huge thread and it said I had to register and deleted it all. Anyways I'll tldr it; Put everything together, Started installing drivers, noticed it was slow, Dl'ed speccy, CPU was @ 100 degrees C Got rid of stock cooler and replaced it with a H100i Temps went down to 80c and...

want to buy a 7750 but i have G4md motherboard and odeesy 450 watt psu and pci-e x16 1.1 slot. Can it be run???? plz answer need help !!!

How much is my rig worth now is I was to sell it. AMD fx 6100 6core GTX 650 1gb 8gb ram 1600 1tb Harddrive windows 8.1

No sound via HDMI, only plays on PC. Lenovo A730 AIO PC. THe video is a little off too but is working. Is there setting I am unaware of? Thanks in advanced

Hi guys I was wondering if you can get a surge/over voltage protector that can go In between male and female molex plugs? I have a cold cathode setup in my rig with a sound sensor. I wired the mic outside of my case and into the sub for better results . Anyway, with all the stories going around...

Hello, I have an old pc lying around. I'm thinking of installing a new unusedgraphic card to it but I am not sure if it would work. The motherboard of the old PC is Biostar P4M890-M7 FE. The graphic card is Leadtek nvidia Quadro K600. I am afraid something bad will happen if its not...

does any one know where to buy the motherboard EVGA P67 FTW because i've been lookeing every where for it and why can i not find it on any shop and it needs to be in pounds thanks

I just bought Assassins Creed 4 PC a while ago using a game key, and I downloaded it to the default destination. Everything went smoothly, but when it came to the actual launching of the game, I could not open it. When I clicked on Play Singleplayer, it doesn't let me play but instead goes to...

Hi guys, I've previously built myself a gaming rig and my sister needs a cheap new computer for pretty basic stuff, so I've pieced together the cheapest thing I possibly could. No graphics card is needed, and I already have a case. My main concern is whether these parts are all compatible...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130692 ohttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130725r which is better

So purchased my first gaming rig that my friend is helping me build, and have a really simple question. After opening my power supply (ocz 500w) we realized they left out the sata cable on accident, which is very annoying. I've contacted customer services and I'm sure ill have one sent to me but...

<b>Hey...</b> Not sure if this is the right forum...but here goes. My mixing & mastering engineer friends tell me that the Plextor <i>Premium</i> is the CD-R/RW drive of choice for burning pre-master CD-A's to be used for replication. My replication house basically confirms this; & even uses...

Hi, I built up my pc 3 weeks ago, and when i play games (Online and Offline) , there a strange lag / strutter that appears offenly every 30/45 sec. Exemple : - On BF4, i have a little lag, and my character walk without advance for 1 sec - On Fifa, same lag, and after that, the game gp back to...

I have a DELL Inspiron 8200 and my internal HD is full. Need to know how to proceed on the purchase of an external HD (about 80 to 100 gigs) and what's the best aproach to this task. Can anybody recomend a good quality External HD? Sorry to ask this question that will reflect my ignorance...

Hi, I got my Maxline III (16MB, 300GB, 3 platters) and partitioned it: 250GB (files) and 30GB (OS and apps), 20 GB are wasted on the 1024=1000 rule. I first created the 250GB partition, copied files and then made a fresh install on the remaining 30, so I'm assuming that the OS partition is at...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi (More info?) I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but need confirmation that my old hard drive is toast. I disconnected the SCSI drives in my new system and tried this single drive in it in hopes of getting it running so I...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) ******************************************************** * * * Création d'une disquette personnalisée de prise * * en charge réseau 'multicard' pour Symantec Ghost *...

Can't remember where I got this from: Interface, Theoretical Bandwidth, Practical Bandwidth USB 1.1 (alt), 12 MBit/s, 1 MByte/s USB 2.0, 480 MBit/s, 25 MByte/s IEEE 1394A / Firewire400 / i.Link, 400 MBit/s, 30 MByte/s IEEE 1394B / Firewire800 / i.Link, 800 MBit/s, 60 MByte/s Serial ATA, 1500...

hey recently i got a new cpu(amd athlon xp 2800+) and psu(400W) now when everything is connected in ie hard drives connected to powersupply,in windows i ask my pc to shutdown instead it restarts now when i take my dvd burner out(take the powercord out of it ,and click shutdown it shutdowns fine...

