I have a one year old Maxtor One Touch II extrernal USB 300 GB drive. Last evening I switched on the drive just to discover the two blue lights located on the front of the drive flashing together at a fairly fast rate. This happens regardless of if the drive is connected to the pc or not. The...
Thanks for the link. Holly cow! After reading that makes me want to continue with the socket 478 board. I'm sure after working with the first few socket 775 boards I'll get the hang of it (I hope).
I've been building pcs which incorporate the socket 478 for years now. I'm about to build a new pc utilizing the newer socket 775. Question is on the 775 how is the cooling fan mounted to the mothgerboard? If performed searches on the subject without any explanation. Thank you.
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On this machine there is no Setting tab available to deselect the dma. My dvd-rom and dvd-burner are both on the IDE-secondary channel. I would tend to believe there would be this setting.
Even the Win2k sp4 system I'm on now doesnt have the dma setting for the...
In a pc I've recently built I've installed Power dvd however I need to disable the DMA on my dvdrom and dvd -burner. (power dvd gave me the enable/disable options DMA). The options to disable the DMA for these two drives are grayed-out and I'm unable to uncheck them.
With Windows 2k sp4 I had...
I purchased a maxtor one touch II external USB Drive. This drive came formatted as FAT32. Within windows I reformatted it as NTFS and my computer shows it's formatted NTFS. It's strange that when I plug this USB drive to a different computer the properties on this drive show it having a CBFS...
Thanks for the info about O & O. The reviews pertaining to that program are very good.
I was just testing a theory. My drive actually wasn't 50% fragmented. By the way I tried this method and it does work, My drive was 20% fragmented according to Nortons. It took a whole three minutes to...
Just a theory. Say for instance my primary drive was 50% fragmented.
If I were to create an image (backup) file of the c: drive using Nortons ghost and save it to a slave drive, then restore the C drive with the image file I just created, would the C drive be no longer fragnmented?
When...
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To my suprise by disableing the DMA on the IDE devices solved the problem. Movies now play just fine. Small problem though.
When playing a movie from the hard drive the audio sounds Ok. When playing a movie from the Dvd rom drive or the Dvd writer the audio is sort of...
I need to know which version of Direct X sits on my pc. I thought I knew how to locate the info but apparently I don't. Please could provide this info. Thanks
Update
I located the info. Start->run-> (typed "dxdiag") Thanks
After a year my pc began strangely rebooting whenever I execute certain programs. If I were to print a page in landscape mode the pc would reboot however printing in portrait would be fine.
Just idleing the pc is fine. A new power supply showed no differences. Perhaps the boot sector on...
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Asus P4P800E Delux motherboard
ATI Sapphire 1024-TC13-05-SAL Radeon 9250
256 MB AGP 4x/8x
Intel Celeron D 345 Prescott
2-512 Mb OCZ Ram (duel channel)
The CPU temp is well within normal limits. DMA is enabled.
From what I gathered I believe it is. I checked the...
On a new build whenever I play a dvd movie (from a disc or from the hard drive) the computer freezes up. I tried using three different players. Windows media player 9, Nero showtime and Power DVD 5.0.
Even after a complete system restore the problem still persists.
I'm running windows...