Hi, I have just bought a shiny 250GB WD EIDE drive but Windows XP SP2 is only recognising 127Gb. I have a MSI KT266 motherboard and using a PCI Promise Ultra100TX2 controller card for the HDD. I have update the mobo BIOS and drivers (using MSI live update). During post of the BIOS the Promise...

In the bios my Seagate 100ATA H/D is set at 66mb. How do you set it to 100? <font color=red>DCB</font color=red><font color=white>_</font color=white><font color=blue>AU</font color=blue>

ok... i am interested in possibly switching over to sata disks, but i've been unimpressed so far with the ease of setup. does anyone know a motherboard manufacturer that has made it relatively straight forward?

I have 2 hdd's on my pc. My master is listed as letter F and my slave is listed as letter C. I wanna change my master to C and my slave to D. How can I do this?

Archived from groups: alt.games.diablo2 (More info?) I am so F@#$%$# pissed now! After installing th 7.55 version, I get the "missing file, anticheat.dll" I can see the file in the DII folder. After several ties with no joy at all, I decide to try to play normal DII :-( . Now it wont open...

Im having problems buring DVD-/+Rs with any newer DVD recordables i brought lately even Verbatim branded + DVDs i still have a few old Verbatim - DVDs which doesnt seems to have any problems and i read in the newer firmware updates from the pioneer site (still using 1.10) it says it have...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) I am a consultant and my clients are all small businesses (1-5 servers, 10-150 workstations) We tend to buy new servers as we need them, so there is no real consistency between operating system, hard drive types or size and of...

Hi all, I have a ASUS M4A785-M mobo which uses the onboard ATI Radeon HD 4200 video and it has an output of 1080p. The TV I have goes upto 1080i I believe the signal coming out of the PC is only at 720p,,, but how do I make the signal 1080i so that there is a better resolution on the TV...

This is my first dead hard drive within 4 years. This hard drive was 60G Maxtor 5400 rpm. The weird thing was, the hard drive was in a pull out case or case where you could slide in or out of the main board case easily. There rest of the hard drive on the regular 3.5" bay. Is there a reason...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) Does anyone have any suggestions for a consumer version of a RAID 5 NAS at least 2TB? I know that it is not really consumer oriented yet but I've reached a point that I need such space and am willing to shell out if need be...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?) After trying to install a receipt printer, that did not work, and then uninstall the printer again, I have got the problem that I cannot access Internet anymore. I have a local network, where I can access the other PCs from...

hey all, i'll have my 74 gig raptor soon and i bought it oem so no software come withs it, what will i need to download in order to get windows xp on it for a fresh install ? any help is greatly appreciated

Alright, I have a plextor 708a, and I can burn dvd's. But everytime i put a normal cd or cd-r in the drive, it fails to recognize it and gives me an Input/Output error whenever i try to "explore" the drive. I have the latest firmware. Device manager recognizes the drive perfectly. I'm...

I have an old Presario 17XL260 laptop (PIII 500 MHZ, 256 MB Kingston SODIMM memory, swappable drive (floppy/combo DVD/CD drive)) that recently started acting funny. The DVD/CD drive will recognize and play DVDs, but not CDs. I was so desperate I even rebooted my notebook with the original...

I found a SATA enclosures in a shop but have not seen a SATA card with external ports. Any information is appreciated.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128398 Which one would you recommend? I can get both of them for about the same price because newegg has a combo deal going. I notice the more expensive one has onboard...

I looking at getting this motherboard for a new i5 build, but I'm not sure my power supply will work with it. My power supply has a 20 pin 2x10 plug and a 4 pin, 2x2 connector. Now I know that the 20pin connector is ok, because from the manual it states: But I'm not sure if the 2x2 pin...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) Hi, I have a big problem, my secondary disk (a WD400BB) failed yesterday, it was working great until then, it was like a "sudden death", I didn't have the chance to save my files, it makes a VERY loud and strange noise, and...